Casey Lock Look Loock and Alisha Aleisha Malisha Lock Look Loock

Pictures of us while we were dating

Our third date. He came to Logan, I made him dinner and we watched a movie. First kiss date! :)

That's right. We're crazy.

That's right. Our last name is a confusing one for people to pronounce. Is it Lock? Is it Look? Alas! It is neither. :) For all the confused faces out there, it is pronounced Luke. Ah-ha! Well now this makes it even worse for me. Is it Aleisha Lock? Malisha Look? Nope, A-LISH(like fish)-A LOOOOOOOCK. :) I was told before I married Casey that I'd be called Alisha Lock or Look. I thought, "Great now both my names will be hashed." Indeed they have. :) Good thing I'm used to it. :)

All my life I've been called Aleisha, Alissa, Melissa, Ashley, Alison, and many more. But my favorite yet is Malisha. :) It happened when I went to a friend's apartment and some guy visiting asked me my name. I guess I didn't pronunciate it well enough when I said, "I'm Alisha." Instead he thought I said, "I. Malisha." :) Easy and understandable mistake...but really? :)

All Casey's life he's been called Casey Lock or Look. Now he married an Aleisha, Alissa, Malisha Lock or Look. You take your pick. It's a hard life. :P But you get used to it. :)

Well now that we got that out of the way, and you can pronounce our names, I'll tell our story. :)

Let me begin by saying that both Casey and I felt as though we would never get married. For Casey dating had become a joke. For me, I didn't date enough for it to be anything. :) Casey would be a man and actually asked girls on dates, but to no avail. I just never went on dates. :) Family and friends would try and talk me into going online. Bahahahahahahaha! That was usually my response. :) I would have rather chewed my arm off than to resort to online dating. I thought it was the best way to show desperation. No thank you!!! :) Casey would have the same response to those who encouraged him to do that as well.

We both went through moments in our single-hood-ness-ship (a John Bytheway word) where we felt hopeless. Marriage was just a dream. For me even dating was a dream. :) We both had our low points where we just wanted to give up. I went through phases where I was doing great, loving single life, and other times I wanted to throw-up if I heard of another couple getting engaged...whether I knew them or not. Sadly, it wasn't until I was nearly 27 when I started to really let go and not care. I'm not sure when it was for Casey.

A week before I turned 27, in Dec. 2010, I was talking to my brother, Tory, online. I was venting my frustrations to him as I often did with him about guys and how it felt as though everyone looked past me. He told me I should get on LDSsingles. This was probably the 30th time I had been told that. :) He told me he was going to create a profile for me. I had remembered that probably a year before that I had created one but hadn't done anything with it. You had to pay to get any messages from anyone...so it was pretty pointless to have it on there without paying....and at the time I wasn't about to pay for it. :)

I guess curiosity got to me because I decided to update it and put information about myself and pay for a month just as a trial run. It proved to be a very good decision. I attribute the credit to Tory. :)

Casey had been online for about a year or so after HIS brother had talked him into getting into online dating. He had been on a couple different sites, but was also on LDSsingles. He had had no luck. He had decided that if nothing had happened by the end of the year (2010) that he was going to be done.

I went down to St. George to my parents for Christmas. While I was there some guy started really talking to me. He lived in Provo and was from Spain. He was very creepy. He just wanted to meet me to make out with me. Uh, yeah, not happening. I told my parents that I was going to get off because that was the very thing I was afraid of. I stopped talking to him.

On the site there is a little personality test type thing you can take that will match you up with others that had similar answers. Both Casey and I had taken the little test. On the 26th of Dec. 2010, Casey got online and there my picture was along with a couple other girls. We were potential matches according to our tests. According to Casey, he saw my picture and thought, wow! I'd really like to know her. :) He had been talking to a couple of other girls...and some of the girls he'd send a little "hi" to and would never get a response. He thought he'd at least say hi to me. So he sent the "flirt." I got it and sent a "hi" flirt back. The rest, I guess you could say, is history. :)

We started talking. I noticed right away how sweet he was and how I felt. There was no uneasiness like there was with the other guy that had been talking to me. I had asked Casey through our correspondence via LDSsingles and Facebook what kind of girl he was looking for. He described...pretty much me. :) Then he asked the same thing. I described...pretty much him. His response to what I was looking for was, "I am really close on this." :) My mom sure thought that was cute.

It didn't take long for us to fall in love. We started officially talking on the 27th of December and corresponded everyday through FB or LDSsingles. He had asked me for my phone number, but it took him forever to call me. I had to keep hinting that I wanted him to call me. :) Finally when he did I had a nasty cold and had taken Nyquil and was out! Blasted colds ruin everything! :)

He finally got me on the phone. :) I was always impressed with him when we'd talk on the phone. He was always so respectful. I could tell he had been taught very well by his dad how to treat women...and I love that. He would always say how he never wanted to face Heavenly Father knowing he had hurt one of His precious daughters...so he always tried to be respectful. Yup, he's a keeper! :)

On January 8th, 2011 was our first date...and our first time meeting in person. I was living in Logan at the time and he in Layton. The Logan Temple was closed and so I got my little brain a-going! I really wanted to meet Casey but I wanted it to be a safe place. I had the idea to invite him to do a session at the Ogden temple with me. I knew that one, he wouldn't try and hurt me or try anything sneaky and two, I knew if he agreed to go that he had a temple recommend. When I asked him he said he'd love to! I was happy about that. It told me a lot about him.

We met in the waiting room of the Ogden Temple. I was soooo nervous. He had gotten there early...way early...so he was waiting for me. I walked in and he stood up. Ok, I knew he was 6'4", but when he stood I suddenly shrunk. :) The first thing he did when I walked in was wink at me. Seriously all a guy has to do to melt my heart is wink at me. He had me right then and there. :) THE WHOLE TIME we were together that day he looked at me in a way that made me feel like I was the only thing that mattered. I will never forget the way he looked at me and the way it made me feel. I felt so special. More special than I had ever felt.

In the Celestial Room we sat on the couch. I was still nervous. I barely met this guy, said maybe ten words to him and now I'm sitting in the Celestial Room of the temple with nothing coming to my mind to say to him. "Nice session.", "You look good in white.", "Let's get married." :) I could tell he was super nervous too. But it felt so comfortable being with him. We talked about how we'd both never done the temple thing on a date before....and before you know it...we're holding hands!!!!!! What!? :) Weird thing was, it felt so right. :)

After the temple we went and had lunch and then departed ways. The whole drive home I couldn't stop thinking about him...or stop smiling. :) I knew this was going to be the start of something great....and it was.

On March 6, 2011 Casey proposed. And that's for another day. :)