From the top

The adventure for Jake and I started in about 2006 when we were both living in Las Vegas. He moved there to start a business with a friend and I was raised there and at the time had just started my nursing journey, I was taking pre-requisites for the program. I met Jake at church, he and 3 of his brothers attended the same church as I did. Jake remembers a conversation that we had about how many bones are in the human body. He also remembers pointing out that babies have minus two bones because their knee caps haven't developed when they are born. 
Fast forward to 2016, I'd finished nursing school, worked for 4 years as an RN (2 years in Las Vegas and 2 years in Bellevue, Washington) and I had just graduated from a Family Nurse Practitioner masters program  at NYU. I moved to Utah after school and was living in Ogden with my sister and her family. Jake was living in Utah as well, he'd been here for 5 years and was working on temples. To date he has worked on 22! 
I was on a trip in Orlando, FL and Jake saw a picture of me partaking of the local cuisine... gator nuggets. He commented (jake.ryan.smith) and it dawned on me that we were both living in Utah. 

A conversation started through Instagram and then through texting. It lasted for 5 weeks before we went out and reunited, but I knew from the first time that I had found a gem. And not a diamond in the rough. A bright, shining, precious jewel of a man... it was almost too good to be true. Little did I know the best had just begun. As I got to know Jake one of the things that I loved was his ability to recall ridiculous and hilarious moments from his past. He is the best story teller. The first stories he told me were first about almost killing his pet duck and second about a WAY COOL Christmas present from his mom to his brother gone wrong. After hearing these stories plus a few more I suggested we start a blog as a way to record and preserve those memories.