the date

today marks one of three momentous occasions in me and brett's new life together. 2 years ago today brett and i went on our FIRST DATE. it always feels wonderful thinking about when we first met and our first date. here's what went down that fateful night i met brett. it was the beginning of winter semester, january 2008 on a thursday night. my roommate rachel was then dating brett's roommate brandon. i went over to brandon's apt with rachel to play games, thinking i had already met brandon's roomies, i went over feeling like i have no need to impress anyone i wore something similar to this outfit and these EXACT colors...

also with NO MAKEUP!

how heinous is that? but there he was, sitting at the counter in his cute polo shirt and jeans. (thinking to myself, "well i've never met this one before!") i fell in love with his eyes and with how genuinely sweet he was, it also helped that he had the british version of the office :) he also tried to help me cheat at dominos...so i left their apt thinking that a person like brett couldn't ever be interested in me especially when his first sight of me was when i was dressed like a clown on crack.

then the phone call came that saturday morning. brett called me and asked me out to bowling and dinner that night. usually when a boy asks me out for bowling i say no! i really suck at bowling and think that its sort of a lame date idea. but when brett asked me i couldn't say no to a cute boy! i wouldn't care even if he had asked me to play baseball in the snow, eh maybe i would say no. jk.

anyways, we went out that night and we ended up double dating with another one of my roommate and his roommate. bowling with brett was great, he made it fun and memorable and dinner was even more amazing. yeah we just went to one of rexburg's finest restaurants, applebees, but when i go on dates i examine how the date is going. is he just going on about some random crap? are there lots of awkward moments? those are deal breakers with me. but that night with brett, he didn't do either. we talked and ate the whole time. absolutely no awkward moments and we asked and answered each other's questions about each other. such a magical night. brett definitely got 2 thumbs up for the date. the night came and went, i REALLY wanted to go out with him again. so i asked rachel to tell brandon to tell brett that i liked him and wanted to go out with him again. and the rest is history. brett was a single man for just a few days at byu-idaho. it was also his first semester there.

i later asked brett how the heck did he like me when i was dressed in such bad 80's colors? he said he overlooked all of that and he said he thought my face was pretty. i married such a darling boy. he's pushes me to be a better person even when i'm being stubborn. he's also helped me to dress a WHOLE lot better too! :) i'm grateful that he never gives up on me and that he has such a strong love for the gospel.

this was from one of our early dates. snowboarding. that was one of the funnest things i've ever done in my life! also that night was when brett kissed me the first time! i'm feeling SUPER giddy right now reminiscing about all this. we've had such happy memories and we'll have tons more in the future.

stay tuned for when our engagement night comes!

♥