Our Love Story, Its not perfect but it's ours...

Being as this is my first post on this blog, I thought I would start out by sharing a little about me and my husband Andrew. We met about 3 years ago. I first met his sister Bekka at Cosmetology school and she and I became best friends. When I first met Andrew, I was dating someone else at the time (oddly enough his name as Andrew as well), and it seemed to be perfect, he played guitar, sang, was very flirty and made me feel beautiful. I had been in love with him for years, a dream come true; but just after three weeks of dating he broke up with me. Leaving me to wonder if he had really meant all those things he had said to me, or was I just convienently there? I was completely heart broken.
Through the coming months, Andrew began to have a crush on me, but was too shy to ask me out. I wasn't really interested anyway I had my true love to find. Someone just like the Andrew who had shattered my heart and left me feeling empty. I "needed" someone with all of those qualities. Plus Bekka had told me, "It would be really weird if you ever dated my brother."
In May of 2010, Bekka, Andrew, and I went to Texas (that's where they are from) and to Mexico. The drive there took 16 hours, (It should have taken about 18 but Bekka drove the whole way and likes to speed) which is the longest car ride I had ever been on. Needless to say I was really restless, and when I get that way I start to act a little crazy. Ok lets be honest, I was really weird. Andrew wasn't quite sure what to think (Probably along the lines of "Ok weirdo..." (Later I learned that that was when he really started to like me) After returning home to Utah, Andrew told his brother Nichlos and sister-in-law Christina, about how weird I was. They knew right then we would someday get married.
In November of 2010, Bekka and I moved to Abilene Texas (Andrew had moved back there a couple months earlier). While I lived there many people in the ward thought we should date. When they would mention it to me I would just tell them I wasn't really interested. Even Bekka suggested it a few times, but I repeatedly said no, plus it seemed weird to date while we lived in the same house.
In May of 2011 Bekka left on a mission to San Fernando California. Many people, including his Mom thought Andrew and I would date now that Bekka was on a mission. By this point I was considering that if he asked me out I would say yes, but he never did.
In July of 2011 I moved back home to Utah. As I said good bye to the Baum family, I awkwardly passed by Andrew and didn't give him a hug. I think I was afraid that if I did I might feel something and not want to leave.
Months went by and I couldn't get him out of my mind. So many things made me think of him. Try as I might, he wouldn't leave my thoughts. For years I had prayed to find my future husband, and in the months follow returning home as I would pray for this, he would come to my mind. In November of 2011, I went to the temple to see his sister Melissa and her family be sealed to their adopted son Easton. His Mom came from Texas to be there. While we were riding in the car, his Mom made a comment that whoever married Andrew would be a very luck women. I had a really strong feeling that I wanted that to be me.
In early Janurary of 2012 I recieved a letter from Bekka which said, "Have you ever prayed about marrying my brother?" I had had many promptings to pray about marrying him, but I had not followed through. It seemed too much of a coincidence that she would feel like she needed to ask me that when I had been having those same feelings myself. So I prayed about it, and when I had finished praying I pulled out my scriptures and opened to a page in the Bible, I'm no sure where it was, but the first verse I read had the word Abilene in it. (which is where he lived at the time) I continued to pray about it and felt like he was "the one." Of course I was too nervous and shy to call him so I wrote him and email and explained it all to him, pouring out my heart. I recieved an email back saying, "Well I have thought about it a little when you lived here before but Rebecca said you didn't like me so I didn't worry about it." I was like, Ok.... Well thankfully his boss told him that that email sucked and he need to rewrite it. So he wrote back and told me reasons why he like me like, I was smart, beautiful, funny, etc.
We continued to email, call, and skyp and had a long distance relationship. In March of 2012 I came to Texas to visit for a week, we had our first kiss on the second day that I was there. We had gone bowling and Andrew turned around, kissed me really quick, hurried and turned back around and took is turn (bowling). :) I ended up spending 2 weeks there after we got lost trying to find the airport and I missed my flight (honestly, we really were lost) He proposed to me on April 6, 2012 and I said YES! He took me to a college (his boss told him it would be awesome, but it was kinda lame lol) Anyway, we walked around for a while and then we sat down on a bench and he sang me our song (in his oh so cute monotone voice) "Crazy Girl" and then got down on his knee and asked me to be his wife.
On May 26, 2012 we were sealed for time and all eternity in the Oquirrh Mountain (or Oquirrah if you ask my husband) ;) -Love you puppy. My Grandpa Nielsen was able to come and seal us (he is a sealer in the Logan temple), and my mission president, President Layton is the Temple President of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple so he and his wife were able to come and talk to us just before we were sealed. I was an amazing day!! :) I couldn't have asked for better. Except maybe to have Bekka there and for there have not been rain so our reception could have been outside, but it as still the best day of my life! :)
And the rest is history... :)