Well, here we are!

So Ben and I met through a mutual friend a little less than three years ago after graduating high school. We hung out all summer, and then he left on his mission to France, while I continued with my schooling. At this point, we were just good friends, so we didn't write or anything at all during that time. Although I must admit I thought about sending him a letter a few times. I guess I was just too chicken to look up his address and make anything that could be considered a "move".

Ben came home Halloween of 2007. I ended up becoming deathly ill, and was admitted to the hospital on Nov. 4 before I could see him. I was in the hospital for a week, and then basically on house arrest for 3 more weeks. I didn't see him until December, my first week back at institute. We hit it off again as friends. Ben ended up dating a girl a few weeks later, and I was shocked that I was absolutely devastated. She's one of my really good friends so it was kind of awkward for a while. I quickly gave up hope that we would be more than friends. Obviously, that relationship didn't work out.

A short while after they broke up, I got a phone call from Ben saying that he needed to come into Moses to go to Walmart for his mom. He asked if I wanted to come along, and then we could go back to my house and watch an old t.v. serieshe had on DVD. We had been talking about watching the show for some time, and this was the first time that I actually had enough time to do it, so I said sure. We walked around Walmart for 30-45 minutes and then went back to my house. In both of our minds, we were going to just remain friends. (haha....RIGHT!) We put the DVD in and a short while later, his arm just happened to be around me and so what's a girl to do? I leaned right on into his shoulder! And that's all it took. He came over for dinner the next night, and that was our first kiss. Two days later, he told me he loved me, and while I felt the same for him, it took me two more days to say it. Basically we knew within the first week we were dating that we were going to get married.

It was pretty crazy with me taking 5 classes (a total of 19 credits) Ben taking 2 classes, and trying to plan a spring break wedding, but we did it. And we are so glad we did! One month into Eternity and we are still on Cloud 9!