the start

We started dating officially December 12 2008. Where Clif said that he wanted to be with me. a couple days after I was talking to my dad on the phone and Clif was with me (you need to under stand this part, my dad can barely hear me so I have to yell in the phone the whole conversation) so I am yelling at my dad, then all of a sudden he stops talking and ask who I am with, (Clif barely moved and didn't make to much noise) so I said just my friend Clifton (never call your boyfriend, just your friend) so my dad says Kristen who is Kristen, I had said no dad Clifton he is a boy, and my dad says “a boy, how many kids does he have” I said “ a lot dad, and he works at McDonald’s flipping burgers, can I please talk to mom” so later on my dad finds out that clif is really my boyfriend and calls me up and leaves a message on my phone “just friends Sylvia, what’s the story”. that is a funny story we will never forget.

we enjoyed the time we spent getting to know each other. We have had a lot of laughs like me asking who hon solo is. (some guy off star wars with bushy hair) just fyi never say star wars and star trek are the same thing. We went on some fun trips while dating, like to play in the snow on mount graham, Greer for the 4th of July, and St Johns for the 24th of July, where we were engaged

We were in St. Johns for the 24th of July celebration (pioneer days) and Larry Heap (my sister n law Lisa’s dad) has a wagon pull by his mules, that he has in the parade every year. Clif had asked if he can ride in it after the parade, so my brother John took us to the end of the parade, and Larry took us for a ride on the wagon. Normally every year the mandolin club rides with him, this year they didn't. He had church leaders of St. Johns, so I asked Larry about that, why they didn't play this year. and Larry explained a lot of them were sick. But Bev’s (Lisa’s mom) mandolin was under the seat. So I asked why her mandolin was there. Larry explained that it was for the church leaders, if they wanted to play and the parade route. Clif asked if that was a mandolin and if he could play it. So Clif asked me to get it out for him. I opened up the case and said there is nothing in here there is just a ring. And I don’t know what I was thinking but I was confused. And Clif had to tell me that it was my ring, then asked me to marry him. I said yes of course.

We were married November 14th 2009 in the Mesa Arizona Temple, where we were sealed for time and all eternity