Finally!

After a long two year wait, the boy that I sent off on his mission April 15, 2009 to the Edmonton, Alberta Canada mission, is coming home TOMORROW! And no I did not wait for him. Yes I'm excited that I'm still around, but I did date others and obviously the others weren't meant to be. Right now I feel like I have every emotion running through me. I go from being super excited, to super nervous with butterflies in my stomach, to wanting to cry because it's been so long since I've seen him, to day dreaming about what might/could happen with us, back to being freaked out and nervous again and it's a never ending circle! The past two days I've had to go for runs after work because one, to pass the time and two, to get out all my energy cause sometimes I feel like squealing like a little girl and jumping up and down. I am just so excited to see him!
We actually met on a blind date that my friend (Jolene) and her then boyfriend, now husband (Jeff, Jared's brother) set up. We went to the Botanical Gardens for the winter garden-a-glow which was a great date idea and walked around for a while, then there was an ice cream place down the street that we went to. I think was a Dairy Queen, but can't remember cause it's not there any more. Then after that we went to a movie (August Rush, when it had just come out in theaters) and ended the date after out movie. Then our second date was a week? later and we went on a picture scavenger hunt around down town Boise with some friends. After that date nothing really happened. We still talked online and texted but nothing really happened until Jeff and Jolene's wedding. We got to spend all day together since I was the maid of honor and he was a groomsmen. I can't remember exactly what we did on our dates after the wedding but it wasn't to long after when we started dating exclusively. We dated for a year and became best friends.
If you ask Jared or me, neither of us wanted to go on the date because of our past blind date experiences. Who knew that 3 and 1/2 years later, I would so stinking excited to see him from returning from his mission.

This is Jared when he got his mission call. ONE MORE DAY! :D