Our Story: How We Met

When people ask us how we met, we usually give the easy answer; we met through work. But the truth is, we met because I bought a car.

After my first year of college I decided I wanted to buy a new car. There was no particular reason, I just went to a dealership one day and picked out a car. Never mind the fact that I already had a perfectly good car that didn't carry a monthly payment. This car would be mine and I would keep it forever (I said goodbye to it 3 years ago). Well as you can imagine, a college student's budget isn't really cut out for a new car payment, so I had to find a second job. I searched through the newspaper (yes, that's how we looked for jobs back then, I know some of you are laughing) and found a position for an insurance agent. I knew nothing about insurance but the hours were just what I wanted and the ad said there would be on the job training. Somehow, miraculously, I was hired for the job and started in June 2006. After a week of training with my other newly hired co-worker, my boss had to go home and back to work at the Agency's main office which was in Northern Utah. But he told us someone else from that office would come down soon to train with us more. I think it was a week later that his brother, Jake, showed up. Now we both have different versions of the day we met, but mine is more accurate. Jake walked into the office and saw me sitting at my desk while a slight breeze came out of no where and whisked up my hair as I smiled at him; a golden light surrounded me... ok, maybe I like to embellish. Anyway, I'm the one who thought it was love at first sight. I even went to my other job that day and told all of my co-workers and friends that I was going to marry this guy someday. The next day I decided to give Jake my phone number. He didn't ask for it, but I knew deep down inside he really wanted to, and I told him to give me a call that night because I wasn't working at my other job and we could hang out. Well, we did hang out that night, me, Jake, and my roommate/best friend, Kami. I sometimes consider this to be our first date, but Jake disagrees since there was a 3rd party present. By the end of the week I had convinced him to come back not for work, but to go to the midnight showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 with me, and it was all downhill/uphill (depending on how you want to look at it) from there. We dated long distance for about 8 months until I moved up to his neck of the woods and we were a little bit of an on again off again thing for the next 5 years and then this happened.

So there you go, all of this happened because of a car. Imagine that.