The beginning

I'll start at the beginning. For me, that is the year Julie and I met. We were both going to Rick's college in Rexburg, Id. One of my roommates was stalking...er I mean infatuated with one of Julies roommates. He would drag me over to their apartment complex at least once a day. Let me back up a little.

When I applied to Rick's College I heard that the boy to girl ratio was 1/12. In my crude understanding I thought " Great, 12 ducks for every hunter". I was wrong. It was 12 hunters for every duck. After a few encounters with...shall we say "aggressive women" I decided love was not for me, and to forgo this part of the college experience until after I served a mission.

So here I am being drug around as a stalkers wing man and hang out all day in an all girls apartment. Okay, so I guess it wasn't all bad. So Julie and I started to spend a lot of time together. After a while Julie asked me to a preference dance. The dance was not for a few weeks but I thought maybe I should get to know her a little better. After all, we will have to slow dance together. We went on a couple double dates with stalker and Martha. We saw Dances with wolves and had some Ice cream. Any ways a few days before I thought that maybe I should hold her hand at the dance. That was it just "hold her hand".

All I have to say now is we have not let go. I went on a mission to Mississippi. She waited for me and we got married 2 months after I got home.
November 19, 1994 we were married in the Seattle, Washington Temple.