Back in November 2014, we were at a YSA stake conference. I knew who Tim was, his family was in my parents' ward, and I knew his younger brothers-ish. Basically, I knew who he was. That's it. I had never talked to him before. But, he came up to me, and introduced himself. I thought it was kinda strange, but didn't think much of it. We are YSA for a reason... why not get to know people? Well, we officially had met, and yup. That's it.
After that, I saw Tim everywhere. Every activity, he made a point to come say "hi" again. Now, at this point, I was very NOT interested. I couldn't tell you why, but I just wasn't. I knew he was a great guy, he was awesome, I just wasn't interested. Friend-zoned. This did not stop Tim!
Little by little, we started hanging out with a big group of friends. He was always there when we had some sort of "party" and invited him. We became better and better friends, but, I was still not interested.
Tim started to ask me on some dates. I had some things going on, and couldn't go, for a long time... and he started realizing I wasn't interested. The invitations stopped for some time, but we continued to be good friends.
Finally, summer of 2015 came around, and we managed to go on a date. We had a fun time! We went out to dinner, and to "As You Wish" to paint some pottery. Smart fella he is, we went on a second date a couple weeks later to pick up our creation. After that, he could tell I really wasn't interested, and left it at that. And I was thankful, I didn't have to tell him no (as I had been thinking, that if he asked me again, I'd have to tell him we should stay just friends).
And, Tim waited patiently. I had gone out on several other dates, and it was all the same. Nope. Nope. Nope. I had some self-reflection time, and changed my idea of how things were going to work out for me. I had the idea that I would go on ONE date, and have a huge YES glowing on the guy's forehead, and THEN I would know he was the right one. I finally became intelligent enough to realize that isn't the case, and I had to try to give some of these guys a chance.
Well, like 2 days later (This is October 2015 now), Tim asks me on another date. I said yes. Now, I don't know what changed in here, but something did. I was a little hesitant at first, but that week waiting for the date, I got more and more excited. By the time our date came along, I was definitely looking forward to it. I had SO much fun with Tim, and all I wanted to do was go on another date with him. I was stuck though.. for SO long, I was dead set against dating Tim. I had no good reason to be against it, I just was. So now, something was changing, and I was confused. All I knew, was that I liked Tim, and that I wanted to be with him again.
The next week, was a busy weekend, and I was bummed we weren't going to be able to go on a date (even if he DID ask me) since we had some friend's doing some things. Luckily for me though, he asked me out to dinner that weekend before going to our friend's house! I think it was at this point, I knew I wanted to date Tim and see what happened. The next day was Halloween, and we went out again. And did stuff the next few days together. A couple weeks later, we knew it was inevitable... and were "officially" dating! Man, I was so happy. Never expected it in a million years, but I was happy :)
On December 24, 2015, Tim proposed. (That's another story for another day!) We will be married on May 14, 2016 in the Gilbert, AZ Temple for time and all eternity. And I am definitely super excited and patiently-ish waiting for the day to arrive.
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| Our first picture together. Halloween night, 2015 |
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