Oh The Places We'll Go...Oh The Places We've Been

Oh The Places You'll Go has always been one of my favorite books. i always find it fun to think of all the cool things i want to do or accomplish later on in life.

Yesterday was Wes and I's Second Anniversary. We have been married for 2 years...THAT IS CRAZY! Wes and I were talking about how time has gone by so slowly but it also seems to have zoomed by. We have gone through a lot. Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Losing Jobs, Finding Jobs, Mono, Surgery, etc. Our favorite thing we have gone through...Mina. Mina is our absolute world. We both love her very much and even though the pregnancy itself was rough being parents is our favorite past time. Wes comes home everyday from work and the first thing he does it picks Mina up and says, "this is my baby Mina." I love it. It really makes my heart melt. 

Here are ten things I LOVE about Wes.

1. How he is secretly the best at getting Mina to sleep.

2. How he is willing to work so incredibly hard, even if it means only being home for a few hours a day.

3. That he is a priesthood holder who Honors his priesthood.

4. That he is respectful of me. 

5. I love that he holds his his fingers in his palm while driving (which until recently i had no idea why, turns out he is feeling his pulse in his palm....weird i know...but i find it endearing.)

6. I love that he will eat whatever I cook even if it isn't totally amazing.

7. I love that he is willing to help with dishes, laundry, and garbages....without me asking. If he sees a need in those areas he is more than willing to take care of it.

8. I love his passion for his work. Wes is seriously so amazing with his clients and he genuinely loves them.

9. How patient and supportive he is with me going back to school.

10. I love that he can tell you a movie's director, main characters, and about 30 other movies each of them have been apart of. it is some kind of Savantism he has...its weird. 

I can't wait to see what is in the future with this man. but i wanted to do something this year kinda cheesy ... but fun. We read a book together once...called Love That Lasts. We actually got it as a wedding gift from my Aunt Jill. in that book it says one way to remember why you love each other is to remember where you came from. So I decided to take Wes on a "Journey of Us" tour. Sadly...we couldn't go to some places since they were in Pleasant Grove and Provo. but we went to a lot of major important ones. So here ya go. 

This is where Wes was standing the first time i saw him. I actually even talked to him. He was trying to push some guys car (which i now know was my Brother in Law Travis) out of ditch in the dead of winter. My friend Justin and I stopped and helped him. Truthfully i didnt think twice about it until....

I was invited to a birthday party at Arnell 1. This is where I saw Wesley (who lived there) Dancing like a girl. YEP...i saw him body roll and he was really good at it. Suddenly I was intrigued. So. The next day.

The next day at Carolinas #3 (where I lived...also across the street from Arnell) We girls were gettign ready to go to a Mardi Gras dance at the TSC (student center)...While we were there i saw that goofy kid dancing and I went over to dance with him (i still didn't know his name) He was dancing with his friend Steve and I joined in. The next day at church there was a linger longer. Wes invited me to his apartment again to hang out. That night we stayed up ALL night talking. yep just talking no kissing. I learned about who he was he learned about me. although i did really want to kiss him which is why i am glad that at 6am when i had to leave.

He kissed me...on his doorstep. Morning breath and all. We hadn't slept AT ALL. I was sooo tired but i had to run to an adoption panel at a high school. Truth be told. The kiss wasn't SUPER amazing because it was really quick. but i thought about that kiss all day. After the panel I had to hurry home because...

We had to go get some clothes at DI for this silly stake road show we were in. We were copying dance to the Youtube video LOVE YOU TENDER. While at DI wes held my hand. Yes...he kissed me before we held hands..that heathen.

This was the vid we copied.

After the Stake Roadshow we went back to the Carolinas and we had an impromptu dance party with all our friends next to my car with the music really loud. It was soo much fun. I also think we may have made a few people kind of annoyed. Oh Well. The next day was National Pancake Day so we naturally had to go to IHOP.

A bunch of us waited in line for like an hour to get 2 free pancakes. This was the first time I referred to Wesley as my boyfriend...ahhh presh i know.

So about a week after we were dating I was going to Josie's sealing and blessing. This was a very hard time for me. I also knew that although Aly was coming I didn't want her to feel like she couldn't celebrate with her aunt and uncle. So i wanted to bring someone else. I brought my friend Taneil and I was supposed to bring my friend Eric. Well my friend Eric said last minute, "I don't think I am supposed to go, I feel like there needs to be someone else who should go with you." (no i am not making this up, i am still in disbelief) So then i invited my friend Michael. He said he just couldn't make it. So finally I invited Wes. Although, it was reluctantly. I was afraid he was going to get freaked out by my massive amount of emotional baggage this early in the game. We went to the sealing first. I was really having a hard time. We were at the Denver Temple and he just hugged me and told me everything is alright. He also told me that she knows I made the right choice for her because his mom once told them she felt she could communicate with her baby while they were in the womb and he believed I did the same with Josie. We were waiting in Aly's parent's van and Wes told me he loved me. Yep. A week after we started dating we said i love you....When you know you know right? I guess that reminds me of when i realized something else I knew....

Wes moved to the basement apartment for the summer and fall. i was getting ready to leave to my interrogator course. I had an extremely rough time trying to decide If i should still go or not. I loved Wes and I knew I wanted to marry him but I was scared what could happen If I left. I had numerous blessings and all of them kind of just told me I needed to decide. This was somehting I wanted so bad. I wanted to become and interrogator and I wanted to learn Chinese. I had been pushing for it all these years, since a junior in high school. Finally I had a wise friend tell me If you really think it is meant to be, he will be there when you get back. So even though we broke up once while I was away (hard 3 days of my life). Ultimately when he came to Monterey to visit me, I knew everything was going to work out. When I came home for thanksgiving Wes FINALLY proposed to me. (the proposal story is for a different day) I was so excited. 

On May 29, 2010 our real story began. We became married for time and all eternity. That day was an amazing one. I love Wes so much and am thankful everyday that I went to that birthday party and saw him dancing like a goober in his white boy fro. This last picture is the most important out of everything. because without this awesome story of us. We would not have this amazingly perfect angel in our lives.