7 Years!

In honor of our anniversary today, I thought I would take you on a little journey through the Jon and Mary story:
Although my family moved to Alpine when I was in 9th grade, Jon and I didn't meet until the summer of '95 when we were both called to be on Seminary Council (I think this is just a Utah thing, but people who went to high school in another state can set me straight). We spent some time together during our senior year, but just as friends and mostly because our friends were dating. Graduation came and went, he went to play football at Dixie and I went to BYU, and I'm 99% sure neither one of us would have thought about the other one if fate hadn't intervened. Fate, of course, referring to the housing crisis I experienced when I came home from my mission and found every one of dear friends/roomies that I had been with since freshman year was either engaged, married, or living abroad. I ended up taking the contract of a friend the weekend before school started. That first Sunday we ran into each other at ward prayer (an even more localized oddity than Seminary Council) and realized that we were in the same BYU student ward. We talked for at least an hour that night, became good friends for a few months, dated for a few months, were engaged for 2 months, and married on August 22, 2001. In the past 7 years, we've moved 5 times, been through 4 pregnancies, earned 3 degrees, had 2 children, and one heck of a time. Last Sunday after the girls were asleep, we had a great scripture study together and then spent a couple hours playing a wii game together. We both ended up laughing so hard, we were crying. I looked at Jon and thought "This is exactly the kind of happy I looked forward to when we got married." I love you Jon!