{It Should Be Said...}

a sweet posting about my sweetie last month for our anniversary...it's now April 13th...

hmmmm....where did the time go...

better late than never...here goes, this one's for you babe!

let me take you on a journey to a time long ago...ya know, five years-two houses- three kids ago....

the year was 2004...it was fall...fall in the valley is beautiful.

the story goes something like this....

Institute at MCC was just starting up, I decided I would take a class

first day, i couldn't decided which class to take, I felt something pull me into the Book of Mormon class.

I sat next to him. 'well, what do we have here?', I thought.. 'Pretty cute'

The roll was passed around and I didnt have a pen, so very smoothly I asked to borrow one from him.

so i marked my name with his pen.

and that was it.

several weeks passed, we didnt talk more than average class particiaption

i thought he was very funny, i always enjoyed his comments. i felt a connection to him.

odd seeing as how i didn't even know his name...

one day he said something clever as he walked in (late) to class and i flashed him my best smile

he made eye contact and looked away...

'ouch' i thought...'what a jerk'

a week later, my 'friends' in that class all decided to be dumb and not talk to me (being single-i DO NOT miss you, but they did me the biggest favor of my life!) so I went to sit by the cute loner in the back of the class. him.

we chatted like we old friends. like a long lost friend, i felt we had our whole lives to catch up on.

class started and we were made to pair up in groups, by our last names...so I had to move..darn it....

than as i was leaving class, i saw him paired up with another girl talking. and it hit me they looked really good together....

'well that's the end of that...' i thought trying to brush it off, realizing it cut deeper than i wanted to admit

i went home after a long day and later recieved a phone call. from him.

'oh good! he likes me back! but...

i don't remember giving him my number' i thought as we talked.

he apoligized for the forewardness and told me he got my number off the attentance roll

(which I found out later wasn't true- i wasnt on the roll because I enrolled late, so he had to track our teacher down and beg him to get it off the Institute records, haha)

we talked for an hour, which seemed like 2 minutes and we agreed to go out the next night.

so we did....

he showed up with a single red rose which he offered me.

'cheesy' i thought...although my breathe caught in my throat...'it works...'

our date went wonderfully and I teased him he wouldn't call me...

...and than he didn't.

no calls. he wasn't at class all week either.

'what. the. heck?? was he like totally blowing me off or what?!'

i threw myself on my parents' bed, bawling my eyes out. they reminded me I did 'technically' have two boyfriends at the time...

"screw them!! I want RYAN to like me!"

so finally, a week later, he calls. he'd been busy at work blah blah blah and asked me to go out again.

'uh-uh..'i thought, 'i'm gonna string this guy along...'

i declined several of the days he suggested, i really was busy but i didn't feel one bit guilty about it!

finally, i agreed he could pick me up after work and we would go to dinner.

we did, than went to a park and talked for hours (a common thing we would do)

we got along so well. like a hand in a custom glove.

and that was that...he was the mac to my cheese....

and boy, did i fall hard...

i knew there would be no recovering if this love ended...he was my love suicide.

best. friend. of. all. time.

we were inseperable!

the first time he kissed me i literally saw fireworks and i knew i would marry him.

than my grandparents visited and they really liked him, we recieved our answer in so many ways-our hearts were so full and we couldn't wait to make it official!

i begged him to slap a ring on my finger, i couldn't wait to shout it from the roof tops!

but he took his own perfect time, which looking back was nice, though i wondered why at the time he wasn't asking.

we dated from Oct to Dec, got engaged Dec 31st, and were married for time and all Eternity March 11th 2005.

i often tease him about the time I smiled at him in class and he blew me off...

he says that he thought i was so pretty that it took his breath away and by the time his brain caught up to real time it was too late to smile back so he just awkwardly looked away....

i guess i'll believe him....;)

there are alot of times i miss 'the beginning.'

i dont think that ever goes away, just goes to show myself i have loved as truely and deeply as i possibly can.

So, Jacob Ryan Bergen...from here to Eternity!