Our story.....

Jaren & I met through his mom when I started working at the Mesa police department. On my first day she asked if I was single because she was trying to marry off her son. I thought "stay away from her". I am SO glad I didn't listen to my own advice. Well, for a while I did. It must have been a year or so after I started that I ended up calling her and asking about Jaren. I had been sort of dating some other guy who was kind of a jerk, and one day he made me really annoyed so I called Jaren. My excuse to meet him was that I wanted to learn how to shoot a gun, since his mom said he was really into guns. He took me shooting a couple of days later, and we went to a few movies together during the next few weeks. At this time, he was also really into playing basketball with his friends. He would call me a lot, but it wouldn't be until later in the evening, after playing ball. I figured he wasn't very interested in dating then, so I didn't call him back one day :( A year and a half went by, and I really missed him and regretted not calling him back. I knew he was the perfect guy for me. One night while I left work, I could see his truck was still at his work. I had a plan to call him at home and leave a message to see if he would call me back. To my surprise, by the time I got home and called him, he answered the phone. I was SO embarrassed, but so glad I called. We started dating again, that was April 2001. We got engaged December 2002, and married October 10th, 2003. We enjoyed our time together until our first little blessing arrived, Hailey, on January 3rd, 2007. Almost four years later, Addison joined us on August 30th, 2010.