Happy Anniversary!

Today is our 11th anniversary! How the frack did I get so old??

Here is our story in pictures and words ;) I am copying text from a post I did 3 (gah) years ago on our 8th anniversary. You can see the post here

When Cannon turned 19 he chose to serve a mission for our church. He got called to the Washington DC South Mission.

(this is the face that I fell in love with...seriously how cute was/is he? And yes my man loves the color purple) Also shout out to Sarah M don't our hubbies look SO young??


I was fifteen and he was twenty. He came to our house for dinner as a missionary almost every week for the six months that he was in our ward. He thought I was a brat, and I thought he was dead sexy. He was very quiet....but I thought he was hot and you know as a fifteen year old that equals love...sigh. He changed areas and I saw him a time or two after that and each time my heart skipped a beat. I told my sister and Jody Pease, (who actually wrote about it in her journal) that I would marry Elder Anderson one day, so because my sister is the best she snagged a picture of him from his birthday party that my mom had for him (my parents are converts and adore the missionaries...lucky for me!!) I quickly put it in my journal so that no one would find it. (I found that picture after we were married when I was going through old stuff...hah!)

(We have so few pictures from the year that we dated, but these are some of my favorites. The top picture is horrible quality because I had it hanging at work and someone decided to poke holes all over our faces...sheesh! And then a friend fixed it and that's what was left of it. The bottom right was our engagement photo)

So fast forward almost 2 years (in my old post I said 3, but it was really 2) I am at the ripe old age of 17 3/4 and I moved to SLC. I ended up at SLC's New Year's celebration called First Night. I hadn't wanted to go but because I didn't have many friends my options were very limited. Cannon was supposed to meet up with a friend earlier that night but decided to go with another group of friends to first night instead.

We always talk about what if we hadn't gone or what if this or that...would we have found eachother? Who knows....

Anyways, I was standing talking to a friend (Sarah Mabey who is now a mom and married and beautiful...but thats beside the point) We had just finished eating some nasty cheese fries from the Cowboy Grub where I unfortunately worked, when this hot guy catches my eye. Well, he apparently liked the way I looked because we couldn't take our eyes off each other. I realized that I knew him from somewhere and said to Sarah "I know I know him...I'm going to talk to him" He had stopped as well because he wanted to talk to me.

So I went up to him as he was kind of standing around deciding if he should come up to me or not haha! I said "are you Elder Anderson?" and he's like "yeah are you a Stevens*?" *(name has been changed to protect the innocent....wink wink)

Man was I excited! We spent the rest of the night together and had a magical kiss at midnight that seriously, no joke produced a spark! (that was definitely produced by static electricity, but we like to think otherwise)

We literally spent everyday together and got married one year later (AFTER I graduated) I don't know what we were thinking, getting married so young, but I am grateful that we did, because he has been perfect for me and I hope I for him :) 

(Please forgive the quality but these are all scanned in. I included the top left picture because I love how young all my sisters and brother  looked, and because it has Laura in it and I don't have too many pictures of her on the blog. The top right picture is to illustrate just how fracking cold it was on the day of the wedding. It sucked and needless to say it was hard to smile in many of the pictures. The bottom picture is one I just recently came across of our first couch! It cost $25 at a thrift store and it was so comfy. Simple beginnings :) )

Happy Anniversary babe! I love you! Thanks for being sweet and awesome and a grrreat dad! I could say a bunch of cheesy lovey stuff but I already said it 3 years ago, so you know....you can click here and read it.