Time does fly, when you're in love!

5 years ago in March 2006, Evan asked me to marry him. It was the most amazing feeling to accept a proposal without one doubt, even though we'd only KNOWN each other for 4 1/2 weeks. Whats even more crazy is that we may have known each other for 4 1/2 weeks BUT Evan worked out of town during the weeks for his job and was only home for the weekends. So when I told Evan yes I would marry him.....this might have been the 13th time I'd ever seen him in my life!!!

February 2006 I was having a very difficult time. I really didn't see where my life was going. I lived at the dorms and was going to school for music tech. I just felt so lost and it was hard just not knowing what to do after this step. I attended the student ward and made lots of friends and there were lots of fun guys but none that I wanted to date. Sometimes I worried that in order to do the right thing, I would eventually have to marry someone I didn't really LOVE, but went on a mission and did all the right things. That thought scared me, so I prayed and prayed asking for something to change in my life. I prayed that I would find someone that I loved and was what I needed (according to Heavenly Father). Mind you I was only 19 so it wasn't like I was running out of time and I didn't feel a great need to get married right away. I just wanted a path to be shown to me. I wasn't looking for someone NOW, I didn't even care if I found them when I was 50. I just wanted to make sure that the choices I was making and where I was going was going to eventually take to me to the place that I needed to be.

My prayers were answered. I had a calm feeling and decided that I would continue my education with music tech in Arizona after my two years in Powell. I decided since I no longer had to worry about a "plan" I could cut lose and enjoy college a little. February 9 2006 I went to the hypnotist show with my cousins that was taking place at the college auditorium. The hypnotist called for volunteers, and there HE was. For some reason I spotted this guy up on stage in the crowd of other people. I had never seen him before, knew nothing of him, NOTHING. I don't know why he sparked my interest so much, I mean he was the life of the show but normally I would have left it at that and thought no more of it. I kept asking everyone sitting around me, "who is that guy?" "have you ever seen him?" "does he go to school here?" After being shushed over and over I finally quieted down. He stayed on my mind even when I got back to the dorms. But I figured if I hadn't seen him before then I probably wouldn't see him again.

I didn't think much else about it. February 10th 2006 was the institute dance. I love dancing, love music, love it all. I just wasn't interested in going that night. My roomate, who was also in institute with me, begged for me to go with her. Fine. I'll go.

At the dance I felt a lot better. Music always does that for me..ALWAYS. I was having a blast and about 3/4 of the dance was over and I looked over...and there HE was again!! My first thought was this guy is mormon? I've never seen him before. I did not feel shy, and walked over and waited patiently next to him. He looked over and said hi then went back to looking at music. I didn't budge. He looked up again kind of awkwardly and asked uh do you want to dance? YEAH! He told me that I would have to teach him because he didn't know how. So I was slowly showing him some steps to swing and WHOOSH the room turned into a blur and I was being flipped in the air. With my feet on the floor I took a few steps back, feeling a little silly for trying to "teach" this guy who obviously knew how to dance. After that I didn't buy into anything and we had a good time dancing and I was surprised that he was actually following ME around.

We exchanged numbers and I called him the next day. I completely trusted him. I went to Billings with him and his friend and it gave us an opportunity to get to know each other. On Sunday he came with me to church and he asked if I wanted to meet his family. So after we did just that. I felt at ease and so comfortable. After, we talked and it felt like we had known each other forever. He asked me how I felt about marriage, not to him, but just in general. I told him that I wanted to go to the temple, and that I wanted someone who was a priesthood holder. Evan wanted those things for me too. Over the next few weeks he met my family and I spent a lot of time with his family. In fact only after a couple weeks his parents gave me a key to their house!

Even though I had only known Evan the short time that I did, my family loved him, and his family loved me. Evan asked my Dad "if he could take my hand in marriage" well my Dad being the person he is doesn't like uncomfortable situations so instead of saying yes and having everyone sit in awkward silence he said "Well you can't just have her hand...if you marry her you gotta take all of her." Yeah that broke the tention.

So here we are today. We will be married for 5 years this August but I will never forget 5 years from this month or last month. We have reached a new milestone in our marriage, the 5 year fatties. I'm so grateful that I have Evan to grow with whether it be in age...or unfortunately pounds. I love you Evan Franklyn Kawano!

New Challege

So my blog has become a little....boring. It was nice to have the challege because it gave me 30 topics to write about. So guess what? I'm going to continue on with the challenge. I will not write every day, but often, and I will have a jar full of random topics to choose from. When I have something exciting to write about that happened in my day I'll write about that.