Marriage Tag

1. When is your "engagement" anniversary? May 17, 2004.
2. When is your "marriage" anniversary? August 24, 2004.
3. How long have you known your spouse? It will be 7 years in September.
4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged? We dated off and on for 7 months before he proposed. We were off at the time. :)
5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time? He sat by me in our astronomy class during the 2002 Fall semester at BYU Idaho.
6. What is your spouse's full name? Ross E. Goodman. He would be mad if I exposed his full middle name on here again. Do some back searching though, and you will find it.
7. Do you have any children? Yups.
8. How many - boys/girls? Two lovely little girls.
9. Do you have any house pets? Not really. We play with the stray cats that come around sometimes. Even Trinket makes an appearance every other week or so.
10. Do you own a house or rent? We own a little house out in the middle of Eagle Mountain.
11. Do you live in the country or town/city? Country.
12. What is one of your favorite activities together? Propriety forbids me to write about my favorite, so I will say that people watching is one of our other favorite things to do. We are really good at being judgemental about appearances.
13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot? I loved our vacation to San Diego so very much.
14. When did you first kiss? After a lovely date to the Cabaret dance at BYU-Idaho. After a night full of wonderfully romantic places to do it (ie: the top of the stadium, the ballroom, under a tree with Christmas lights, etc), he ended up kissing me for the first time in his car parked in front of my dorms. Lame sauce supreme! :)
15. What church do you attend?The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
16. Is this the church you were married in? Nope. We were married in the Bountiful Temple. Some of our family members are still complaining about what a hassell it was to get there.
17. What town is your current address at? Eagle Mountain.
18. Do you work or stay at home? I work from home.
19. Where did you go on your honeymoon? Right after we were married we spent a few days in Reno, and a few hours in San Francisco. We drove a car with no A/C, and we had $120 in our bank account. We used the money we got from the reception and open house to pay for our food. It was pretty lame- but we had fun. A year later we went on our real honeymoon to San Diego.
20. What was the funniest gift you gave when dating? I gave him the best book ever written (The Count of Monte Cristo) which he thought was rather funny. He has yet to read it.
21. How long have you been together?Almost 6 years.
22. How long did you know each other before you started dating?A little more than a year.
23. Who asked who out?He asked me. He made hamburger helper. It was terribly romantic.
24. How old are each of you? I'm 24 he is 27.
25. Where do you each work or go to school? Ross works at a financial advising firm, and I write lesson plans from home.
26. Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? Right now Emma is refusing to sleep in her own bed, and has been camping out on our floor every night. This makes it hard to enjoy some of our favorite things together alone.
27. Did you go to the same school?We went to the same college.
28. Are you from the same home town? Not even a little bit.
29. Who is smarter? We are both smart in our own areas.
30. Who is more sensitive?Definitely me.
31. Where do you eat out most as a couple? We don't get out too often anymore, but our favorite place is Ruby River.
32. Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Well, we took separate planes and slept in separate rooms (stupid military) but we spent a lot of time together in Biloxi, Mississippi.
33. Who has the craziest exes? Very definitely me. My list includes a pathologic liar (who jumped in front of a car), a pharisaical Mormon whose mother called me a slut to my face once, 2 cheaters, a guy who grew up in the polygamist colony in Lehi (no joke- I met all 3 of his moms!), and one guy who loved his saxophone more than me.
34. Who has the worse temper? Me.
35. Who does the cooking? Me.
36. Who is more social? Me.
37. Who is the neat-freak? Me.
38. Who is more stubborn? Me.
39. Who hogs the bed? Ross. He also snores and twitches.
40. Who wakes up earlier? Ross. It is hard to get into a deep sleep around him sometimes.
41. Where was your first date? His apartment.
42. Who had more boyfriends/girlfriends? Me.
43. Do you get flowers often? Depends on how much we are fighting at the moment. :)
44. How do you spend the holidays? With our families- usually wishing we were alone.
45. Who is more jealous? I am.
46. How long did it take to get serious? We got pretty serious about 2 months after his other girlfriend dumped him (she was on a mission). Then he dumped me. Then he proposed. Then I dumped my boyfriend.
47. Who eats more? He does.
48. Who does the laundry?Mostly me.
49. Who’s better with the computer? He is.
50. Leave a piece of advice for the other couples. You know that old piece of advice about never going to bed angry? It is total bunk! Seriously! Trying to work out a conflict when you are both upset, exhausted, and beyond all points of reasoning is silly. Sometimes you just have to kiss each other goodnight, and let things cool off over night. Also, always kiss each other goodnight and goodbye- even if you are mad and would rather bite them. There is power in a kiss between people who love each other, and you never know if that could be the last time you ever kiss.