Kristy and Bryce: Bryce and Kristy

I decided to try out this blogging thing again. For all of those who gave up on my other blog, I don't blame you I really wasn't good at keeping it up. But don't give up on me completely. I am really going to try this time. Now that I am married I want to keep this as a family journal so I think that will be enough to motivate me to blog more often.

Bryce and I met our freshman year of college. He was roommates with one of my good friends from high school and he was in my ward. We were just friends before his mission and then I wrote him a little while he was on his mission. When Bryce got home we began dating. Things started to get serious and for whatever reason I wasn't ready to make that commitment. We broke up for about 8 months. And then slowly started talking again. I guess I just needed time to figure out what I really wanted and to figure out for myself that Bryce was the one for me. He later told me that he knew two years ago that he wanted to marry me. I am grateful that Bryce was so patient and never gave up on me. We began dating again and got engaged on December 23rd. I have never wanted to have a long engagement but me being in the nursing program at SUU, I really didn't see how we could get married any sooner than May. My schooling is very demanding of my time and even with the longer engagement I still felt as though I was barely getting things done in time. I received my endowments in the St. George Temple on May 12th. My little brother, Jason, had received his mission call to the Washington Everett Mission and would be leaving about a month after we got married so he was able to receive his endowments on the same day with me. It was really neat to go through at the same time and then he was able to be at my sealing. Bryce and I were sealed in the Manti Temple on May 18th, 2012.

Here are some pictures of us before his mission:

This is Me, Carlee, and Bryce rock crawling in Bryce's truck

This is at Bryce's Farewell

Also at his farewell (Don't judge me too harshly on this look I'm sporting. We all slept in except Brittany so we got ready in the car while Brittany drove, but hey we made it in time for his talk...barely)