Short Short Shorty

If you've already seen this at A Fancy Day you can just skip right along, I'm going to say pretty much the same thing. But for the sake of history and the fact that I don't write in my journal very often I'm going to talk about it again here, where I don't worry about being so polished. 

I've been thinking about cutting my hair forever!! Like months and months. Way before Rivers was born. I did the long hair thing for years and the question I kept asking myself was are you really going to have long hair forever? I mean sure it is the style of choice but 10 years from now do you still want to be dealing with the same hair? Plus my hair was pretty nasty and beat up from all that ombre business the past couple of years and to cut that much hair off was going to feel soo good.

So I decided to cut it, and the choice was a lot easier when my best friend from California came to visit me for my birthday, I trusted her above all else to do a good job so the time was now or never. 

I'm still loving it  a week in, however it takes forever to curl. I haven't got it figured out yet. but its' so much nicer and feels so healthy!! I'm sure there will come a day when I wish for my long hair again and I will have to start the horrible phase of growing it back out  but for now its perfect. 

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.

In Which I COOK

Would you look at that? What is it you ask? HOMEMADE CHICKEN POT PIE!! That I MADE! I just really feel like I have to clearify that because I always get teased for not cooking, David is always making lavish things when we go to friends house because he knows people will think I made it and doesn't want to make me look bad. He's the sweetest. But our real friends know Dave made it.

And Dave cooks most every single night, which I feel extremely guilty about. Especially now that I have the time to do so. I mean why should he get to have all the fun it's enough he works hard all day long to support this family. (name that movie) Plus I want to be a good cook for my family, I want meal time to be a big part of our daily family life and if the foods bad well....

So I'm trying to teach myself with Davids help of course because he has learned a lot over the past 4 1/2 years of marriage. Hopefully I will get good before my kids really remember. So I started with soup on Sunday, easy enough and it turned out actually really good. I was amazed. Then I thought about making Chicken Pot Pies for Monday, Heavens do not ask me what I was thinking. I mean really Chicken Pot Pie? Could I have picked something more complicated?

The Gods were watching over me though because it turned out so good, I could have cried. There were a couple times I thought for sure I messed up but it worked out somehow. Davids cooked the past two nights, but with two successful meals under my belt my confidence has sky rocketed and I'm going to keep trying.

I'm also thinking of making a cook book. Not like my own recipes cook book, but just compiling recipes I find that I like into a cute notebook, because everything is better when it's cuter.