How We Met

I've got time to kill, so I thought I'd let everyone know the full story about how Kelly and I met.

In the summer of 2006 I started working at the Best Buy in Logan. In October 2006 Kelly started at the same store. I worked at the desk at the front doors, greeting people and checking receipts. Kelly was in the digital camera department, located directly in front of my desk.

I didn't notice Kelly until November. I was starting my shift and was talking to the guy I was trading with. One of our jobs was to tag employee purchases. Kelly came up with a Coke in hand, and waited for his sticker. Mark and I were discussing something that was apparently important, so Kelly just put a sticker on his coke himself and continued on. Being in the fantastic mood that I was, I snapped at him. "You know that's our job." He looked at me and said, "Yup. It sure is," and walked away. My first thoughts of my husband were: That guy is a jerk! Kelly says he thought I was a brat.

So why are we married now? Curve Cologne.

The employees had to clock in at my desk. I ignored Kelly for the next few shifts, but caught a whif of his cologne one day. He smelled good! I started standing closer to him every shift. One day I wasn't paying attention when he came in and I stepped backwards into him and he scared me, so I squeaked. He thought it was the funniest thing he'd ever heard and started trying to scare me to get me to squeak again. That turned promptly to flirting, so after Thanksgiving I asked him out. He turned me down. So I asked again. He turned me down again. The company took us to see King Kong as a Christmas party and I sat behind him in the theater. He flirted more, so I asked him out again. He shot me down. Finally I gave him my phone number and told him to call me when he wanted to go out.

Three weeks later, just before New Year's, he was out with his roommates and they wanted some girls to hang out with. On a dare, he called me, and had me bring my roommates with me. We hit it off really well, so he asked me to go out with him on New Year's Eve. After that we started spending almost every day together.

On June 22, 2007 he proposed at first dam in Logan. He said, "I've been waiting for the perfect moment to ask you, then I realized that every moment I'm with you is perfect. Will you marry me?" He was so nervous he put the ring on my right hand and it got stuck. A little over 6 months later we got married in Ogden. Eleven blissful months later, here we are. Still very much in love.

Who knew so much good would come from Best Buy?

Our Thanksgiving Weekend Project

My contribution to Thanksgiving dinner, along with some rolls, a pumpkin pie and a scratch pumpkin cheesecake!

Kelly's Aunt Rita has commisioned us to build her a 12'x12' shed. I didn't get a picture of what it first looked like, but rest assured it wasn't easy to clear the area. After some work with the chainsaw, 3 trailer loads of branches and brush were hauled away, by myself and LeAnn. Brent and I dug the holes for the footings, occasionally being spared by Kelly. We took a break for Thanksgiving dinner then went right back out. Kelly and Brent mixed the concrete while I supervised (mostly I was avoiding his cousins) and filled the footing tubes.

They weren't quite dry enough to build on Friday, so I put togther the joist hangers while Kelly and Brent made trusses. Today we really got things going. Kelly and I mounted the joist posts and then all three of us put in the joists.
















I finished nailing the trusses together while the boys fought to make the whole thing square, then we put on some glue and put down the floor sheeting. Kelly nailed everything down while Brent and I got it into place. Next, Kelly laid out the walls and they just flew up. We got three done today.

Wall #1

Wall #2

Wall #3

Here, Aunt Rita and cousin Hayden came out to inspect the work.

Minnesota Update

Everything is in. I'm going up for an interview and recruiting weekend in January sometime and assuming all goes well, I'll be starting on May 26th. We'll make the move during the week of the 19th. Nothing will be finalized until after the interviews, but it's looking pretty secure. Wow. We're really moving away. Scares me to death!

Wish us luck, and have a great Thanksgiving!

We'll be at Mom and Dad's on Sunday for a little Thanksgiving.

Did you know that head wounds bleed a lot?

I smacked my head good and hard on the metal arm on the big fertilizer spreader at work and cut my head open. It wasn't a big cut, but it bled like mad. My head hurts now. What a great way to start Thanksgiving.

Graduation Update

My graduation will be on Saturday, December 15th at 1:30pm at the Eccles Conference Center. Everyone is invited, just let me know by Thanksgiving if you're coming or not so I can make sure there's seats for everyone. I'm not ordering formal invitations, so spread the word for me. Hope to see you all soon,
Love, Sarah and Kelly