Preston and I met in December of 2012 through one of my coworkers at T-Mobile. The coworker had served his mission in the same area (Ribeirao Preto, Brazil) as Preston. I was in the middle of a particularly messy breakup and told my coworker to set me up with one of his friends as a distraction date. Not even an hour went by before Preston came into my life. He had noticed a post I had made on my coworker's Facebook wall and commented that I was pretty. I pounced. I straight up said, "Preston. Date me." I sent Preston my phone number through a Facebook message and soon after we started texting. My extremely forward and embarassingly desperate behavior paid off. We met up a week later, Christmas Day. We drove around the city, looking for something to do when we passed by Denny's. Preston said that he had never been and I nearly crashed the car because I pulled into the parking lot so suddenly. A chocolate milkshake and a few days later, we began dating.
After a couple weeks, I remember telling my mom that it "just wasn't working out" and we broke up shortly after that. Both Preston and I thought we would never cross paths again. At least I did. I went to UVU, he went to BYU, he was super old and I was really young, plus he lived in Orem and I lived in Provo. No way we'd run into each other.
Over the weeks following our breakup, we spoke very little. I was ready to stop speaking to him altogether, but Preston was persistent. By March we had become friends. We went on walks together, talked about our absolutely abysmal love lives and even went to the Festival of Colors together. We understood each other very well and often joked that "we were the exact same person".
I knew I was starting to fall in love with Preston even in March, but it wasn't until a very distinct day in May as I was driving to his house to pick him up to go see 'The Great Gatsby', rocking out to Michael Jackson that I realized it was the real deal and it made me giddy. Only a few weeks later we began dating "officially" again.
By July we were picking out wedding colors. In August I booked our wedding venue. In September I scheduled our sealing time and date. In October we were engaged and on December 27th, a year and two days after our first Denny's Date we were married in the Draper temple!
We honeymooned in California for a week (which was seriously the most perfect vacation I have ever been on) and then came back and started to organize our little home in Orem.We are both working as of right now and taking a break from school. Preston works at Myler Disability as a case manager and I'm working at T-Mobile (going on two years now!). I will also be starting another part time job at the Space Center in Pleasant Grove as a "Flight Director" which I am absolutely thrilled about.
We are getting involved more and more every week in our ward, which we LOVE. Preston is the Elder's Quorum Secretary as well and the Primary Pianist and I was just recently called to serve on the Relief Society Activity Board and teach Primary. I will be teaching a class of 9 year olds and they are just the most adorable things. It's going to be such a great adventure!
So. That's how we got together and where our life is as of right now. I'll try to update every week or every couple weeks, just so that people know that we haven't fallen off the map. :)
