correction & the holiday

so nate - the linguist - has informed me that the title of my last post should more correctly read:

replace "i" with "we" & "me" with "us"

Anyway ... we went hiking up at Spencer's Butte yesterday with the ward for Family Home Evening. Neither of us had ever hiked the butte, despite our almost 2 years living in Eugene. It was a beautiful evening and while not a difficult hike ... we did break a sweat! It felt good since I have taken a time out on the gym due to the thesis taking over my life.

Here are some photos of us on Spencer's Butte:

Nate is doing the Oregon "O" around Autzen Football Stadium ...
he's a super fan of the Ducks.

replace "i" with "us" & "we"

so i promised some pictures and i am now delivering! we took a few photos yesterday before going to the Portland Temple. we clean up pretty good, if i don't say so myself.




How did we meet you may be wondering ... well its pretty typical ... in our singles ward here in Eugene. The funniest part (okay one of the many funny parts) is that i pretty much was like ... yup my love life is taking a hiatus while i go to Eugene, Oregon ... because really? What are the odds?

We both moved into the ward in Fall 2007 to start graduate school and we became friends - pretty casually at first - and this Fall I would say we became even closer. Lots more long talks about life and the both of us trying to figure out how to be better at it. Of course looking back, this whole time we have been trying to catching each other's eye but not with any real intent. Really I think its all about timing and quite frankly, neither of us was in a place to be starting this "we" business. For the past year and a half we both have been focused on school and making ourselves into the people we want to be - the people who can be better halves to a pretty amazing whole.

Something started to get going in the more than friends department about six months ago - but I know I was denying questions about us dating and thinking ... "that's funny they think we are dating ... hehehhe ... hmmm I wonder? ... well anyway ... Nate isn't into me, he likes Asian girls" (hahaha - babe ... just teasing, but i did tell myself that at times.)

But something just happened in April and we were both just there. Maybe it was the fact that graduation is coming up in June and then that was it ... heading separate ways ... maybe it was just that neither one of us could finish school with the other as a distraction (although we are still struggling through this one finishing a thesis and a final project) ... maybe it was just suppose to be like this. I don't know ... but we are both crazy about each other and laughing about how we missed it for sooo long. People at church were like - well yeah ... that makes sense.

And most of all it feels right ... which is the greatest feeling in the world.


Nate is an amazing man and i am super lucky that he likes to be with me!

Some facts about Nate:

- age: 27 (his 28th birthday is in July)
- hometown: seattle, washington
- mission: Korea (00-02)
- school: graduated from BYU in 2005 (same time as me!) with a BA in Korean Studies and a minor in Asian Studies ... now he is a graduate student getting a MA in Linguistics with an emphasis in Language Teaching.

This is him trying to be all intellectual and interesting ... hahahaha

Isn't he cute?! He keeps his hair short - which I really like on him ... and he has a nice soft beard that I love because its very rugged (and it makes him look older :) which I also like!)

My turn! I don't post (or take for that matter) many pictures these days with school and all ... so per many people's requests ... here I am!

Nate posed me for this one ... i am suppose to be looking all mysterious i guess :) - hahaha

say hello to the boy ...

This is Nate ... we are in his study room at the Library on campus, hence all the books in the background ... not the best picture ... we are working on it - i promise.