We met through the company we both
worked for at the time in 1996.
She was a dispatcher,
I was one of the people she
dispatched,
a driver on the road
for a company that subcontracted
for the
Union Pacific Railroad.
We started
talking over the phone. We grew to know each other and would talk for hours.
We always talked about meeting each other one day, but she lived in Cheyenne,
Wyoming and I lived here in Milford, Utah. So we figured we would just have
to settle for what we had on the phone (or so I thought). We sent each other
pictures and as soon as I saw her I realized that I wanted her to be my wife.
We continued to talk to each other on the phone and we began to realize
that we both had feelings for each other. But what to do, we were still
many, many miles apart. And long distance relationships don't work well.
One day my brother and sister-in law asked me to come over to their house.
I really didn't want to go because I had just gotten back from a road trip, i
t was really late and I was tired. But they insisted, and I finally agreed,
just to get them off my back about it. So I went over there and we talked
for a while and they told me to go into their kitchen to get something for
them. I walked in and right back out. Jenifer was standing in my brother's
house, in his kitchen, right here in Milford! I collected my thoughts, as
best as I could, and went back into the kitchen. I could not believe she
was actually here. We embraced and I felt like I never wanted to let her go.
I found out that she and my sister-in-law had been talking also, and had
arranged this little surprise for my birthday. The next few days changed my
life and I started becoming a new man.
I took her everywhere
that I loved. We went to
a little mining town
called
Frisco, and my transmission blew
in my Firebird.
We had to
walk about 15 miles back
to town.
What a first date!
As we were walking, we talked about each other, our lives and just
everything. We really got to know each other that day. I hadn't talked to
anyone so openly about my life in years. I knew that I was dreading the
time when she would have to go home. And we did finally got a ride the
rest of the way to town.
The day finally came a few days later
when she had to go back to Cheyenne. We both stalled as long as we
possibly could, neither of us wanting her to go. But she had to go back to
her kids. As I watched her leave, I got a lump in my throught and a
burning in my chest. I started to cry. How could I have fallen for someone
so fast? How could I have fallen for someone who lives so far away?
We talked on the
phone more once she got home. I knew one thing and one thing only, I could
not live without this wonderful woman in my life and whatever that meant I
was willing to do. She said that she had missed me the moment she left for
Wyoming. So 3 weeks later I went to Cheyenne and moved her and her children
down to Milford.
About 6
and a half months later, on May 31, 1997, this beautiful woman,
made me the happiest man on earth by becoming my wife.
Jenifer, the day that you walked into my
life and opened up my heart was the best day of my life. You took something
that was empty and filled it with love and caring. I have never once
regretted the decision to go up to Cheyenne and take a chance on something
that was so new. You have been the best choice I ever made. You are my
best friend, my companion, my soulmate, my lover, and my wife. We have had
some rough days, I know, but even on the roughest day you stayed by me,
always with an "I Love You" that seemed to make things not so bad.
I owe you my entire existance. Because of the love you so freely give,
I am a better man today. Thank you for loving me. I will love you always.
