All because 2 people fell in love...

I always love to hear how couples met. The whole story behind where they are now. I love to share how Mike and I met because it is different. Since there is a whole lot of the same old, same old going on here I am going to write about how we met because I love this story. :0)

I was starting my second semester at Ricks College. It was the winter 1994 semester. I have always loved getting mail so I was usually the one to get the mail for my apartment. One day just after the new semester had started in January, I got 2 letters in the mail. One was from my cousin, Mike Corbett, in the MTC. He was getting ready to leave for the Dominican Republic soon. And the other letter was from someone that I did not know. I just remember saying, "Who is this Elder Jacobson? I don't know any Elder Jacobson." My cousin had written on the back of his envelope, "Read my letter first." In his letter, he told me about this great guy named Mike Jacobson who was in his MTC district. As it goes, I had sent my picture to my cousin and Elder Jacobson saw it. Elder Jacobson wanted write me. So my cousin told me to be honest with him, if I was actually going to write him to do it. If not, just tell him to get lost. Nice huh. But in the end, Corbett told me that he had "deemed him worthy" to write me. So I read Elder Jacobson's letter. It turned out that we both grew up in Southern California about 20 minutes from each other. We did not know each other. We grew up in 2 different counties, stakes, school districts, and so on. I figured, why not. What could happen from just writing a missionary. I told my roommate about it and she said "You know, Kathy Jacobson does sound good." I told her, "Don't you dare even think that way. Nothing is going to happen. We are just going write each other." Little did I know.

We ended up writing each other for the rest of his mission. Mike got home on November 17, 1995. The first time I saw him was at his homecoming. My best friend, Stacy, and I drove out to Chino to check him out in person. We started dating a couple weeks later. We got married on November 16, 1996 in the Los Angeles Temple. One day before his year mark of being home. He wanted to get married on his year mark but that was on a Sunday.

So in a nutshell, that is how it all started for the 2 of us. It will be 12 years in November and I am hoping for many happy more years. He can always make me laugh. :)