It’s been a while.

Most of you know that Brock and I have known each other longer than we haven’t. We met (officially) in junior high, but became good friends in high school... not sweethearts, but did have a great time together at senior prom. (Some of you have even seen the photo proof).

College came and went and we stayed close friends during those occasionally wild years away from home. We even (coincidentally) studied abroad in Spain during the same semester. It was great fun having an old friend just a rainy 45 minute bus ride away.

But things didn't get seriously romantic until after college. On a whim I moved to LA one weekend and asked Brock if I could please stay with him for a few days while I looked for an apartment. Shockingly, a few days turned into 3 months, during which Brock graciously made space for a second bed in his room. Isn't he the nicest?! FINALLY (when the lease for his apartment was up and we were all forced to leave), I moved to Venice with Rebecca, and Brock moved to Santa Monica with his brothers and Jason.

And here's where the story gets juicy.

We'd been spending some seriously quality time together during my first 6 months in LA. I joined his work softball team, Sky and I dragged him shopping and out to Hollywood as often as possible, we ran together in the morning with Jordan, I'd call him at work to see what we were doing that night, we made sunday night dinners with our "urban family"... essentially we were dating, except that we weren't.

SO Brock, by his own account, decided to take control of the situation and one night over tea asked me to go steady. Now this wasn't exactly part of my plan at that moment. BUT after a few days of contemplation, I realized that I already loved him and adding romance to our already beautiful relationship was really just gravy.

SO that's the story of how we became Us.

If you're curious, since I know it does seem like we've been together forever, our wedding will also mark our 7th anniversary together. LUCKILY we don't have to remember a whole new anniversary. Much easier just to keep it consistent, you know?