5 Years??? Really?!?

Soo has it really been 5 years since that tall, dark and handsome stranger stole my heart in Sunday school? Sure has!! I'm sure that those reading this really don't care to hear the story.. but I thought.. just for the sake of my "blog book" I am going to re-tell it. If you would care to read.. feel free!
So in about September of 2002 I was called to the Gospel Doctrine teacher in my singles ward. Yes friends... ME.. a gospel doctrine teacher.. and Yes friends... it was rough. So my first Sunday teaching.. the most horrible sunday of my life.. was the day that I met Jesse Beal. Jesse had been off his mission for... OHHHH probably 3 weeks. I was at the front of the room.. trying to pretending that I had the slightest clue what I was talking about. I noticed this super cute guy sitting on the front row, staring... VERY intently.. right at me! AWKWARD! It was that kind of awkward when your eyes would meet and you hurry and look away. I must throw in here that Jesse was NOT in my ward. His cousin, Andria was.. he was just visiting with her. I guess by the way I was talking about my friends (name will remain anonymous) Jesse assumed that this friend was my significant other..which he wasn't.. But after the fact we find out that Jesse told Andria.. "I don't care.. I WILL date this girl". Preeeetty confident.. eh? So after the lesson he came up to me, thanked me for the lesson and asked if we had met before because I looked very familiar. NICE PICK UP LINE. I thought at the time that I was VERY content with my life... and that my life did NOT need to consist of a "NEW" significant other in my life.. but there was just this .. different feeling when I saw him and talked to him. After we (my room mate Brittney and I) walked out of the sunday school room I just "pretended" to be going the same was as him.. so I could "bump" into him again. Once I did.. I asked him if he was going to our ward prayer that night. He replied that he would probably be there. I went home just on cloud 9, and ward prayer couldn't come fast enough! That night at ward prayer I was feeling very anxious to see him. Once I did.. I think that I started to act like the dumb 16 year old.. puppy love.. googly eyed nerd! I tried to play it cool and took his phone and put my number in it.. which again.. ODD for me... at that time. The reason I say this whole thing is odd for me is because I was trying to either make another relationship work.. or not work.. or work... or not work.. and I was just a mess in that department at the moment. Allll I needed was to complicate my life a little more. Anyway.. So I got the nerve to give him my phone number... HOWEVER.. Jesse's story is.. is that he didn't save it in his phone.. so as soon as he shut it.. GONE! So over the next week.. I waited.. and waited.. and waited.. for this phone call from this beautiful man! NOOO Call. I went out of town that weekend.. and the next weekend.. and the next.. still hoping that maybe even though I was gone.. he would still call. No call.. No call. So the Sunday that I was back in town.. teaching gospel doctrine.. HOPING maybe he would be there.. he wasn't! Kind of bummed! I actually felt like and IDIOT that I had worked up the nerve to give this JERK who isn't calling me.. my phone number... and worked myself up to talk to him.. and WAITED for him to call... and he didn't call! So after gospel doctrine, Andria, his cousin came up to me and asked if I remembered her cousin.. Jesse. I kind of played it stupid... acting like I had to think about it for a minute. I said yes.. and she proceeded to tell me that he had lost my number.. and had been back to the ward the 3 or 4 sundays I was gone.. he was trying everywhere to find me. He had asked one of my reallly reallly good friends.. the so thought significant other from my first teaching experience if he had my number... and this person.. who will remain anonymous.. said that he didn't know who I was. LIAR! Anyway... So I was so relieved to hear that he had just lost my number. So he called.. came to pick me up for our first date.. and when I opened the door.. I WAS LOOOOOOOVE STRUCK!!! After our date I came home and told Brittney that I loved him and that I KNEW that I was going to marry him! Soo that was November 1, 2002.. he proposed Feb 21, 2003 and we were married June 28, 2003.
I need to give the proposal story too.. but I got screamin kids... I'll have to do that later!!!!!