Describe How You Two Originally Met.
We originally knew each other from high school, but He needed help finding pants for a dinner party in college, and I spent nearly an hour showing him around the store and helping him find a pair, all the while chatting and falling pretty hard. He spent the next month trying to track my number down, and finally sent his mom in for it, called me two days later, and we talked almost every night from then on. That was 17 years ago and so much has happened since.
Describe Your First Date and/or First Memories Together.
Haha I went with him to a company Christmas party for his moms business and met his. Whole. Family! Thank goodness we were smitten and I really got along with everyone, we ended up at a friends house after dinner, and then a movie, and then talking until the wee morning hours, we didn’t want that first date to end.
Why do you love living in Boise? Describe some of your favorite things to do in Boise and/or Idaho together.
We moved here while still dating, back in 2006, he had several job offers right out of college but we both decided Boise seemed like the best fit for our future together, so we made the leap and moved in together the summer after graduation. We were engaged 5 months later, married in March and bought our first home in Boise. We loved camping and hiking, we still do, but back then we could load up and get out of town anytime we wanted to, the mountains were our favorite place to be. Now with 3 kids our trips look a little different, but we still try to get out with them as often as possible, and we’ve introduced them to many of our old favorite camping spots, it’s fun to show the girls pictures of us camping there as newlyweds or with our first pup, and they look for the similarities of those spots to now.
What advice do you have for those searching for love?
Have fun, take trips, and adventure together. I tell everyone I know who gets married to go on a few trips together before you get married, if you can still love each other while getting lost or reading a map or parking a camper or trailer, then your golden
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