Five years ago, my parents moved to Scottsdale, AZ. When visiting them in their new home, I scheduled a random hair cut and highlight. The hair stylist I was booked with turned out to be one of the most enjoyable, talkative, fun stylists I've ever met. She was fascinated with me being a 21-year-old "baby" who was daring to get married so young. She was so inquisitive and dug deep in asking me to explain any motivation based on my faith. Turns out she loved watching BYU-TV, and she flat-out asked me to bring her a Book of Mormon. Next haircut, her first question was, "Did you bring me my book?" We continued to dive into lengthy and soulful discussions on faith during our sporadic haircut appointments, and she reached out to learn more about the Mormon church through interacting with many other awesome LDS women, including my mom and sister. Three years ago, she decided she wanted to be baptized, a few months ago, during a stay with my parents in D.C., her darling boyfriend proposed, and last month, she married him in the San Diego LDS Temple. When I first met her, she was struggling with finding depth in her relationship with her boyfriend at the time, and it was amazing to see her just sparkle with pure joy at her reception!
Jane drove down from Provo and joined us for the road trip to Phoenix. John LOVES his Aunt Jane, who truly has a knack for making him laugh.
Love this girl.
Laughing at our spunky photographer :)
John was such a good sport! We started eating dinner at 8:30 pm... (yes, he is in his pajamas during dinner).
Saturday, we enjoyed overlapping with my cousin Jenna and her adorable kids, Jacob and Abbie. We all stayed at my uncle's house in Mesa, and had fun swimming, eating, and relaxing before driving back to Vegas late Saturday night. Before taking off, we wanted to stop at two essential Mesa spots:
Mesa Temple, where Matt and I were married almost FIVE years ago!
Yodipity (delicious frozen yogurt chain started by some of our best friends in dental school, Mimi and Lincoln)
It was a quick but very fun trip!
what an amazing story!
ReplyDelete