Five Years . . . and counting!

Happy anniversary to us! Five years ago today we were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Its gone by so fast, and yet its hard to imagine life any differently. We celebrated over the weekend by staying in a castle (well, the Castle Creek Inn B&B in Sandy, that is).

Nathan and I met in a singles/student ward. Sounds so typical, I know, but it really was ideal. Here's the story for anyone who cares to know: Nate was attending the University of Utah and I was done with BYU and working in Salt Lake at the Family History Library. We both lived on Capitol Hill and went to the University 41st Ward at the U of U Institute. For a year or so we were aquaintences with a lot of mutual friends and got to know each other on the activities committee and at get-togethers and hiking/camping trips with friends. Things finally just started to "click" when we went on a backpacking trip in August of 2003 with just two other friends in the Wellsville Mountains in Cache Valley, Utah. Near the end of the hike we ran out of water and were exhausted and my feet were so blistered that I had to finish the hike in my socks. Nate ended up running down the rest of the trail to the car, hiked all the way back up to where I was and carried my pack the rest of the way. How could I help but like him after he rescued me like that? Anyway, we had our first official date a few days later (where Nate introduced me to Korean food--pretty good, I might add!). Around this same time we were called to be co-chairs of the activities committee in our ward and found that we really worked well together and liked being around each other. Well, as they say, "the rest is history." We got engaged on December 20, 2003 at the Cape Mears Lighthouse on the Oregon coast (my family lived in Oregon at the time and Nate had come up to meet them).

Well, Nate, its been an amazing five years full of many different kinds of adventures and I look forward to the next five, and the next five after that, and the next . . . . I love you!