The Intro Show

     This lil’ entry of our blog is about the first few weeks were we were introduced to one another and started hanging out. Lucky for us Chad wrote about it in his journal. It was so cute I asked if we could share his thoughts with everybody :) He said YES! So here are his thoughts in Blue, of course and then my little additions of what happened on my side of things (in green).  P.S. We're sorry there are no pictures, we didn't take any during this time.

     Well in June I started dating a girl named Allison Perkins. She is from Salt Lake City right next to the University of Utah (enemy territory haha). She really is a fantastic girl, I’m not sure I could find a more perfect girl in all of the world, maybe even in all of the eternities. This is why I love Chad so much! Well...one of the many reasons :) He is so cute! So I’ll try and write out everything that I remember.

    The first time I met her we were playing ultimate frisbee, all I really remember is that I saw her come and go with two of her roommates, I do not remember her actually playing only coming and going. That was the very first day I had moved into the Elms. Although Chad does not remember me very much I remember him. He was super kind and welcoming. I thought he was a pretty nice kid but that’s about it.

      The next time we met I sat next to her and her roommates in sacrament meeting because I was the friendship chair and trying to be friendly to the new people in the ward. Yes. He came to chat with us. That was nice. I kind of thought he was weird. Did you really?! He was just so friendly to EVERYBODY. Seriously so friendly. But it was nice! He made my roommates and I feel very welcomed. Next I had heard through the grapevine that she loved to play soccer, That is not what happened next. Wait, what happened next? Next I had an interview with a bishopric member and was called to be part of the “friendship and missionary & fellowship council,” which conveniently Chad was chair of. Coincidence I think not. So that was pretty exciting. Chad set me apart and gave me a blessing (bishop’s orders) which was super awesome. I remember thinking that this kid does not know me yet everything he said made it seem like he knew me so well, too bad that was the spirit not him, at least yet :) Now is when the soccer thingy came about, it was the night after the first ward FHE together...so I went to her apartment and invited her to play on my intramural coed soccer team for the spring. Sooo exciting!!! :D It made me so happy! I had been hoping that I’d make some friends who I could play soccer with, it was perfect! That is when I really started to notice Alli. I remember sitting on the sidelines as well as playing on the field and thinking to myself wow that girl is amazing at soccer. Yes haha I got skills! Not really but it’s nice he noticed me :) Although I’m pretty sure we never said more than hello at our soccer games...at least in the beginning. Not only that I thought she was pretty cute :). 

     Her and her roommates started to come over to my apartment more frequently but not for me ironically. And most of the time I didn’t happen to be home.  After a few weeks on a Friday night I found myself with nothing to do so I went to Alli’s apartment to spend time with her. She thought it was weird that I had come to visit although I thought it was normal to me to just go and visit people. It was weird. I thought he’d come for all of my roommates and me but when I said I was the only one home he said that’s okay! And just came to sit on the couch and chat. She happened to be the only one home which was nice for me. I was just expecting to spend time with her at her apartment, but if I remember correctly she wanted to come back to my apartment, That is true but only because I felt like I didn’t really know you and we were alone in my apartment...what if you had tried to pull some moves or something?! Of course now I know you would not have done that but it kind of made me nervous....So we had been talking about whether yams and sweet potatoes were the same thing so I suggested we got to smiths to find out and then afterwards go see if his roommates were home and we could all do something together. I didn’t really want to do that because my other roommates are typically considered more attractive than I am (mostly cause I’m the smallest, well not actually but the smallest one was buff and tan). So my brain was sprinting trying to come up with an idea to get us out of the my apartment so that it could be the two of us. So with a little wave of inspiration I asked her if she was ready to go and I grabbed some paper and pencils (I consider this the first unofficial date). We were off to the mall to play people bingo she won even with me cheating a little bit. I had a great time and I’m pretty sure that she did too. It was super fun! So completely random but oh so fun! It was so natural to be with Chad. He was so easy to talk with and laugh with. 

     We went a little later in the day so there wasn’t quite the hustle and bustle you normally expect at the mall but there was still plenty of people to spot. Afterwards we ended up back at his apartment and then went to a dance party for about 5 minutes. That was fun although I’m not sure Chad agrees because he disappeared. It was more like 20 minutes and I was getting hot, so I went back to my apartment. I didn’t want her to think that I was too attracted to her and scare her away. After that his roommate Alex needed to watch a movie for a class so we decided to watch it with him and my roommate Emily. I thought it was super funny because we were all squished on the couch together so we were touching and I couldn’t decide if Chad thought it was awkward or what. I mean it was the first night we had officially hung out and it kind of seemed like half of a date....The movie was not over at 1:30 AM (it was a friday night so that was curfew) so Emily and I said thank you and left for the night at 1:29 AM. That was one of the things that really impressed me about Alli. In fact, I thought about it all the next week.
   
      Pretty much from then on I was taken by her but wasn’t ready or willing to admit that. Later that week I prayed that I would see her that day so I could ask her on a date, I rarely do that but only ten steps out of my apartment I saw her about a fifty feet in front of me, so I catch up walk with her to campus and don’t ask her on a date I was too nervous. So then I prayed again while on campus that I would see her so I could have one more chance to ask her on a date. I hopped on my bike at the end of the school day and near the top of the ramp leading back to south provo I see her walking home. The only two times I have ever seen Alli on campus without planning it have been when I prayed for it so that I could take her on a first official date. That was super funny! I was thinking to myself “what the random? I’ve never seen Chad on campus and today I saw him twice! Weird!!” But I am grateful that I saw him and that he got the courage to ask me on a date :)