Fransen Facts

I've decided to do what I so cleverly call "Fransen Facts". I will post a random tidbit of information about Austin or myself (or both), because I know everyone really wants to know more about us. At least I assume you do if you're making the journey all the way over to this blog! So, the Fransen Fact of today is............

HOW WE MET!

1. Step One. It all began back when some good friends of mine convinced me to move to The Ivy apartments in Rexburg. It actually began when I decided NOT to transfer to BYU Provo even after I had been planning on it ever since I started attending BYU-I and had been accepted for Fall 2012 (which ended up being the semester I moved to The Ivy).
2. Step Two. Austin served a mission in Oklahoma City. GO THUNDER! He was the best missionary ever and made some awesome missionary friends. One of the best missionary friends happened to be an Elder Jesse Timoteo.
3. Step Three. I call these steps, but they didn't quite happen chronologically. I moved to The Ivy while Austin was on his mission. My first semester living there I happened to be in the same ward as Jesse Timoteo who thought I was pretty cool for having a brother who was a video game programmer for the Madden Football games. Needless to say, our friendship flourished.
4. Step Four. In the beginning of February 2013 Jesse tells us he will miss whatever Sunday festivities we were having that day to attend the missionary homecoming in Idaho Falls for one of the Elders he knew from his mission who had just gotten back. Lame. 
5. Step Five. It's a gloomy Valentine's Day (and I'm not just talking about the weather!) when Jesse says some of his mission friends are up in Rexburg visiting. I had just gotten home from teaching ballet classes. I was exhausted and wanted to see no one. Jesse said they were going to come over anyway because the recent RM's "needed to learn some dance moves"....(I found out later that Jesse had been showing Austin my pictures on facebook and our Obama Dance video we made for our ward talent show the previous semester and he wanted to meet me :) I, jokingly, said I liked fresh meat, and so they came over. We met, it was pretty awkward, Jesse played "Call Me Maybe" on his phone (which ended up being our wedding song later--the Boyce Avenue version, not Carly Rae). Finally, and after much prodding, Austin asked me if I wanted to do something that weekend. I proceeded to put my number in his phone, and then they left. 
6. Step Six. We went on our first date, fell in love pretty immediately, got married, etc. But more on that later.

(This is the first time Jesse and I officially met. He was so excited to meet me that he Instagrammed it)

*Fun fact: Austin would later move into this very apartment*

-October 2012-

(This is Jesse actually meeting his hero: my brother, Jacob. The ultimate maker of Madden Football games. This was at our wedding in San Diego)

-December 2013-

(Austin's mission homecoming that Jesse went to. If only I had known then what I know now...I would have gone with him!)

*Fun fact: Mark Linford (to the left of Austin) also served in the Oklahoma city mission with Austin and Jesse.*

-February 2013-



If you'd like to watch the Obama Works it in Rexburg video I mentioned, here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RreGQgi9PsE