The Team

How Team Beardshall began……

I was working at a bank when I decided, with a co worker, that our groups of friends should hang out. It just so happened that we had a sleepover scheduled that weekend (yes, I still had sleepovers with my friends. Ha, so there!) So the stars aligned and we planned on getting together that weekend.

We all met at my friend Holly’s house. I just so happened to be late, for whatever reason. But was pleasantly surprised when I opened the door and I was greeted by Steve stating, “I think I know you.” Huh? Strangely enough, there was something familiar about him.

As the night progressed we played silent football. I could not tell you for the life of me how to play but it’s a game of dares. Fate had it in for us I guess because our night ended with me giving Steve a raspberry…how romantic!

They all left and about 10 minutes later we heard rocks hitting the window. When we opened the door, Steve and Davis were standing there. Steve proceeded to tell us that they would be stupid not to get cute girls numbers. Nicole was the scribe. I’m pretty sure, if I remember correctly, she wrote all the numbers down wrong except one. Can’t quite remember who’s it was but we were called about 15 minutes later and invited to Denny’s. Who could resist late night carb loading??? We were all in.

By the time we left Steve and I had a date set up for the following night.

I don’t know who wouldn’t be impressed but we only spent 5$ on our first date (not much has changed…I kid, I kid). We went to the 0.50 cent movie night at the Sandy dollar theater, and shared a waffle at the Belgin Waffle Inn. I was totally hooked after that, who wouldn’t be?

A few months later I left for Hawaii for school for the summer. It was fun having a pen pal. Steve was always so cleaver sending us fun stuff to enjoy….mix CDs, 7-11 gift cards for slurpies (which we had to take an hour bus ride to get!!!), I even got a T-Shirt with his face plastered across the front. I think I took for granted the fact that Steve was such a trooper staying up until 3 to talk to me, and working super hard through the summer. Let’s face it people…I was in Hawaii taking one class and eating at the PCC (Polynesian Cultural Center) every night!

It’s kind of weird getting to know someone via emails and phone calls. You almost think that it would be weird to see each other face to face. But it wasn’t. I got home and it was like I never left…we picked up right where we left off. We had a blast for the rest of the summer.

On Aug 5^th Steve decided to pop the ol’ question. We relived our first date and went to all the places that were special to us. We were married in December 2003 after the semester ended.

I was so interesting to me all the time leading up to marriage how many negative things I heard about it all…. “Just wait until you’ve been married a year” “Just wait until the honeymoon is over” “What’s the point”

I am here to tell you that getting married to Steve is the single greatest thing I have ever done for myself. Being married is the most rip roaring, fly by the seat of your pants, blast of a time I could have ever have imagined. In fact, it’s more than I imagined it could be. We are always on the go doing things that we feel are fun and important to us. People that I meet still think that we are newlyweds.


We drafted a new player for Team Beardshall in November of 2008 named Katy. Being parents has been such a joy. Even though we were totally ready to have Katy when we did (5 years after we were married), we were sure missing out for the years we didn't have her! We are expecting to add a new player in April or May of this year and can't wait to see what that will have us in store for. 


Last updated Feb 2012