How Two Penguins Met

The day was September 19th, 2010. Yep, I even remember the exact day. Traz and I were being set apart for callings for our church ward. We were both just sitting there when one of us, we don't know who, said "Hello". We started to talk and ask the basic questions:

Traz: So what are you going into?

Me: Theatre and Speech Education with a History Education minor.

Traz: Cool. So you want to be a teacher?

Me: Yeah. What are you going into?

Traz: Computer Engineering.

Me: Oh really? What do you want to do with that?

Traz: *smiles* Build robots and take over the world.....

Me: *laughs* (Thinking: Oh no...this guy is a complete dork, and a nerd, and probably REALLY awkward to take out in public...)

[yeah...I really thought that]

Due to various Church activities that day, Traz and I ran into eachother a lot. He was actually trying to sit next to me for this big meeting, but lost me in the crowd. We bumped into eachother at a rootbeer float party being held in the apartment above mine. We talked some more, getting to know one another better. Traz, hearing that I liked to sing, invited me to go stadium singing with him. (That's when a bunch of people go under the football field bleachers and sing hymns. It's a lot of fun!) Now this was the moment, we later realized, that if I had said "no" then Traz would have moved onto a different girl and we probably would have never dated and gotten married. I was considering saying no too, because I had been hurt a lot earlier in the year from past relationships. Then a little thought came into my head saying, "What's the worst that can happen?"

So I said...."Sure!"

And the rest....
























...is history.

(By "History" I mean that Traz and I dated, he proposed to me in December at Disneyland and then we got married April 15th, 2011)