3 years...part 2

Okay, onto day the next day. I'm actually going to cover quite a bit of days on this one, so not as much detail in this one. Sorry to disappoint some of you :) Okay, I told you that the night hike was to scope out a good location for a bonfire so I was also invited to attend that event. At first, I declined because I was supposed to be heading to Salt Lake that day, but as the date got better and better I decided to rearrange my schedule and attend the bonfire. Bad idea. You see, I think it was more of a pity invite and let's just say I wasn't the only girl there that was interested in Ben. He actually didn't pay attention to me at all except for about 30 seconds to take this photo

It would have been okay if I had known someone there, but I had only met 2 of them the night before and the rest were complete strangers. Not to mention the fact that most of the other girls there were giving me some major crusties because I was there with Ben. However, the whole event wasn't a bust because I did get to see a Sobe bomb for the first time. So, after one of the most awkward hours of my life, Ben suggested that we leave and I was all for it. He wanted to go muddin' in the truck and I thought that was a good idea since there were only 2 seats I knew he couldn't invite anyone else (I might be exagerating this part a little, but I like to give Ben a hard time aobut it). We had so much fun and this is what the truck ended up looking like

We started a playful little mud fight and as Ben was walking away, I thought to myself, 'A lot of the frustration that I felt tonight would easily go away if I hit him in the back of the head with this mud pie'...direct hit. Nailed him and got his hat all dirty! I was laughing so hard and I could tell he wasn't amused at all. I wanted to say, "And that's for ignoring me all night" but I kept it to myself.

So from that point on we were pretty much dating...well kind of. There were a few awkward instances where he attended events without inviting me and I would see his friends later (like Dave and Jenny) and they would ask me why I wasn't there. The answer of, "because I wasn't invited" quickly disolved as we started spending more and more time together.

I even found myself doing CRAZY things like driving to Brigham City at 12:00am to help him study for a test that he had the next day while he worked a graveyard shift. We didn't leave until 7:00am, but the hard work paid off and he got 100% on the test!

This went on for about 3 weeks and then we decided that it was getting pretty serious and started talking about marriage! WHAT? After 3 weeks of knowing someone, I don't think so! I always said that I could NEVER marry someone unless I had known them and dated them for at least a year. So, to all the single ladies out there...never say never or it just might happen to you!

So April was gone, May was well under way and we decided that we were going to get married.

Ben sold this...(you're welcome Evelyn :)

To buy this...

Took me on the coolest ride ever...(yes, he can fly a plane)

recruited these guys to help...

and popped the question on May 31, 2006

And that's how our story began!