Our journey started four years ago. Shawn was working as an intern at the church office building which happens to be where my dad works. One day I was having problems with my wireless internet on my laptop and my dad being the wonderful guy he is insisted on taking it in to work and seeing if his "buddy" (aka Shawn) could fix it up for me. When I got my computer back a few days later this was my background image.
Now I was in a pretty serious relationship at the time. He was even talking about getting married around the time I received this cute little message. I ended up just changing my background and just forgetting about it. Within that next year Shawn and his girlfriend had talked about getting married he'd even looked at rings and I actually got engaged. Neither of our relationships worked out in the end.
Around March of 2007 I was sorting through pictures on my computer and ran across Shawn's message again, this time I called my dad and asked him about Shawn, whether they still worked together or not and if it would be totally weird for me to just give him a call. We started texting then talking on the phone eventually we decided to meet up. A group of my friends from my dorm were planning on going hiking so I invited Shawn, he skipped class and drove an hour and a half to where I lived so that he was able to go hiking with us.
That date started at noon we went hiking, came back and my friends went on their way. Shawn took me out to dinner, then we decided to buy a movie, then watch it then talk. At 6 the next morning he finally thought it was time for him to go home. Over the next few months he kept driving up to my cute little town to keep dating me, two , three sometimes four times a week. I was hesitant to start dating him because I had been accepted to teach English in Russia for the following semester.
Despite my trying to keep Shawn at an arms length we grew closer and closer and eventually by the end of the summer had been talking about getting married. That fall was the hardest part of our dating life. We broke up while I was gone, but quickly learned that we couldn't go without being together by the time I was home, just days before Christmas, we knew we wanted to be married.
It took 3 painfully long months until Shawn finally decided to propose to me. 5 months later August 7, 2008 we were finally married for time and all eternity in the Jordan River Temple.
The true beginning of our eternal family. :D
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