The beginning of it all...

Well, I guess I will start, I will have Jared write his side of the story later. The story starts at the beginning of this summer. I was off track in the summer and Jared was on track at BYU-ID. He and two other friends came back to Moscow for some family time and I ended up being invited. We played roller hockey, which was quite the hilarious night and then played Disney Scene It with some friends.  Of course we were both dating other people at the time but I remember seeing him and being like...DANG...he's a hottie! (but of course that is where it stopped since I was dating someone else.) I didn't really think anything of it or of him, well, I added him on facebook and I have to admit that I did look through his pictures :) but other than that I just added him to the list of cute guys I had talked to. 
Boring Moscow life continued for me until one fine day when i got a call from an unknown number. Of course I picked up because I love answering unknown numbers for some odd reason and there he was asking me on a double date with our friends Braden and Britney.  Unfortunately I was headed to a lake cabin with my family so I had to decline...however if you ask my family, I talked about "the cute guy who asked me on a date" all weekend long. I couldn't wait to be back in cell phone service that sunday. I ended up texting Braden because a few weeks earlier he had asked me what I thought of Jared, so of course I figured he was trying to set us up. (THANKS BUDDY!!) But in short, after talking to Braden I decided to invite him to a sunday night game night with Braden and Britney. He came and picked me up and we had a blast.  But, when he came to pick me up, he was driving this big sexy pickup that makes the most wonderful sound, so that definitely helped to hook this girl, as shallow as it may sound :)
Well, it continued, and we ended up hanging out most every night from then on. He took me to dinner at Sangria in Moscow and then afterward we decided to make a list of all the fun things we could do while in Rexburg this fall. We called it our "dupper buddy list" and the way we both were talking, it sounded like we were only ever going to be friends, which both of us agree now made us a bit sad.
He left for that next weekend and we texted and talked a few times while he was gone, and finally, I decided to let my blunt personality through and just tell him straight up that I liked him. So I did...and he agreed :) woot for both of us.
He came back from his weekend in the Seattle area and we continued to hang out. We took walks together and talked about just about everything under the sun. Then one night, as we were walking he made his moves and we ended up holding hands and kissing the same night...which I was totally not all that opposed to since he had clearly waited long enough.
The story goes on of course, we both told each other that we were sick of those relationships that go absolutely no where and that we weren't just looking for a fun little fling...and the next thing you know...we are totally absolutely inseperable and totally crazy about each other.
Side note...we went to his farm and he made the most amazing steaks, which we ate in the dark...not a very easy thing to do, and then we had a fire with his younger brother Jamesy-poo and the girl he was with and i learned that Jared is incredibly fast at the skill of taking a starburst wrapper off with his tongue...another one of his many talents that I love!
Here we are now...loving life, school and each other and making many plans for the future!