About Us

A story.
Boy meets girl...on the internet. On January 13, 2012, boy writes a brief message to girl going something like, "hey look at that, a Mormon and a musician!" Girl looks at boy's profile on the okcupid dating website and is intrigued. Girl thinks boy is cute, seems funny, and is impressed at his ability to properly punctuate his self-descriptions. Girl writes another quick message back to boy, stating she never claimed to be a musician, but queries why it would be so noteworthy in a female Mormon anyway? Boy and girl go back and forth that night with what they like to think of as witty repertoire, and the boy eventually asks the girl on a date. She accepts immediately. Boy asks girl, "oh, by the way, what is your name?" Girl tells boy that it is Melanie. Boy tells Melanie her name is pretty and is glad it isn't something like, say, Susan. Then he tells Melanie that his name is David. Melanie already knew this, since his screen name was David11011.


January 17: David and Melanie meet at Appleebee's for their first date. Dinner proves to be an inadequate length of time, so the two go to the Karcher Mall to play foosball, pool, and air hockey. Melanie beats David at two of the three games. This pattern will prove to hold fast for, most likely, forever. David will be bitter about it.
The night is still young, so David and Melanie decide to look up what movies are playing. Sitting on a bench in the mall, Melanie checks out her Fandango app on her phone. David wants to see too, so scoots up nice and close. Melanie hopes David didn't notice her brief stutter as his leg touches hers, causing a loss of focus on the words she was speaking.
Sherlock Holmes was probably a good movie. But David and Melanie can't really tell you what it was about, they just know it was one of the most enjoyable movies they'd ever sat through.
The date ends with a goodbye hug. Melanie maintains that David hugged funny, almost like an awkward chest bump. David is embarrassed by this.

January 21: The second date starts with another chest-leading hug by David. Then they drive up to Bogus Basin to snowboard/ski.  (Don't worry, Melanie skiied, David would never do something so...lacking in cool.) The conversation is comfortable and fun, easy, like they'd known each other for much longer than half a week.
They take their first pictures together.

Then they go to David's house where he makes Melanie swoon by singing and playing the piano and guitar for her. Melanie still swoons when David plays the piano and/or guitar and sings for her.
A Harry Potter movie marathon, that would roll over into their marriage, begins that night.
Melanie gets happy butterflies when David holds her hand, for the first time, during the movie.
David doesn't kiss Melanie tonight because kissing on the second date is just too soon. Right? *sigh*
But tonight, the hug goodbye is normal, and has henceforth been without the chest boppiness. (Except for when David is being obnoxious.)

January 22: Melanie wante an excuse to see David, so invites him to play games with her and her brother and sister in law. He accepts the invite, and they have a grand time, especially when they go back to Melanie's (parents') house where they finally share their first kiss. (It seemed like finally, okay?!) And you will never be able to prove that a first kiss has ever been better.

February 21: David and Melanie feel like they've known each other forever, and want to know each other forever. So David proposes to Melanie with an exciting scavenger hunt that takes her around Caldwell.

Melanie definitely says yes.

March 8: Melanie becomes a Poston, and the happiest woman in the world.

March 12: David and Melanie return from their honeymoon and enter reality again. Reality is that they now have a family with four crazy kids, ages five and under, who need time and patience as they adjust to big life changes. They have a new house that needs to be unpacked. They have a multitude of new expenses, bills, needs, demands that all need immediate attention. They have a sleep deficit from their late nights of dating that for some reason is only growing, rather than shrinking, like they had naively envisioned. They have lists of things to do that can't even be made until the more important lists of things to do get done. In short, they have marital bliss that they wouldn't trade for anything.

This blog is to take you on our journey, to share our laughs, to make fun of our mistakes, to prove that true happiness comes when your focus is on the family.