Opposites Attract: April 2012

Its been awhile since I blogged, but today it has been 5 years since Jungleboy and I met so I thought I would tell you how it all got started....

Once upon a time, in January of 2007 I was 22 and single. I was feeling a little down about life when one day I felt prompted to look in to online dating. After all, thats how my mom and step dad had met, and it had worked out for them. So, I looked in to some different dating sites and felt good about one called LDSPlanet. So I filled out the information, uploaded some pictures, paid a small fee, and boom. I was in the world of online dating. Here is what I said about me in one of the profile questions:

I have lived in Canada for the last two years after my mom met and married a Canadian after divorcing my dad. I lived on a farm and that was so much fun because I am a huge huge animal person. I love to dance and read, I'm kind of shy at first but once you get to know me I can get kind of crazy! I love little kids and am currently working at a daycare, which is the greatest job because you get paid to play! It's awesome!

Ha, not much has changed. Still a huge animal person, still love to dance and read, still kind of shy at first and still work at a daycare, though not the same one. I tried to find pictures that I had posted on there, but sadly I couldn't. I did however find the picture of Jungleboy that started it all for me and here it is:

Notice how he is holding a drink? I can't tell anymore for sure, but when I first saw the picture I assumed the cup to be from McDonalds which their coke is both the love of my life and bane of my existence. Also, his shirt says Ezekiel, which has always been a favorite name of mine, and also, check out his smile. So handsome! The only thing I really remember from his profile was he stated he was from Brazil, loved soccer and that he was hoping to meet some new friends, and that special someone, if he was to meet her on LDSPlanet.

So, Jungleboy and I started communicating. We sent a few winks and what not. We sent a few messages. He seemed like a cool kid. But he didn't make a move and others did, so I met a few other guys from LDSPlanet (one who was pretty nice, one who turned out to be a jerk). Then in April, Jungleboy happened to send me his cell phone number. Just kind of out of the blue. Turns out I had been talking to his roommate who was also on LDSPlanet(who was/is a great guy) and it had kicked him in to gear about meeting me. So, on a Friday night 5 years ago on April 6, Jungleboy and I were supposed to have our first date. We lived about 45 minutes away from each other and Jungleboy had to go through a very hilly canyon to get to me. About halfway through that hilly canyon, Jungleboys 1995 VW Jetta decided to give up on running. Long story short, Jungleboy called me and explained he was currently waiting for his dad to come pick him up and wouldn't be able to make our date after all. However, he said he would try his hardest to come up on Saturday.

Lo and behold, on Saturday night, after borrowing his parents car, he did manage to come up and see me. We went to a little restaurant called Cabin Fever Cafe (which is no longer in existence, so sad!). I was so excited to have their Strawberry Lemonade, it was so good. The waiter came up and I ordered it and he said, "Oh, we no longer serve that." WHAT??? That was the main reason I picked that restaurant, it was just that good!
So we spent dinner talking and getting to know one another and then we went and played cosmic mini golf (at yet another place that is now no longer in existence!). I am pretty sure Jungleboy kicked my butt at mini golfing, although I loved to play I had no actual talent at it.

So, we went to my house, watched a movie and after that, Jungleboy left. And then he came back the next day, and the next and somehow without ever having "the talk" we just became a couple. Jungleboy was coaching soccer that year and we spent a lot of time at his games. One time a little boy asked him, "Is that girl your wife?" And Jungleboy replied, "Not yet." And so on May 23 (after picking out a ring together) Jungleboy took me to a beautiful spot up another one of the canyons close to my house. There was this beautiful waterfall and if you just jumped across a little stream you could be almost in the waterfall. Jungleboy held my hand and I prepared to jump across the little stream, only we hadn't communicated our plan very well. Jungleboy expected me to go one way, I went another way and splash!! We both ended up in the stream. A few minor scrapes and a change of clothes later, we went to a park in my hometown that had always been very special to me. There Rafael proposed to me (across from the eagles who at one point years later we would see hunt a baby duck, so sad!) I said yes, and the rest as they say, is history. We were married July 28, 2007 in Dawson Creek, BC, Canada and sealed in the Logan Temple on October 15, 2011. We've had our ups and downs, our good times and bad times, our sickness and our health, but Jungleboy is definitely the jelly to my peanut butter. So, to end this love story, here are some pictures of the two of us!