My journey

My name is Alexie Gubler Nelson and I am addicted to chocolate :) I grew up in a family of 7. Two brothers, two sisters, and my parents. Now our family of 7 has grown to 9 as I got married and then my older brother followed shortly after. We grew up in the small town of La Verkin surrounded by family, no seriously, the Gublers basically run the town of La Verkin! Which made it kind of difficult to find guys to date ;) I will admit that I had a super small crush on a guy many years ago then I found out we were related. That's how small town it was. Anyway, I was and still am a super introverted kind of girl and usually only had about 3 or 4 close friends that I could easily confide in and that was ok with me. I grew up like any other girl, doing the kind of things kids do. Some of my favorite memories are the ones where I'm building forts and tree houses, rollerblading, or playing night games with the other kids in town. Such simple things brought us close and made us smile :) Once high school began, things took a turn to the akward side. Braces, acne, bad hair, ugh... Not my best years :) but I still had good friends and the most loving family so it wasn't too bad. I also started my first job as a freshman which I kept for the next 6 years. My life focused on work, school, and my silly boy problems... The average teenage girl life right? As I got older I started to feel a lot more comfortable with how I looked and I think it showed. Then, just as I was starting to come into my own... graduation! Now I would have to start all over again in college! Well the summer before school came and went too fast as it always did and school began again. And with school came my first real boyfriend! But no it wasn't with a new guy I had just met, instead it was with one of my oldest and dearest friends :) we dated for around 8 months and then things ended right as summer was about to start. Ya I was a bit heartbroken but hey it was my first bf and he was a special guy to me. Well during that summer, me and my old bestie decided that we wanted some adventure so we made the plans to move out! We moved to the "big city" (Saint George) and found ourselves with four more great girls. This was definitely the start of the new Alexie. I decided that I was going to try to be the fun girl that took chances and had a good time! Woohoo college! I hung out with new people and tried new things and actually tried to flirt with guys, which was light years away from my comfort zone. Well I definitely had the chance to be around some awesome guys because I was called to be the family home evening "mom" in my singles ward... Score! That is where I got to know Joseph Nelson. I had seen him around before at our aparment complex and he seemed nice but we never really officially met until FHE. It was so bizarre that a guy I liked was actually attracted to me as well! Well with some well placed hints thanks to one of my room mates, Joseph and I finally got the chance to hang out... In Vegas! Long story short, we dated for about two months and then got engaged on new years of 2011 right after the fireworks :) the date was set for April 9th. Which brings us to the present basically. We've been happily married for almost 7 months now and we keep looking forward and making plans for the future :) and that is me. My name is Alexie Nelson and I am Loving Life Endlessly.