Hey Everyone! I thought that I would follow my wife's request to add my side of our "got together" story. So before I go...just know that I tend to write without doing much editing...so...here we go. I honestly don't remember the very first time I met Carly, though I REALLY wish that I could. My first memory, solid memory of her was going sleeping bagging. As is said on Carly's portion, it's when two people get into a sleeping bag together and roll down a big hill. It's the single college student's version of the kids game "Roll down the biggest hill you can find and get really dizzy so that you fall over." There were two problems that night, A.) when I was rolling down the hill with Carly's friend Robyn we rolled over a drainage grate...my hand hurt, and 2.) My friend Jake Havens fell hard and broke his shoulder that night. (Sorry for the random side note) Other activities Carly and I participated in was riding around in cars with snowboards under the back tires (mullet-mobiling), coveting nixon watches, listening to N.E.R.D on my cell phone ring tone, and doing a little snowboarding up at Brian Head Ski Resort near Cedar City. The entire time Carly and I were in Cedar I was either interested in her friend Robyn (about a 1 week span of time) or dating a past girlfriend, Jaimie. So I never thought of Carly as anything other than someone who was really fun to be with. We lost track during the Spring Semester of 2003...but when I went on my mission we wrote a few times. Now most of you already know that I came home after about 6 months for knee surgery. When I got home most of my friends were on missions still, so I tried to contact Cedar City friends. LITERALLY, Carly was the only one who would give me the time of day. I found out that she was living in Logan now going to USU. I was coaching the track team at Davis High and we took a few trips up to USU for meets. I would go up the night before the meet to stay with my sister Sara and her husband Jes...but this gave me a chance to hang out with my old friend Carly again. We saw eachother a couple of times...but that was about it. Then my friends Brandon, Dan, and Chase all decided to transfer up to USU and it just so happend that the ward we moved into was the one that she attended. I walked into church that day and saw a slightly longer haired Carly on the stand preparing to give a talk. It was really random. Carly, Brandon, and I went up the canyon once for a bonfire before she left on her mission...and I saw her at a party just before she left...but that was about it. (I was still dating jaimie at this time...even though Jaimie had just left on her mission). Soon after Jaimie left I started to realize that she was not the one for me (even though I fought it for a while). There were a lot of things missing in that relationship. So while my once friend, and once girlfriend were both on their missions I dated a few girls...gave my family a few scares...and in the end came out with nothing. I got a card from Carly saying "Hi Robbie, It's time for an update! Thats all." on it. (so typically Carly by the way.) I wrote her probably 3 times in the last 3 months of her mission and about a month before she got home I started toying with the idea of asking her out when she got home. I still don't really know what made me think of that...but I'm so happy that I did. I attended her Welcome Home talk in church with Jake Havens. It went a little long and Jake had to go right after the closing prayer. I didn't feel very comfortable there alone...but didn't want to leave without saying hi. So as soon as the prayer was over I walked up to say hi to Carly so I could leave quickly. I didn't think this was weird...but apparently everyone from Carly's family did. They wondered who the "blushing boy" was who wanted to see Carly so badly. (for the record I was not blushing...I got severly (sun) burned the day before and because I have high power allies (some call them widow's peaks) it really shows when I get (sun) burned). After leaving Carly's welcome home I had officially talked myself out of asking her out on a date. It just didn't seem right...I can't put my finger on it though. Anyway...either that night or the next night Carly called me and we talked for a couple hours just to catch up. It was a great conversation. It replanted the idea to take her out in my head. Had we not had that conversation I probably wouldn't have asked her out. So we went on a date the next weekend in Salt Lake. We ate at a SALAD PLACE!...(I was hungry...but we knew that she could eat there so it was good...but I was hugry). Then we went to the planetarium and walked around looking at the exhibits. It was here that I started to REALLY think that I had been missing something that was with Carly all along. It was so much fun to be with her. I wanted to make her happy, and I felt like she wanted the same (a first for me). We saw a comedy show later that night and then talked outside her front door till early in the morning. She left to Arizona to pick up a car she purchased from her brother. When she was there we had a five hour conversation about life. It was amazing! I felt no reservations about telling her my weaknesses and strengths. She accepted me in spite of them and she opened up to me as well. We have since talked about that night and decided that it was a critical point in our relationship. The night she got back into town was a week night...and I decided to drive down even though I had a ton of homework and class in the morning. I am so happy I did. It was from that night on that I knew that I wanted to see where this relationship would go. On numerous occations, and to this day my mom claims that after I started seeing Carly I was happier. I was having a rough couple of years fighting with a number of issues and problems. I was feeling very drained and I was about ready to just move on with life and go a different direction. But Carly gave me a reason to stick around and fight for the lifestyle that I knew I deserved and wanted. She continually enchourages me to strive to reach my goals in life. She sees in me something that I don't understand, but I love her so much and am thankful for her love. That is the story...DONE!
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