Awww...The Ultimate Love Story...

Thanks to the encouragement of a fellow blogger, I am posting the "How We Met" story of Cameron and I. Are you ready??? Cam and I met in the summer of 1999 (the year he graduated--yes, I am a year and a half older than him!) in Show Low. My best friend was dating his best friend and everyone kept tellin' me I just HAD to meet Cameron--not to date him (he had a girlfriend at the time), but because he was SOOOO cool and funny.:) I met him that night, and yup, they were right--he was hilarious! At the end of that summer, I moved to Mesa with another friend and Cameron moved to Mesa with his friends and surprisingly ended up living a block away from me! We got to be REALLY good friends, but I always had a boyfriend and he always had another girl. Then mission time came--Cam got called to the Ohio Cleveland Mission and on the day of his farewell, I opened my mission call to the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West Mission. He left three months before me and we promised to write weekly. When I got to the MTC, I was the first in my district to get a package...from Cameron! He had sent it early so it would be there the day I arrived! What a guy! We continued to write weekly and send tapes we had talked on to each other. The funny part is we had always said "I love you" to each other, just as good friends and actually always joked that we would end up marrying each other in the end, but halfway through my mission, it got to be a little different. You could tell the attraction was there, so I wasn't sure if I should keep writing "I love you" or not. I did and just hoped he wouldn't read into it! Oblivious to me, he was having the same dilemma! Well, I got home three months before he did and waited patiently (sorta) for his return. I went to the airport (with his ENTIRE family--not akward at all...yeah right!!! I remember his mom calling me the night before cuz she was just soooo excited and she knew I would be excited with her!) on March 1st, to see if 'THE SPARK" was there...yup, as soon as I saw him! We all drove up to Show Low that afternoon and he and I stayed up talking till 5am (no, not making out--that was the next night!). Yes, our first kiss was the day after he got home, March 2nd.:) What can I say, we're quick movers! When you know it's right, it's right! He moved down to Mesa and lived in the apartment above mine with some friends and we were unofficially engaged two weeks later, and officially engaged April 8th! We were married on July 6th, 2002 and have lived happily ever after!!! If you sat and read all that--you are a true friend!:) I now encourage all of you out there to tell us your love story!