The Answer Key

Ok, so that was pretty fun. We got some good guesses. :)

Here are the real answers with some long-winded explanations & some pictures:

1 - FALSE - Brent served in the Rio de Janeiro North mission from Jan '00- Dec '01. He had a great time and has lots of amazing stories and a few scary ones involving guns and railroad tracks. He also met one of his best friends while they were serving as companions in the MTC and later on in the field. *Side note: this same friend ended up marrying Emily's sister a few months after we got married*

2 - TRUE - Emily's mom and step-dad have live in Fresno, CA since she was 5 years old. She has been exposed to lots of fun and interesting "country" activities including, but not limited to: driving a tractor, riding horses, raising cows, planting (but ultimately failing at) a garden, car races, BBQ's, fishing, camping and all kinds of diesel truck related things. Now that we're married, Brent gets to experience these things too!

3 - TRUE - Emily's first car was a multicolored 1993 Ford Escort, affectionately named Spidey. Pretty soon after we began dating, Emily got tired of having to be the one driving all the time so we decided it was time for Brent to learn to drive a stick (his parents sold theirs right before he learned how to drive). We would go to high school parking lots and practice on their Driver's Ed tracks and soon thereafter, Brent was the main driver. We sold good ol' Spidey 8 months after we got married, but at least for that year or so, Brent could drive us places.

4 - FALSE - You would think since the rest of our courtship was so "BYU" that this would be our story, but ours is much more awesomer (yes, we just said that...). Anyway, Brent had an internship in Washington D.C. for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics the summer of 2003 and after spending hours and hours on the phone every night, we decided that Emily needed to fly out for a visit because 3 months was way too long to go without seeing each other. So she flew out for the 4th of July (her favorite holiday) and we did all sorts of touristy stuff all weekend. For the 4th we decided to watch the fireworks from the Jefferson monument but when we got there, Brent said he wanted to walk through the FDR memorial first. So we started walking through it and Brent got all nervous and weird and Emily was all sticky and sweaty from walking around DC all day so we took a "break" and sat down. Brent paced around for a few minutes and then as soon as no one was around, he started being all sweet and saying how he felt then got down and one knee and popped the question. There was some crying, some kissing and a gorgeous ring. Woohoo! Then we quickly made our way down to the edge of the river, sat down and then the fireworks started. It was awesome! And Emily had no idea because Brent had tricked her and gotten all of her family to lie to her since she thought he wasn't buying the ring until he got home in August.

5 - TRUE - When we were picking a date for our wedding it was either going to be the 19th or the 20th but we decided that a Saturday would work better what with the end of finals and moving and cleaning checks and all. We didn't realize until after we were set on the 20th that it was the same day as our first date the year before.

6 - FALSE - Not even close in fact. The first few days of our honeymoon were spent in a fantastic cabin up in the Utah mountains but then we flew to Houston a few days before the reception down there. We found what seemed like a great little extended stay place close to downtown but when we showed up, it didn't seem like we got what we had paid for. After a brief freak-out upon check-in, we decided that since it had a nice bed, a clean bathroom, a VCR with movies and a full kitchen that's all we really needed. To get to downtown though, we had to take buses. So for Christmas Eve, we got all dressed up, headed out to the Galleria, had a fancy dinner, shopped a little then decided we better head back before the buses stopped. We got on, what we were told was the right bus, then realized about 25 minutes later we should've been there already so we talked to the driver and he said that we weren't even close but that if we got off at the end of his line and caught this other bus, we'd be back on track. WRONG! We got to the other bus stop and noticed that we had missed the last bus by about 15 minutes so we decided to walk. We kept calling our hotel and telling them where we were and asking if we were headed the right direction and we were assured it would only take a few minutes. I don't think they understood we were on foot. So we walked, and walked, and walked, and walked, etc. We finally got back to the hotel, sweaty and blistered at about 11:30pm. We think we walked between 5-6 miles. But we survived and we weren't mugged so we just laughed it off. We later found out that had we just walked from the Galleria, it was only maybe 1 mile. Ugh!

7 - TRUE - Both of Brent's parents grew up a few streets from each other in Holladay, UT their whole lives but did not officially meet until they met in college. Little did they know, Emily's mom was only a few more streets away. This fact we didn't realize until after our wedding reception. And as it turns out, our grandparents even kind of remembered each other. Small world!

8 - FALSE - NOT even a little, and might we say, GROSS! So obviously by this point you've probably figured out that we are Red Sox fans. The short version: We both really like baseball, Brent always goes for the underdogs (which they were for so long), Emily pretty much just thought they were cool, Boston is awesome, and now they've won the World Series twice since we've been married. Go Sox! We think the Dodgers are pretty good too. We finally got to see the Sox play when they came to town this summer for some exhibition games with the Dodgers as seen in the pictures below.