Our Dating Story

Sorry to those who tagged me & I never responded to them. I really liked this one though, and loved reading other couple's stories.

1)WHERE DID YOU MEET YOUR HUSBAND?
We have a mutual cousin named Brian...now don't worry, Lincoln & I are not related! Lincoln's uncle married my dad's cousin & their son is Brian...does that make more sense? Anyway, he brought Lincoln down from Snowflake to Mesa and set us up on a blind date.

2)WHAT WAS THE FIRST THING YOU SAID TO YOUR HUSBAND?
I don't remember. When they pulled up to my house I was taking the trash out. I saw Lincoln get out of the car and thought he was really hot. The first words Lincoln said to me were, "Where is your trash can?" and he took the trash and threw it away for me. He had me from then on! :) I think the first thing I said to him was that I had a pet turtle that I talked to all the time, and then I apologized for the Indian design that we had on our pillows on the couch. I told him that my mom was buying some material soon to change it. (She still hasn't.) Yeah, I am not sure why he still wanted to talk to me after that! (Actually, now that I think about it I had had surgery about a week before so I could have still been on painkillers...that would explain a lot!)

3) WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST DATE?
We went to the Snowflake football game, then to Carl's Jr., then to Walmart to get stuff for frisbee golf, then to Pioneer Park to play frisbee golf & frisbee football, then to the temple visitors' center to see the new display they had for the Christus, then to see "Master & Commander" at the movie theater. Our date lasted from 4pm to 1am. I'm not sure what Brian's date thought about how long the date was, but I loved it! :)

4) WHERE WAS YOUR FIRST KISS?
On Matt & Danielle's couch (his brother). We had been babysitting their kids & being the good people they are, they left us alone downstairs and went to bed. :) By the way, no matter what Lincoln says...HE KISSED ME!

5) HOW LONG DID YOU DATE?
We dated for about 2 months....yeah, I swore I would never do that, but I wouldn't change it!

6) DID YOU HAVE A LONG OR SHORT ENGAGEMENT?
Well, we were technically only engaged for two months, but had started planning the wedding a month before that & were waiting on the ring. Either way you look at it, it was short.

7)WHERE DID YOU GET ENGAGED?
At Lincoln's apartment. We watched Count of Monte Cristo & then after the movie he pulled out the box with the ring in it. He had stitched the word "Eternity" into a piece of material and put it with the ring. It was supposed to go along with the part of the movie where the girl ties a piece of string around her finger. I just couldn't believe that he stitched that!

8) WHERE WERE YOU MARRIED?
The Mesa, Arizona temple.

9)HOW DID THE RECEPTION GO?
It was BEAUTIFUL. It started raining when we came out of the temple & my mom and I were freaking out because the reception was supposed to be outside. It died down an hour or two before the reception started and it made everything so green & beautiful. It really was perfect...and the food was delicious. (That's all I really cared about. :) )

10) HOW WAS THE HONEYMOON?
Ha ha! A few of our closest friends know how the honeymoon went. I don't want to get too personal here. There were some setbacks as well...we spent the first night in our condo then went to Cali. Our friend set us up with a hotel there, but it was the scariest place I have ever stayed in & so Lincoln called him & told him that he wasn't keeping his wife there. So we stayed somewhere else for the rest of the time. We went to Six Flags two days but I got sick both days...the first day I made it for about an hour, and the second day for about four hours. I was really bummed. I love roller coasters! We also went to an AWESOME aquarium while we were there.

So that's our story! I don't know if anyone had the patience to read through all of it, but if you did I hope you enjoyed it! I'll just tag whoever wants to do this on their blog.