3 years!

Hyrum and I just celebrated our first wedding anniversary together!  Which was pretty exciting, because we've been married 3 years.  Our first two were spent many states apart.  In June of 2011 Hyrum was in Washington state at an ROTC training called LDAC; he was out in the field and couldn't even use a cell phone to call me.  So that was a non-event anniversary.  Last year he was in South Carolina at an Army career course, and *lucky us* we got to at least talk on the phone.  So this year we asked ourselves What do normal people do for anniversaries?

We enjoyed dinner at a Thai restaurant around here that I LOVE.  He got off work a little early that day, which gave us the chance to spend some time together before an 8:30 bedtime.  We had fun reminiscing the time that we were dating and engaged.  We have never made a big deal of 'significant dates' before, so we had to look back at calendars and emails to figure out what day we even got engaged!

So to save us some time in future anniversaries, here's a trip down memory lane:

We met October 23rd 2009 at a birthday party of a friend of a friend.  The next Friday (a day before Halloween) we ran into each other at DI while we were shopping for costumes.  (I bought that yellow sweatshirt above to wear during my half-marathon.)  That's when he got my phone number.  

We 'officially' started dating December 20th.  My family was coming into town, and I was debating whether or not to bring Hyrum to our family get-together.  (Cause lets face it, that many Hatches can be a bit crazy if the relationship wasn't really serious.)  He clearly wanted things to be more serious, so I finally let him call me his girlfriend, and he came to decorate cookies with the WHOLE family.  And survived.  Way to go Hyrum!

Hyrum was so sweet at remembering our anniversary every month.  Here's flowers and a balloon on February 20th.  (He gave me that plant on the right on our first anniversary in January.)  He usually dropped something off on my doorstep at some crazy hour of the night/morning.  (Like between 3 am and 5 am).  He had a crazy schedule, to say the least. 

Our first military function together!  I went with him to the end-of-year ROTC ball.  Didn't know at the time it would be the first of MANY.    

The night we got engaged! April 10th.  We didn't actually take pictures at the place he proposed.  Maybe because it was a dark creepy park.  But that's a story for another day.  And for the record, the date he tried to propose the first time was March 23rd.  Again, that's probably a story for another time.  But in short, good things come to those who wait!