2000: Started attending school at Utah State after living in a Utah for a year to get "in state" tuition. Also waiting for a missionary to get home and figured school will help me stay focused. That fall I met the man that would turn my life, as I had planned, upside down! Enter Scott! He was extremely good looking, strong, fun, athletic, a great dancer, great cook, and we found quickly that we had a lot in common....as friends. We kept more of a brother/sister relationship with a lot of dancing and hanging out. 
2001: Started officially dating Scott with more of a "hot and cold" relationship. By May he was leaving to California to sell APEX home security systems for the summer. Decided this would make or break our relationship. Three hours was all it took! He flew me out to California in June to meet the family and propose at "Lover's Point" just days before my 20th birthday. We had a three month engagement and saw eachother maybe three times that summer. We had a big phone bill :) Married August 31st in the Logan Temple. Went on our honeymoon to Jackson Hole. Enjoyed being Newlyweds and our first Christmas together in California.
2002: Living in Logan still going to Utah State and loving the married life! I started working for a dentist and put Scott through School. Scott graduates with a degree in Exercise Science. Dealing with Scott's law suit that took place before we got married and paying huge amounts of money to lawyers. Scott starts working for Primerica and commutes to Salt Lake six days a week. 2003: Scott quits Primerica and becomes an independent agent. Lots of tests and licensing. He get's tired of the long commute and we buy our first home, a condo in Centerville. I start working for a micro biology company in Salt Lake called OmniLytics as their office manager. Find out we are expecting our first baby due in June! Buy our first rental property in West Valley, fix it up and put renters in.
2004: Tennessee Scott Nichols is born on June 6th!! He's soo cute and fun! I quit work and become a full-time mama! Scott getting more and more familiar with the insurance world and takes on the challenge of being sole provider for the family! Move to Layton when Tennessee is 2 months old to our first REAL home! Rent out our condo in Centerville. Scott competes in his first triathlon and is hooked. Expensive hobby for years to follow :)
2005: Scott's law suit is settled after years of lawyers and courts. Now just have to pay off Laura and lawyers. Go to San Diego for Britney's wedding and visit Sea World. Find out we are expecting baby number two! Buy two rental properties in South Ogden. I start teaching Hawaiian dancing to the local girls in our neighborhood and love it! Exciting to be dancing again!
2006: A beautiful daughter, Adalie Mae Nichols, arrives on March 28th. Grandma Nichols takes the entire Nichols family on an AMAZING church history vacation. Started in St. Louis and traveled to Nauvoo, Kirkland, Palmyra, and finished by visiting Niagra Falls and Canada. Thanks Grandma! Officially bought our Layton home. Little Grandma Child passes away.
2007: Very, Very blessed year! Scott rolls his car in a muddy ditch west of Ogden and luckily surrives with only a few scratches. Four days later (April, Friday the 13th) Addie almost drowns in the bathtub. Scott does CPR and brings her back. After a night at Primary Children's she is fine! Cherish our little family even more!! Sold our condo in Centerville and got rid of one home in South Ogden. Tennessee gets his front four teeth crowned. Sold our Layton home and make our hardest move yet to South Ogden. Made so many great friends in Layton and tough decision to move into one of our rental properties. Begin the long process of fixing up the home. Tennessee starts tumbling. My dad, Grandpa Child, goes into the hospital to remove a tumor from his lung. After many complications and being in and out of the hospital Grandpa passes away on December 15th just a week and a half after Sam returns from serving his mission to Honduras. Realize even more that family is all that really matters.
2008: Find out we are expecting baby number 3 in October. Grandma Snyder passes away and we make a trip to California for the funeral. Decide to stop teaching hula in May so I can focus on my family and the new baby in the fall. Start doing a neighborhood preschool with Tennessee that I LOVE! Tennessee starts playing soccer and we find out what it's like to have Scott coach a sport he never played. A handsome little boy, Parker Ammon Nichols, is born October 19th. 
2009: Take a family vacation to Sea World and Disneyland with Grandma and Charitie and our good friends the Terry's. Tennessee finishes soccer and plays T-ball. Tennessee and Addie take swimming lessons from a neighbor and love all the summertime activities. Attend my 10 year high school reunion...yikes! Tennessee starts Kindergarten and looses his first tooth. Do the neighborhood preschool with Addie. Tennessee goes back to tumbling and loves it. Starting to work on back handsprings. Addie starts ballet and tap which she loves. Had her first performance and loved being on the stage, not shy at all. Asks daily when she can dance on the stage again. Parker is full of mischief and loves chasing his siblings around. My brother Sam lived with us for 8 months. Became a part of the family and now we are all having withdrawals since he went back to BYU Idaho.
