The Beginning of the Love Story...

With a Blog titled "the love story continues..." A person should really make sure that everyone is "hooked on the original love story - or where is the importance on the "to be continued" ???(trust me, tv producers and movie producers get this!)
So let's start near the beginning... flashback to 1999.. haha.. or we can just go straight to 2001 when Hugh switched high schools to "be closer to the woman he loved" (that's how I like to think of it anyway!):

 We were "just friends" as far as I knew, but a bird did whisper in my ear that Hugh had a crush on me.  Destiny was already working, as we already were matched up with the same spare - of course we spent them all together, usually just the two of us because our mutual friend knew of his interest. 
You may have heard a rumor, that I am "the older woman"... well it's hard for me to admit, but it's true, I was a senior and Hugh was only in gr.11! So it would have been a scandal for us to date (in my eyes) but after spending tons of time together, my rockstar friend kinda grew on me!  We really liked each other, but things were sorta awkward and I had a 'business plan' to use the relationship to prepare myself for the 'man of my dreams' that I would meet in a few months once I started college.  Basically it was doomed before it began, and it ended in heartbreak :*(
While away at school, the friendship was shakey and finally crumbled - "we can't be friends" (I remember writing this to him on MSN, sad moment, but he had a girlfriend and was moving on).  My Grandma Jensen was always a fan of Hugh and kept dropping his name often as the guy I should be going for the whole time I lived with her as I went to college.

After I moved back home, I saw Hugh around, and felt guilty without the friendship - so I apologized and tried to start working towards it again.  Little did I know that "THE HOOK" would bring me back (check out the song Hook by Blues Traveller on my side bar) and I was crazy-in-love with him, although I seemed to have little effect on him.   Finally I CONVINCED him (yes, I was reduced to practically begging him) to date me again.  Things were going really good.  I was living with roomies and he had a car.  We even actually kissed!!! WOWZA's! And I showed him a song I wrote+recorded for him , basically put my whole heart into it all

The love was shortlived though, Hugh had other plans.  He was preparing to serve a mission for 2 yrs for our church and didn't want to be distracted or foolish (he had matured alot and became much more serious since the first time we dated)  So this time, my heart was broken.  We kept our distance pretty much until he left to Mexico, but just before he left, the sparks were reignited and I was given hope and secretly decided that I wanted to marry him when he came back.

Two years is a really long (and short) time though - and I got mad about the circumstances and needed to get back to living, being social and doing things, so I moved on and stopped writing. 

Long story short (actually most of this is already the condensed version) He came home, I tried to resist - but was totally 'gaga' for him again, so I asked him out, he shut me down.  Then I started preparing for serving a mission myself (for 18mths and my reason was not because he shut me down, I KNOW how it sounds) and Hugh found out that I sent in the papers for it.  He must have realized that he really did love me and didn't want me to stop being "an option" so he decided he had to stop me!  We started spending all of our time together, he was so amazing, exactly what I always wanted!  Then one night he said it... "I don't want you to go on a mission, I love you, and I promise you that when we are older, we will go together" (practically a proposal right there!) And a few hours later my mission"call" came!

HOLY DRAMA!!! Worst and best week of my life - and lots of tears were shed!  BUT I decided to 'defer' the call (take 6mths to see if the relationship was going to be serious) and a few days later Hugh proposed (picked out the perfect ring all by himself!) And we weren't even dating! :)

My parents were overseas living in Bahrain - but were coming back in 2 mths, so we planned for the wedding to happen then! We`ve been married FOREVER, oh, I mean 3 lovely years now, and I`m so lucky to be married to my very best friend - he`s really the man of my dreams and an incredible father! I know I made the right choice, and I`ve been reaping all the blessings ever since!  So... here`s where it began and it`s always getting better - so I guess, Stay Tuned....