Beginnings

This is a picture of my honey, Scott and myself at the Sweetheart's Ball at Ricks College in February of 1993 just a few short months before we were married.  I found some of our dance pictures the other day and I liked this one the best.  The other ones, I just look weird. Anyway, it was fun to think back when I first met Scott and our courtship.  We went to Ricks College and met in my sophomore year.  He had been to Bozeman MSU for a year before his mission, went on his mission and his parents signed him up for Ricks.  So it was his 2nd year of Ricks also but his 3rd year of college.  I lived in Dorm 3 and his apartment was about a block west of the dorms.  We were in the same ward and in the same Family Home Evening group which was were we met.  He would come hang out with me and my roommates.  He helped me with my classes and eventually, I asked him out to a girls choice dance (I think Preference).  We had a great time and he ended up asking me out to Caberet which was a really formal dance...we got goblets that have the date on them and we have a set since we each got one.  He would walk me to my classes sometimes and we would study in the library.  We spent a lot of time together and just clicked.  Our first date was the last week of October but by Thanksgiving, I knew we had something special.  He came down from Montana after Christmas and spent a week with me and my family.  New Year's Eve, he proposed to me and we married in May, a month after spring semester got over in April.  A whirlwind romance but we spent nearly every day together after we met in September.  I am so lucky that I met such a wonderful man.  I think back at how young I was when I made such an important decision. I didn't know anything! But, I think having guidance from the Lord helped and He knew that Scott was a wonderful man and would be a great husband.  I don't believe in soulmates in the sense that there is just one person meant for another. I think that you must work hard at being the right person yourself.  But, I am so glad that I married Scott and I love him so much.  We have had a good life together and we continue every day to work on having a good marriage.  It is not something that you can neglect.    I am so grateful for my family and know that we are not perfect but every day I try the best I can to be a better person.  There are bumps in the road sometimes but that is to be expected.   I am entering a new phase in my life and it is sometimes really difficult.  I have a child that is almost an adult and my youngest children are approaching school age.  I thought that life would get easier but it has turned out more busy and just different.  I look back on posts when my boys were babies and I was in survival mode.  Those were fun days :-) but each stage doesn't get easier, just different.  I love my family so much!!!