Our Story

Okay, so maybe you'll all think that I'm living in the past.  Nah, I'm just a little late getting around to documenting it.   For Valentine's Day this year, I made a photo album for Kyle.  We had bought photo albums right after we got married with the idea that we would print our wedding photos and make a nice album.  Well, as you guessed, it never happened.  Since Kyle and I are pinching pennies, I thought this would be a great gift.  And now, since I have all the pictures uploaded to the computer, it will make it even easier to document that special occasion here.  So, I think I'll just go crazy and document our entire relationship thus far.  Here we go!

Kyle and I met way back in 2005.  He showed up at Iowa State University the second semester of my freshman year.  I don't really remember the specifics but I do remember that by the end of that first semester we had made a pact to spend every day of finals week together.  I guess we were trying to rebel against our college education.  "Take that, ISU, we'll show you we can pass without studying!  Or without studying very much."  I don't know.  But we did it.  We had a lot of fun that finals week, but ended up loosing touch over the summer.  I moved home and he moved in with a sister.

I remember the first time I saw him again after that summer after freshman year.  We made eye contact when he walked into the chapel just before church started.  I waved him over, and he sat with me.  That week he stopped by my place several times.  We started hanging out regularly, and of course I had a major crush on him.

Here are a few pictures from our fun together from 2005-2008.

We became really good friends and spent a lot of time hanging out together.  This is a Sunday evening back in 2005.

One of Kyle's friends from home, Kyle, came to ISU in the fall of 2005, all three of us starting hanging out together.

We celebrated Kyle's 22nd birthday in 2007.  This started almost two weeks of flying kites daily.

We traveled to Manchester to see Kyle's family pretty regularly.  I loved those car rides.

Hanging out with the Hansens in Man-town.

Casey and Amber's wedding!  Summer 2007

Another friend got married later that summer.  We often hung out with our buddy Nathan.

Failed camping trip, summer 2007.  But it was still fun hanging out at Backbone with the Hansens.

An addition to our family:  our sweet cat, Ruby.  Sept. 2007

Celebrating the New Year!  Jan. 2008

For my 22nd birthday, Jan 2008, Kyle got me an elliptical!  

This is us celebrating Kyle's 23rd birthday! March 2008.

I graduated from Iowa State in May of 2008.  Kyle and I decided to both serve missions.  In September I left for the MTC, then to Jacksonville, Florida.  Kyle left in October for the MTC, he would head to Oakland/San Francisco, California in January, spanish speaking.  I know we have tons of mission pics that we could add, but maybe that will be another day.  Kyle and I wrote each other our entire missions.  It was a wonderful but difficult experience to serve.  I missed him terribly.  I got home from my mission in February of 2010.  I moved in with my brother and his family and worked away the time until Kyle got home.  Kyle got home November 5, 2010.  We were engaged December 11, 2010, and married December 30, 2010.  

Here are a few pics from our engagement photo shoot (thanks Amber!), and then some pictures from the happy day.  I love him so much and am so happy that we have the rest of our lives to spend together!

These are kind of in a wacky order, but I'm too tired to change them around.  Hope you like them!