Our Story
It’s for my own sanity, so I write this down so I don’t look back one day and try to tell the story of us, and not remember. So…I would like to share the tale of how the Lee’s fell in love.
It all started, for me at least, with a bad break up. I was having a hard time dealing with things after a rough relationship. I broke it off because it was just terrible after a while but I didn’t like the feeling of being so lonely after a while. My parents actually suggested that I try making an online profile for some matching sites just to take my mind off of things. Love them for the suggestion, but I felt like I had to be a bit more desperate to resort to making an online dating profile.
Well thank heavens I listened to the wise people they are as that is where I met Mr. Charming. Not long after I scoffed at the idea of online dating, I broke down and created a profile on LDS singles.com. I started getting several emails from a bunch of different types of people. Some creepy, 53 year old dude, and guys barely 19 flirting with everything female on the site. (I was 22 at the time) So I browsed through a variety of men and emails sent to me trying to find someone that grabbed my attention. Big surprise, not a lot of great candidates to choose from.
Part of my problem was that I was scared to date guys online I had never met. C’mon, it’s the Internet. So after a couple months I finally had enough courage to meet one guy and it was a bust. After that, I didn’t have much of a desire to keep up with the online community. I was curious enough still to check out the flirts or emails people sent me, only to most of the time trash them on the spot. It wasn’t until that fateful day when a really cute guy’s profile picture caught my attention He had sent me a flirt. His screen name was Leeman. Mine was Justluv1. I know.
I made this for Greg's wallet but these were our profile pictures. The first pictures
we ever saw of each other. His smile is what drew me to him!
We started chatting online and emailing back and forth quite a bit. He was really the only one I looked forward to getting emails from. By now I was addicted to refreshing my page in a little window I was hiding at work just to see if he left me anything. While I was super into this cyber guy I was still as nervous as ever to meet him. He asked me a few times to hang out and I always said now. By now this was the time my mom and step dad were going through a terrible divorce and I spent most nights hanging with my mom. We were getting our fill of chick flicks by then. After a while my mom, the amazing person she is, got better and I wasn’t so freaked at the thought of her spending a Friday night at home alone.
One Friday night, I told Greg no when he asked to hang out and watch a movie or something but about an hour later I text him and said I was free if he wanted to do something. So being the smart girl I am, I give this guy I have never met my address so he can come over and watch a movie. At this time I was living in an apartment with my friend Arielle in Orem. I decided it would be ok since Arielle was going to be there with us. So I’m home getting ready with her, trying not to throw up because I’m so nervous. Greg knocks on the door and not much to my surprise, I am instantly attracted to him. His one or two other pictures online did not do a thing for this guy. Wow. Lucky me.
So we picked a movie and watched it. Mostly we were talking throughout the movie and not paying a lot of attention. We were both being really flirty with each other. It felt like we had known each other for a long time after spending three months chatting and emailing and just talking on the phone. He held my during the movie and I was thrilled. Wow. After a little while we were just joking around and I realized how bad I wanted to kiss this guy. Right? First date n’all. I sure as heck wasn’t gonna do it though. So, clever me, thought I was flirt around and see if he wanted to kiss me too. So I said, “How bout we play the no smiling game?” We could do anything to make the other person smile first and so it went. I was terrible, I lost every single game. Finally near the end I thought I’d crack him by getting really close to his face and just staring into his eyes. He held strong for a good 20 seconds then leaned in and kissed me. Sweetest kiss ever!!! Of course when he pulled away I was grinning like an idiot and he says, “I win again.” From that point we didn’t seem to care it was a first date and sort of made out for sometime.
From that point on it seemed like we spent all of our time together. I was going to school at night part of the time and he lived right by UVU
This is us at a Park in Orem playing catch. Or as I remember, Greg learning how uncoordinated I was.
This is the first time introducing him to my best friend and her husband at the driving range.
Us at the Lake with his family
This is us on our first road trip to Idaho to visit my Dad and introduce them.
This is us eating dinner in Idaho. My parents introduced us to this Mexican place that
we from then on craved constantly.
We went with his parents to Temple Square around Christmas time to see
all the lights. Freezing night but so fun.
So after dating for about 6 months Greg decided he was going to do summer sales to make some good money. He had been doing it for the previous 4 summers. I was not a fan of this idea as I personally hate long distance relationships. He said he would be gone about 4 months and that we would have no problem doing it. By this time, I was completely in love with him, and him with me(*grin&blush* ) so I did not want him to go. Finally I had no choice but to come around to the idea of him leaving as he was just about to. It was hard at first, well it was hard the whole time actually. But a few months in he bought me a plane ticket to come visit him in April. He was in Tulsa, OK by this time. I was so excited to see him!
We went to the zoo. I love the zoo!
So does Greg.....ha
We also went to the aquarium.
That trip was the first time we started talking seriously about marriage and what we thought of our future together. Hence leaving him after a week of us being together was so hard. I bawled at the airport. Though good things came of it. I knew after getting home that Greg and I would end up together forever. He was the one and I knew it.
Hang in there, now we get the cutest part of the story...
It's about two months later, counting the agonizing days that we are apart dying to see him again. I'm sitting at my desk at work when my boss comes over and tells me I need to run home and grab my laptop so we can put some programs on it. Not an unusual request since I've done it before so I think nothing of it. By this time I have moved back home to save some money. So I get to my mom's house and walk into the kitchen. My oldest brother Talon is the only one home. I say hey and tell him I'm just grabbing my laptop and heading back to work.
So I saunter upstairs to my room and at the top of the stairs leading to my bedroom is a trail of rose petals. I'm freaking out of course thinking Greg is here to surprise me! I go into my room and there are bouquets of flowers all over and this cute setup on my bed. He has my laptop open and a card leaning against it that says Read Me. I read it and it details how much he loves me can't wait to be with me and how he wishes more than anything that he could be there with me right now. I hit play on my computer and he's made a slide show of all the pictures we have of each other to some really sweet songs. I'm crying. Of course.
I then read the second card leaning against some flowers. It's similar to the first only telling me to open my scriptures that are also on my bed. He has bookmarked a page and written in the margin, I love you Brittney. Then highlighted a bunch of verses in D&C about eternal companions and marriage etc. Beautiful. His card said he wanted to do something sweet for me since he knew how hard it was for me to be without him over the summer. He said make sure to call him when I finished reading so he could hear my reaction. I was so excited but bummed he couldn't have been there.
So I pull myself together and get my laptop ready to head back to work. I corner my brother downstairs and he tells me he's the one who did everything with Greg over the phone. I tell him thanks and head out the door. My brothers stops me suddenly and is like, "Aren't you going to call Greg??" I told him I had to get back to work and I'd call him on the way. My brother wasn't having that for some reason. He told me to call him so I could still be as excited about everything and Greg could be a part of it.
I decide he's right and my boss wouldn't care so I call him there in the kitchen with my brother. He's so happy I loved it but then asks if I got it? I don't know what he's talking about and he says there was one more surprise by my window I must have missed. So, of course I race upstairs without thinking and just about tear the curtains down rummaging for the surprise. I'm still on the phone with him and tell him I can't find it and he says that's weird. I keep looking now getting disappointed. While searching through the blinds Greg says, "Did you really think I would do this over the phone?" I'm confused for a minute so I turn around and face the door and Greg walks in my room with his phone in one hand and a ring box in the other. Ok. Crying while I type.....
Deep breaths. K, I'm good. Needless to say, I immediately jump into his arms and kiss him and have never felt more excited in my life! He eventually calms me down enough so he can get down on one knee and ask me to be his forever. It was perfect. Love my hunny. He had called my boss and arranged the whole thing with him and my brother. Sneaky lil' fella. I laugh now remember how odd my brother was acting, he was in the room right behind Greg snapping photos like crazy. But I'm so grateful he was able to capture the picture of Greg proposing. I about burst in to tears in that photo. Big surprise.
My brother was hopping around the room trying to get shots of everything....so they are a little blurry.
So there you have it, for those of you who were able to handle my extremely long winded story. There are so many details to remember I don't want to forget any.
Thanks for reading.
♥ Greg and Britt
