About David . . .

David was born on October 31, 1982. He says he is used to having his birthday on Halloween--he just gets lots of extra candy that day! His family is currently from Apple Valley, California.

David has one sister--Emily--and three brothers--Mark, Mike, and John. His father owns a financial services business. David claims that anyone who has seen his mom and his fiance has the gift of the ministering of angels!

David is a great singer and guitar player. He's been playing the guitar since he was 12 years old. He also loves to work out and his fiance thinks he is really buff! He was on the wrestling team in high school and won the Most Inspirational award his senior year (Emily made him put that in here).

David is currently working on his undergraduate degree at LDS Business college. He plans to get his degree in business while hoping to get into CES.

About Emily . . .

Emily was born December 16, 1981 in Amsterdam, New York, a little town outside of Albany. Her family moved to Puyallup, Washington when she was eight years old.

Emily has two sisters--Kelly and Eve--and three brothers--Jonathan, Stephen, and Daniel. Eve is currently on a mission in Nagoya, Japan. She took David and Emily's engagement photos before she left, for which David and Emily are very grateful! Emily's dad owns a construction aggregates business. Her mom loves to write plays and is working on her second novel.

She loves the violin, and has been playing for fifteen years (though her practicing is sporadic as of late). Her undergraduate degree is from BYU-Idaho in music.

Emily is currently an MBA student majoring in marketing at Brigham Young University. She only has one year left!

Getting to know you: four months of fun dates

David and Emily go on a lot of fun dates together.

David took Emily to her first a rap concert in Provo.

One night he made her dress up so that he could take her on a special date to the local castle!

Once, they went to the library and read children's books to each other. Another time they had a picnic in Emily's living room. Emily loved taking David with her to her various MBA events, like the MBA Semi-formal Christmas party and fireside with BYU Professor Randy Bott.

Both of them enjoy going on double dates with Emily's sister and brother-in-law. At these dates, they would usually get in touch with their creative sides by making Christmas stockings or Valentines for each other.

One of their favorite date activities is to go see a movie. Here's a list of movies they have seen together:

Forever Strong (1st date)

Wall-E

The Dark Knight

Emperor's New Groove

The Illusionist

City of Ember

Madagascar 2

Mary Poppins

Twilight

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

A Bug's Life

Cars

Elf

Nacho Libre

and many, many more!

But the thing that David and Emily enjoy doing together the most is just being with each other!

How it all began . . .

David and Emily met in 2003 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

They were missionaries in the St. Louis Missouri Mission, and very good ones at that! He was her district leader for six weeks, and then they parted ways.

Post mission, David and Emily kept in touch with each other through email and the yearly mission reunion. Nothing much happened between the two. Emily was in Washington--David was in California.

But in 2008, the stars began to align to bring the two together. First of all, they both moved to Provo, Utah. David was working and Emily was starting the MBA program at BYU. Then, a mutual mission friend started bugging them to date each other. Finally, on October 18, 2008, David asked Emily to go to the movies with him. Sparks flew, mountains moved, and rivers changed course! (Or so it seemed.) A week later, they were "official." And the rest is history!