meeting, hiking, and dating

here is the beginning of our story, and the rest is yet to come...kenny and i seem to have a few details which we disagree on; however, this is the jest of it from my side.

kenny and i met in 2005 in flagstaff arizona. at the time, i was living with his sister kristen (formely known as krissy) while attending northerna arizona university. kristen came home after a weekend in utah all excited about some network marketing thing. i didn't really understand, but she would lay awake all night telling me how we were going to be rich. krissy was holding a big network marketing meeting and kenny was coming from salt lake city to do the meeting. she kept saying that i had to meet him and hang out with him. i went to the meeting and didn't really stay too long. kenny later called and asked if i would go to breakfast with him the next morning. well to make a long story short i didn't go.

we kept in touch very little for the next few years - he was in salt lake and i was in flagstaff. kristen mentioned him a lot, and kenny says that he was chasing me for all those years. he said that he liked me from the first time we met. i guess i was stubborn and i now admit that i made a mistake.

in september 2007 my aunt anna and uncle troy had their two adopted children sealed to them in the salt lake temple. my aunt lana, cousins jamie and jana, my mom, my sister michelle and i made the treck to utah. kristen was once again my roommate and insisted that kenny and i hang out. i decided it would be fun, even though we were only in salt lake for less than 24 hours.

kenny picked me up and we went driving up some canyon. we started hiking up a mountain that supposedly when you get to the top you see the whole salt lake valley. now lets catch up on a few things, kenny was just in a pretty serious car accident the day before, his head still had the staples and he was really sore. it was now 10 pm and i had just driven all day to get to salt lake, and i had to be up around 4:30 am to go to the temple. i would say not the most optimal situation for sparks and romance. so we got to the top of the mountain and we discovered we were on the wrong mountain. there was absolutely no scenic view of the salt lake valley, in fact we just saw another huge mountain. we laughed all the way down the hill. when i got back to the hotel room my mom asked how the date went, i told her that it wasn't a date and we were great friends, but that i had never laughed so much. i said that my face was still hurting from smiling. (in fact almost every day i have to stop and relax my face because he is making me laugh so hard)

well that was the beginning of the end. we luckily got to see each other a couple of times in the next few weeks )with a lot of setting up from krissy) and one night after talking on the phone for over 4 hours i realized i was falling for him. although we were far apart, we decided to date exclusively and see how it would all work out. we spent thanksgiving together with his family in rocky point and things were going well and heating up!