Triathlon July 14th, 2012

Tyler and Ashley Standifird invited me to be a part of their relay team to run the Echo Reservoir triathlon. I swam 1500 meters, Tyler biked 40 kilometers and Ashley ran a 10k. Ashley's siblings were on another relay team and all we wanted to do was beat them... We did it!  In fact, we got first place out of all the relay teams! ( I won't mention there were only 2....) They even gave us medals! Bryan was an excellent cheerleader for team StandiRandall!

Camping July 6th 2012

A few of Bryan's friends invited us to a campout up past Kamas. We ate hot dogs and Bryan made his delicious cobbler! The next day we drove through Kamas on the way home and had pizza at Summit Inn where Bryan worked while he was in high school.

July 4th, 2012

For the 4th of July we all parked at Bryan's house and walked down to Sugarhouse Park to watch the fireworks. My roommates, Emily and Michelle came along with a few of Bryan's friends.  I love the 4th of July and I especially loved spending it with my love.

Engaged!

The next few months flew by with wedding plans and triathelons, and finding a new place to live and moving!!

These are just a few of our engagements. We took some in Dowtown Salt Lake City, and some out at The Great Salt Lake.

Should we get married?

May 13, 2012
Bryan's roommate (and eventual wedding photographer), Daniel, took this photo. We were in Byran's room talking on his bed. At this time I was trying to decide for sure if Byran was the man I was going to marry. Bryan didn't even know what I was going through but because I was a little scared of marriage it was a tough decision for me and I had been struggling with it for a while.  We had talked about it a little but nothing serious. Two nights later I went to talk to my Bishop and Byran came with me. The Bishop asked me if I wanted to spend every minute of every day with Bryan. I knew at that moment that I wanted to marry Bryan.
We sort of got "unofficially" engaged that night, May 15, 2012. 

Road Trip and Disneyland

Bryan and I drove down to CA at the end of April for our annual Disneyland trip and to see Ben and Janae in OCMCO. It was such a blast and the first time my family met Bryan. We got to the hotel at about 2 in the morning and woke Mom up to meet Bryan for the first time.  Then we all crashed and went to sleep. Sharing a hotel room with your girlfriend's mom who you just met could have been awkward but Bryan was cool about it, of course.

Bryan and I had a serious discussion about our relationship on the way home from that trip and it was when we both said "I love you" for the first time!