More than one side to every story

I am not exactly sure who is going to see this. Before now, I had never read, written, or even thought about a blog. All I know is that I was told to write. So, I am not sure what I am supposed to talk about, but I did want to clear up some things about the how we met story.

When I look back at when we first met it makes me laugh. Its always kinda funny to look back at things that happened. It is very seldom that can you remember the very first time that you saw someone, but I can honestly say that I remember the first time I saw Jenn. I remember what she was wearing, I remember the way she smiled, and I remember the conversation. I dont know that I can say that about anyone else that I know.

After our anything but romantic 3 days in the wilderness together in the same "family," on the bus ride home we got to sit together. I remember waking up and looking down to see Jenn holding my hand. I thought it was cute but I mean, I was 18...graduated, and I had a girl friend. I couldn't hold hands with a 15-year-old.

After, although at the time I told myself that I was just being a nice guy by inviting Jenn and Jayme along with me and my friends, it was pretty obvious that it was more than that. Plus she just kept popping up places. I can't say I regret it because I don't know if we would be getting married if things would have happened differently but I am sure that things could have been handled better.

I still remember talking to Jayme at some point and her telling me that I should break up with my girlfriend that was going to school because there were people in Spanish Fork that would love to go out with me. What a nice sister.

So, lots of time passed. I went on a mission...came home...and about 4 days later saw Jenn. I really didn't recognize her...really. She had darker much shorter hair and I was kinda still in freak out mode from getting back to the states. So, by the time I looked over and finally realized that she was there I felt really awkward and didn't know what to say. So I admit...I took the easy way out and just pretended like I still didn't notice.

Not that long after, I decided, against my better judgment, to attempt to better my social life by creating an account with something called "facebook." Apparently while I was gone the whole world had decided to make relationships virtual and I was being left out. So, I created an account, found a few friends, and then never really looked at it. One day I got on and I had something from Jenn (which was a surprise. I had just assumed that after completely pretending like she didn't exist she probably wanted nothing to do with me.) I decided that I would send her something back and see what happened. I have to say that it turned out to be a better idea than I thought. It's kinda funny how things happen. A couple small decisions, accompanied by a lot of luck landed me the girl of my dreams. I will always be an advocate for pioneer treks.

So, thats how it happened. Now we can barely go a few hours without seeing or talking to each other.

Our Story

Adam and I first met when we were in the same "family" on our stake youth pioneer trek over four years ago. At the time I was 15 and he was 18. I was basically immediately in love with him after spending four days with him. Being the naive teenager girl that I was, I thought I might have a chance with this guy who had already graduated from high school and already had a girlfriend, even though I couldn't even drive. To give myself a little credit though, he was definitely leading me on. The summer of the trek we hung out a lot, and boy was he a flirtatious one. I remember I got my first cell phone right after we got home from the trek and I only had 400 texts a month (crazy right? nothing compared to the thousands we use now) and I would text him so much that I would run out in a week and wouldn't be able to text anyone else.
As the summer ended and school started my romantic fantasies started to die down. Until basketball season anyway. Adam was hired as an assistant coach for the high school team and it just so happened that I was taking drivers ed in the classroom right next to the gym around the same time as practice, so when we got our breaks I bet you can guess what I was doing. It sounds really creepy to say that I would watch him at practice, but all the other girls were watching the guys playing, so no one would even notice that I was watching the guy coaching.
When basketball ended my stalking time did too, and our contact became kind of scarce. Adam was getting ready for his mission, and I had moved on to high school boys. Once he was on his mission I actually decided to write him at some point, but he stopped writing me because his girlfriend told him not to, but then she got married while he was gone (remember that story all you future missionaries).
One day, after I'd grown up quite a bit and forgotten the woes of my younger years, I went to another friend's homecoming and there he was. He stood right next to me, gave my best friend a hug, and didn't even look at me. What the heck right? But I thought that maybe I'd just changed so much over the years that he didn't recognize me. I'd just chopped all my hair off and colored it, so it was possible right? Anyway a couple days later he popped up on my facebook and so I added him as a friend. He messaged me, we started texting, he invited me over to watch Transformers, and the rest is history.