**Disclaimer, it's been a few weeks since I blogged, and it may just take you a few weeks to finish reading this novel of a post! I will probably make a book out of it once I'm done...** Early 2000 I thought I was so grown up at 20yrs old! I had lived away from home, traveled out of the country for two straight months with my friends and by myself, attended and almost completed college (only lacked one semester when we got married), and yet when I think back I can't believe how young we were! Justin had been home from his mission about 3 months when we became officially engaged. Justin took me to Canyon Lake, the spot of our very first date four years earlier when we were just 16 & 17. Prior to that Justin had taken me to dinner at Monti's (my favorite steakhouse in Tempe). He had also (at some time) sat down with my parents and asked for their permission to marry me, which they nicely gave :) I can't quite remember but I think I was suspicious...
