For those of you who don't know our story, I'll go ahead and explain! Last summer of 2008, I had decided to move to Orem, Utah. I had been out of high school for a year, and had been going to NOVA, and felt like I just needed a huge change. An environment change I suppose. The plan was to go out there and get a job and eventually transfer to UVU. For some reason I contacted an aquaintance that I knew from church out here in VA. She happened to be living in Orem and had an extra room in her apartment. So I signed a lease, paid the deposit, and headed out west in mid-August of '08. Crazy! How random of me, right? I barely knew anyone out there.
So I move out there, and couldn't find a job.. I had to work through temp agencies. Which was fine. I got to meet some people and hang with old friends for awhile. And meet some new guys. :) Well in September, about 4 weeks after I moved in, me and my roommate were hanging out at this guys house watching a movie...we were really bored and uninterested... so she whispered to me, hey there are 2 guys coming over to our apartment right now, we need to leave! And I was like, sure...why not. I didn't care. So we awkwardly said we had to go home and we left around 10pm.
When we got to the apartment, there were two guys there named Tom and Andrew. Now here is how my roommate knew them: Apparently she meets all the guys she knows from looking up random guys on facebook. (Which was super strange to me) And Tom happened to be one of these guys. Apparently she had been talking back and forth with him for about a year, over facebook, trying to hang out with him. They never found the time, until finally September of 08, when I happened to had just moved in.
So we introduce ourselves, and come to find out Tom and Andrew are from Fairfax, Virginia. It blew my mind! I was so happy to meet people from home. We immediately connected and talked for HOURS! (Mainly just me, Tom, and Andrew). I mean, I don't think they left our apartment until 2am or so. We just were catching up on life! I laughed at all of Tom's little jokes. I thought he was super nice and CUTE!!!
After they left that night I was determined to find Tom! And apparently he was determined to find me! So he beat me to a facebook friend invite in only a few hours! We got to talking and exchanged numbers and even immediately planned on having Thanksgiving together in Colorado. And we barely knew each other.
So after meeting him that day in September, he texted me every now and then, but we couldn't hang out because he got really sick. ( I thought hm.....is he just making that up? But he wasn't.) So in the meantime I was still on the job hunt and hanging out with new friends.
Finally, October 2nd, 2009, he called me up! And said he was able to hang out! He lived in Riverton at the time and was taking his sister to work in Provo. Ever since that day we were inseperable! We hung out almost every single day. We had so much fun together.
We even talked marriage after only a few weeks. We moved very fast. And neither of us ever doubted getting married, we fell very fast. So after jobless fun, we decided it was time to move back with our parents in November. We moved back, got our jobs back we had originally, and on December 30, 2008 (my 20th birthday), Tom proposed to me at Battery Park in New York City. It was amazing! There was this beautiful view of the Statue of Liberty. What a romantic.
And on October 14, 2009 we tied the knot! FINALLY! We are very lucky we found each other and also VERY grateful for facebook... haha...and my roommate....for hooking us up! Life has been crazy and full of surprises and we are both so happy together. We are moving in a couple of months and can't wait to start somewhere new as the Seeley couple.
