My life changed forever 15 Years Ago today

I married my (very handsome) best friend in the beautiful
 Salt Lake Temple.
We were so excited to begin our life together and become a family.
Little did we know what was in store for us...
with 5 precious souls coming our way!

What a grand adventure this has been so far.
I am so blessed to share it with this man
who makes life so fun and happy!

Today as I reflected on the sacred relationship of marriage,
I was filled with a great desire to be a better wife--to find ways to show more love and respect for the man that God has given me.

13 years ago today...

Brad and I were engaged!!

*Don't mind the dates stamped on the side of the pictures. The camera was wrong!

At the time he was going to ASU and I was at BYU. We would see each other every couple weeks and had MANY, many long and rather expensive phone calls everyday. I had a plane ticket to fly to Arizona for Valentines Day. We had talked about getting married and I was pretty sure he was going to propose while I was there. I had mentioned that I was a little bit sad that my family wouldn't be there. What I meant was, I wanted to come home and show my family the ring and share with them the excitment. So with this in mind, my darling Brad spent more of his hard earned money (he worked 3 jobs all thru college), and flew up to Utah on February 10th 1996, rented a car so he could propose to me in front of my family on Temple Square.

He arranged for my parents to plan a family night out to Temple Square. My Dad told us he wanted to treat his 5 girls (wife and 4 daughters) to dinner downtown. (My only brother was on a mission for our church.) So we were just walking thru the temple square, when out steps BRAD..looking as dashing and handsome as ever!
He got down on one knee with the beautiful Salt Lake Temple as a backdrop, surrounded by my family, and asked me to marry him. I was shocked and so HAPPY! After lots of hugs and congratulations from my family, and even some strangers who had stoppped to watch, the two of us were off! First, we enjoyed a cozy and romantic horse drawn carriage ride around downtown Salt Lake City. Then we went to find something to eat. We ended up at Chilis.

It was very sweet and perfect evening,

that I will never forget!
So this afternoon, I will be making a quick dinner for our boys to enjoy without us, and spending some time getting all dolled up for an evening out. I will be ready to be swept off on a hot date with my still handsome and dashing Brad. I can't wait!! And I think we will go to Chilis!