I had just returned home from my mission to Albuquerque, NM at the beginning of June 2005. Shaun's family of six sons had moved into a house in my parents neighborhood while I was gone. Now that I was finished with my mission, it was time to start looking for a boy to spend the rest of my life with. But not just any boy would catch my eye. There was only one that would spark my interest, and it could only be Shaun McBride. We started hanging out in the month of August, and had become boyfriend/girlfriend by September. Shaun popped the big question on Christmas morning in front of the Christmas tree, while his family waited in a nearby bedroom to see what my answer would be.
Of course it was "Yes." It was an exciting next few months as we planned our wedding and continued to get to know each other at the same time. We were married in the Salt Lake City Temple on April 6, 2006 and started the rest of our lives together. And our lives have been crazy ever since! We got pregnant fairly quickly with our daughter who was born on March 2, 2007 whom we named Jocelyn Aliyah McBride. And so our story begins.....