How It All Started . . .

Rachel wanted to hear this and you wanted to read it, so here you go:

Tired of college life in Ogden, Megan returned home to Payson and took a job with a local cell phone dealer. That very same month, my parents lost some sort of drinking contest (how else do I explain their inexplicable move from Laguna Hills to Idaho Falls?). So when school got out for me that Spring I was desperate to not spend my Summer in Idaho. And so when my friend Steve told me about a cellular phone sales job I jumped at the chance, having no experience in sales and not totally sure what a cell phone was.

My first Monday at work I was calling out of the phone book from my desk at our headquarters. Behind me I could hear two girls talking and joking. And when I heard the way one of them laughed I just had to see who could laugh like that. That was the first time I noticed her. Over the next few weeks I took opportunities to hang out around the office to be able to talk with her whenever I could. The usual conversations revolved around our unhappy relationships. I knew I was ready to dump my girlfriend in a second but Megan would still have her boyfriend. So I waited. Nice, huh?

Megan and her friend Rachel coached a girl's softball team back then. Wisely I suggested they bring their team out for a practice game against all the guys that would play I played softball with. Somehow Megan ended up on my team (fate). She wore the cutest little pair of pink shirts. I couldn't have been happier. On a play where Megan and I were running the bases, I rounded second and there on the ground laughing uncontrollably was Megan. We still are not sure how she fell (still a problem with her today), but I can still clearly remember smiling at that funny girl in the pink shorts.

One night after their team's game, we all went out to eat. But Megan went outside of the restaurant to talk on the phone to her boyfriend. Not to be outdone I went outside and pretended to be talking on my phone (a valuable skill I have now mastered) just so she could see me. We ended up going back inside and eating with everyone else. Eventually we were the last two there. So I invited her back to my apartment to watch a video a performance of the Chris Jones' Band (I played tamborine, no joke). After spending this time with her I knew what I had to do. I left her in my apartment and went over to my girlfriend's place, broke up with her, and returned to my apartment to hang out more with Megan.

That next week after Megan's breakup she came to see one of our band's live shows. Then after the show she totally made-out with me. Then we dated, then got engaged, got married, bought a house, got a dog, had Adelaide, and bought season passes to Seven Peaks water park (in that order).