memory lane & october avenue

i'd like to think i would be an excellent historian, except i don't remember history [or most anything]. i don't remember events or dates even... okay i just remember to write down important dates extremely well. go on, test me.

i know the date my best friend's husband came home from his mission (sept 10), justin's grandparent's anniversary (feb 18), and the date of justin's baptism, confirmation, and endowment. i even know the date when the first harry potter movie premiere (nov 16- but that's an easy one).

i keep track of the most important things for justin & i- the date i fell in love with him (jan 14), the date he came and went on his mission (july 18 & 24), the last day i saw him before his mission (july 15), the day he got his call (march 24), the day he told me that he loves me (nov 14), but the most important month for us is

october

granted, i've always like this month because it's a prelude to my birth month. usually i would start planning my party and gift requests. plus all hallows eve which is bossume in it's own right. so in honor of our engagiversary this weekend, here's a quick trip through the intersection of memory lane and october avenue.

october 2, 2004

our first kiss

[this is the closest pic i can find to our first kiss- 1 week]

sometime during senior yr of hs, justin started to become interested in me. i'd like to think it had something to do with my new conditioner. we slowly started hanging out more with just the two of us. he even asked me to homecoming. cuddling started. drive-in dates started happening. one such night, we were watching the 3rd movie of that night [shark's tale- beeteedub]. i just knew he was getting the inclinings to kiss me. i was so scared but eventually, i looked up mid-cuddle and he planted on right on me. **magic** [insert jazz fingers here]. that night when i got home to the house i was house-sitting at, i called my sisters [you know which one was first] then my mother [she couldn't know i stayed out that late so i may have fibbed about the time...]. i couldn't stop smiling. who knew that would be the first of many? oh i did- and so did 7th grade mel.

october 2, 2009

our engagiversary

general conference was approaching and justin really wanted to go. this made complete sense to me, considering he had only gotten home about 3 months prior. why wouldn't he want to visit his mish friends? so we planned a big trip for the sat session- justin & i, sam & caitlin, and travis & amanda would all go hiking up in park city then listen to the broadcast once we were there. the week sam & caitlin cancelled then travis & amanda did too that morning. so we went on our own- i should have been tipped off by the fact that justin kept insisting i take lots of scenery pics but no. when we first got there, we went to a huge hill thats used as the ski-lift. he asked if i wanted to go for a hike and bratty-mel said no. so we drove around for an hour then he came back to the same place and asked if we could go up. we hiked up the hill and bratty-mel kept oh-so-subtle hints. "this would make a GREAT place to take engagement pictures!" jajajaja! eventually we reached the top. i plopped down [literally- plopped. i did not look cute at all. he was still standing so i bratty-mel grabbed his hand jokingly asked 'haha- will you marry me?' justin, of course, refused. i looked down to take re-arrange my jacket and that's when he got down, put

the ring

on my finger and asked me to marry him. total and complete shock. what's the first thing i said? "are you serious? do you mean it? are you going to take it back?" eventually i said yes. **magic** [insert jazz fingers here]

so many funny stories associated with this weekend- our first en-gaged picture from some crazy bikers, justin's fake proposal at gateway, calling my mom LITERALLY 23x before she answered then she didn't believe me. i couldn't stop looking at my finger.
one day i'll tell you about how i picked out my ring accidentally.

october 9, 2004

the beginning of us

[again, this is the closet pic i could find]

on one of the said drive-in "dates", meltin was formed. it had been a week since our first kiss [and in full disclosure, this was the first of many, many, MANY kisses that week] and we'd already had a run in with the police at lone mtn park [justin even got cuffed!- another story for another post]. we lay there watching "sky captain and the day of tomorrow"- never heard of it? don't worry. no one else has either. i had previously asked him if our snogging = bf/gf status but he said definitely no [insert heart-break here]. so we laid there cuddeling and out of no-where, my beloved just asked. i screamed yes. literally- people probably thought something shady was going down [the drive-ins ARE in the ghetto].  **magic** [insert jazz fingers here]

see i wasn't lying- this whole october thing is a big-dealio around these blogosphere.