PREPARING FOR THE BIG DAY!!!!

Temple day!! One of the many things to do in all the confusion of wedding plans was to go to the temple for the first time! Finally something that was relaxing, calming, and comforting during the stress of wedding plans!! And lucky for me I had loving family that came to support me! Justin, Mom, dad, big bro Jeff, Gma and Gpa, Sandy and Blair! What a memorable day!

Mom and I at the temple!! Thanks mom for helping and being there with me for my first time!!! What a special experience for a mom and daughter!

WEDDING INVITATIONS!!!! The most favorite part of wedding plans....right?!! Haha not when you have 800 invitations to address, stuff, lick, and send out!!!

at least both families helped ALOT!!!!

THANKS YOU GUYS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!

PIG HUNTING BABY...Steph's first animal ever shot by a bow!!

Justin and I heading out bright and early for our pig hunt!!! We drove up past Tremonton where there were wild pigs and bighorn sheep we were hunting for!

Since I was the only girl with 5 men hunters all hunting they were all so gentlemanly and let me take the first shot at the first pig we saw. We snuck up to these 2 pigs that were running by the side of a river (which was partially frozen...the middle wasn't quite frozen but the edges were). We quietly crouched around the bend, I raised my bow, and let the arrow fly! PERFECT SHOT!!! Right where you wanna hit it....right in the vitals! The pig didn't drop right away, he actually ran out onto the river!! We were hoping he wouldn't go through the ice! Luckily he made his way back to the side without going through the ice and we claimed him!!I even helped clean out the pig! a girl who's not affraid of getting her hands dirty gutting a pig! (it just stunk a little that's all)
One of the other hunters, Will, who shot the mother-load! His pig was 500 lbs!! The one I shot was a little 300 pounder! Still, they were no little, pink, curly-tailed piggies....only black, hairy and ugly instead!!

DELTA TUNE-UP SOFTBALL TOURNEY!!!

we started the summer off strong by heading down to the annual delta softball tourney! Justin played on Jeff's 4life team with a bunch of the buddies! As usual the rest of the fam was there watching and cheering them on!!

Here Justin is in action hitting one of his many amazing hits!

Justin taking a little break after the game to sit with his little wifey...his #1 fan!! A "little break" is no exaggeration, they play one game after another, sometimes 8-9 games a day!

Me and Katie, my lil sista, watching and hangin out at the softball games, shock shock!! (I promise we do more things then just softball....ok, maybe just barely)

JUSTIN AND STEPH'S TRIP TO TEXAS!!!!!
We took a trip down to Texas to visit Chad and Britt and Nolan! They were great hosts taking us and telling us all the fun spots to hit while we were there!!!

We for sure had to go to a real TEXAS RODEO!!! We had FRONT row seats! It was amazing..the bulls and horses would run right up next to the fence in front of us and flip dirt all over us!! It even got in our drinks and snacks we had on our laps!!





We definitely wanted to hit the famous Texas Zoo!!! I've never seen so many wild animals!! Lions, gorillas, kudus, hipos, giraffes, cheetahs, wolves and many many more!!














We all went to a Harlem Globe Trotters basketball game!!! They put on a great show--very entertaining!











Justin, Nolan and I hangin out at the house!! Reading books, playing games, and chitchattin' it up!


















On the airplane heading to Texas!!!! I LOVE traveling, especially with Justin!!!

many of the fun dates and memories made by Just and Steph!

B-I-N-G-O!!!!! Bingo baby!!! Who knew it could get so intense!! Those old ladies don't go easy on the rest of us, we had to definitely hold our own!!!

more softball watching!!!

What???....Justin and Steph at the softball field?? Never! :) Taking a trip to St George/Mesquite for a weekend get-away!!! Watching softball, swimming, playing bingo and all you can eat buffets!!!

Justin took Steph up past Tremonton to go pig hunting!!! He was a great great great guide to help her shoot her first WILD PIG ever!!! One of their first and many hunting trips they'll take!!

Don't think the snow will stop Justin and Steph from camping!!! They headed up with the Richins and friends/family for a weekend camping trip up in Heber! Snowshoeing, tubing, and playing games all night long was an awesome way to start out the Christmas break!

CHAPTER II:
March 5 & 6, 2008 was the magical weekend it all REALLY begun. Spring in both Steph and Justin's lives meant only one thing....softball season was starting!! The past few years they had both played softball down in Provo, Utah in some leagues but had never played with or against each other. The softball world was only SO big down in Provo, so really everyone knew everyone and in passing Steph and Just kinda knew OF each other. (but really this cute girl had the BIGGEST crush on Justin seeing him at the fields every week but he, of course, was dating a different girl every weekend so Steph knew she never had a chance!) Stephanie must have been living right to be in the right place at the right time because the night of March 5th, 2008 at the Provo, Utah Footprinters softball fields she was blessed with the honor of being officially introduced to Justin Losee, the man of her dreams! Stephanie had gone to the fields that night to hang out and watch many of her guy friends and brothers play in a softball tournament that was happening that weekend. She got to the fields as the games had already begun. She found the field the majority of her friends were playing on, and many more of her friends were in the bleachers watching waiting for their games to start.
As fate would have it the game she had chose to watch was the same team that Justin was playing on for the tourney! As the game played on the air turned chilly so Stephanie put on a sweatshirt that happened to have her name "Stephy" on the back. As she was watching, laughing, being with all the guys in the bleachers she heard a voice from behind her call out to her saying, "Stephy??"
As Steph turned around to see an unfamiliar face she responded, "Yes?".
The woman continued, "That's your name right?? It's on the back of your sweatshirt that's why I said that! Hey I was wondering..." she said as she pointed toward the game they were both watching. "...are you dating any of those guys out there?!"
"Oh!! No, no, no. I'm not dating any of them. I'm pretty good friends with a lot of them and have dated a few of them recently but no, not anymore!" Steph replied.
"Well, do you know Justin Losee?? I think you are the cutest happiest girl and have all these guys after you and was wondering if you'd go out with my son Justin!??"
"Really? Well thanks," Steph said back, "Ya actually I have always thought he is SO cute and would LOVE to go out with him but I figured he was dating someone! Ya I would love to go out!". Well, once Steph said those magic words it was all over. Sandy, Justin's mom, wasn't about to let this one go. She ran over to him after the game and said, "Justin, Justin! Do you know that Stephy girl over there....you need to ask her out. She is the cutest girl!"
"I can't," Justin replied, "she's dating him over there." Justin pointed over to her last ex boyfriend standing close by.
"Oh no! She's not!!" Sandy exclaimed, "They broke up! She's single!! Come on, lets go talk to her!" Sandy grabbed Justin's hand and pulled him over to where Steph was standing by the bleachers. "Steph, this is my son Justin, Justin this is Steph! Ok, well we better get going, see-ya!" and the next thing they knew Justin and Steph were standing there alone feeling a little awkward knowing what the purpose of this "talking together" was for!!
To Stephanie's happiness the "talking" worked! Justin and Steph hit it off and he got her number!! She was so ecstatic and couldn't wait to really go out with him!!! The story could end here with Happily Ever After, but the story continues with many dates and memories that were made along the way!!

CHAPTER I:
Once upon a time there was a studly, athletic, handsome boy named Justin Losee who lived in Draper Utah.

He was a very talented young man...he was good at EVERYTHING (especially if it had anything to do with sports or anything athletic) and lived, loved, and breathed anything that had to do with hunting, bows & arrows, or shooting animals--especially elk, deer and turkeys! Down the road a few miles in Orem, Utah was a sweet, athletic, cute girl named Stephanie Richins. She loved anything that had to do with outdoors--camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, and sports! She grew up playing baseball/softball and would do anything to play or watch the sport! She was definitely the most patient, loving, caring woman that would ever come into Justin's life.....only he didn't know that yet!!

.....and so it begins....

March 13, 2009 was the day you could say "it finally begun" with Stephanie Richins and Justin Losee, but really the beginning goes back many moons. Where it REALLY begun was back a few months when the sparks first started flying....so here it is, their fairytale story, a most perfect story!!!