Bula Ravia

We are the Ravias! So I've decided to keep a blog because so many people I know keep them as a way of journaling, and that is one thing that I struggle to keep  up with.
So shall we start from the beginning. So in October of 2010 a friend of mine called me to tell me that he  had finally proposed to his girlfriend, and they would get married in January of 2011. Well it just so happened that Hawaiian Airlines decided to be nice to me and made plane tickets super cheap. SOOO I jumped on my laptop and booked my ticket right away. And another plus to this January trip is that my best friend's birthday happened to be January 27th, so it's all good to take a 3 week vacation for a wedding and birthday right? LOL. So anyways, long story short, I went to the wedding, had a fun birthday, we first met, but we didn't remember each other, and I went home to California.
Then another friend called and he was getting married in July, so, of course, I had to go back to the 808. And I was just in time to see the canoes from the Pacific pull into Hawaii. Meeting #2. AND STILL DIDN'T REMEMBER EACH OTHER. Or at least I didn't.
So since we obviously couldn't get it together, Heavenly Father decided to step in by using someone  by the name of Randy Kelemeti. You see, Randy grew up with David, and Randy went to BYUH with me during my last 2 years at school there, and he was inspired to think that we would be a great fit. Neither one of us was too keen to the idea, but what could it hurt right? So we became Facebook friends. I know I know. FACEBOOK! REALLY?! But hey, that's what modern technology is for right? To connect more people. So chats turned into messages, and messages turned into conversations, and conversations turned into friends.
Then Heavenly Father decided we were taking a little too long and opened up one more opportunity for us to meet in September. My mom and I took a trip back to Hawaii for a conference for a week, and David and I decided that it was time to finally meet. So we met up once to hang out, and it lasted a whole 20 minutes. He got nervous. So we tried round 2 about 3 days later. That lasted a little longer. We talked for hours and had a great night. I even got a foot massage out of it. Unfortunately, this was one of my shorter trips and I left 2 days later, but the bug had been planted. After that we stepped it up to texting, phone calls, and even Skype.
Things went well, so well in fact that that a mere 4 months later, January 2012, David was making his first trip out to San Diego, and we got engaged. February I moved back to Hawaii, and July 6, 2012 we started our eternity together.

We have now been married 10 months, and I don't know what I would do without this man in my life. David is studying Political science now at BYUH, and has already earned his Peace Building Certificate. With any luck he'll be done by December. I am so proud of him. I am working full time to support him in his academic endeavors as the Coordinator for TVA (Temple View Apartments), the apartments where we live. Yes we have had our fights, and life hasn't been sea breezes and sunny days, but I wouldn't have this any other way. I love this man with all my heart, and am so glad that Heavenly Father saw fit to let me spend eternity with him. He has the patience to deal with me in all my moods and qwerks. He also helps me to see so many things in a different light. We may be weird, we may be anti social sometimes, and we may not always have it together, but that's okay. We are the Ravia's.

PS. The 20 minute thing, not my fault...I am a pour college student that don't know any place to go to apart from Campus and PCC...I did make it up a few days later...foot massages really made things work out - DR