Our Love Story. Chapter 1- The Intro

Having recently passed our 5th anniversary it got me doing a lot of reflecting, looking back at pictures, reading old journals, watching that wedding video, just thinking back over our past, our love story!

boo for bad quality on this photo, it's from Facebook 

In the coming months I want to do various installments of our love story: how we met, dating, break up, dating again, engagement, etc because now I have so much time in my life ;)

The above photo was from our first date, our first date was actually a little marathon weekend date (neither of us knew those kind of dates could actually be totally awful for some people, ours turned out awesome). The date consisted of the Utah State vs BYU football game Friday night up in Logan and the next morning we went to conference together in Salt Lake City. He posted this photo on Facebook soon after our date and I remember just staring at this photo CONSTANTLY just trying my hardest to memorize this cute boy's face for probably hours on end. I think I could have literally burnt a hole in my computer screen (btw I was the only freshman n my whole floor to bring a desktop computer to college, ha! I survived).

Look forward to our first meeting!

missing husband.

so dropping casey off at the airport 2 weeks for him to go back to nebraska while i stayed was oober not fun.

it felt like the summer we were apart when we were engaged.

you see, we were engaged at the end of march and married at the end of november.

for 4 of those 8 months, casey was working in pennsylvania and i in utah at aspen grove.

those were 4 very long months to be apart.

at the end of june, casey flew back to utah for a family reunion and we were reunited for about 4 days.

best 4 days of my summer.

but returning casey to the airport that summer was the worst day ever.

tears.

tons of tears.

we both agreed that was the hardest tears we've ever shed.

sure, we knew we'd see each other again but we didn't want to leave each other.

this time i was yet again dropping casey off at the airport.

and yet again, it was tears.

i didn't want to  be apart from him for TWO weeks!

it was like he was dying!

i dropped him off looking like this
(he brought back an ottoman we checked in that large box:)

we facetimed and texted tons of course.

i had made casey a list called "kimber, i'm hungry" with lots of ideas for EASY dinner/lunch fixes.

after 3 days he sent me a picture of this:

he said this "this is what happens when wife is away"

i'm glad to be back with him (and feed him)

for my first morning back we made red and blue pancakes in honor of the BYU and nebraska games playing that day.

funny that i drew a Y and N...it looks like yes and no.

ghost of christmas past.

story time.

picture from april 2011

a little background

we started dating my freshman year.

the only rule my parents gave me when i went to college was don't date return missionaries.

return missionaries are only looking for marriage and my parents weren't wanting me to get married anytime soon...

so we "dated" 2 months (i didn't consider it dating though casey did).

then we were off 2 months.

we were on 2 months.

then he propsed.

then we were engaged for 8 months.

and now we've been married for 2 years!

so during those 2 months of "offness",

we kept in contact.

a little mingling here and there, ya know, couldn't cut ties all together.

well, once finals were over i was driving with a friend to the airport to go home for christmas.

in a snow storm.

and as arizona girls, we're not that hip on driving in the snow.

as fate would have it, we hit some old big block of ice/snow and got a flat tire.

once we pulled off the freeway and checked the tire,

we began calling people who could help.

she called her boyfriend, no answer.

i called both my brothers, no answer.

she called her cousins, no answer.

so i did all i could think was left.

i called the boy who i told i didn't want to date anymore: casey.

he answered,

after 2 rings.

and was there to save us,

within 15 minutes.

he saw the condition of the tire,

knew we were in a rush to get to the ariport,

during a snowstorm,

so insisted that he drive us to the airport.

this is finals week, mind you.

who does that?

seriously?

come to the aid of a a girl who decided she just wasn't that into you at the moment?

ha, oh goodness, i know i was just pulling him in closer,

but he was so nice!!!

my family couldn't believe i asked him to do such a thing,

such a tease!

and poor casey, as he later tells it: you were just egging me on more and more, i was so confused!

that's our pre-marriage christmas story that will be in the vaults forever.

thanks for reading :)