We met in September 2007. James had returned from his mission a few days earlier and was moving into his new apartment at BYU. I was helping a friend move into the same apartment. Over the next several months we became very good friends, and started spending lots of time together. We were part of a little group that did everything together. It was such a fun time with our friends and was such a perfect foundation to our relationship. We spent a long time just talking and getting to know each other on a very deep level. James set me up on dates with all his friends, and I helped him with his "girlfriend" problems.
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| Our group of friends |
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After a while James began having feelings for me. At first I resisted it. Eventually he gave me one last chance. He was going to make me tell him that we would never have that kind of a relationship so that he could move on. At that moment I realized I couldn't tell him no. I knew then that I could never lose him, and I could not live without him. We enjoyed our time dating and getting to know each other on a different level.
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We loved spending time with both of our families and with each other. In September 2009 James proposed to me. Although the night didn't go as planned (When he got down on his knee and asked me to marry him I ran away screaming because a raccoon appeared right behind him), we got engaged. We enjoyed our short time being engaged, and got married on December 9th, 2009.
Although it was the coldest day of the year it will always be one of the happiest days of my life.
For the past five years we have loved being married. Although hard things have happened, and life isn't always easy; we are grateful every day that we got married and that we have each other to face the challenges together. James received his Master's degree in Information Systems at Brigham Young University in April of 2012 and is now working at a job he loves. We were blessed to adopt our son in December 2013 and Ami enjoys the blessing to stay at home raising him.
