The beginning of us....

The time : An evening in June of 2004

The place: Rexburg Idaho, Nauvoo girls apartment 311

What: The start of something so amazing

The first time I met Brandon I was coming back to my apartment from a trip home to Utah for the weekend. I was hauling my stuff upstairs I opened the door and my roomates Cori and Emily had our other friend sachin there with one of his roomates(Brandon). I know this may sound a little cheesy and sappy movie like. But from the moment I first saw him something inside of me said your supposed to be together. I was awestruck by this feeling just staring at him my jaw dropped with how handsome this guy was. Needless to say it turned out to be the best summer of my life and led to something even more special to my heart. I begged my roomates to see if he had a girlfriend....yes! he's available. now how do I get him to ask me out....yes! his roomates. So thanks to Sachin Brent and Trevor I now have my wonderful husband. ( I didnt know he was a little shy at the time) So when he called I remember being so excited. Emily and I jumped around the partment for a minute. He took me to a movie and dinner at chilis. It was here I was first introduced to Johnson cuisine... chips and salsa. We played a game with the coasters and i remember it being a blast. The rest of the summer followed with great memories-bridge jumping dam sliding the fun itinerary coloring contests movie making and being around some of my best friends in the world. You know thers always those people who you'll never forget and my friends that summer have enriched my life so much. I'll forever have my happiest memories from that summer. I was falling more for one of my best friends. I loved how smart he was. How he loved to learn. Something I value very high. I loved how he talked about his family,and acted around his adoarble cousins when we went out to terraton! If anyone whos reading this ever gets a chance to go, it's now one of my favorite places,so full of love. I'd watch him play with the kids and imagine us being a family someday. I was defiantley in love. Our first kiss was the most romantic evening I've ever had. We took his black tacoma out with bean bags in the back and watched indiana jones in the middle of a field- with a shower of shooting stars over us. The best part was knowing he was shy and how gutsy he was that night to kiss me. I never wanted the summer to end. But i was preparing to go to anotyher school in the fall. I missed hom so much in those 2 weeks. When i got to this other school nothing felt right and my roomates were pretty shady and all i wanted to do was be back in rexburg,which is funny cause at the beginning I did not want to be in Idaho! and there i was begging to go back there. It has a way of pulling your heart strings. Theres just something about BYU-I. (it helped Brandon was there too) We decided that I was supposed to be there. 2 weeks later i was back at BYU-I living in the girls side of the complex where Brandon lived at the ridge. We became closer during the fall- always with each other and when winter semester came i had nowhere to live. Brandons idea...room with my sister Brooke. I was so excited. She is so much fun and that semester I was able to grow even closer to Brandon and his family- I found out that cards at the Johnson house is no light matter! Rooming with Brooke helped our relationship move onto the next phase and soon we were talking about being togther more. I went away for a weekend and the day I came back Brandon asked me on a date we went to a movie where we were the only ones in the theatre-he asked how I felt about moving to canada- I was shocked and so excited - I wanted that stupid movie to end. That night he told me he loved me and realized how much he missed me when I went away for a weekend. To be contnued.....