I was 13, just moved into a new house, school, ward, city. And I was getting ready for 8th grade. (Don't be scared... this is just a necessary part of the story!) Meanwhile in Chandler, AZ the soon to be love of my life was going moving to Utah! Hooray for me:) He was trying to get out of it and stay there, which I don't blame him he was going to be a senior, who wants to move when they're a senior? But he talked to his bishop and thank goodness he had an awesome bishop and he said he should stick with his family and go to Utah so he did. I saw him for the first time in church, yep he moved right into my ward! And then we went to Youth Conference together well we just happened to be there at the same time... and we got it on video. How romantic huh:) My mom was the young woman president and she was head over heels for him. She thought he was the most awesome boy that she had ever met. (I remember teasing her about it. :) Then.. He finished up school and joined the Army National Guard. (Governor Huntsman actually swore him into the Army! Gotta brag about my boy) He went to basic in Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Then while I was getting into high school, Dev got called on a mission to Tokyo, Japan! The perfect place for Devin to be going. He was there from 2007-2009 and my family religiously sent him letters for the whole two years (did I mention my mom loved him?:) He still has all the letters. Then when he got home I was finishing up my junior year and he decided he wanted to go to Iraq.. So he did:) He deployed with the 141st MI Batallion as a Human Intelligence Collector(35M). And he's a linguist. Ya he's super awesome. And of course we sent him letters and packages. I even took initiative and sent him some fun things:) if only I would have known that he was the love of my life... I would have bombarded him with letters:) So, while he was in Iraq I enlisted. In the Army Reserve. And I went to basic in Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri. Same place as Devin! Cute huh:) He got home in April and I got home in June and the day after my 19th birthday(June 12th) He came up to me in church and oh man.. I am pretty sure I turned bright red and it didn't help that Joe was in the back ground giving me a big thumbs up.. Doing me a real solid! Any way.. Devin asked me how training was and what I got on my weapons qualification.. I beat him by 2! haha.. so he said we should go shooting sometime. Of course I said that would super fun but I didn't really think it would happen... you know I thought he was way out of my league and old.. :) love you dev! So I just felt reeeeally cool that he even talked to me. Then on July 5th, I was passed out and my mom came and woke me up and told me Devin was there and I should come down and talk to him. Uh, you don't have to tell me twice! So I got his number, ya you heard me right :) He didn't have his phone with him.. And he said he would take me shooting(and he brought us fresh strawberries. I know he's amazing.) So then.. I sent him and text and he called me a couple weeks later while I was at the movies with my friends and we tried to plan a date. But I had work, he had family stuff... Then he shows up at my house again! and we were both going to this financial class for my dad's work and we were going to go shooting after that!!!!!! So July 24th, the official day that we went on our first date. Shooting:) He drug me through a marsh in the middle of nowhere Utah and then we went to another place in Mantua and it was perfect. It was grand and then he bought us buffalo burgers on the way home. They tasted like.. cow burgers. and we went to my house to eat them and we destroyed a wasp nest! pretty intense. Then he left to go out with an old missionary friend and that was the earliest we would ever part ways again:) Then we were inseparable from that day on and the only time I didn't see him was when he went hunting... Then on September 7, 2011 Devin got a call from some contractors saying that they were going to Afghanistan and they would be leaving like soon.. So Devin told me the whole story of what would happen, he was going to be gone for a year! :( But no worries. He had a plan, a splendid plan, that we should get married!(He officially purposed with a ring on September 13, 2011) Of course I was all over that so we wanted to get married the next day but.. everyone told us it was okay to wait.. so we planned it for Veterans day 11/11/11. Perfect. Then we ended up not waiting anyways. We got married on 10/23/11 and it was still perfect:) then we had a grand reception and left for AZ a month later and so far I have loved every minute of being married to him.
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