A New Plan

David has always been great at posing for pictures..... Ignore my messy house....

If you don't want to read this massive post I've made a footnotes version at the bottom.

What a month we have had! New jobs, new house, and a new plan. So much has happened I feel like I can't even remember it all so here is the short version from the beginning.

Two months ago David decides to introduce himself to the Creative Director of the whole church at a church wide conference that was being held. He finds out through a friend that a girl is leaving this same week and a position has just opened. David talks to the creative director and he wants to see his portfolio that very same day.  David shows him his portfolio and the guy loves him and wants him to come apply for a position that just happened to open up that same week.

The interview finally happens and it lasted for over two hours!! Rivers and I went down to Salt Lake with David thinking the interview would be 45 mins at the most and then we could go to dinner afterwards. Bored and running out of things to do I took Rivers to the Joseph Smith Builiding and all the senior missionaries played and oogled over him.

They tell us that they should let us know worse case two weeks.

During this time we are looking for houses as I mentioned in a previous post in the Salt Lake area and it is not going very well we can't find anything. We decided to go with a new Realtor and that very same day we find a house and go under contract. All  before knowing if David got the job. At this point the plan is that if David gets the job we will keep the house and stay in Salt Lake for another 3 years.

Even longer story short. We go under contract for the House on a Monday find out David gets the job on a Friday.

Davids is now working as in interactive designer, something he has never done before so we are mostly staying for the full year so David can get the experience to move him into that position for a new job. It's a great place to get started and learn and we are truly grateful for the opportunity.

I'm so glad we are done looking at houses and can just be. The plan is to stay in our current townhouse until we move, but now that David is having to commute to SLC Rivers doesn't see him as much. So we may be looking for apartments in SLC. Yay!! 

Congratulations if you've made it this far!

FOOTNOTES

David got a new job working as an interactive designer in SLC. We plan to stay here for awhile and then hopefully move to Austin or somewhere out of Utah.

Hernia

We thought this guy had a Hernia and was going to need surgery! This was extremely stressful for the past couple days because pregnancy hormones make everything way more stressful than it needs to be and well the baby is coming in two weeks but technically could come any day, you can imagine the horror stories that were running through my head.

Of course surgery for a hernia is not that big of deal but to me it was, and I was so worried about him and how it was all going to work out with the baby coming, and all the things I still wanted to get ready before he got here. We've had such a good run lately, life has been really good to us and when we thought he might need surgery I became a serious stick in the mud.

But I knew that Heavenly Father would make it all work out and there is no way he would let the baby come in the middle of David's surgery (a legit concern I had) so I tried to put it in his hands, and decided baby was not coming until at least next week and that if the doctor did say he had a hernia we would demand the surgery be done this week! Crazy Hormones I tell you!

However God is great and we went to see a general surgeon this morning and it looks like no hernia which means no surgery. Just an extreme amount of stressing for nothing. I couldn't be more thankful and a serious weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

I know it is because of the blessing David received on Monday and the many prayers we sent out. I shouldn't have ever worried really.

The surgeon said it was probably a pulled muscle, and since David is already scheduled for a CAT scan next week for his routine cancer check that scan will show if there is indeed a hernia but it is extremely unlikely the doctor said.

I love you so

 "I'm keeping my head warm, but I can still hear." 

It's been incredibly warm this week and day light savings has really turned our world around. Come on summer! We went to frozen yogurt last night with friends and were able to sit outside. It did start to get a little chilly as the sun went down behind the mountains. So David pulled on his windbreaker. 

Primary

So we got called to teach Primary.... AGAIN!! Actually this is David's first time teaching primary and my 3rd!

I am so grateful that I am teaching with David instead of by myself this time, he is so good with the kids they just love him and think  he is all that! We teach the 5 year olds and they are too cute. A lot of the kids don't come but we have 5 that are always there. 4 girls 1 boy. The girls are so cute and always want to sit by me in sharing time haha. Each of their little personalities are so cute they had my laughing to tears last week.

With that said I am seriously curious as to what it is I am suppose to be learning that I've been called to teach Primary 3 times! I can't figure it out.

I really am grateful to be in primary it just makes me laugh everytime we are called, seriously when the bishop told us he wanted us to teach primary I just LAUGHED!!! Of course he did!!

Anyways David was King Benjamin last week and it was too funny, the kids of course LOVED him and just giggled through his entire presentation completely missing the point, and instead asking him how he has lived so long.... we tried. 

Valentines Day

With the baby coming soon and all the care I'm going to be needing I thought it would be fun to honor David this Valentines. Plus with it being one of my favorite holidays I know that in the past David has worked so hard to make it a special day for me and thought he would enjoy the year off.

 Downstairs David found a large heart greeting, under 14 of the hearts were reasons why I loved him.

Of course David is too sweet not to do anything at all and he surprised me with a basket full of relaxing goodies. Including a massage before the baby comes. Oh how I cannot wait. 

 He even got me "Sparkling Hair" water. We use to do a sparkling water rinse at the school and it actually feels really good.

 He then took me to get breakfast at one my new favorite places in Utah. 

They have amazing unlimited french toast.

That night I took him to Buffalo Wild Wingers, his all time favorite but he rarely gets to go because just thinking about that place makes me want to throw up. To say he was excited is an understatement.

When we got back to the house there was a blanket full of old love notes waiting for him. I chose ones we had written while dating and shortly after marriage. It being almost 6 years since we met I thought it would be fun to re-live our early memories.

Then I let him pick out any movie he wanted to watch, of course he chose Fast 5 the one movie I refuse to see. However no one was renting it so we had to drive all the way to a Blockbuster to rent it. True love!

How We Met: Part II

 

I wish I had pictures to accompany this story. this was taken June 2012. 

I spent the entire weekend with Troy never running into his weekend bunk-mate.  I found out later, that David had actually been kind enough to move an extra mattress into Pauls room so Troy wouldn’t have to sleep on the couch or the floor. The weekend with Troy couldn’t have gone any better, I thought for sure he would make it official but Sunday morning came and nothing was said. I agreed to go with him to Pauls ward that Sunday, trying to make the most of the time we had together. You can imagine the prep and primp that went into getting ready that Sunday morning. 

As we are walking into the make shift room of an on campus chapel I just happened to look up at the stand and see no other than David Palmer himself sitting in the row where the speakers are to sit before they talk wearing that exact same suite I saw him in two months previous. He was still just as handsome and dashing as I remembered, however I still thought nothing of it only excited to hear him talk and to tell my girlfriends of the funny coincidence. I mean I had other fish to fry that Sunday and David Palmer was definitely too good for me, I knew my limits.  
 
Unfortunately the first speaker took too long (shock) and David was unable to speak that Sunday. We left after sacrament meeting to go back to Paul's apartment for lunch, in fact we had corndogs and if you know me you know how much I LOVE corndogs. yum.
  
I was sitting on the couch when all the other roommates started to come home from church and who should walk in next but David Palmer, you can only imagine my surprise. I mean what are the chances, little did I know he was just as surprised to see me. He had seen my walk into the chapel as well. He saw that I was with Paul and Troy however and knowing that Troy was up here to visit a girl he figured I must be it. This didn't stop him though. 

He played it very cool, in fact I don't even remember him even noticing me. I remember him making himself a lunch and I watched casually, his best friends lived in the apartment next door so he quickly made his lunch and took it over there. But he kept coming back to the apartment and I kept watching him. 

He eventually turned on the TV to watch a Formula One race and then proceeds to sit himself on a stool right in the middle of the tiny living room, right in front of me!

So I knew I just had to talk to him. I’m not sure if Troy or anyone else was in the room at this time I can’t remember. I casually said

“I think I know you, aren’t you dating Haley?" (girl from back home.)

“No we broke up.” 

Of course I already knew this but I wanted to play it cool duh. I can’t remember the conversation from there, but I’m sure I said oh I’m sorry and I think he said it wasn’t a big deal, glad it was over, playing it cool himself. I think I remember him briefly explaining Formula One to me, and we talked about other things I can't remember.

On our 4 year anniversary. July 19th 2012

I spent a good chunk of the rest of the day at that apartment, I remember David coming back in and out the apartment getting different things, watching the race. Come to find out he was doing it to see me, however I was completely oblivious to it all. I was probably too occupied with Troy and I would have  never in my dreams thought that David was interested in me. 

So when I was alone in the kitchen waiting for Troy to take me home later that night and David asked me how long I had been dating Troy I immediately said we weren’t dating in fear that he would tell Troy I thought we were something we were actually not. I didn’t think that he might be asking for his own purposes. 

Troy took me home we hung out for a bit and then he started his drive back to Utah and nothing was discussed. All that and I was still confused on what was going on. However I would be seeing him again on Wednesday, I was flying to Denver to visit my family for the weekend, and I would be staying at his house before my early flight the next morning that he would drive me to. So I thought maybe then. 

That night I hung out with my roommates and was having a blast, as I was checking my Facebook that night I noticed a message was waiting for me.

David Palmer was asking me out. I was completely and totally shocked to see that he had sent me a message. It used to be saved to my facebook but David deleted his account a couple months ago and along with it the original messages. He said something like:

 I know this is a lame way to ask you out but I was wondering if you wanted to go see Oceans 13 with me on Friday. 

We must have talked about Oceans 13 that afternoon.You see the only person he knew to ask for my number would have been his roommate Paul and that would have been awkward given I was suppose to be dating his best friend. 
 
To say I was excited is an understatement, I came screaming out of my bedroom to tell my roommates that the hot guy from the stand at church had asked me out! They couldn’t really believe it either I think given the circumstances with Troy. The girly screeching would have been fine except for the fact that Davids neighbor happened to be visiting one of my roommates that night. I had no idea who he was but apparently he saw me at church and knew who I was and definitely knew who David was. So I had to beg and plead for him not to tell David how I was overly excited. 

I discussed my options with my roommates to go or not to go. What about Troy? Those kind of things. We decided that since Troy never said we were actually dating I was free to do what I like.  We also decided that I probably wouldn’t even end up liking David anyways, he seemed liked the stuck up guys we all tried to avoid. The ones who think they are too cool for school, too attractive for anyone, and knew it all. 

So it was decided I would go out with David for FUN! Haha looking back now it’s so ridiculous but truly that was the decision. I would go out with him just to see what it was like to go on a date with someone “like him”

So I responded to his Facebook message somewhat like this.

I would love to go out this weekend but I’m actually going to be out of town. But we could do go to lunch or something before I leave.

I gave him my number and didn’t hear back until the next morning when he called and I was talking to my mom on the phone and since I didn't recognize the number I let it go to voice mail. 

How we met Part I

In leu of one of my favorite holidays coming up I thought it would be fun to write about how I met David.  This story has never been written down before and though I wish I had kept a journal during this time, I was an unfortunately bad journal keeper after graduating high school, I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Plus we talk about it often and who could forget meeting David I mean really. He's so handsome.


It was April 2007 the first time I was to ever go to General Conference, I had wanted to go for so long and being a student at BYU-Idaho allowed for such a privilege. My best friends and a group of our guy friends including my boyfriend at the time all traveled to Salk Lake for the big weekend. We had tickets to one of the morning sessions I can’t remember which day. We woke so early to get ready and get there on time, I remember waking up around 6 to get ready, there being 4 girls and one bathroom I wanted to insure I would have time to do everything I needed to look my best. 

 a picture of me from the day we met.

 

We attended the session and it was more than I thought it would be, what an experience I felt so lucky to be there. Afterwards our group walked around the temple grounds taking pictures everywhere we went. As we were walking in between the temple and the reflection pond, I ran into an old friend from my home stake. One of the girls with me was also from my home stake and the three of us quickly began talking and soon learned the old friend was also there with her boyfriend. 

However we never actually were introduced to him, the groups we were with were large and we just quickly chatted before heading our own separate ways. I do remember being absolutely star struck by her boyfriend though, he was so handsome, so mature looking, for sure a return missionary with goals and a promising future. He dressed so well, wearing a perfectly tailored suite* and beautiful blonde curly hair. 

After we departed I didn’t really think twice about the man in the suite but when we got home I was curious to see who he was and what better place to stalk someone than the ultimate stalker tool Facebook. I learned his name was David Palmer and was indeed a returned missionary. At first I assumed this was a Palmer from my home stake. The Palmers were a more prominent family and this old friend who have dated someone like that. However he was from Seattle not Texas, and besides that there wasn’t much information on either of their facebooks.  

Not even knowing who this guy was I came to the realization that I wanted to date “someone like that” I remember using those exact words. This guy was older, a returned missionary, mature, most likely knew what he was doing with his life, and looked like he had it together. Not to mention extremely attractive oh my!

I had never planned on meeting David or dating him, he was just an idea of what I wanted for myself and mostly forgot about him. This doesn’t mean I didn’t just happen to notice when he and my friend broke up and was secretly a little joyful.

Fast forward two months later, and I am having the summer of my dreams and dating someone new (Troy). Someone I thought to fit the description of what I imagined this David Palmer to be. It was actually a guy I had swooned over for months, hoping he would ask me out and when he finally did I thought in all my 18 year old wisdom that I had matured enough myself to date such an older mature man. We are not here to talk about that guy but he must be noted because it was because of him I was able to official meet this David Palmer. Even if it was terrible, terrible timing.

 picture from that summer, can we also please note the intensity of my bangs. I mean those were some bangs. 
 

Troy was working/living Utah for the summer so we had only seen each other a couple times since the beginning of the summer semester. I had no idea what was going on between us and when he said he was coming to Rexburg for the weekend to hang out and would love to see me I was hoping something would happen.

So troy comes up to Rexburg on Friday June 8th and is staying with his best friend Paul and guess who just happens to be Paul's roommate.....


 *I learned later he had bought that suite right before conference, probably for his girlfriend at the time, but little did he know that his future wife would be seeing him in that suite and because of it she would agree to go out with him.

Sick Day

I took this photo of David today while he was sleeping in. He is sick again!! He had a little cold when we got back from Texas and yesterday he was complaining of being sick and today it's much worse. We are hoping that his day off to rest will bring him back to health. I was sick last week and spent an entire day just sitting around and I felt much better after, hopefully this works the same for David.

We've spent the day lounging around, getting caught up on our TV dramas and snacking on snacks. I did a deep clean on the bathroom and bedroom so hopefully that will clear out some of the sickness and plan on running a bunch of things through the laundry in a few minutes!

Alone

Mr. Palmer has left me and Coco again and I can't decide who is more upset about it. Coco or me.  He left Wednesday night after only having returned Monday late late at night. He started his new job at the church on Thursday and I couldn't be prouder of him.

However  I miss him way too much and I am definitely tired of being alone. He will be there until Wednesday and I am either meeting him down there on Monday or Tuesday Night for the Thanksgiving break. I wish I could just leave tonight unfortunately I have classes on Monday so I have to stay in lame o Rexburg by myself all weekend! It's all just extremely inconvenient. Obviously I don't do well when David is gone, I know there are women who have to be away form their husbands much longer than I have been.

Can't wait to see you soon Mr. Palmer!

P.S.- How cute is Dave in this picture? I'm So Lucky! 

And He's Off

As I was cutting Davids hair last night he got a call from a company/friend he does freelance for in Denver asking if he would be willing to come down to help get things ready for a pitch to American Crew. I would just like to take this time to brag about how awesome my husband is, not only did they pay for him to fly but are completely compensating him for his time. We've come a long way from the days of unpaid internship, free work for the sake of building portfolios, and doing things for next to nothing a.k.a not even worth it. My heart swelled with pride as I sent his cute little self off to do his magic.