SO! When people meet us or see how in love we are they ask this question bret and i HATE answering. "So, how did you two meet!" our exact answers say... "Through his sister Rachel" Now, this IS true we just aren't telling the full story.One day when i was a senior in high school JUST months away from graduating, WAIT, PAUSE, i had a boyfriend at the time, he was non LDS and was into MMA and we had been dating for a few months. Okay moving on. So one night i randomly get this Friend request from this completely RANDOM dude, i saw that we had one friend in common, "Rachel Johnson" his sister, which of whom i went to high school with and i had NO idea she had a flipping hot older brother. So before i added him, what did i do girls?!?!! Thats right, i FACEBOOK STALKED HIM. however he only had one available pic for me to view and i was like... hmmm. he's pretty hot so i guess i'll add him. I get this instant message literally seconds after i accepted him and he says "hey gorgeous! how are you?" i was like.... "uhm... do i know you?" i was being completely rude. and he goes "No :) but my Name is Bret Johnson miss, how do you do?" before i said anything else i immediately clicked on his profile to view his pictures. I was scrolling through his albums when i saw one that said "BUENOS ARES ARGENTINA MISSION" i immediately fell in love with him and i knew i was going to marry him :) i know, creepy right? Well, bret was in Japan at this time but his parents lived down my street. After a few days of talking with bret at the late hours of the night i finally broke up with my boyfriend. A month later bret came home on leave. I was currently working at the mall downstairs at a kiosk. I was dying to meet this boy, he always had the sweetest most wonderful things to say to me and about me. I had Msn web cammed with him (before i knew skype existed) but it still isn't the same as seeing him in person. I was getting REAL nervous. i get a text saying "Hey miss, im here at the mall where are you?" i got butterflies like no other, i was talking to this boy for a WHOLE month and was dying to meet him and see if he was the real deal. I texted him and told him where my kiosk was located. Little did i know he grew up in boise and knew the mall like the back of his hand. He knew exactly where i was :) infact he was upstairs right above me texting me and watching my reactions. He says "you have to get to know your prey before you go in for the kill" Well, i was looking all around to see if i could find him and all of a sudden i see this extremely Dreamy man walking right up to me. I had no words. I just froze. He was so much more handsome than his pictures portrayed him to be, he smelled so good, his eyes were piercing, and that smile.. i can't even explain. All i did was walk up and hug him very shakily. We walked back over to my kiosk and he picked up my ipod touch... his picture was my home screen.... can you say EMBARRASSING?!?!?! he was like... you know you can change this ;) that made it even more awkward but now he regrets tellin me that :P anyways, he stayed at my kiosk till i got off work. He told me he would follow me to my house with his truck so i can get ready for our date :) i was so nervous i almost crashed into the curb for looking in the rear view mirror one hundred times. We finally get to my house( i was living on my own at this time) and he lets me go get ready. I swear it was an hour he had to wait. He took me by the hand to his truck and of course opened my door. We drove to Edwards and we had jamba juice before the movie. When he got his drink he challanged me to a chugging contest.... now girls, i eat ice like there is no tomorrow. We start chugging through our straws and he is trying so hard not to show that he has brain freeze! Cutest thing ever but i couldn't help but laugh. We finally went to our movie and we saw, The Karate Kid. I was SO nervous that right when we sat down i pulled the arm rest down, he looked over and gave me bedroom eyes and lifted up the arm rest and went in to kiss me, i closed my eyes ready to take the kiss but he pulls away and turns to the screen. RUDE!!! he TOTALLY tricked me! well, i shook it off and started watching the movie. I was really nervous not knowing if he was going to hold my hand or not. He didn't hold my hand. He leaned his head on my should and fell asleep.... yep ASLEEP!!!! OUR FIRST DATE!!!!!! He had really bad jet lag traveling 16 hours from japan. He eventually woke up and we left the movie when it was over. He then took me to our old high school (oh i had graduated before he came home) he graduated in 2006 from Capital and i went to capital all 3 years. we had challenged each other in wrestling match and whoever won got a kiss. WELL i won!!!! ... okay thats a lie he won. it was dark and starry with some light from the light poles in the parking lot. with out a word he starts to walk toward me making me back up to the side of his truck then says, "you miss owe me something." He looks at me straight in the eyes, places his hand behind my head and pulls me in softly for our first kiss. I literally felt fireworks, every part of my body went numb and tingly, he sent a shock through my whole body. After we released from our kiss, again no word were said and we got in the truck. We pull up to my house at about 12:00 midnight and i dont want to go home. I dont want him to leave me. So we cuddled and kissed and talked for about 2 hours in his truck before i went inside my house. We had never planned to meet someone online, infact i had a boyfriend and he just got out of a 2 year relationship. Neither of us had planned to meet, start dating, and get married. But thats how it ended up happening :) We are so in love, and we will be forever. And if anyone ever asks us how we met, we still proceed to say "his sister rachel" :) then we reminisce about the old times. Bret was home for only 4 weeks before he went back to Japan then had to go to Korea. I spent 8 months with out him after that first time he was home. He came home again April 1st 2011 and proposed the 8th. He went back to Japan May 12, i had never cried so hard in my life when he left that day. Then i spent 6 months without him before he came back home 1 week before the Wedding. I have loved this man from day one. We both were having a hard time. And we helped each other grow. 3 days prior to that facebook add, i had asked God to send me someone to help me get back into the LDS church. 4 days prior to the facebook add... Bret prayed for the same thing. It wasn't coincidence. It was God's plan. And i will forever be eternally grateful. I love my husband more than life its self. We had 2 long hard years but we made it through and we can make it through anything. We knew each other for those two years, but only spent 2 and a half months of that in person, but everyone can see how much we love each other and how much we know its right. God has a plan for everyone, this was ours.
