Europe - Paris & London Olympics

SECOND:

Just two weeks before the wedding, Samantha and I hopped on a plane to 

Paris & London

for the 

Olympics

Engagements

It may seem I have dropped off the face of the blogging planet.  

I promise I haven't!

There are not enough words to describe the amazing past few months.  

If a picture is worth a thousand words, 

hopefully some slideshows will say enough for me ;)

FIRST: 

Engagements

(Getting these pictures was an adventure.  After a fun afternoon shooting, we were surprised to find our car had sunk into the salt and mud.  Whoops.  A $400 tow later and we were on our way back home with some incredible photos by our wonderful friend Trey)

How We Met - Stephen's Side of the Story

I first saw Ali in a seminar class for electrical engineering. The only reason I really recognized her was because she was one of five girls in a class of 150. I saw her once in a while outside of class as well, but I never thought to talk to her at all. About a year later we had another class together, but this class only had about 30 students. We found out that we had the same group of friends in our program and we talked with each other once in a while, but it only concerned homework and we never really had an interest in one another.

One Saturday my roommate, Barima, and I decided to go to a BYU football game together. We arrived at the stadium and found some seats in the stands. About a half hour later, Ali, her roommate Kelly, and Kelly’s boyfriend Grant came and sat behind us. Barima knew Kelly and Ali from the year before and we started chatting with them and had a good time together. 

After halftime, I decided that I wanted to go say hi to my friend Brian, who was sitting in another section. I went over to say hi to him and talked with him for about 15 minutes. He was kind of on a date with his now soon to be wife, Olive, and I didn’t want to bother them for too long, so I went back to go sit with Barima. When I got back, Barima had left but Ali, Kelly, and Grant were still sitting in their seats. I sat next to them and about five minutes later Kelly and Grant decided to leave. I figured it was alright for them to leave since I could just go back and sit with Brian, but I saw that Ali didn’t get up to go. Interesting… I asked her if she was going to go with Kelly and Grant, and she just said, “No, I’m just going to stay here.” Very interesting…

We talked with each other for most of the game and for the first time got to know each other. It turned out that Kelly and Grant left to go buy cookie dough to make a pazookie. Ali asked me if I wanted to go back to her place and have a pazookie, and since I had never had a pazookie before, I said yes and we all went back to her place to eat and play dominoes. It was a really fun night and that was the first time I really got to know Ali.