True Aggies!

As I am sure you know, Bryan and I are Aggies. Mostly Bryan, he has always been an Aggie fan. I am a convert. We both have loved being up here in Logan. Bryan is attending school there currently and I have previously. Our first year here we became "True Aggies". Incase you dont know the tradition, you pretty much wait in a long line of students who run around trying to find other students to kiss each other after midnight on this huge block that is carved into an "A". You stand on the block and kiss, which you then get a little card that tells you are a True Aggie and with who. Well, luckily Bryan and I had each other. Then there is something called "Ultimate Aggie"....that's another story. Plus the Aggie sports up here are a great perk. Bryan is a dedicated fan and hasn't missed a game. And being a supporting wife, I as well make it to every game.We are getting very excited for this years game season for football and basketball. We are excited to sing "The Scotsman" and chant "Winning team, losing team." We are excited to stand in the sea of students screaming, "I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!!!"

The Best Proposal

So once Bryan returned from his mission we decided to take that big step and date serious. With him at college in Logan it was quite the short distance relationship. Frequent visits. Bryan and I always knew we were going to get married. It sounds crazy, yes, but we sorta just knew that it was going to happen. Which, for me, was perfect! So it was about February when we went ring shopping, but in a way I wanted it to be a surprise, so I showed Bryan a few that I liked and one that I loved. From there he got to choose what he wanted to get me. hehe! Let's just say I got the one I loved with a few tweeks Bryan made. Which I loved even more.

 But that is getting ahead of myself. Bryan hadn't told anyone when he was going to propose, but his family knew when he had gotten the ring. I am told that Bryan had a few ideas of when and how to propose, but the ring took a little longer than anticipated. So the first few ideas didn't work out. However, when it did happen it was perfect timing. I had drove up for the night, April 12, 2012, to go with Bryan and his singles ward to the Logan temple for baptisms. I got there, we hung out for a bit in his apartment and then got in the lovely blue car to head out. Bryan had put something in the trunk of the car, which was his jacket with the ring in it, and had carried a basket full of Easter eggs in the front. Bryan said he had just been thinking about me and had written inside each egg a memory or something he loved about me. I was allowed to open three eggs before the trip to the temple. I was SO excited! We got to the temple and did the baptisms. Bryan ended up doing all the baptizing. So it was a little longer of a wait. Once he got done we went out to the car where I got to open more eggs, but not all of them. Bryan then drove me to the Fredrico's, where Bryan and I had had our last "official" Logan date before he left on his mission and we walked in the snow. We ate some of the best pizza and salad. After Bryan asked where else I had wanted to go. I caught on by then that something was up. He saw the blank expression and said i'd like to see where this cool bench is that you keep talking about. (If you ever come up here you have to take a trip to "the bench" that overlooks all of Logan.) 

Our beautiful bench!

So I directed him there and noticed when we got closer that he was starting to get nervous, if you  know Bryan it doesn't happen much, and shaky. He said it was "cold" so he had to get his jacket and I got to open the second to last egg, which had my FAVORITE memory about Bryan and I. I started crying, thinking it was the last egg and that it was such a thoughtful idea. I loved it! So we got out of the car to sit on the bench. We talked about what we wanted for our future and about our relationship. It was then that Bryan handed me the LAST egg. Something in toilet paper fell out and Bryan snatched it up and told me to read the paper. Inside of it, it said, "Remember the time we got engaged?" Then we took the ring out of that white paper and asked me if I would marry him. Of course I cried and said yes and sealed it with a kiss. We sat for a little bit longer, while Bryan told me the story behind it all. We decided to leave when we were human popsicles. We got in the car and decided we'd call our mothers to let them know. It was the perfect night! 

Right after Bryan proposed and we could feel our fingers again!

  

It is I, Bryan, the captain of this ship.  It is requisite that I post on this blog, for it is mine.  Here's a little somethin, somethin to show a bit about me.

This is me.  Why?  Wait, what?  Practice?  We talkin bout practice.  Not the game, not the game that I die for.  We talkin bout practice.  It's always gameday for me folks.  I have a thrilling life story.  I graduated high school.  I went on a mission to one of the finest places on earth, Colombia.  Now I'm in college doing what I do best: waiting for the next Aggie football or basketball game.  I'm also majoring in accounting as a secondary mission to my college mission.
I married the most awesomest girl in the world, namely Dena S. Daines.  Nobody thought I could do it, but I proved the world wrong.  She likes me so much she bought me a TV, which she is currently watching.  It's good times.
I work at Sam's club as a Cashier Slavedriver and Dena works at America first as a big shot in corporate America.  We are enjoying our time up here in Logan Utah and are looking neither backward nor forward to the past or present as time slips through our hands as sand in the hour glass.  So are the days of our lives.
Now that you know a little bit, and everything, about us, I invite you to follow our blog, which I promise to write with more diligence than we that with which we write our two ugliest brothers yonder where the rains fall mainly in the plains of Spain.
Happy huntings!
Bryan

The Beginning

Bryan and I have known each other since 7th grade where we met in track. We became best friends in 9th grade where we gained a little crush on each other. We dated through high school and for a semester of college up at USU. Bryan then went on an LDS mission to Bogota, Colombia for two years. I stayed in Logan, UT for three more semesters at USU. Then went to Ecuador for four amazing months, where I helped in the orphanages. It's what I call my mini mission and loved EVERY minute I was there. I miss the children everyday. Bryan also loved being in Colombia and serving the people. Then I returned just in time for Bryan's great return from the mish in  December.

Ecuador

Colombia          

Our greatest   treasures.








We had our great reuniting in Roy at his parents house the morning after he arrived, because Bryan got home really late the night before. I had to take my mother to her dentist appointment that morning, so being VERY anxious I drove my mother to her appointment and waited for the call...once my mother got called to go in back, 10 minutes later, I got the call. My dear sweet Bryan was on the other line in his cute little accent asking for his Dena. Well, odd enough to say, I left my mom at the doctors office and took the longest drive of my life back to Roy! Well, I finally arrived and Bryan was the one to open the door. All of the emotions came flooding out and I finally got the hug I waited for for two years. It was such a great moment! I missed his smile SO much! From there on out Bryan and I tried to spend every minute together. He went back up to USU for school and I stayed at Weber for the semester. It was hard and long, but it was so much better to be an hour apart than a....well, few more hours apart. It was like he had never left. I was incredible lucky!  

Our great reuniting!