I've decided that it's time for me to enter the blogging world once again. I was quite the slacker with my old blog so I'm hoping that I'll be able to change that with this new blog. I know most of you know us already, but I need to write our story out before I start forgetting bits and pieces! I promise that all the posts won't be this long. I'm not going to try and play catch up on all the things that have happened since we started dating but I do need to make sure this is written down somewhere.
Matt and I met in September 2006. I was invited to a new friend's house after a meeting to play some poker. I knew there wasn't even going to be a familiar face there but I was trying to get to know new people so I decided to go hang out. I regretted it the moment I got there. There were probably 10 people laughing and having the time of their lives. I immediately regretted going and began to think of excuses to leave. They were all very friendly, but I definitely felt like an outsider. Matt went out of his way to make me feel comfortable. He explained the rules of poker to me and even made sure to warn me about some guys I needed to stay away from. He acted like a big brother who had my back.
We got to know each other better when I moved in with my friend Arianne and he began to come over for movie nights. We would all lay blankets out in the back yard and sleep under the stars looking for Orion's Belt. I became very close with a great group of friends and considered Matt a big part of me feeling included in the group. I began to develop a crush on him, but was quick to shut those feelings out as I knew that it wasn't a good idea. He would never be interested in a girl like me and I couldn't risk ruining a great friendship.
We continued to grow closer as time went on and he began to refer to me as his sister. We went on double dates and camping trips together. He was my # 1 pool partner. We were there for each other during new relationships, break ups and everything that life threw at us. Everyone assumed that we were dating but we were quick to make it known that we were just good friends.
There is a camping trip that we do every year at Defa's Dude Ranch. It typically starts on Friday but Matt and I decided to go up on Wednesday my first year. We spent those 2 days alone getting attacked by cows, hiking, carving our names in trees, laughing, talking and playing card games. We had so much fun the first year that we decided to do it again the second year. Unfortunately he wasn't able to get work off the next year so I went up early and set up camp for him. My uncle had unexpectedly passed away less than a week before so I was extremely emotional that year. He pulled me a side to check on me and make sure I was doing okay. I wish I could remember the details of this conversation more, but I do remember he said something about how he was grateful that he never asked me out, even though he wanted to. He loved our friendship and wouldn't want anything to ruin that. I began to think about what it would be like to be in a relationship with him. I couldn't imagine a more perfect relationship because we already knew everything about each other. I tried to ignore these feelings again but was not successful.
My birthday was a week or so later and we spent the whole day by my pool. He had been seeing a friend of ours casually and it just so happened to be her birthday too. We met up with her at the Lindon pool and then went to his house for cards to celebrate. My good friend Jacob dropped a bomb on me that night hinting that Matt might like me, but I refused to let myself get excited. He went out of town for business for a couple weeks and I was in the middle of a Tori Amos tour so we didn't hang out much for the next few weeks but we did talk all we could. I began to notice that our conversations were becoming much more frequent. We went from talking a few times a week to a few times a day.
We had built a fort together before and began planning our next fort. We planned to call it Epic Fort Night. Little did I know just how epic it would be! After 3 years of being close friends, we both finally admitted our feelings for each other that night and have been together ever since. He is the love of my life and my best friend!
