Our Journey...the beginning

It started in May 2006. I had gotten a job with the US Forest Service as a Recreation Technician. All that that cool title meant was "pit toilet cleaner." I had asked for that position because of the schedule (Monday through Friday, instead of the other available schedule of Friday through Tuesday). I received an email from my boss saying that my work partner would be Brian Goff. When I received the email, I literally cried. I was hoping to get partnered with another guy, not Brian. All I knew of him was that he had long hair, he was a fencer (sword fighter), and that he was engaged to be married. So with that in mind, I started the summer working 40 hours a week sitting next to Brian in our green work truck, appropriately named the "pickle truck." Well, needless to say, we didn't get along at all. Brian was arrogant and just generally a jerk.. However, after watching Brian go through some MAJOR changes in his life, we slowly started to become best friends. Spending 4 days a week, 10 hours each day with him just wasn't enough now. We got to know each other very well over the next month and a half, and on August 14th, we officially started dating. We knew from that moment that we were meant for one another and that we would be married.

(pic top: me standing by our "pickle" truck, pic bottom: Brian and I hosting a "pirates" murder mystery party)