A Special Day

March 2nd is a special day. It was on this day 4 years ago that I got into a big sexy grey truck with a really cute guy dressed down in basketball shorts, a t-shirt, and knee high socks.

This story actually started a week or so before when I fell asleep in my Chemistry 106 class. At the end of class, as we were leaving this guy asked how my nap was. I was still pretty tired, so I really wasn't in the mood to get hit on. I said my nap was fine and kept walking. He then proceded to tease me about having lines on my face. I was less than impressed with this lame attempt to start up a conversation, and decided I wanted to avoid future awkward conversations with this boy. So after that I tried to either stay behind and talk to the people who sat next to me or rush out quickly so I wouldn't have to talk to him again.

However, one day he managed to corner me. I had forgotten to write a paper for my next class so I had to skip Chem and sit outside class and write my paper. Well coincidentally, Zac decided to skip class that day too (to go golfing) and as he was leaving class he saw me sitting in the hall. He tried to be sly by pretending he was getting a drink from the fountain next to where I was sitting and then he casually began start up a conversation with me. I was a bit irritated since I was on a deadline to finish my paper, and I was less than impressed with his attempt at small talk, especially when I told him where I was from and he asked if I was a fan of one of the sports teams from Washington (The Seahawks). I'm really not that into sports. Anyway I really wasn't that surprised when he asked me out, and I really wasn't that excited.

However, from the moment he picked me up for that first date my opinion began to change. First the big, old, grey truck was pretty sexy, I don't know why, it just was. Second he had a lot of confidence driving that big old truck, and he had a lot of confidence showing up for a date all sweaty and in his soccer gear. Thirdly I was impressed by his determination to go on the date. He asked me out on a Tuesday, he had a test on Wednesday, and I was leaving on Friday for Las Vegas with my roommates for my 21st birthday. So the date had to be on Thursday but he had a soccer game; however, he was determined and so he suggested we go out for ice cream after his game since it would be late (his game didn't get over until like 9:30). What really sealed the deal for me though was when we got in the truck he asked me what music I liked, and I told him my favorite band was Fall Out Boy, so he put on Dance Dance and we both rocked out the whole way to Ben and Jerry's. It was cool because it felt like we had known each other for a long time even though it was a first date.

After the ice cream we came back to my apartment and ended up talking for hours. As it turned out he was cute, funny, smart, and interesting. After that we were inseparable for the next year and a half as we dated... ... and I realized just how cool this guy really was. Turns out he wasn't as weird and awkward as I thought. :)

After that date I was hooked and it only took a few months for me to know he was the one for me, and ironically it was me that spent the next year and 1/2 convincing him that I was the one for him.

Finally on May 17, 2007 Zac took me up Rock Canyon just outside of Provo to a park that we had gone to while we were dating. This park had particular significance because it was where Zac first told me he loved me. We had come here to look at the stars, and we had gone on a few group dates here. He told me there was a meteor shower that night to get me up to the park, he put on "our song" (a remix of Forever Young) and got down on one knee (in the bed of his sexy truck) and asked me to marry him. Obviously I said yes, well technically I said, "Yes! Finally!" Then I cried, which was actually a bit uncharacteristic of me, but I was just so happy he finally proposed!

We planned the wedding in only 3 months, and on August 17, 2007 I married my best friend for time and all eternity in the Portland, OR temple.

Zac turned out to be my perfect complement, and marrying him was one of the best decisions I ever made! So it turned out that agreeing to go on that date was also a really good decision. That first date changed my life forever, in a way I could never have anticipated, and so much for the better; which is why March 2 is a such a special day.

As it turns out exactly 4 years later on this special day my life would again change forever in a way I could never have anticipated, again so much for the better...