one year!

she says...

one year ago today, I walked into the "new member" sunday school for the first time in my new dc ward. I saw a guy that looked exactly like the old spice guy and knew I had to get to know him. I didn't have much of a conversation with him that day, only when we were outside waiting to get our pictures taken for the directory. I found out he was from utah and only lived about 20 minutes away from where I'm from. he made fun of me for going to timpanogos and I tried to make fun of springville but it's not as cool when you just copy insults. oh aimee. after we went back inside the whole class just talked together for a while, and I didn't really get to talk to just him anymore, except to challenge him to a fight...he accepted. it never happened. darn.

I found out he was hilarious and the funniest thing that stood out to me is when he was telling the group that him and his friend wouldn't pay attention if they sat together in sacrament meeting so they needed some new friends to sit by...

silence.

everyone just stared. it was too funny, but i really wished i could be the one he sat by!

i also remember he always said "well played" to everything, which was also really funny. nothing much else happened that day, and we didn't really get to talk at church until a few weeks later. we didn't go on our first date for a few weeks either, but little did i know that the day me and colby met at church would change my life forever. i thought i was crazy for wanting to go all the way to dc by myself for a summer internship, but it's one of the best things i've ever done for one obvious reason. i found the love of my life and best friend. i never saw my life going this way but i wouldn't change a thing. i would have never believed anyone who would have told me last year i'd be married by the next march, but i've learned that things don't always go as planned. i'm eternally grateful for that. i used to make fun of anyone who got married so quickly after meeting someone, but i would've been absolutely crazy not to marry colby. i can't believe it's been a whole year, and it's most definitely been the most amazing year of my life so far! and the best part is i know each year will just get better and better.

he says...

One year ago I had a life changing moment that I didn't even know would change my life when it happened. I was talked into going to a singles ward in DC because Nate and Shayne heard that the ward was a good one. We are all from Utah yet they knew about a singles ward on the other side of the country. Of course the only thing we did the whole time was look for attractive girls that we would take out..... or chicken out when we tried to ask them out. It made it really hard to get girls when Nate and I were in the same room. We have a good time and people notice it, but we tend to take it overboard some times... most of the time... okay, always.

I remember we were just hanging out in the newbies class we saw some girls and obviously Nate called the most attractive one! I was bummed to say the least. But little did I know that he jumped the gun on that one. The most beautiful girl I had seen there walked through the door. Her eyes were the first thing I noticed and they pierced my soul. She was way out of my league. I mustered up the courage and spoke to her outside when we were taking pictures for the ward. I went with the ole, ask where they are from or what school they went to it and make fun of it. So I asked her name and she said it was Aimee. I knew I would remember it because I have a sister with that same name. It was going to be easy. Then we asked where she was from, Utah. I couldn't make fun of that because I am from there. Asked where she went to school, Timpanogos. Bingo. I knew I could make fun of that. So I made it seem like no big deal. It seemed like I had her hooked... Then I saw her with the pesticide guys. I, like always, kind of gave up but claimed that I was in love with her. Thats how I treat my crushes. I wasn't really in love with her at that time... I think.

But sure enough a year later, I am crazy in love with this girl. I don't think I could be anymore in love with her. She has changed my life for the better. Who would have known that me deciding to go out to Florida for a summer would take me up to DC and meet a girl that lives 20 minutes away from my house in Utah. I don't think I would have met her any other way. I am now the happiest man in the world and that is all because of my lovely wife. I am so happy that we get to spend forever together.

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i (aimee) wanted to post a picture from the time we started dating...and i had to go with this one. it was about a week after we went out for the first time (and a few weeks after we met) at an orioles game in baltimore. we had no idea this picture was taken at the time...but i love it!!