If meeting my parents and visiting my home made the list of significant events I think it only fitting that meeting his parents and seeing his home was included as well. Except he sent me to Europe all by myself to try to make a good impression on (and communicate with his Polish speaking) family. I can’t complain too much though about him not coming with because it’s where these images were taken by my mom, Denise Andersen, and I can’t imagine That Fiance would have been very excited about our 2 AM photo shoot in front of the Coliseum.

The trip was proposed (and paid for) by my wonderful parents who felt it was important for me to visit Poland before marrying someone who was so open-minded about moving to Europe, and maybe even Poland, eventually.

I had the chance to meet That SIL and her boyfriend (now fiance as they are getting married next Fall!) and had a great time with them. They’re really cute together and are always off on these fantastic adventures throughout Europe.

I had actually met TH’s parents once before, a year previous when they came to Utah for this graduation from BYU. TH and I weren’t dating yet so the meeting was just a few seconds, literally “hi” and “bye”, but they seemed nice and later TH confided to me that I made a good impression. Actually TH revealed that his mom told him “You two are going to start dating soon.” Good mothers intuition, don’t you think?

I was definitely nervous for this trip, but only because I wasn’t sure how I would communicate with my future MIL. She doesn’t speak English and I wanted to make a good impression on her and convey to her that I intended to treat her only son right and love him forever (cheesy I know, but true). Future FIL and SIL did a wonderful job translating between future MIL and myself and the visit went fabulously. His family has always done an amazing job of conveying how much they like me and wanted me to marry TH, which really means a lot. Now that we’re married and I’m blogging so transparently about my life and ieads each day, and will shortly begin raising their grandchildren in my very opinionated ways they might not be as sure, but what can ya do?

If you are wanting to read more about our trip to Rome and Poland you can find my daily summaries of our 12 day adventure here.

Also:

• The 1st Anniversary
• From Those Friends to That Couple: Proposal in Puerto Vallarta
• From Those Friends to That Couple: Engagement in March