Before our trip began- "Listen to your heart"

My husband picked me up from work and when straight to school. I stopped by the store to pick up chocolate chips for our trip ( a couple of cookies always kept people awake on medium length trips) and then I made myself dinner and watched a movie, something I am enjoying since I am not in school right now.
A young couple, both with completely separate backgrounds, end up falling in love. The movie is about experiencing that love in all its forms. But there was something that overcame me and reminded me of some who loves greatest of all. In the movie, the character Roger, becomes the brother to Danny, the main character. While Danny is experiencing adversity, Roger is a support. Even though it is a major trail for Danny, he expresses how much love he has for Roger and Roger reciprocates.

While watching this movie I was reminded, ever so gently, of how much I am love and how much I miss my brother. You see I don't have earthly brothers (just brothers-in-law) and so the ability to feel the love of a brother has been something I have had to work on. Whenever I am in just the right mood, I start to think about my brother I have not seen in a while. It feels ever so long ago that I saw him and how handsome and beautiful and amazing he is. But I know that I will get to see him sooner than it feels at the current time. One thing I miss most about him is the ability to feel the love he freely gives to me. The only thing that has come close to that memory, and is most similar, is the love I feel for my husband.

Love is truly a gift from above. I realized something while watching this movie: Love is the ultimate gift in our lives. It is the reason we live, the reason we exist, and the reason we keep going. I am grateful to have found someone to love so much and to feel as much love from. I love my husband and every time he does something selfless, I am reminded of the love I have for him. I am so lucky to feel this love and to allow myself to feel and express it back.

The excitement begins.. I am stoked.

So here I am, at work, helping my husband with his work, (kind of fun to me, by the way) and I am looking at some of my facebook friends and their lives, something I hardly ever do, surf Facebook for work, not lying either....So back to my point, I am looking at a friend of mine's blog, a friend I haven't talked to in a long time (the guilt is coming all too quickly) but I find that I am on her bloglist and I think, Wow! I need to post something about what is going on in my life. So here is the excitement for the week, and follow ups to come!!


Drumroll.............................. Ron and I are going on a journey, to one of the wonders of the world.....

This is just one of the amazing things we are going to see! The Beautiful Portland Oregon Temple.

We are also going to be able to touch the ocean (Something I haven't done in 3 years, and this is coming from a Florida girl).

These are just a taste of the goodness we will be partaking of in this week. Stay tuned for the post-trip pictures.

How we started.....Ha, Ha, Ha

Ron doesn't like pictures (actually I don't remember) but he didn't like getting his picture for the ward directory, so I had to go to his house and get his picture for the ward directory.

Yeah, who could turn down this face? The next time we said Hey to each other was in October some time. I said, "Hey Ron!" and he was like, "Who are you again?" What a great pick up line, eh? I reminded him of who I was and how I knew him, "I'm Hannah. I took your picture for the ward directory...." "Oh, yeah. Well, Hey."

We would say hey every once in a while. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas time, Ron and Joe came to church. I was excited because I hadn't seen Joe in a long time. I sat by Joe and Ron and then left for some reason. He said that was the first time he was like, wait where did she go?, but that didn't really spark anything other than a thought.

Fast Forward to end of January....Ron invited me to come in the van (Chris' van) and so we talked the whole way to Alpine and all the way back. Super flirted and lots of chatter, but after an invite to watch a movie (Ron invited me) and I turned it down because I had to work early the next day, he was like, "You're such an old woman!"

President's day 2011, we had FHE and then played games afterwards. While a lot of flirty went on that whole night, Ron was secretly trying to ask me out. After getting home and starting my cleaning check, Ron texted me and asked me on a date. I said yes. We went to the store as we were planning our date and talked till 3 in the morning, wanting to talk more, but we had school the next morning. We went on a date on Wednesday and 27 days later we were engaged! After lots of dates and time to plan (3 months, just a little too long) we got married in Logan, Utah.

and held a beautiful reception the next day! Then it was honeymoon....of course, no pictures!

Thus we continued making a new life together.