Jeff.
We met on the 24th of May on a Sunday in church. Jeff and I met at the Singles Branch through our friends who were dating at the time. (He was checking me out at church!) We were inseparable from the start. Later in the evening of the first day we met we got together for a Fireside. Afterward, Jeff and our friends Amy and Fred came over to my house and I served them all dessert. We stayed up until 1:00 am talking and Jeff and I were totally flirting the whole night. When I left I asked him if he'd ever been to Red Robin and that he should come see me sometime while I was working there. I wrote down my number without him even asking for it. (Total Kim move. I didn't know how to play hard to get.) After that, its all history. We kissed for the first time the next day and were talking marriage within a month. We spent everyday together from the day we met until we got married. I loved everything about him. I noticed right away that he was athletic, HOT, honest, frugal, and a gentlemen. He was wonderful with his nieces and nephews and I LOVED his family. It wasn't difficult for me to fall in love with him. At the end of June we went on an early morning bike ride before the sun rose, to the top of IP. While we sat on a blanket and took in the sunrise he turned to me and told me he loved me for the first time. I knew that he had been waiting to say it because he'd told me that he'd always said the words to quickly before. He wanted to tell me he loved me when he knew for sure, and he picked a pretty great time and place to do it. Its been forever etched in my mind and Oh so Romantic!! He was the best guy I'd ever known and I wanted to spend everyday with him.
We spent a lot of time outside- rock climbing, biking, changing sprinklers... We've talked about what attracted us to each other before marriage. Its fun to think back on those days, and I always feel so thankful that I was at the right place at the right time, doing what I was supposed to be doing. Jeff remembers when we got together with friends one night the first week we met. I showed up later than everyone else. They were all sitting on the couch with a movie that they had just barely started. I walked in and asked what they were watching. When I found out what it was and realized it was R. I told them that I wouln't watch an R movie (all while my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my chest because I was sooo nervous). He took note. I wasn't always like that. After Ricks I wanted to be good.
I have no doubt that without the change of heart I had at Ricks I would not have been ready to meet him when I did. I look back and see how Heavenly Father prepared me for my life. My life is good. My marriage is a continual blessing. I feel beautiful in everyway because of him. He helps me be good. He's taught me about charity, honesty, and how to love myself.
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Ah 2nd cousin Kimi - Yes, good times at Ricks College. It was because of you being at Ricks I went over there to hang out and then I ended up going to one of YOUR ward prayer dessert functions at the guys apartment. I was a guest and didn't know anyone but you and I stood in the doorway of some guys' apartment while we all went around the room and introduced ourselves. When I introduced myself I said I was from Huntington Beach, California. Some girl with red hair sitting on a bean bag in front of the couch on the floor piped up and asked: "Huntington Beach? Did you know Jeff Montgomery?" I said I did. (I had gone to high school with him and he was in my stake). She said that he was a good friend from Ricks the year before and she had just gone to the SLC airport to see him off to his mission to Spain.
ReplyDelete10 years later we are married and have a gorgeous little boy named Karston!
But it was because YOU chose to go to Ricks and I had "family" there I met my wife there!
Gracias!
By the way - you don't look any different than you did 10 years ago!!
Congrats on 10 years. You are too cute.
ReplyDeleteI REALLY do remember this night like the back of my hand . . . so that means it must have been a good one, cause I have a HORRIBLE memory! Good to see you today. You looked gorgeous, as always! Oh, and thanks for the Pampered Chef order:).
ReplyDeleteAw, my sweet baby brother - he is romantic, isn't he? :) I remember you "not being shy" too. We thought it was fun to watch you two falling in love.
ReplyDeleteI think I just throw up in my mouth...those photos of me are just harrible, BUT I LOVE THEM!!! I love them because I totally remember that night and that I had such wonderful, the best, roomies ever!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I totally remember you and Jeff coming over in your cycling great/get-up and had to chuckle when I read the part about being outdoors. Do you have a photo of that day? Oh I wish you did.
I think it's so wonderful that you and Jeff have such a great relationship. xo