How We Met...

Although we started dating 17 years ago this month, Mike and I had known each other even earlier, since school started at Utah State in September 1990. Mike, age 22, and his awesome roommate Steve Morgan had been assigned to hometeach the freshmen girls in apartment #34, and I was never so eager to have hometeachers! The first time I saw Mike he was wearing a dark blue, paisley print, button-down shirt and tight Levi 550's, and he had a sweet, wavy, dark-haired mullet. Tall, dark, and absolutely gorgeous. All year long these hometeachers never missed a month, but Mike and I continued to date other people...Mike mostly dating girls who asked him out first. He did call me once (#5 or 7 on the list of girls) to ask me out for Korean food in SLC (eeew, I remember thinking, Korean food?!) and though I already had a date that night, before I could choose my words they came out in a torrent: "But please ask me again sometime; it's my goal to go out with you!" (His response, "Uh, okay...") That 'goal' came true on Mother's Day 1991. (It's a long story, involving a villain, a rescuer, and a happy ending...but we'll save that for another time.)