before he arrived...
the girls had a game where i had to answer questions about dalin, (thus testing my knowledge of my future husband). for each question i answered incorrectly, i had to put a piece of double bubble in my mouth. did i do well? well, not going to lie, dalin's answers to a few of those questions totally threw me for a loop. like his favorite movie?! Madagascar 2??!!?! since when??? all in all, i think i remembered more than i thought i knew. i got maybe 5 or 6 wrong. but i can promise that now i will remember those answers!!!
anyway, as the game was coming to a close, courtney and rachel suddenly started to get antsy and began to hurry things along. i was confused about them rushing things all of a sudden. i was thinking we have all the time in the world today, what is going on?? i admit i was totally oblivious that dalin had driven all the way from provo that morning.
in fact, dalin had fed me this stupid story which i was dumb enough to believe...especially since i had known for a fact that he had nothing planned for that saturday--no work, meetings, or anything apart from watching the Wimbledon--so it was incredibly silly of me to not suspect a thing when he told me that someone from his ward randomly came to his door and asked him to go on a service project with them to salt lake. having been cooped up in my room all morning, i was annoyed at first when he told me that he couldn't skype but was easily satiated when he promised to talk to me on the phone on the way to "salt lake." he told me he was in a van with a bunch of others and that his bishop was driving. when i asked why it was so quiet, he said that everyone else was asleep. probably from getting up early on a saturday to do a service project. (okay, am i an idiot because why would every single other person be asleep on the forty minute drive to salt lake??) as dalin listened to some "Motab" he asked if i could hear the bishop blasting it. after a bit, he told me they would be arriving soon, and that he would text me when he could.
so, clearly i am not as observant as i had sort of thought i was. either that or the excitement of my bridal shower was diverting enough to completely blind me to the obvious...
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| pretty ring, pretty rose |
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| juntos :) |
in provo, i stayed with abby billin from thursday night to monday night. staying with her was wonderful--particularly because i loved her cute apartment and it gave me many ideas for my future apartment with dalin. throughout the time i spent in provo, here were some of the highlights:
- while dalin was working, i spent around 5+ hours in the mall (shopping from claire's to zumiez to victoria's secret to american eagle to a used book store)
- seeing Transformers 3 in theaters (which was sweet)
- eating some fro-yo (hun-cal ;)
- going to church together (something i love so much)
- making every meal together (also love so much...)
- eating Sherbet ice cream! (please note the spelling...i was unaware of this before this weekend)
- watching movies in his apartment
- watching lots of sports on TV
- eating shaved ice (and, like always, i lost at "whose flavor is better")
- reading together
- falling asleep on the couch together (before curfew rolled around and he had to drive me back to abby's)
- "tanning" (ahem) by the pool in the bright, bright sun
- watching fireworks on the grass together
- going for walks
- viewing campus and going to the bookstore
- spending the Fourth of July together...like we will be...for the rest of eternity :]
- eating hotdogs from Sonic on the Fourth
- having me eat a huge dog from J Dawg's...
- talking about the future and our children and plans and being patriotic by wearing red, white, & blue
- grocery shopping at Wal*Mart (it's much more fun together :)
- getting raspberry cheesecake shakes from Arctic Circle
- learning more and more about one another
