Halloween is always an exciting time of year for me. Not only do you get to dress up, eat candy and have lots of fun with parties and stuff, it's also the time of year that Nick and I met. Most people know that we met at a Halloween party so we always like to do our own little "anniversary" celebration. Here's our story...
Although we met in October, our story begins in the middle of August. My family was getting together one Thursday evening to celebrate a special event; I had received my mission call and it was time for me to open it. I was so excited when I opened it up to see that I was going to be serving in Manchester, England. Wow! I was set to leave on December 7 and I couldn't wait. For the next couple of months I prepared as anyone would to go on a mission. I had no idea what was in store, though. I spent a lot of time with friends from the Institute and was invited by one of them to go to a Halloween party that his friend was having in Arimo (a little podunk town south of Pocatello), of all places. It was on October 22 (I still have the invitation). I dressed as my wardrobe layering pants, shorts and a bunch of colorful shirts. I looked quite interesting. At the party we played a lot of games, one of which was a scavenger hunt which I soon gave up on because I was having no luck. I went to sit in the kitchen and found a really cute guy in there with his friend. We struck up a conversation and talked about his and his friend's missions for a little while (I "accidentally" forgot to tell him that I had a mission call). Everyone came in after a while and we started another game. It's kind of hard to explain but he ended up "killing" everyone sitting in between us so he could sit by me. Isn't it sweet! I, of course, didn't know that at the time. At the end of the evening we exchanged phone numbers. The next week I called him and invited him to go to the Institute Halloween dance with me and some friends. We went as Napoleon Dynamite and Deb. It was awesome! He wore a suit and everything. I wish I had a picture because if you knew Nick, you would never believe it. Well, we started seeing each other more often and after a couple of weeks I finally told him about my mission call to England. I was afraid it would scare him off and I didn't want that to happen because I was starting to really like him. I was surprised to learn that he already knew and he still wanted to keep seeing me. Over the next couple of weeks things started getting more serious.I met his family and 2 days later on November 22 he proposed across the river from the Idaho Falls Temple. It was very sweet. I had been praying about it before hand and I felt that getting married was the right thing to do so I gave up the mission. I had a different mission in mind. We were married on January 14, 2006 in the Idaho Falls Temple. It was beautiful and I'll never forget that day in my life. It was definitely the best so far. I'm so glad to have Nick as a husband. He treats me with the best respect and love I could ever ask for. I love him more that anything!
