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This one is for Marisa and for anyone else that wants to read it.

1. Where did you meet your spouse?

Okay this is the interesting one. Paul says that he met is spouse at a mission reunion party. He met Sarah Garber during his mission. I think that I Sarah Garber would have to say the same thing. I do remember that at the party when I walked in the door he said hello and gave me a hug like he did to the rest of the missionaries. Having been home for only 3 weeks I was pretty shocked to be hugged by a boy. I called him Elder and he corrected me, kindly reminding me that we weren't missionaries and were now on a first name basis. His hair was different (of course I would notice that) and was super hot the first time I saw him off the mission. If you really are interested where we met on the mission it was in a house that the newly transferred Elders had moved into and he as the zone leader was coming to meet them and make sure that they had found it and had everything settled. My companion took me over there to meet the Elders that were going to be in the same area as us. I saw him and thought that he had poofy hair (the hair again, I know) and looked really young. It's amazing what 2 months home from a mission can do.

2. What was the first thing that you said to your spouse?
Hey Elder Hirschi. How are you?

3. Where was your first date?

Paul asked me out about a week after the party and I was ecstatic. He didn't have a car so I drove over to his apartment and we were trying to find a date for his roommate so that he could come with us. They called almost every girl in the ward till one finally said that she would go. We first went ice skating and as I tripped and stumbled all night apologizing every time I used Paul to stable myself, he finally said, "Sarah, it's okay. We aren't missionaries anymore." He also confessed to me that he wanted to me to help him skate backwards so that he could hold my hand. It was flattering and I didn't mind either. After that we went to Red Robin for dinner and then we went to his apartment to watch a movie. That is when the sparks really started to fly and he held my hand to the first time. Butterflies in the stomach just went crazy. Afterwards he walked me out to my car and gave me a hug and was wishing for a kiss, but there was no such luck. (that actually came the next day after a fireside) I drove home on cloud 9.

4. Where was your first kiss?

Well on the lips. Okay, that isn't what you meant, but I just had to say it. Paul and I had our first date on March 10, 2001 and the next day we went to a fireside and afterwards he came to my house to "talk" and as we were talking, sitting on the couch, he looked at me and said," If I told you my name was Hirschi would you kiss me?" Well, that took me off guard and I said that first thing that popped into my mind,"maybe." Then I turned around to him and said that same thing and got the same answer that I had given. Then he kissed me. My sister always says that trumpet players make the best kissers. She was right. Thanks for being a trumpet player Paul.

5. Who said "I love you" first?

It was I, Sarah, that said it first. It was more of a confession that I was falling "in Love" with him more than just loving him. I didn't remember what he said, but Paul just said that he remembers saying,"Oh, that's nice." I must have blocked that out. He went out of town that weekend and when he came back he said that he was falling in love with me as well. Oh, the joy I felt. Cloud 9 once again. I was smitten and knew that I was going to marry that boy.

6. Did you have a long or short courtship/engagement?

All I have to say is yes. We started to date in March and were engaged by May and were married in August. By the time I was married I had been home 6 months from my mission and he had been home 8. Our engagement was 3 months. For an engaged LDS couple I wouldn't recommend much longer than that.

7. Where did you get engaged?

When I was in High School my friends and I would go over to the park behind Bon Losee in Provo and walk a long the path and dream about the day that we would get engaged and all about how it was going to happen and we even picked out the perfect spots a long that path where it was going to take place. Silly, I know, but we were in High School. So as I was dating Paul in one of many long talks I told him about that and then didn't think anymore about it. I had picked out the ring that I wanted and we had to special order it. Well little did I know Paul was planning something from that moment on and called the jewelers before we went and told them to tell me that the ring would be ready a week later than it really was. (did you catch all that?) So needless to say he picked up the ring a week before I thought it was going to be done. He had been telling me that he was going to surprise me and do something special. I wore another ring on my left finger and told him that he could purpose with that one if he wanted to. Well, one day flowers came to work and he told me to dress up and sent me on a scavenger hunt that had flowers at every place and I ended up at the park behind Bon Losee. Paul was there with the little civic on the lawn with the song "Yellow" by coldplay playing on the stereo with the doors open he was standing there with a grin on his face and flowers in his hands. He took my hand and told me how much he loved me and wanted to spend the rest of eternity with me and then he said, " I don't know how to do this. Do I take out the ring?" He reached in one pocket and took out a box and opened it to reveal the ring that I always wore. I was so happy at that point I really didn't care what ring I had. Then he put it down and got down on one knee and said, reaching into the other pocket," Or do I pull out this ring and give it to you." To my surprise he pulled out the ring that we had picked and put it on my finger and he asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes and jumped up and down as I hugged him saying yes over and over again. I remember thinking that it was too good to be true. I felt like the luckiest woman alive and still do. I came home from my mission praying for a friend and Heavenly Father had given me a husband. Paul is more than a blessing. He is my best friend and I am totally and utterly in Love with him.

8. Where were you married?

We were married in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple on a beautiful summer morning August 16, 2001. The weather was perfect and we were married at 9:00 am. The spirit was amazingly strong and I remember sitting with him in the celestial room all alone (the room was empty) and just thanking Heavenly Father for sending him to me. One thing I remember was Paul's smile and thinking about how it will be to be with him forever.

9. How did your reception go?

It was so much fun. It was like a mission reunion. We had it in an older church down the street from the Provo tabernacle and it was beautiful. A couple things that I always wanted to do was throw my bouquet from a balcony, don't know why, and go in an airplane to where ever we went on our honeymoon. I was able to do both.

10. Where was the honeymoon?

Our wedding night we stayed at the Hines Mansion in Provo and then we took a place to Washington state where we stayed in Paul's parents carriage house that was brand new back then while his parents stayed in Federal Way where they lived. We were going to take a ferry to Vancouver, BC, but a couple of days after we arrived I got a kidney infection and had to stay in bed for a couple of days. So before the Open house in Federal Way we were able to go to a Seattle Mariners baseball game. It was the first major league baseball game that I had ever been to.

11. If you could have changed anything about your day what would it have been?

I would not have changed anything about the day itself. It was really and truly perfect. Everything went smooth. There are only 2 things that I would have changed and that would be that I wish that I had my hair professionally done, but Paul loved it anyway and I wish that I had bought my dress instead of having it made. Those are the only things.

So Maris I don't know if copying your same questionare was what you wanted me to do, but it was fun to think about it again especially since I am staying in WA in the carriage house this week where we spent our honeymoon 6 years earlier and without the 2 little kiddies. I am so glad that that day has changed my life for good forever and it is something that I will never forget. I love my Paul with all my heart and still feel that he is too good to be true, yet six years later here we are and loving every minute of our time together.