A Little Background

I guess I should write a little background to our recent big event...

We were so meant for each other. How I was lucky enough to find Ian, I'll never know!

When we met, we were pretty much at the same stage in our religious inactivity. It had been a couple of years since either of us had anything to do with church. There was also no intention on going back anytime soon. We liked that we were both raised in the church, so we had the same background. As we got more serious, we knew we'd eventually like to go back to church, but that it wasn't going to happen soon. So we were married in a cute historic church out in the country.

After about 6 years total, we finally decided we were ready to go to the temple. That did not necessarily mean I wanted to go back to church... But, I wanted to go to the temple with my husband... and church was a necessary step to get there.

We had planned on going back to church when we moved in October. A new house, new neighborhood, a new start. It wasn't as easy as that though. We are both shy and quiet. Definitely don't put ourselves out there... It was hard/scary to take the first step in going back to church after that long.

After my visiting teachers came over a couple times, I felt a little more at ease about it. We'd started to meet a few of our neighbors and they all seemed so nice. With the end result as our MAIN FOCUS, we went to church one Sunday back in January with the faith that everything else in between would fall in to place. And that it did.

This huge decision was completely for ourselves. Not our parents or anyone else... So we didn't want to tell them.... yet. It was so hard keeping a big secret!

The joke of payment for my family helping us with our house was going back to church. So I framed this picture and gave it to them as their "thank you gift". It was fun telling them our big news. Brooke and Jordan were living in Utah at the time, but got to be on the phone with us. Brooke said she would just die if we were announcing a baby... Haha! I knew the words "big news" would throw them off :)

It may have taken 6 years... but, we made it to the temple. We've come a long way and still have an even longer way to go. We're still in the "faith that everything will fall in to place" stage. Stuff is still falling :)


We picked the Rexburg temple because back in early 2008, when we went through the open house, that's where I knew Ian would be the one I married. (Even if I was not quite ready to accept that fact yet...)

We may not have done all this the "easy" way, but I feel it all means that much more to us now. 

My first time at the temple was a special day. I felt adequately prepared by my husband and parents. I will never forget the huge smiles on their faces.