BABY HOMER 3/31/13

It's Official...Baby Homer will be joining our family 

around March 31st 2013!!!!!

This ultrasound is from our first trimester 11 week appointment on 9/11/12

I have been doing really good.  I have not had any morning sickness 

or thrown up!  Yay but I had a little over 2 months of cramps 

and tiredness.  This week I have found new energy and

excitement for our future addition.

Brian has been a great support, and his face

was priceless yesterday when we saw and heard the baby!

THE PROPOSAL

It's official, I will no longer be blogging about "bad dating" stories,

and I am no longer worried about jinxing myself.

My feeling was right on! We will be in each other's lives

for time and all eternity.

Brian and I knew very early on in dating that we really liked

each other and could see heading towards marriage.

4 months and 2 days after our first date

Brian surprised me at Temple Square on

December 28, 2012 and asked me to marry him.

I had been trying for a few weeks to get out of him when he

would propose and all he would give me was that it would happen

in 2011. So with big holidays coming up I figured it could have been on

my birthday, Christmas or New Years Eve?

When Birthday and Christmas came and went without a proposal or ring

I figured it had to be New Years Eve then. So I would bring it up to

him to see what he would say and he played along with me letting

me think it was going to be New Years, and to please be

surprised even though I had figured it out. Ha ha the joke was on me!!

We went to Temple square to see the lights and dinner.

To my surprise he actually proposed by the temple and I said

yes of course. Here are some pictures that Becky (Brian's

sister) took of this wonderful surprise moment!!!

You can see us barely on the steps

After getting my beautiful ring

Showing my ring

Dinner at the Lion House to Celebrate

Brian, Becky, Brian Jr, and Me

The Beginning of our Forever Family

Actually seeing the lights

The Ring and my Beautiful Roses

We will be married in the Logan Temple

March 17th 2012!!! YAY

11.11.11 and 11 WEEKS

11 weeks ago today Brian and I went out on our first date.
We went to a little Italian restaurant called "Fratelli Ristorante"
and then to see Cowboys and Alien's at the megaplex.
(I spent most of the movie with my eyes closed and jumping because
of the creepy Aliens but Brian found the movie entertaining)

Brian and I met in May 2010 but it was a brief interaction at
a movie theater seeing Iron Man 2 for our mutual
friend Heather's birthday.

A year later in May of this year we met again at Heather's
birthday and we recognized each other from the previous year. From
the very start of the evening Brian was sweet and attentive to
me. I was stuck on Georgia guy at this time so half way
through the party I blew him off!

Not my brightest or best moment!!!!

note: I have since apologized for my mistake

July I was at the salon getting my haircut when this guy walked
in and it's not often that you see a guy in there so of course
I had to turn to see what he looked like...
To my surprise it was Brian...

We talked for a few minutes before he went back to start his haircut.
My girl told me that it was fate that put us together at the salon.
I have since thought about the odds of it happening...

First it's an obscure little salon out in West Valley.
Second I get my haircut on Thursdays not Tuesdays, and
Brian generally goes on Saturdays not Tuesdays.
Third we both have been getting haircuts there for at least
2+ years and have not ran into each other.

I left the salon not thinking anything would come of our
chance meeting. I had blown him off and I was still not sure
what I wanted at that point. He was happy to see me
but wasn't going to ask me out because I had blown him off.

The powers that be were stronger than us and we were thrown
together again on August 13th exactly 3 months to the day of
when I had blown him off. Heather invited me to see
Captain America with her and Brian. I almost didn't
go because I thought it would be awkward. But my desire to
see Captain America was stronger and I did go.

The huge smile on his face when I saw him and the sweet moments
before, during and after the movie made it easy to just give it a
chance and see what happened. By being myself and having fun
I was given a second chance.

The next week Brian took a huge leap and asked Heather for my
phone number and obviously when he called for a date I said yes!!!!

11 weeks later Brian has blown every other loser out of the water

with his love and affection for me!

I will always be so very grateful for my second chance and for
Brian taking a second look to see me for who I really am!

I am grateful and excited and for change, the future, companionship,
support, friendship, quality time, and LOVE!!!!!

Brian THANK YOU!!!

SO IT'S BEEN AWHILE

So I've been a little MIA lately, first because I really didn't
have any great "bad dating" stories to tell and second
because life has just been very busy.

The good news or bad news is that I don't think I can blog

about bad dating stories for a bit...Why?! Well because good

things are happening and the last couple of months have

brought so much happiness to my life.

So yes you may have guessed it right. I am dating someone

and he is so great! I'm not going to write much right now for

fear of jinxing myself. But I have a feeling that we will be in

each others lives for awhile, so stay tuned.

HERE IT IS

Thanks Melissa for nudge to get this done.

So...
I started out the week of Memorial a bit nervous and excited
to finally meet Georgia boy...which is what we will call
him. We exchanged phone numbers on Tuesday and
I thought he would call before he left to make plans.
But I did not hear from him til I was driving to work
Friday morning when he texted me rather than call me.

He had missed his flight the night before and was still trying
to get to Utah for the weekend. We decided that we would
make plans once he knew he had a flight and was traveling
towards Utah. Twenty minutes later he was booked and
headed for Utah. He wanted to meet for dinner shortly
after arriving in Utah and was going to call me when he
landed to finalize where and when to meet. He called and
we made plans to go to the Red Butte Cafe on
Foothill at 7:30.

Something that I have learned about myself in the last 3
months is that I don't like being the first one to the restaurant
when meeting a guy for the first time. So I made sure that
when I left it wasn't too early but that I wouldn't be late. He
called me when I was driving there to tell me that he was
already there and to let me know when I got there and he
would meet me at the door. It was refreshing to know that
he would be there before me!

He was waiting outside the door and hugged me first thing.
He told me I was exactly what he had expected. So far so
good. He had picked a spot on the deck, but it got very
cold so we ended up moving inside. We spent the next 2
hours or so talking, eating and getting to know each other.
From how I felt and how I thought things had gone I felt like
we had hit it off. It wasn't a feeling of he is the one or
anything, but it was a good feeling.

He walked me to my car and as we walked I asked what his
plans were for the rest of the weekend?? I asked so that I
could see if I was in those plans. But alas I wasn't...He was
spending the rest of the weekend with family and friends...
I didn't know quite what to say at that point, especially since
he had been so anxious to meet me but only willing to spend
2 hours to get to know me while he was here. His last words
to me were lets keep in touch and then he was gone.

I drove away, very confused and I not sure where we
would go at this point.

I ended up texting him when I got home to say I had a great
time and if he had time to see me before he left? He said he
had a great time as well and would possibly have some time
Sunday after church and would call me.

I kinda had a feeling at that point that something wasn't
right. I've learned that if someone is interested they will want
to see you, want to spend time with you and will make it happen.

Sunday came and he texted rather than called to say that he
wouldn't be able to leave his family and friends to see me.
But that when he was in town again we should get together
and do something. He is in the army for heavens sake. It
could be months or years before he comes back to into town.

The next 2 weeks we continued to connect with each other
over email and his fast response had me believing that
maybe things were fine, until one of his emails was short and
nothing like the others. So it got me thinking and stepping
back to give him space.

Now for the finale...which makes me glad that I didn't write
this post sooner because now it has a beginning and an end.

Friday June 10th
My sister Angie asked me for some ideas of places to go to
take some family pictures. I had drove for a fieldtrip a couple
of years ago to the capital and was lucky enough to look out
of Memory Grove. I thought then that it would be a great
place for pictures. So I told her about it and that's where
we decided to the take pictures. We were going to do them
on Saturday but last minute changed to Friday instead.

I left work about 4:00 and drove down and I parked way to
far away but wanted to make sure that I didn't end up with
a parking ticket for parking in the wrong place. So I walked
the blocks to Memory Grove to meet mom at their car.

I am now a firm believer of things happening for a purpose.
Every decision I made and everything I did, from the time I
left work had a purpose was meant to be!!!!!!!

After walking the 4 1/2 blocks with all of my stuff...because
I didn't want to leave it in the car and have someone break
in...I got to mom and dad's car tired and ready to just sit for
a bit. Dad called and told us that there were some
benches and tables in some shade that we could go to sit.
There was no question in my mind that we were going
to stay in the car on the comfy seats and maybe make
our way to the benches in awhile. Mom was reading a book
and I pulled out my computer to play a little Bejeweled.

While sitting there, maybe 10 minutes later I saw a boy run
by the car on a wall that separates the sidewalk and a small
stream, and heard a man call his name. The guy came into
view and then stood on this little wall facing the car. I
looked up and my heart went into my stomach, and my heart
started racing.

I said to mom "that's Georgia boy!" She was like what?!?
I knew it was him but for a second was unsure. Since I only
saw him for a couple of hours in person. So when he walked
near the car I called his name out the window. It was
definitely close enough for him to hear...I called his name a
couple of times and got no response from him what so ever!
It made me wonder if it really was him, or if it was, was his
name his real name?!?

As this was happening I knew it was all happening with
the help of God. It was so surreal.

I noticed that he holding his phone so I decided to text him.
I texted him saying "I think I see your twin here in Salt
Lake". We did this while watching him the whole time from
the tinted windows. When he got it and read it he started
looking around. He instantly texted back "where are you?"
"Memory Grove" he wrote back "Lol, it's me".

At this point I got out of the car. He was with a woman, the
boy and a dog. He hugged me but said very little to me,
wouldn't meet mom, and got into the car that was parked
right behind mom and dads and left. What are the chances
of running into him in such a large city, and to have parked
right next to him. Seriously ?!?

He texted me a couple hours later saying how great it was
running into me earlier, and that he got lonely so he came
back to Utah for the weekend. I told him it confused me
seeing him earlier. He couldn't understand why so we
talked on the phone and when it ended I was still not clear
so we ended up talking again.

Basically he wasn't feeling it, but didn't want to be mean to
me by telling me right after meeting me. So I proceeded to
tell him that there was a difference between being mean
and being honest.

He didn't want a long distance relationship (he's the one
who lives in Georgia and found me, in Utah), and didn't know
when he would be back to Utah with being in the army.
I told him that no matter how much he liked getting my
letters that I was no longer going to write him or keep in
contact with him.

I told him that I had been on the dating site to date and
possibly find a husband. From his response, he was obviously
on the site for a very different reason. I almost wanted to say
to him, "You shouldn't be on a dating site if you are just
wanting someone to write to you for company!."

He said he had not lied to me about living in Georgia but
had some time off so he came back the day before to visit for
the weekend. The woman was supposedly a friend and her
son, who was late for a soccer practice, and why he couldn't
stay to talk very long, or to meet mom.

He apologized for many things and from this experience
will do things differently the next time.

So there you have it, in a very very very long email.

Thank goodness for blessings answered,
and the lessons learned!