Beginnings.

This is us. Brett and I got married last August in Indiana, where most of my immediate family lives, and where many family members were able to drive to--with the exception of Brett, myself, and Brett's parents and sister who live in Western Washington. We met through Brett's best friend from high school whom I conveniently went to college with. I went for two years without meeting Brett, or knowing much of his existence. In my third fall at school, Brett made his first trip to visit his friend, in which a double date consisting of salsa dancing was one of the weekend activities. I was not our friend's first choice for a date for Brett, but I was the choice who didn't have any plans for Saturday night.

Neither of us were good at salsa dancing, or dancing in general as long as we're talking about things we're good at...but we hit it off chatting away in the noisy restaurant turned wanna-be dance hall. We went months without communicating, but reunited via Facebook at the beginning of Spring Semester. Long story short, we continued to get to know each other through wall posts and messages which led to Brett making another of many treks to visit me in Idaho.

I decided to let our relationship become official when Brett surprised me in Phoenix while I was on a multi-hour layover waiting for a plane to take me and my classmates to Costa Rica. (Intro to Tropical Ecology was a course that was 90% take a trip to Costa Rica and learn about tropical ecology and 10% meet one hour per week until the trip and talk about what we will do in Costa Rica...that was the best way to take Science as far as I'm concerned.) I got off the plane on a quest for a quiet corner to sleep as I had woken up at a ridiculous time in the morning and had been up late working on a Spanish paper, and before I could hit even a bathroom, Brett was walking towards me.

After I got over the initial shock of seeing him hundreds of miles away from where I last knew he was, I enjoyed the rest of my layover and happily went on my way to Central America. Long story short we continued to date, became engaged in December of 2008, Brett moved to Idaho in May of 2009, and we tied the knot in August of 2009. And that's how we began...