Our Story

Calvin and I met in the spring of 2011. His roommate was my boss and was constantly telling him to take me out, even though we had never met or seen each other. Well, we ended up playing on the same softball team (which I think his roommate planned) and even then we didnt really talk much. I remember asking him once when he was going to take me on a dirt bike ride and guess what our first date was? I had just finished running the teton dam half marathon when I get the call from Calvin asking me if I wanted to go for a dirt bike ride up by Mesa Falls. So what does a girl in pain after a crazy run do....pop a few pain killers and hop on the back of that bike. He will say he didnt treat me anything special because he was not interested at all, but if you ask me, that was the best date I had been on in a long time. The funny thing about us is that neither one of us really wanted to date each other but we tried it anyway. I was the first to end it because in all honesty I had been hurt so much before that I just didnt know what I wanted anymore. But.....the minute I walked in the door after telling him everything...I wanted to take it all back (must have been love right haha). So we went for it again only to have him end it for reasons he can write about if he wishes....somewhere along the lines of it just wasnt right and someone else could make me happier than he could. Crushed? Of Course! Give up? Absolutely not! Lets just say persistance pays off ;) I kept coming around and inviting him to do things even though I could tell he didnt want to. I was the one who was always there when he really needed someone even though it hurt to not know if was worth it or not. Then we went on another dirt bike adventure...100 miles round trip from Mesa Falls to West Yellowstone and back. That is where I met Wesley's inlaws who offered me work for the fall down in Utah. Two days before Calvin was leaving to go down I had to make a decision, and nothing ever felt so right. I sold my housing contract miraculously the next morning and was packed up in Calvin's truck the following day. A week later we were at convention for work and Calvin asked this interesting question. "What do you think about people who get married really fast?" Me: "Well, I used to think they were crazy but now I'm not so sure." As the story goes...we set a date to get married that same week (the date and place changed like three times but thats a whole other story). He proposed at the old mill park in Nephi, Utah a week later and a month later we were married in the Seattle Washington LDS Temple for time and all eternity on September 10th, 2011. It was the happiest day of my life and I consider myself to be one lucky and blessed woman. All the stress of planning a wedding in a month was gone and nothing else mattered other than Calvin and I and our future together. Gotta love a happily ever after and I had finally gotten mine...and its just the beginning.