This last week marks 4 years since mine and Luis' first date. CRAZY! We have been together for 4 years (and 3 days now)...each one of them getting better than the year before it. It is so amazing how time flies by. We graduated high school together, will soon both be graduated from BYU-Idaho (one semester apart) and this August we will both be starting graduate programs together. We have been through a lot these past 4 years together. And I know these next few years of grad school will be even crazier than any we have experienced, but we feel it is what the Lord wants us to be doing right now. I thought I would share with everyone how it all began...and of course mine and Luis' stories varies on the details, but here is my version...
Luis was in a fit to compete PE class and I was in a weight lifting class our junior year of high school. One day our classes played a game of dodgeball against each other. Let me just say that dodgeball in the dumbest game ever invented. I love exercising, but whenever our class would play dodgeball, I was willing to do anything but get hit in the face with a ball. My teacher said I would lose points if I didn't play and so I decided to stand in the back and pout about having to participate. Out of nowhere, for a split second I see a volleyball come flying from outer space, right into my face! I was so ticked off! That is why I don't play stupid games! Because it hit my nose, tears were rolling down my face, (and no it wasn't because it hurt really bad, although that may have been part of it). I went and sat out for the rest of the time, despite my points that would be lost for the day. At the end of class, I see a brown prince charming coming to rescue me and to see if I was okay. I was really impressed that someone would admit to hitting me in the face (maybe it was becasue I was awestruck at his beauty...hehe). That was the first time we officially met each other.
Third trimester of senior year I see him again. we were in an anat and phys class together. Luckily we had a mutual friend that was able to make the "hanging out" phase a little easier to start up. We started going out to lunch with our friends together and then he asked me out to a movie (He was using me for a ride because he didn't have a car, nor a license). But I didn't mind. We saw The Da Vinci Code and because it was a really late showing, I fell asleep. To this day I have no idea what that movie was about, but I do remember having a great time. We went with different people to the prom, but we did manage to get to dance with each other. I left for college a few weeks after graduation and he went to WSU-vancouver. We talked on the phone just about every night and spent lots of time together during summer breaks, holidays, and my off track. Almost 2 years later from out first date in May, he proposed on April 13th 2008. Then we were married August 23rd 2008. Now it's almost been 2 years that we have been married, totaling 4 years! From day one he has been sweeping me off my feet (first by a dodgeball).
And it has been the best 4 years of my life.
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