For those of you who know me well, you will find this
entertaining but not all that surprising.
Nathan and I met at a Star Trek party.
Groups of people who love Star Trek will organize themselves together
into a “Star Ship”. We just both
happened to be invited to a Star Trek Family Feud activity put on by the USS
Kelly in Salt Lake. My friend and I had
arrived earlier in the evening and I was about mingling with people and
chatting. I didn't really notice Nathan
walking in but he joined in the conversation I was having with someone
else. I literally did a double take and
lost my train of thought. That’s just
how staggeringly handsome he is. We
ended up chatting the rest of the evening and had a great time. Nathan says I have to mention that he wasn't there because he likes Star Trek but because he had a free evening and wanted
to mingle with friends. Over the course
of the next few days we sent a few text messages back and forth. We talked mostly about our kids and things
like that. We decided over the next few
weeks that we should get our kids together for a play date. He, being a newly single dad, didn't know many
people with whom his kids could play with.
The kids hit it off great and had fun playing together. Nathan and I enjoyed being able to have adult
conversation. It’s hard to find that
when you are a single parent. Over the
course of the next year and three months we enjoyed being friends and having
our kids get together to play. Then
there was the fateful day in June 2011.
Neither of us had our kids that evening.
I was living in Ogden, Nathan living in Bountiful. We decided that since neither of us had
anything going on that we should go to the temple. I rode Frontrunner down to Bountiful and we
went to the Salt Lake Temple to do Sealings.
You could literally cut the tension in the room, not a bad tension
either…..the good kind of tension. There
was a young newlywed couple there doing Sealings as well. The lady kept giving me these “knowing”
looks. Afterwards, we went down to the cafeteria
for some dinner and dessert. It was
there that Nathan knocked my socks off by announcing that he was interested in
me and more than on a friend level. I
was a bit stunned because I was feeling the exact same way and up until that point wasn't sure if
he felt the way I did. We walked around
temple square for a while all the time I was working up the courage to tell him
how I felt. I did and we decided that we
should try dating. He drove me back to
the Frontrunner station where we had our magical first kiss. We chatted on the phone during my ride back
to Ogden. By the end of the next day we
were engaged. Hey, we already had known
each other for over a year, why wait? In
August of 2011 we were married.
