Matt and I met in a folk dance class at BYU the first Summer that I got here. He was always my best friends dance partner, Natalie, because we took the class together and met him there. He was the best dancer in the whole class.
He hung out with us a lot and sometimes he would walk with us back to our apartment and sometimes we would sit outside on the grass and just talk.
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| Matt took this one day while we were sitting outside on the grass. |
Eventually he started coming over just to see me; he showed me pictures from his mission in Ukraine and told me a lot of his stories from his time there. He even asked me to come over and have breakfast for dinner at his apartment once, but I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be a date or not so I asked Natalie to come along. We all went to a dance performance for our class together as well. And Matt and I shared a funnel cake together, I am pretty sure that's when I realized I could share the rest of my life with him..haha not really, but I thought he was the tops.
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| Us at the dance performance |
Finally he got up the courage to call me on the phone after a folk dance rec night and ask me on a date...but I didn't realize he was asking me to go out so I ended the phone conversation only to realize after hanging up that he wanted to take me out. I texted him right after that and asked "were you asking me on a date?" and he said "yes" so our dating adventures began.
Our first date was a day full of dancing, because that's something he knew I liked. It was a day long date, too. We spent the first part watching dancesport together and then the rest of the day we went to Spoon Me and then he taught me hwot o do some swing dance moves and then we went swing dancing!
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| After a night of swing dancing (our first date). |
Our first date was basically at the very end of summer term, so after that I went home to North Carolina and he went home to Ohio, but we talked basically everyday. And by talked I mean texted. There wasn't a day that we did not talk to each other. That's when we realized that something was going to come of this. We both got back to Utah and Matt told me that he had made a countdown of how many days until he finally got to see me again and that's when I knew he was forreal forreal about dating me.
Dates continued and our relationship grew. We fell in love and we got married and that's how it all began.