Part 6: Happily Ever After | March 12, 2011 The night before my wedding, I started getting sick. My throat started hurting and swelling, my head started pounding and my body was aching. Luke had been sick for a few weeks and so had Brooklyn. I took ibuprofen, tylenol, this other medicine stuff, vitamins, 2 […]
Part 5: The Proposal For weeks we had been planning to go to the big Halloween festival at Luke’s siblings Elementary school with his entire family. Before the carnival, Luke and I set the table with everyone’s pumpkin and carving tools so we could get right down to business when we got back. Last minute, […]
Part 4: Dating for Real Luke came home on a Thursday. I saw him in the airport for a brief hello, slipped him my note and then he was gone. I left for an overnight retreat at Bear Lake on Friday. I hadn’t even heard from him yet. I left him my phone number in […]
Part 3: The Mission I faithfully wrote Elder Maughan at least every other week every month, and sometimes up to twice a week. We always had two letter conversations going. This was pre-email days. The best part of my every day was driving home from work and checking the mail. Each message I got from […]
Part 2: Our Brief Dating Life My twin sister, Lauren, and I flew down for Luke’s best friend’s farewell talk with our grandparents and spent a week falling in love over and over again. March 29, 2009: “So who was I kidding, I love Luke Arol Maughan. He is the most amazing person I’ve ever […]
Part 1: Where it All Began Eight years ago, love was born in the crisp January air of Olympia, Washington. I was a young junior (just sixteen) attending North Thurston. Between school, work, family and a boyfriend, I was a very busy girl. One day, I heard that my Uncle Bryden’s best friends were coming […]