How We Came to Be

My 11th Anniversary is coming up and I thought someone out there might be interested in our "how we met" story.  I would post it on our anniversary, but we are taking a family vacation and I figure I will have plenty to post about our trip, so I would do this one a little bit early.

Spring 1997:

Locations:  Me-Ricks College, Bryan: Guatemala

Me:   

I had a boyfriend that was wanting to become more serious and so I was praying if it was "right"  As soon as I finished one of my prayers I received a very clear and concise answer that I was not to marry this boy because I wanted to date Bryan Davis when he got home from his mission.  I though..."hmmm..Bryan huh, I haven't ever gone out with him, nor have I written to him on his mission, but he is pretty cute and a good guy so I guess I will start writing him and see what happens."

Bryan:

At this time he had just written his mom asking her for my address so that he could write me a letter.

Spring-Early Winter 1997:

We exchanged a series of letters and I secretly called him "my missionary" to my roommates.

November 1997:

I knew it would be Bryan's homecoming so I made an excuse to come home from Ricks to attend.  I brought my roommate with me.  After sacrament meeting there was a crowd around Bryan so I decided I would just talk to him later, because I didn't go up to him, I didn't get the memo that everyone was invited to his house afterwards, because I didn't get this memo, I didn't go over.  I had to leave for Ricks that night.  About 1 hour before we had to go something strange possessed me and I called Bryan's house to say goodbye, he was not home, but his mother said she would give him the message.  A few minutes later Bryan showed up at my door (apparently his mother liked me and after I called she tracked Bryan down as quickly as possible and told him I was leaving soon, so Bryan RAN to my house in order to catch me before I left)  He came in and chatted with my family for about 10 minutes, shook everyone's hand (like a good missionary should) and left.  My heart was beating 1000 times per minute, I said goodbye and headed back to school.

The next week:

I had a friend leaving on a mission, and wanted to see Bryan again, so I headed back down to Utah with my roommate.  During Sacrament meeting she was my eyes and ears.   We sat right behind Bryan's family, she let me know every time he looked back at me, or whispered something to his sister.  (I couldn't be caught staring at him after all) He looked several times.

December 9, 1997, my birthday:

I received a very peculiar package from Bryan that contained a banner that said happy birthday, a cake mix, and a little thing called a hum-bug (it was a little toy bug in a box whose legs moved when you shook the box)  That night he called me and my heart leaped!

Later in December:

Bryan came up to Rexburg to "look for housing"  He later admitted that he could have found his housing online, but that he really wanted to see me, so he took a bus up with no way to get home.  He stayed at a friends house but came over one night to watch a movie with me.  He sat on the couch and I sat on the floor.  The movie we watched was My Best Friends Wedding.  After he left I was sad because I had convinced myself that I would be the Julia Roberts someday at his wedding.   His plan to get home was to ask me for a ride.  It was the last week of school and he knew I would be heading home.  I was thrilled to spend 4 hours in a car with him.

Christmas Break 1997:

We saw each other, or at least called each other every day.   One night it was getting late around 11:00 and I had not seen him, and he had not called, I was distressed and came to realize that he was not going to call, just as I did this the phone rang, it was him, he had spent the last 1/2 hour deciding if it was to late to call, someone had been on the Internet so he couldn't call earlier (yes, dial-up Internet, the good old days)  Once again, my heart leapt.

January-March 1998:

We were both at Ricks and saw each other every day, I felt SO lucky to be able to spend time with him.  We were both unsure of what was happening.  I was insecure about how he felt and thought that he might have a crush on my roommate (back to the My Best Friends Wedding feelings) and it didn't help matters that on a date he laughingly told me that when his roommate had asked if we were "dating" he had laughed and said no.  A month or so later on March 14th he proposed.  I guess we skipped that dating thing.  Of course I said yes and the rest is history.  (the proposal story is pretty good and I will share it another time)

May 29, 1998-Present

Our love has grown in leaps and bounds.  He still makes my heart leap sometimes when we are sitting close and I think about how lucky I was to be his creme brulee (if that doesn't make sense, go watch My Best Friends Wedding)  I am so glad to have been guided by the spirit to find someone so perfect for me. 

Happy Anniversary Bryan!

Here is our wedding announcement picture