kyle and i had family home evening tonight. i gave the lesson from a conference talk on establishing a Christ centered home, after reading parts of the article we talked about ways we could improve. we came up with some good ideas and goals for us a couple and then to strengthen our relationship even more i suggested that we each write down ten reasons why we love each other and then read them out loud.
we've never really done anything like this before and i have to say it was awesome! i loved hearing kyle's reasons and so i decided i needed to record them so i can remember this years from now.
why kyle loves me
1. you are very thoughtful
2. you make special occasions a big deal
3. you are a good example of the gospel
4. i always know how you feel about me
5. you are very supportive of what i do
6. you work hard to make me happy
7. your cooking
8. your smile
9. we want the same things
10. *censored*
why i love kyle
1. he's so easy-going
2. he never yells, never loses his temper, and he's never mean
3. he is so loving & caring
4. *censored*
5. he is always willing to do things w/me whether its playing tennis, getting frozen yogurt, or playing mario party!
6. he's a worthy priesthood holder who blesses me & our home
7. the way he takes such good care of me when i'm sick
8. he's so smart, so responsible, and works so hard
9. he's BEAUTIFUL. all the time i'll look at him and think "i can't believe he's mine. i'm so lucky." from his adorable face to his hot bod, i've caught myself a good-looking man!
10. we get along so well--he's my best friend
after we read our lists it was time for some treats & fun! I had made browned butter chocolate chip cookies earlier so i heated a couple up and topped them with some vanilla ice cream. then kyle and i played some connect4 while we chowed down. after i beat him twice in a row, we walked to the park where we played some frisbee golf and kyle was definitely the champion of that game.
thanks for the great night babe!
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
babies and baking
is how i spend my time. visiting friends who just had babies, going to baby showers, and attending mother's group in my ward. and when i'm not doing that i'm usually in the kitchen. in the past couple weeks i've made all kinds of new things: flautas, homemade bread, ravioli with sauteed asparagus & walnuts, curried apple sweet potato soup, hummus, maple-frosted cinnamon rolls, homemade mac n cheese, italian sausage & white bean bake, ricotta ice cream, homemade pizza, cold sesame noodle salad and English oven-fried fish n chips to name a few.
however, because all i have is free time these days, i've also watched several red box movies, started sewing a dress, read a bunch of books, stalked about 100 blogs, and created me and kyle's sims family. oh yes. right now we have a teenage son named Vans and a younger daughter Emme. Vans is best friends with Ursula but dating Wanda. Emme is friends with a boy named Patel, and Kyle is 6 days away from becoming an old man. ha
i also watched the first episode of the bachlorette and oh my! Bentley is the biggest jerk, a grade A douche bag, and he's mormon. thanks for representing our church so well. between him and Michelle Money bachelor fans must have the worst opinion of us.
also i just (as in 20mins ago) watched a show on TLC where a seven and half month pregnant woman was shot at through her apartment door. one of the bullets hit her stomach and actually hit the baby. so she was rushed to the hospital where they did an emergency c-section, fortunately the bullet went through the baby's butt and even tho he was 6 weeks early he lived. but poor kid, shot before he was even born!
aaaanyway luckily i should be getting my license any day now so I can finally start working and using some of my time a little more productively!
however, because all i have is free time these days, i've also watched several red box movies, started sewing a dress, read a bunch of books, stalked about 100 blogs, and created me and kyle's sims family. oh yes. right now we have a teenage son named Vans and a younger daughter Emme. Vans is best friends with Ursula but dating Wanda. Emme is friends with a boy named Patel, and Kyle is 6 days away from becoming an old man. ha
i also watched the first episode of the bachlorette and oh my! Bentley is the biggest jerk, a grade A douche bag, and he's mormon. thanks for representing our church so well. between him and Michelle Money bachelor fans must have the worst opinion of us.
also i just (as in 20mins ago) watched a show on TLC where a seven and half month pregnant woman was shot at through her apartment door. one of the bullets hit her stomach and actually hit the baby. so she was rushed to the hospital where they did an emergency c-section, fortunately the bullet went through the baby's butt and even tho he was 6 weeks early he lived. but poor kid, shot before he was even born!
aaaanyway luckily i should be getting my license any day now so I can finally start working and using some of my time a little more productively!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
a year ago today
Kyle asked me to marry him and put a ring on my finger. being engaged was wonderful. making such important promises and commitments with the man i loved and planning for the future, our future, was such an exciting & magical time.
a year ago I wrote a note about the proposal so i could remember how it all happened...
"My parents were visiting for the weekend and Kyle used this opportunity to talk to my dad and ask for his blessing. But, I wanted my parents to be able to see the ring before they headed back home to Canada so I told Kyle he had to propose before they left. We had an awesome weekend with my fam and late Saturday night after a delicious dinner at texas roadhouse, me and kyle headed back to my apartment and I was acting all pouty because i still wasn't engaged and then i walked in and found my room transformed with roses and candles and rose petals everywhere. Kyle knelt down and asked me to marry him and I said YES!"
a year ago I wrote a note about the proposal so i could remember how it all happened...
"My parents were visiting for the weekend and Kyle used this opportunity to talk to my dad and ask for his blessing. But, I wanted my parents to be able to see the ring before they headed back home to Canada so I told Kyle he had to propose before they left. We had an awesome weekend with my fam and late Saturday night after a delicious dinner at texas roadhouse, me and kyle headed back to my apartment and I was acting all pouty because i still wasn't engaged and then i walked in and found my room transformed with roses and candles and rose petals everywhere. Kyle knelt down and asked me to marry him and I said YES!"
Saturday, May 21, 2011
what's my age again
"I took her out it was a Friday night, I wore cologne to get the feeling right
We started making out and she took off my pants
But then I turned on the TV
And that's about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And are still more amused by TV shows, What the hell is ADD?
My friends say I should act my age, What's my age again?, What's my age again?..." -Blink 182
when i was a teenager i loved blasting this song, especially while driving! me and my friends would roll down the windows and rock out on the air guitar. and every time somebody turns 23 this is still the first thing that pops into my head, and yesterday Kyle turned 23!!
happy birthday baby! i love you!
we started the festivities the night before with some takeout costa vida (mmm smothered pork burrito) and the mavericks game. that night Kyle also received a mavericks shirt from his parents along with some birthday mulah! and some more birthday mulah from his in-laws who called him "a keeper" in their birthday card to him. i agree mom and dad!
on friday Kyle woke up a 23yr old man and headed off to his morning classes. after school we headed to the mall where we spent some of that birthday money on some new summer clothes and shoes.
then it was time for his birthday dinner. we headed to pizza factory (a very Poulsen choice according to our friends) where we met up with Zak, Dallas, Sarah, Elisa, JR, and Staci (who was also celebrating a birthday this week).
dinner was great! i love hawaiian pizza, but Kyle hates it, so we never get it. but pizza factory does mini pizzas so i was able to get my own personal hawaiian pizza--yum!
after dinner we hung out for a bit and then we all headed to the chocolate for some dessert! the cazooki rocked!
and later in the afternoon Kyle was able to sport some of his new summer clothes as we finaaaaaaaly got some spring weather again when the sun came out and the temperature rose to 70 degrees! Kyle is the treasurer of the BYU pre-PA club so we attended their opening social at rock canyon park, where we ate, met some new people, and played a fun game of bocce ball!
We started making out and she took off my pants
But then I turned on the TV
And that's about the time she walked away from me
Nobody likes you when you're 23
And are still more amused by TV shows, What the hell is ADD?
My friends say I should act my age, What's my age again?, What's my age again?..." -Blink 182
when i was a teenager i loved blasting this song, especially while driving! me and my friends would roll down the windows and rock out on the air guitar. and every time somebody turns 23 this is still the first thing that pops into my head, and yesterday Kyle turned 23!!
happy birthday baby! i love you!
we started the festivities the night before with some takeout costa vida (mmm smothered pork burrito) and the mavericks game. that night Kyle also received a mavericks shirt from his parents along with some birthday mulah! and some more birthday mulah from his in-laws who called him "a keeper" in their birthday card to him. i agree mom and dad!
on friday Kyle woke up a 23yr old man and headed off to his morning classes. after school we headed to the mall where we spent some of that birthday money on some new summer clothes and shoes.
then it was time for his birthday dinner. we headed to pizza factory (a very Poulsen choice according to our friends) where we met up with Zak, Dallas, Sarah, Elisa, JR, and Staci (who was also celebrating a birthday this week).
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| Kyle's calzone |
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| my pizza |
dinner was great! i love hawaiian pizza, but Kyle hates it, so we never get it. but pizza factory does mini pizzas so i was able to get my own personal hawaiian pizza--yum!
after dinner we hung out for a bit and then we all headed to the chocolate for some dessert! the cazooki rocked!
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| straight out of the oven half peanut butter half chocolate chip w/vanilla ice cream on top |
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| dessert at the chocolate although the party was over, today we kept the fun going with a soccer game at noon. kyle's team won! so far they are undefeated, and Kyle scored some sweet goals--like always! |
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| my handsome hubby in his summer clothes |
Thursday, May 19, 2011
success
I passed! I passed! hallelujah I passed!!!
i got the results from my clinical boards yesterday and I'm happy to report that i passed with a 94%!!
it was such an incredibly stressful process.
step one: I had to sign up months in advance and pay a non-refundable $1200 fee.
step two: I had to find a patient that met ALL the criteria for the test, that would be willing to miss work several times for pre-appointments and for the actual test day, would be reliable, would be willing to take 4 hours of people poking, poking &scraping his teeth/gums, as well as a bunch of shots in the mouth, and who preferably spoke english.
step three: actually take the test and pass.
for this to happen your patient needs to show up on time for the test, your patient needs to be accepted by the examiners, then you need to do a kick-a job of cleaning their teeth and taking probe & recession measurements, and then the examiners check the patients teeth again to see just how clean the teeth are, and check your measurements to determine if you did a good enough job to pass.
let me tell you how this worked out for me.
in February (months before the May test) I signed up and paid the $1200. at the beginning of March i found a patient who met the requirements for the test. YAY! but he wasn't the most ideal patient and he was a bit of jerk and unreliable. still he was a boards patient. so I offered him the opportunity and the $100.
in the middle of March i found a better boards patient. this guy was money. he was super nice, reliable, spoke english, and had beautiful calculus (tartar). so i offered him the opportunity and $100 too. and i decided i would just keep the first patient as a back-up. i thought this would give me some peace of mind the week of the test...
three weeks before the test i received my letter from the testing agency giving me my specific date and time that i would be taking the test. right away i tried to call my #1 patient aaaand it went straight to voice mail, where the automated voice lady told me that this voice mailbox was invalid. hmmm oh well ill try again tomorrow, right?
The next day I got the same message.
and the next day.
and the next.
yeah, i was getting a little worried. so i contacted my back-up patient and gave him the deets and he told me that he had to check to see if he could get that day off work and he would let me know in a week. as in the week of my test. (no no no no no)
i randomly happened to have the e-mail of my #1 patient's girlfriend. so i e-mailed her and begged her to have her boyfriend call or e-mail me.
nothing.
now we are exactly one week away from the day of my ultra-important the fate of my future career lies in the outcome of this test and my #1 patient doesn't even know when the test is and i can't get a hold of him to tell him when it is.
and my back-up patient might have to work.
yes i'm freaking out at this point.
the next day like every other day i tried to call my #1 patient about 50 times. and my call FINALLY goes through. thank the holy mother. i tell him the info and he says he'll be there. but i told him that i would call him the night before the test to go over some paperwork, make sure that everything was ready to go, and just double-check that he would still be there.
that same day back-up patient e-mails me that he was able to get the day off and he'll be there.
whew. now i'm feeling pretty good. and we are six days away from test day.
two days before the test i e-mail back-up patient (he told me he preferred to be contacted by e-mail, that he has it on his phone, and that he would always reply right away. false.) and just gave him the info again and reminded him what time he needed to be there (7am) and that even if i did not end up using him as my patient that I would still pay him the $100 just for showing up, and to please just e-mail me back before the test day and let me know that he was still planning on being there.
day before the test. I attend test orientation, get my paperwork,badge, etc. then I decide its time to call my #1 patient.
aaaand his phone is back to the automatic voice mail fail message.
no. this cannot be happening. not today.
I called him over and over and over from 5pm-11-pm and over and over and over the call does not go through.
back-up patient has still not replied to my message. remember this guy is unreliable and a jerk. is he still planning on showing up? i'm not counting on it
my #1 patient is good, but in my 2 year experience at school with scheduling my own patients, if you don't talk to them the night before the appointment, they do not show up. And its cinco de mayo that night. is he out partying and getting drunk/not thinking or remembering about the test that he's suppose to show up at 6:45am for ???
i don't know. because i can't get a hold of him.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
by 10pm i lost it. at that point i didn't know if either of my patients were going to show up the next morning. and if you don't have a patient, you fail. automatically. you lose the $1200. you can't get your license. which means you can't work. which means your life is screwed. and all the hard work, stress, tuition money, tears, not to mention the other four licensing tests I had already taken, and frustration of the last 2 years was for nothing.
i cried. thats an understatement. I bawled, i had torrents of water streaming out of my eyes, i was sobbing SO LOUD w/ gross gulping wart-hog like noises, my eyes became red and puffy, and my whole face was hot and splotchy. this was not cute crying. i was a mess. my poor husband. he tried his best to comfort me.
this went on for a full hour.
as i sobbed into my husbands chest he continued to press the redial button on my phone.
and then mercy of all mercies just after 11pm on my 23847359th try, the call. went. through. i talked to my #1 patient. and he was still coming.
so i prayed and slept and hoped for the best.
day of the test. after all the drama my #1 patient showed up on time and we got everything going. no sign of back-up patient.
my #1 patient only had one possible submission so if he wasn't accepted I had to find some sort of back-up. so I submitted him and prayed. (there's was a lot of praying involved with this test)
and my #1 patient was accepted!! i started cleaning.
at 8am back-up patient shows up. jerk. unreliable jerk. he showed up an hour late for the test so he could claim his $100 'just for showing up'. i did not want to deal with this situation right now.
and luckily i didn't have to. another girl's patient didn't show up for the test (leaving her totally screwed) so she took back-up patient off my hands and paid him to be her patient. (i think he was a little ticked that he had to actually go through with test, since he was hoping to just show up late, claim his $100 and leave)
i then had a little less then 2 hours to numb my patient, clean his teeth and record the probe/recession measurements. I won't go into detail on the stress/drama of those 2 hours. it was stressful. it was hard. but i did the best i could and submitted him back to the examiners. (more praying)
then it was over. and i was told i would get my results within the next 30 days.
and then i waited.....
and now its really over.
its over. and i passed.
thank the sweet heavens.
i got the results from my clinical boards yesterday and I'm happy to report that i passed with a 94%!!
it was such an incredibly stressful process.
step one: I had to sign up months in advance and pay a non-refundable $1200 fee.
step two: I had to find a patient that met ALL the criteria for the test, that would be willing to miss work several times for pre-appointments and for the actual test day, would be reliable, would be willing to take 4 hours of people poking, poking &scraping his teeth/gums, as well as a bunch of shots in the mouth, and who preferably spoke english.
step three: actually take the test and pass.
for this to happen your patient needs to show up on time for the test, your patient needs to be accepted by the examiners, then you need to do a kick-a job of cleaning their teeth and taking probe & recession measurements, and then the examiners check the patients teeth again to see just how clean the teeth are, and check your measurements to determine if you did a good enough job to pass.
let me tell you how this worked out for me.
in February (months before the May test) I signed up and paid the $1200. at the beginning of March i found a patient who met the requirements for the test. YAY! but he wasn't the most ideal patient and he was a bit of jerk and unreliable. still he was a boards patient. so I offered him the opportunity and the $100.
in the middle of March i found a better boards patient. this guy was money. he was super nice, reliable, spoke english, and had beautiful calculus (tartar). so i offered him the opportunity and $100 too. and i decided i would just keep the first patient as a back-up. i thought this would give me some peace of mind the week of the test...
three weeks before the test i received my letter from the testing agency giving me my specific date and time that i would be taking the test. right away i tried to call my #1 patient aaaand it went straight to voice mail, where the automated voice lady told me that this voice mailbox was invalid. hmmm oh well ill try again tomorrow, right?
The next day I got the same message.
and the next day.
and the next.
yeah, i was getting a little worried. so i contacted my back-up patient and gave him the deets and he told me that he had to check to see if he could get that day off work and he would let me know in a week. as in the week of my test. (no no no no no)
i randomly happened to have the e-mail of my #1 patient's girlfriend. so i e-mailed her and begged her to have her boyfriend call or e-mail me.
nothing.
now we are exactly one week away from the day of my ultra-important the fate of my future career lies in the outcome of this test and my #1 patient doesn't even know when the test is and i can't get a hold of him to tell him when it is.
and my back-up patient might have to work.
yes i'm freaking out at this point.
the next day like every other day i tried to call my #1 patient about 50 times. and my call FINALLY goes through. thank the holy mother. i tell him the info and he says he'll be there. but i told him that i would call him the night before the test to go over some paperwork, make sure that everything was ready to go, and just double-check that he would still be there.
that same day back-up patient e-mails me that he was able to get the day off and he'll be there.
whew. now i'm feeling pretty good. and we are six days away from test day.
two days before the test i e-mail back-up patient (he told me he preferred to be contacted by e-mail, that he has it on his phone, and that he would always reply right away. false.) and just gave him the info again and reminded him what time he needed to be there (7am) and that even if i did not end up using him as my patient that I would still pay him the $100 just for showing up, and to please just e-mail me back before the test day and let me know that he was still planning on being there.
day before the test. I attend test orientation, get my paperwork,badge, etc. then I decide its time to call my #1 patient.
aaaand his phone is back to the automatic voice mail fail message.
no. this cannot be happening. not today.
I called him over and over and over from 5pm-11-pm and over and over and over the call does not go through.
back-up patient has still not replied to my message. remember this guy is unreliable and a jerk. is he still planning on showing up? i'm not counting on it
my #1 patient is good, but in my 2 year experience at school with scheduling my own patients, if you don't talk to them the night before the appointment, they do not show up. And its cinco de mayo that night. is he out partying and getting drunk/not thinking or remembering about the test that he's suppose to show up at 6:45am for ???
i don't know. because i can't get a hold of him.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
by 10pm i lost it. at that point i didn't know if either of my patients were going to show up the next morning. and if you don't have a patient, you fail. automatically. you lose the $1200. you can't get your license. which means you can't work. which means your life is screwed. and all the hard work, stress, tuition money, tears, not to mention the other four licensing tests I had already taken, and frustration of the last 2 years was for nothing.
i cried. thats an understatement. I bawled, i had torrents of water streaming out of my eyes, i was sobbing SO LOUD w/ gross gulping wart-hog like noises, my eyes became red and puffy, and my whole face was hot and splotchy. this was not cute crying. i was a mess. my poor husband. he tried his best to comfort me.
this went on for a full hour.
as i sobbed into my husbands chest he continued to press the redial button on my phone.
and then mercy of all mercies just after 11pm on my 23847359th try, the call. went. through. i talked to my #1 patient. and he was still coming.
so i prayed and slept and hoped for the best.
day of the test. after all the drama my #1 patient showed up on time and we got everything going. no sign of back-up patient.
my #1 patient only had one possible submission so if he wasn't accepted I had to find some sort of back-up. so I submitted him and prayed. (there's was a lot of praying involved with this test)
and my #1 patient was accepted!! i started cleaning.
at 8am back-up patient shows up. jerk. unreliable jerk. he showed up an hour late for the test so he could claim his $100 'just for showing up'. i did not want to deal with this situation right now.
and luckily i didn't have to. another girl's patient didn't show up for the test (leaving her totally screwed) so she took back-up patient off my hands and paid him to be her patient. (i think he was a little ticked that he had to actually go through with test, since he was hoping to just show up late, claim his $100 and leave)
i then had a little less then 2 hours to numb my patient, clean his teeth and record the probe/recession measurements. I won't go into detail on the stress/drama of those 2 hours. it was stressful. it was hard. but i did the best i could and submitted him back to the examiners. (more praying)
then it was over. and i was told i would get my results within the next 30 days.
and then i waited.....
and now its really over.
its over. and i passed.
thank the sweet heavens.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
one day of summer
On Friday the sun finally came out! It was the perfect summer day, no clouds and 80 degrees out. We had to take advantage of the weather so after kyle got home from school we:
went to lunch at panda, went to the pool, played tennis, played basketball, played frisbee, and got ice cream :)
Such a great day.
Then, on Saturday we woke up to cold+rain...
went to lunch at panda, went to the pool, played tennis, played basketball, played frisbee, and got ice cream :)
Such a great day.
Then, on Saturday we woke up to cold+rain...
Monday, May 9, 2011
free as a bird
I am free. Really free. On Friday I finished the last of my licensing exams and now I have nothing to do but wait until I find out the results. Oh and it will take 3-4 weeks for the results to come in. Then, if I passed I have to wait another week or so and pay another $200 to get my license so I can finally start working.
So... now I have no job and no school to occupy my time. Initially I was very excited for this break. A time to enjoy summer! I had so many plans to lay out by the pool, go on picnics, hikes in the canyon, bikes!, just be outside! But here we are on day 1 and its 40 degrees and raining outside:( And its forecasted to snow tomorrow...
Instead I'll sit inside and clean, do laundry, maybe workout, and cook. I am excited to do a little more cooking and baking and try out some new recipes, here's some of the future items on the poulsen menu:
-flautas (I actually made these TONIGHT and they were absolutely delicious, we LOVED them! Thanks Meg!)
-homemade mac n cheese
-rustic butternut squash pizza
-asparagus and walnut ravioli
-curried apple sweet potato soup
-maple frosted cinnamon rolls
-Italian sausage and white bean bake
-Monte Cristos
-Onion, Pepper, and Feta Quiche
-cold sesame noodle salad
-stovetop ziti
-English oven-fried fish n chips
-tomato and cheese strata
Hopefully this will keep me occupied until the sun decides to reappear and I can start the summer fun!
So... now I have no job and no school to occupy my time. Initially I was very excited for this break. A time to enjoy summer! I had so many plans to lay out by the pool, go on picnics, hikes in the canyon, bikes!, just be outside! But here we are on day 1 and its 40 degrees and raining outside:( And its forecasted to snow tomorrow...
Instead I'll sit inside and clean, do laundry, maybe workout, and cook. I am excited to do a little more cooking and baking and try out some new recipes, here's some of the future items on the poulsen menu:
-flautas (I actually made these TONIGHT and they were absolutely delicious, we LOVED them! Thanks Meg!)
-homemade mac n cheese
-rustic butternut squash pizza
-asparagus and walnut ravioli
-curried apple sweet potato soup
-maple frosted cinnamon rolls
-Italian sausage and white bean bake
-Monte Cristos
-Onion, Pepper, and Feta Quiche
-cold sesame noodle salad
-stovetop ziti
-English oven-fried fish n chips
-tomato and cheese strata
Hopefully this will keep me occupied until the sun decides to reappear and I can start the summer fun!
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Its Love
This morning me and Kyle had church in the Marriott Center. As we walked up to the building, I couldn't help remembering that it was just over 4 years ago that Kyle and I shared our first kiss under a tree right outside that very building. The memory took me on a little nostalgic trip...
Kyle and I were fresh out of high-school 18yr olds when we met at BYU in 2006. We both lived in the Helaman dorms, we were in the same ward, and we had a big group of friends that we hung out with all year. I was attracted to Kyle right away, and after some football and cuddling, Kyle became attracted to me too and we casually dated the last couple months of winter semester.
It was not a serious relationship. We both knew Kyle was leaving at the end of the semester and I sat right next to him as he opened his mission call and read aloud that he would be spending the next two years in Tahiti, serving the Lord. So we just had fun together, we did not say the L word, and neither us got very attached. Or so I thought...
A week or two after Kyle left I realized I was much more attached than I had thought. I was just NOT getting over this boy. And it wasn't long after that, that I was convinced that I loved him and that we were destined to be together.
Well, down in Texas Kyle was NOT thinking the same thing. After a couple weeks he was over it and blew me off so he could prepare for his upcoming mission to Tahiti. We fell out of touch pretty quickly and I never told Kyle how I felt, or that I was already planning our future wedding.
Kyle left for Tahiti in August and as the months went by my feelings remained the same. I dated other guys and tried not to think about Kyle too much, but that didn't stop me from telling my friends and family (half-jokingly) that I was going to marry him in August 2010.
In August 2009 Kyle got home from his mission. Back at BYU, our group of friends reunited and so did me and Kyle. We were back together within a month. We dated all year, got engaged in May, and on August 14, 2010 my early planning paid off and we were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple.
What can I say? I love this boy! He's the best part of my life, the best husband I could have ever asked for, and now he's my best friend. He's perfect for me in every way and I couldn't be happier!
Kyle and I were fresh out of high-school 18yr olds when we met at BYU in 2006. We both lived in the Helaman dorms, we were in the same ward, and we had a big group of friends that we hung out with all year. I was attracted to Kyle right away, and after some football and cuddling, Kyle became attracted to me too and we casually dated the last couple months of winter semester.
It was not a serious relationship. We both knew Kyle was leaving at the end of the semester and I sat right next to him as he opened his mission call and read aloud that he would be spending the next two years in Tahiti, serving the Lord. So we just had fun together, we did not say the L word, and neither us got very attached. Or so I thought...
A week or two after Kyle left I realized I was much more attached than I had thought. I was just NOT getting over this boy. And it wasn't long after that, that I was convinced that I loved him and that we were destined to be together.
Well, down in Texas Kyle was NOT thinking the same thing. After a couple weeks he was over it and blew me off so he could prepare for his upcoming mission to Tahiti. We fell out of touch pretty quickly and I never told Kyle how I felt, or that I was already planning our future wedding.
Kyle left for Tahiti in August and as the months went by my feelings remained the same. I dated other guys and tried not to think about Kyle too much, but that didn't stop me from telling my friends and family (half-jokingly) that I was going to marry him in August 2010.
In August 2009 Kyle got home from his mission. Back at BYU, our group of friends reunited and so did me and Kyle. We were back together within a month. We dated all year, got engaged in May, and on August 14, 2010 my early planning paid off and we were married for time and all eternity in the Salt Lake Temple.
What can I say? I love this boy! He's the best part of my life, the best husband I could have ever asked for, and now he's my best friend. He's perfect for me in every way and I couldn't be happier!
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| Freshman Year |
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| back together 2 years later! |
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| engaged! |
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| married! |
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