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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