7 Years Today

Today is our 7th anniversary!! It is pretty handy to be married in the year 2000. You don't really have to worry about figuring out the number of years you've been married...if you have trouble with that sort of thing.

This is one of our engagement pictures. This is my favorite picture of us together.

Anyway, I thought I'd share the story of how I met my husband, today. I was in Florida and my sister had been in a car accident. She needed help with housework and she needed company. So, I left home and went to stay with her for a while. She had gotten into making a lot of friends online, on an instant message system. She taught me how to use it and I started talking to people. Well, I had put in my profile my age and that I was LDS. Anyway, one day I was online and I got an instant message that just said "Hello" (I think). I said "Who are you?" or something equally rude. Amazingly, we kept talking. Aaron was in Utah and his sister had been making new friends online. She helped him learn the system and when he did a search for a female who was LDS and between the ages of 18 & 25, he found me! Thanks to the Internet and our sisters, we met!

Well, we kept chatting online and eventually called each other on the phone. We sent videos to each other to show our lives and that was fun.

So, we met online at the end of May 1999. At the end of September 1999, I flew out to Utah to meet Aaron. There was a big debate about who would come with me. I was going to take a big burly cousin or my dad (also big and burly), but I eventually talked everyone into letting me go alone. After all, we were meeting in the airport. I think there are probably still friends worried that one day I'll end up dead in the desert... But, I am just fine. Back to the story: We met at the airport and all the way to his parents' house, we couldn't stop laughing. I think that it was just too weird to be together. We knew each other better than most people who had known each other for four months. All we had was talking, so we talked a lot. We knew a lot about each other! We got engaged while I was out here and I went back home a few days after coming. Aaron flew out to meet my family in November and I moved out to Utah in mid-December. We wanted to get married over Christmas break, but his mom talked us into waiting. I'm glad she did, because it would have been really weird. We still needed to get to know each other in person and get used to being around each other before we got married.


Well, the first part of March 2000, we flew back to Florida and had a pre-honeymoon at Disney World. Then, on March 14, 2000, we got married in the Orlando Florida LDS Temple!!! We flew back to Utah and went on our honeymoon to southern Utah and Zion National Park!

It has been a wonderful 7 years! We have gone through some really challenging experiences, but we did it together and have grown closer with them. We have had some really wonderful experiences. We have two beautiful children! We have such a great relationship. We talk a lot. We spend all the time we can together! I love Aaron so much! I am so thankful to have him in my life. I don't know where I'd be without him!

Here are the lyrics to "our song". It is kind of funny, since it is from You've Got Mail. The words are really fitting for how we met and are. (I couldn't find an audio code for it.)


Carole King - Anyone At All

Funny how I feel more myself with you
Than anybody else that I ever knew
I hear it in your voice,see it in your face
You've become a memory I can't erase
You could have been anyone at all
A stranger falling out of the blue
I'm so glad it was you
It wasn't in the plan,not that I could see
Suddenly a miracle came to me
Safe within your arms I can say what's true
Nothing in the world I would keep from you
You could have been anyone at all
An old friend calling out of the blue
I'm so glad it was you
Words can hurt you if you let them
People say them and forget them
Words can promise,words can lie
But your words make me feel like I can fly
You could have been anyone at all
And that's what catches me when I fall
I'm so glad it was you
You could have been...

Here we are now!

The funny thing about us meeting on the Internet is that neither of us had really been online like that before and we aren't really stuck on the Internet, now. We have lives and interests outside of online. Many times, the image of people who meet online is that they are pretty much online all the time. It was just where we needed to meet to find each other. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had we met in person first...