Hunt & Peterson: A History

It all started with this little lady named Molly Hyer.

This is a picture of Molly and Talese at Molly's June 2007 wedding, but believe it or not, Molly and I met when she moved to Utah during the dark ages, aka middle school (Albion Middle School to be more precise). Though Molly spent her time playing sports while I was in dance class, she was in the same ward as my dancing friend, Alyssa Dial, so we maintained contact despite our different past times. She always did crack me up. After a separation during high school and college, we reunited on the treadmills at Lifestyles 2000 on Van Winkle Blvd in 2003. I needed a new hair stylist, Molly happened to be one, plus she always did crack me up. In March of 2005, Molly moved in with me and my roommate, Sarah Lovett.
Enter: Marcus Patterson

Marcus Patterson (pictured above celebrating his 31st birthday in August 2007) met Molly Hyer at BYU while visiting his sister Julia, who happened to be Molly's roommate. As Marcus is known to do, he spent a lot of time hanging out at their place, so Molly and Marcus became friends. In January of 2005, Marcus (now working at Grand Targhee) paid a weekend visit to Molly (now living with Talese in Salt Lake City), who brought along Talese. Both Talese and Marcus were recently divorced, so they found a lot to talk about and a beautiful friendship was formed. In May, Marcus moved back to Provo, and spent most nights on the couch in his friends' condo. A condo that also happened to house:
Gregory Hunt.

Marcus and Greg hit it off quickly, and when Marcus admitted to Greg that he indeed had a "man crush" on Greg, another beautiful friendship was formed. In August of 2005, Marcus phoned Talese to invite her and her friends "80's dancing" with his Provo crowd (Greg included) at Area 51 in Salt Lake City. And that night, Greg and Talese met. "Wait a minute, this was in 2005?", you might be asking yourself. Yes, it's true. The sparks didn't fly immediately between Greg and Talese. Though Talese has recently admitted that her interest was piqued that night (or possibly even days before while browsing through Marcus' "friends" on LDSlinkup.com--I mean, how could she resist someone with a username like "Safety Kid" who followed through with handsome photographs, substantial height, a future law degree, and evidential online wit??!!!), Greg has recently admitted he was not impressed with Talese's hairstyle at the time, and his interest, well, wasn't piqued. So, Greg continued his studies at BYU law school, and Talese continued working at East High School, 45 minutes of driving and a history of failed long-distance relationships separating them. Seven months later, to Talese's surprise, Greg showed up to a farewell party for Talese the night before she left to dance on the "Norwegian Sun" cruise ship for 7 1/2 months. A friend snapped this random picture while Greg and Talese were chatting with Talese's friend Camron and her husband Adam. A bit awkward considering Greg and Talese really hadn't spoken much. Ever. Until this night.

Talese returned from her cruise ship adventures in November of 2006, She got an unexpected invitation to join Greg at a Christmas party in December, then after an expected, yet thwarted New Year's Eve kiss, they recovered lost ground on a St. George bluff in January.
They have been together ever since.
And we can build this dream together, standing strong forever, nothing's gonna stop us now.

Wheeler Farm Family Reunion

We've been engaged for just over a week now and have wasted no time in getting to know each other's families. By that I mostly mean that this past weekend I met more of Talese's family than I will probably ever remember names for. Her grandpa really wanted to get everyone together for a big family picture. So, acting on the assumption that neither Talese nor I will catch a frostbite-inducing case of cold feet sometime during the next 5 months, I was invited along as part of the family. We met at Wheeler Farm, took some professional-grade family pictures and then engaged in some revelry, merrymaking, and even some attempted fratricide. Along the way I snapped a few pictures myself. We have yet to see whose turned out better, mine or the "professional."

As proof that it is an actual farm, Talese and Annie enjoy the sights and smells.

Megan made a new friend, unfortunately I didn't catch his name.

Just a beautiful young maiden walking along a scenic country road, enjoying the warm sunshine.

And oh look, the young maiden has found her true love and they are walking hand-in-hand down the path leading to their very bright future.

And here the beautiful young maiden is joined by several members of her family as they search through the grass for the lens to her father's glasses that was sent flying through the air by a poorly-executed, yet powerfully-hit strike of an unnaturally hard volleyball off the right foot of her brother, Brian, that crashed violently into the side of said father's face.

LAGOON!

This past weekend we had a family reunion with Talese's family, as well as her mom's family. We kicked it off in mad style with a trip to Lagoon. As anyone who has ever been to Lagoon can attest, it is impossible to encapsulate the whole experience into mere words. Or even mere words accompanied by amateur photography. So I guess we'll just encapsulate a few small moments and let you imagine the rest.


We're still smiling, so you can tell it's early in the day. This is also right before the stupid Cliffhanger left us completely soaking--a state in which we spent the entire rest of the day--and permanently wiped the smiles off our beautiful faces.

Depicted here you will find Talese, Andrew, Mitchell, Kenton, Abbie, Eliza, and Maren. Play a fun little game and see if you can match up the names with the faces. This is shortly after the Cliffhanger disaster of '07, as evidenced by the general appearance of clothing and footwear being rather wet.

The little kids got M&Ms. The big kids did not. I think you can clearly see who is happiest.


And here we are at the end of the night, still smiling. Our love lifting us up, as on eagle's wings, to mythical lands where hope springs eternal, yet doesn't leave you soaking wet.

We're Engaged!

Here we are, up and running. You can expect updates soon!