Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Shout Out!!
Shout out to Katie Jo Barthel who got her man back today!!! She is sooo happy, looking from her status in facebook and we couldn't be any happier with her! Congrats Katie! You did it!!!
Congratulations to Carli Jo!
This is the story of Carli Jo and Beau Hobson. Beau served his mission from June 2009-June 2011
So last night I didn’t really have a hard time sleeping. I was kind of sick yesterday so I took some Tylenol pm to help with my back pain and help me sleep. Since beau wasn’t getting home till 6:00 that next night, the nerves really hadn’t set in yet. But Tuesday finally came. I woke up, and just tried to do as much as I could to stay busy all day. I watched the previous nights episode of Bachelorette (poor Ashley by the way). And then I did some laundry, and cleaned my house. We went and ate lunch, and then I came back and got ready, tried on maybe 3 different outfits, but then settled for my favorite pair of black skinny jeans, and pink cardigan! :] haha. Beau was suppose to be landing at 5:50 in Twin Falls, Idaho. But he happened to have a 4 hour layover in SLC before that. So his mom and sister who live in SLC went and picked him up and took him to the gateway and hung out with him during that time. His sister called me right after they dropped him back off and told me how wonderful he is and how good he looked. That is when the nerves really set in. Knowing that they had seen him and talked to him, just made it that more real for me. Well about 20 minutes later I get this phone call from a number I didn’t know. It was him! He only had 1 minute left on his calling card and so he called to say hi and that he loved me and he couldn’t wait to see me! I was seriously in shock, I think I may have only said 5 words! Haha I had NO idea what to say! But the phone call ended right in the middle of my sentence. At that point my sister and I decided to go do some shopping to try and pass the time. We got back to my house about 6:00, I hadn’t heard anything from his sister, so I called and wanted to know if he had landed okay. She told me he had, and that his release time had been changed. It was originally for 7:00, but now the stake president couldn’t do it until 8:30! AHHHH I was freaking out! I didn’t want to wait another hour and a half! Haha, so I just sat and waited at my house for him to come. About 9:30 I get a phone call from his sister-in-law, and she told me that beau wanted me to wait for him on my porch, she then asked to talk to my sister, so that’s when I knew something had to have been being planned! Haha, but my sister just told me that I shouldn’t freak out when the first car pulls in because beau isn’t in that one. At 9:45 two cars pull into my driveway and I am FREAKING out! My sister grabs me and starts hugging me and will not let me out the door! I was so irritated at why she wouldn’t let me! But finally I got away from her grasp and walked into my front yard, where his sister wrapped me into the biggest hug, and wouldn’t let me see past her. She told me that beau was in the truck but needed a few minutes before he could come see me. Everyone was acting so weird, so I knew something was up. Next thing I know she turns me around and there he is standing behind me! (he had snuck through my back door of my house and came to the front! That little sneaker ;]) I SCREAMED!! Haha not like a cute squeel, but like a scream that you hear in horror films! Haha and I have no idea why! But he wrapped me up in the biggest hug ever! And he whispered he loved me!! I cannot even explain to you how amazing it was! We came back into my house, and everyone chatted for a bit. Then they let me drive him home. His dad has a farm and they live by the river so we went down to their boat dock for about an hour before I took him home and we just talked and talked, and I laid there in his arms and just took it all in. He has changed, but in the most amazing ways! He is definitely still that same boy I fell in love with, but more in tune with the spirit and with himself! We are taking things slow for right now, but we both know we want to be together for eternity. No 24 hour club for me :[ haha stinking boy! But when it does happen, it will be amazing!!! I love you girls and I know that I would not be here if it was not for all of you! Keep waiting because it is so worth it, and they DO come home, and all those long nights, and all those tears and that pain, it goes away when you are with them again! I will keep you guys all updated on what the future has in store for us!! Love you guys!! :]
So last night I didn’t really have a hard time sleeping. I was kind of sick yesterday so I took some Tylenol pm to help with my back pain and help me sleep. Since beau wasn’t getting home till 6:00 that next night, the nerves really hadn’t set in yet. But Tuesday finally came. I woke up, and just tried to do as much as I could to stay busy all day. I watched the previous nights episode of Bachelorette (poor Ashley by the way). And then I did some laundry, and cleaned my house. We went and ate lunch, and then I came back and got ready, tried on maybe 3 different outfits, but then settled for my favorite pair of black skinny jeans, and pink cardigan! :] haha. Beau was suppose to be landing at 5:50 in Twin Falls, Idaho. But he happened to have a 4 hour layover in SLC before that. So his mom and sister who live in SLC went and picked him up and took him to the gateway and hung out with him during that time. His sister called me right after they dropped him back off and told me how wonderful he is and how good he looked. That is when the nerves really set in. Knowing that they had seen him and talked to him, just made it that more real for me. Well about 20 minutes later I get this phone call from a number I didn’t know. It was him! He only had 1 minute left on his calling card and so he called to say hi and that he loved me and he couldn’t wait to see me! I was seriously in shock, I think I may have only said 5 words! Haha I had NO idea what to say! But the phone call ended right in the middle of my sentence. At that point my sister and I decided to go do some shopping to try and pass the time. We got back to my house about 6:00, I hadn’t heard anything from his sister, so I called and wanted to know if he had landed okay. She told me he had, and that his release time had been changed. It was originally for 7:00, but now the stake president couldn’t do it until 8:30! AHHHH I was freaking out! I didn’t want to wait another hour and a half! Haha, so I just sat and waited at my house for him to come. About 9:30 I get a phone call from his sister-in-law, and she told me that beau wanted me to wait for him on my porch, she then asked to talk to my sister, so that’s when I knew something had to have been being planned! Haha, but my sister just told me that I shouldn’t freak out when the first car pulls in because beau isn’t in that one. At 9:45 two cars pull into my driveway and I am FREAKING out! My sister grabs me and starts hugging me and will not let me out the door! I was so irritated at why she wouldn’t let me! But finally I got away from her grasp and walked into my front yard, where his sister wrapped me into the biggest hug, and wouldn’t let me see past her. She told me that beau was in the truck but needed a few minutes before he could come see me. Everyone was acting so weird, so I knew something was up. Next thing I know she turns me around and there he is standing behind me! (he had snuck through my back door of my house and came to the front! That little sneaker ;]) I SCREAMED!! Haha not like a cute squeel, but like a scream that you hear in horror films! Haha and I have no idea why! But he wrapped me up in the biggest hug ever! And he whispered he loved me!! I cannot even explain to you how amazing it was! We came back into my house, and everyone chatted for a bit. Then they let me drive him home. His dad has a farm and they live by the river so we went down to their boat dock for about an hour before I took him home and we just talked and talked, and I laid there in his arms and just took it all in. He has changed, but in the most amazing ways! He is definitely still that same boy I fell in love with, but more in tune with the spirit and with himself! We are taking things slow for right now, but we both know we want to be together for eternity. No 24 hour club for me :[ haha stinking boy! But when it does happen, it will be amazing!!! I love you girls and I know that I would not be here if it was not for all of you! Keep waiting because it is so worth it, and they DO come home, and all those long nights, and all those tears and that pain, it goes away when you are with them again! I will keep you guys all updated on what the future has in store for us!! Love you guys!! :]
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Shout Out!!!!
Shout out to CARLI JO!!! She got her man back tonight and we're all sooooo stinkin excited (and slightly jealous) of her. We love you girl and congrats on making it!!! We need the dirt ASAP!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Final Countdown!!!
- Katie Jo Barthel- June 8, 2011 (landing @ 1:30pm, released @ 7pm)
- Kristen Lee Simmons- June 16, 2011
- Holly Katherine Ludlow- June 17, 2011
- Lisa Rozelle Wise- June 22, 2011 @ 1:07 pm
- Marisa Nicole Buffaloe- July 6, 2011
- Rachel Angilau- July 2011
- Lola Palacios- July 2011
- Allison Nicole Porter- July 2011
- Catherine Ann Perkins- August 3, 2011
- Emily Sapp- August 30, 2011
- Kallee Sue Cramer- August 30, 2011
- Josie Tootill- August 2011
- Lesha Bird- September 13, 2011
- Marie Richardson- October 7, 2011
- Lindsay Stringham- October 12, 2011
- Heather Oates- October 25, 2011
- Heather Stam- November 9, 2011
- Alexandria McGahan- November 15, 2011
- Jen Chugg- November 2011
- Katie Christina Fairchild- November 2011
- Marlee Michelle Martin- December 7, 2011
- Tatiana Rugamas- December 23, 2011
- Katie Jacobs- December 2011
- Lara Jean- December 2011
- Witney Wilson- December 2011
- Brittni Annalise Coons- December 2011
- Janae Christenson- December 2011
- Emily Sudweeks- January 2012
- Paige Matthews- January 2012
- Micadyn Nicole Judkins- February 2012
- Michelle Quinn- February 2012
- Seantay Flemming and Matt Hall- April 2012
- Linsey Huffman- May 9, 2012
- McCall Mills Hodson-May 2012
- Whitney Thayne- June 6, 2012
- Amanda Hill
- Megan McFarland- June 2012
- Hilary Webb- June 2012
- Kelsey Musselman- June 2012
- Jenna Vizina- June 2012
- Jocelyn Ostermiller- June 2012
- Kendahl Heffron- July 14, 2012
- Lindsey Poole- July 2012
- Talia Miller- July 2012
- Layla Denise McDade- August 2012
- Shannon Rose Gross- August 2012
- Stevie Crook- August 2012
- Esther Bolanos- August 2012
- Katy Wilson- August 2012
- Brittany McArthur- September 29,
- Lauren Schulthess- September 2012
- Alex Barrett- October 13, 2012
- Kailey Fawson- October 27, 2012
- Garyn Jae Landrum October 29, 2012
- Caralee Barrett- October 2012
- Brittany Jones-November 2012
- Britany Schoenrock- November 5, 2012
- Brittany Jones- November 2012
- Tay Swensen- December 4, 2012
- Mackenzie Miller, December 2012
- Tayler Pond- January 8, 2013
- Tessa Stokes- January 28, 2013
- Hilary Hunt- January 2013
- Emma Johnson- January 2013
- Kylea Donaldson- January 2013
- Jordan Harman- January 2013
- Carolyn Bridwell- March 2013
- Sadie Wheeler- April 2013
- Maria Esther Cabrera- May 2013
- Bria May Shrickland- June 2013
- Kimberly K. Johnson June 2013
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
The Final Countdown!!!
- Natasha Louise Rycroft- June 1, 2011
- Carli Jo- June 7, 2011 (landing @ 6pm)
- Katie Jo Barthel- June 8, 2011 (landing @ 1:30pm, released @ 7pm)
- Kristen Lee Simmons- June 16, 2011
- Holly Katherine Ludlow- June 17, 2011
- Lisa Rozelle Wise- June 22, 2011
- Holly Kathrine Ludelow- June 2011
- Marisa Nicole Buffaloe- July 6, 2011
- Rachel Angilau- July 2011
- Lola Palacios- July 2011
- Allison Nicole Porter- July 2011
- Catherine Ann Perkins- August 3, 2011
- Emily Sapp- August 30, 2011
- Kallee Sue Cramer- August 30, 2011
- Josie Tootill- August 2011
- Lesha Bird- September 13, 2011
- Marie Richardson- October 7, 2011
- Lindsay Stringham- October 12, 2011
- Heather Oates- October 25, 2011
- Heather Stam- November 9, 2011
- Alexandria McGahan- November 15, 2011
- Jen Chugg- November 2011
- Katie Christina Fairchild- November 2011
- Marlee Michelle Martin- December 7, 2011
- Tatiana Rugamas- December 23, 2011
- Katie Jacobs- December 2011
- Lara Jean- December 2011
- Witney Wilson- December 2011
- Brittni Annalise Coons- December 2011
- Janae Christenson- December 2011
- Emily Sudweeks- January 2012
- Paige Matthews- January 2012
- Micadyn Nicole Judkins- February 2012
- Michelle Quinn- February 2012
- Seantay Flemming and Matt Hall- April 2012
- Linsey Huffman- May 9, 2012
- McCall Mills Hodson-May 2012
- Whitney Thayne- June 6, 2012
- Amanda Hill
- Megan McFarland- June 2012
- Hilary Webb- June 2012
- Kelsey Musselman- June 2012
- Jenna Vizina- June 2012
- Jocelyn Ostermiller- June 2012
- Kendahl Heffron- July 14, 2012
- Lindsey Poole- July 2012
- Talia Miller- July 2012
- Layla Denise McDade- August 2012
- Shannon Rose Gross- August 2012
- Stevie Crook- August 2012
- Esther Bolanos- August 2012
- Katy Wilson- August 2012
- Brittany McArthur- September 29,
- Lauren Schulthess- September 2012
- Alex Barrett- October 13, 2012
- Kailey Fawson- October 27, 2012
- Garyn Jae Landrum October 29, 2012
- Caralee Barrett- October 2012
- Brittany Jones-November 2012
- Britany Schoenrock- November 5, 2012
- Brittany Jones- November 2012
- Tay Swensen- December 4, 2012
- Mackenzie Miller, December 2012
- Tayler Pond- January 8, 2013
- Tessa Stokes- January 28, 2013
- Hilary Hunt- January 2013
- Emma Johnson- January 2013
- Kylea Donaldson- January 2013
- Jordan Harman- January 2013
- Carolyn Bridwell- March 2013
- Sadie Wheeler- April 2013
- Bria May Shrickland- June 2013
- Kimberly K. Johnson June 2013
Congrats Dylan for getting your missionary back!!! May 26, 2011
This is Dylan's post from yesterday (I think he may be a little excited for her return ;p):
Tia gets home today. It took me forever to fall asleep last night. Hopefully the day goes by quickly until I can go to her parent's house to see her.
Dylan posted their stories a while back (with the new facebook page layout I had to go searching for the dang thing but it was well worth the wait just as Dylan is finding out :) )
Dylan and Tia (Tia served her mission in the New York, Utica mission)
I met Tia Zwick at a dance party in Provo in June of 2009 when both of us were students at BYU. We started dating but it was never very serious because she had decided before she met me that she wanted to go on a mission. The entire time we were dating I was trying to think of how I could convince her to not go on a mission. She would tell me that she was busy sometimes because she didn't want to see me too much or get attached because she wanted to go on a mission. Needless to say I failed in convincing her to stay home and date me. At the end of the summer she moved to Henderson, Nevada where her family was living at the time. We saw each other a few more times when she came to Provo to visit, one weekend of which I thought I had a last chance to convince her to stay, but she didn't. Since we were never serious boyfriend/girlfriend before she left, she started spending a lot of time in Henderson with this guy that had just got home from a mission, and I was kindof hurt by that. She gave a farewell in Alpine, Utah because that's where she grew up and she had a lot of friends there, and I didn't really want to go because I knew that she had been seeing this other guy and I found out that he was going to be at the farewell in Alpine. But, my mom convinced that I should go to her farewell in Alpine, Utah, and looking back on it now I'm really glad that I did. When she left, she had told me to date other people while she was gone, and I already knew that I was going to date other girls no matter what she said. We didn't write at all the first six months of her mission, but I found that I was thinking about her a lot, that I compared every girl I ever dated to her, that no one really seemed to match up, and that I was thinking about her every day. So, I decided to write her. A day or two after I sent a letter to her and before she would have read it, I got a message from her sister on facebook and her sister asked me what my mailing address was because Tia wanted to write me. So that made me feel a lot better about writing her, because for all I knew she could have forgotten about me completely. Our letter writing wasn't very frequent at all until December of last year, and by then I was writing her every other week and getting a letter on the other weeks.
The biggest problem I was going to have to face when she got home is that she was originally scheduled to get home on July 7th, and I am applying for medical schools right now, that start between July 25th and August 8th, and that wouldn't give us time to figure anything out between her getting home and me leaving. So, I wrote her a letter and told her that I was crazy about her and that I didn't want to leave Utah without her in the Fall. We hadn't talked about our feelings for each other before this at all, so I was really nervous that she wasn't going to feel the same way, and that I would freak her out. But, turns out she was thinking the exact same thing and she sends me a letter back saying that she loves me and then she suggests that she gets her mission shortened so that she would get home on May 26th. 18-month sister mission fall right between 12 and 13 transfers, and she was originally scheduled for 13, but she told her mission president all about her and me and got her mission changed to 12 transfers. Before she asked her mission president about this, she suggested it to me and asked me to email her and tell her what I thought. I was so excited about this. I told her I was all for it, and the mission president agreed to it. That was about a month and a half ago. So I have 74 days left now!! For the last two months we have been writing each other every week. Things between us have quickly gotten much more serious in the last two months.
The other interesting thing is that I never met her family before she left. I talked to her dad for maybe a minute at her farewell and I had met one of her brothers, and I had talked to one of her sisters on facebook a few times because Tia had told her sister all about me. So, about a month ago Tia's mom invited me to have Sunday dinner with her family, and I was excited to meet them. That was two weeks ago. I was pretty nervous to meet her whole family (except for two sisters and their families) at their Sunday dinner, especially without her being there. I have kept in touch with her mom and am probably going to meet up with them again pretty soon.
I graduated from BYU in December of last year and my life is just a matter of waiting right now. I am living at my parents house in SLC now and I'm not in school and I'm trying to find a job, but I have a lot of free time. Tia gets home May 26th and I have been waiting for months to hear back from four different medical schools that I have already interviewed at. I'm excited for Tia to get home obviously, but I'm not too anxious because I feel like I already know what's going to happen when she does, but I am way anxious to get accepted to at least one medical school and figure out where I will be in the Fall.
I met Tia Zwick at a dance party in Provo in June of 2009 when both of us were students at BYU. We started dating but it was never very serious because she had decided before she met me that she wanted to go on a mission. The entire time we were dating I was trying to think of how I could convince her to not go on a mission. She would tell me that she was busy sometimes because she didn't want to see me too much or get attached because she wanted to go on a mission. Needless to say I failed in convincing her to stay home and date me. At the end of the summer she moved to Henderson, Nevada where her family was living at the time. We saw each other a few more times when she came to Provo to visit, one weekend of which I thought I had a last chance to convince her to stay, but she didn't. Since we were never serious boyfriend/girlfriend before she left, she started spending a lot of time in Henderson with this guy that had just got home from a mission, and I was kindof hurt by that. She gave a farewell in Alpine, Utah because that's where she grew up and she had a lot of friends there, and I didn't really want to go because I knew that she had been seeing this other guy and I found out that he was going to be at the farewell in Alpine. But, my mom convinced that I should go to her farewell in Alpine, Utah, and looking back on it now I'm really glad that I did. When she left, she had told me to date other people while she was gone, and I already knew that I was going to date other girls no matter what she said. We didn't write at all the first six months of her mission, but I found that I was thinking about her a lot, that I compared every girl I ever dated to her, that no one really seemed to match up, and that I was thinking about her every day. So, I decided to write her. A day or two after I sent a letter to her and before she would have read it, I got a message from her sister on facebook and her sister asked me what my mailing address was because Tia wanted to write me. So that made me feel a lot better about writing her, because for all I knew she could have forgotten about me completely. Our letter writing wasn't very frequent at all until December of last year, and by then I was writing her every other week and getting a letter on the other weeks.
The biggest problem I was going to have to face when she got home is that she was originally scheduled to get home on July 7th, and I am applying for medical schools right now, that start between July 25th and August 8th, and that wouldn't give us time to figure anything out between her getting home and me leaving. So, I wrote her a letter and told her that I was crazy about her and that I didn't want to leave Utah without her in the Fall. We hadn't talked about our feelings for each other before this at all, so I was really nervous that she wasn't going to feel the same way, and that I would freak her out. But, turns out she was thinking the exact same thing and she sends me a letter back saying that she loves me and then she suggests that she gets her mission shortened so that she would get home on May 26th. 18-month sister mission fall right between 12 and 13 transfers, and she was originally scheduled for 13, but she told her mission president all about her and me and got her mission changed to 12 transfers. Before she asked her mission president about this, she suggested it to me and asked me to email her and tell her what I thought. I was so excited about this. I told her I was all for it, and the mission president agreed to it. That was about a month and a half ago. So I have 74 days left now!! For the last two months we have been writing each other every week. Things between us have quickly gotten much more serious in the last two months.
The other interesting thing is that I never met her family before she left. I talked to her dad for maybe a minute at her farewell and I had met one of her brothers, and I had talked to one of her sisters on facebook a few times because Tia had told her sister all about me. So, about a month ago Tia's mom invited me to have Sunday dinner with her family, and I was excited to meet them. That was two weeks ago. I was pretty nervous to meet her whole family (except for two sisters and their families) at their Sunday dinner, especially without her being there. I have kept in touch with her mom and am probably going to meet up with them again pretty soon.
I graduated from BYU in December of last year and my life is just a matter of waiting right now. I am living at my parents house in SLC now and I'm not in school and I'm trying to find a job, but I have a lot of free time. Tia gets home May 26th and I have been waiting for months to hear back from four different medical schools that I have already interviewed at. I'm excited for Tia to get home obviously, but I'm not too anxious because I feel like I already know what's going to happen when she does, but I am way anxious to get accepted to at least one medical school and figure out where I will be in the Fall.
Congrats again Dylan for getting Tia back-we all can't wait to hear about her return and all about the wedding ( so fill us in please!!)
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