My Knight in Shining Armor....

So I figured I would write my side of the story when it comes to Eric and me being together... Maybe one day I can get him to write his story... Here's to hoping! ;)

The story begins on January 7, 2011. I was sitting at work bored out of my mind, which is common because work SUCKS! In walks the HOTTEST guy I had ever seen. My first thought was DANG! He is cute! My second thought... He looks like he could be in the military... And of course I LOVE that idea. We started talking and he was really easy to talk to. I kept thinking I should really hook him up with one of my good friends (since I was crushing on Dion's friend at the time).... I didn't have a ton of time to really talk to him because I was in a hurry to get home and get things ready for my sister Whitney's bachelorette party. However I found out he was getting baptized the next night and I thought that was so cool! He also told me that he came to Utah to joust... His thing was that girls love a guy in shining armor! He is right about that one! The whole time I was talking to him I was texting Kim all about him... We thought it would be kinda fun to go to his baptism but I thought it would be really awkward since I had just met him, I didn't have his number to find out any more info and Whitney was going through the temple at about the same time....

I let things go for about a week. I had Whitney's wedding to help with, Dion's family in town and this other guy on my mind. However I really looked forward to seeing him when he would come around the office. I had no problem with him stopping by the office! Whitney's wedding came and went... Every so often I would talk to her about this Eric guy. She knows me really well and would make comments about me liking him and I would deny it.

Our next big encounter happened on the 19th of January. We had a staff meeting where we were going to sign up to work in groups. Before the meeting started I was talking to my only real friend in the office (Marisa) and was telling her that she needed to meet this guy! We were going to sit by him and hang out with him but by the time we got in there the seats by him were taken. After the meeting a Sports Night was going on and I ended up staying to hang out since he was there. I still didn't want to admit I liked him but at the same time something fascinated me about him. Marisa had to go and help out at basketball so she left... however a little while later I decided to go and see her because I was kinda bored and Eric wasn't really around me. After seeing her for a while I went back to Sports Night and started talking with Hayley. Before I knew it Eric came and sat down by us. Next thing I know Isaac walks in and just stares at me. This was so super awkward! Eric noticed this and decided to glare at him and he put his arm around me to let Isaac know not to bother me. I loved being close to him! Eric ended up walking me to my car to make sure Isaac wasn't following me and then Hayley and I drove him over to his car.  After dropping him off we talked about what a nice guy he was...

The next day Whitney and Dion left to go home to Australia. Dion pulled me aside and informed me that he had had a talk with Brian and was told that Brian didn't like me. It got even worse when Brian showed up to the airport to see them off. What an awkward night! However the whole night I kept thinking about Eric and his arm being around me!

Friday came and I was being super sarcastic with Brian because I was frustrated about the way he was going about in a sense leading me on. While this was going on I randomly get a text from Eric asking me if I was going to go to video game night. I asked him if he wanted me to and he said yes. It was at that moment I began thinking that maybe he could actually like me. I was at my brother Ammon's basketball game at the time and so I told him that I would come a little later. While watching the game Brian finally made it clear that he didn't like me and I had a good cry because I felt I had wasted months of my life on him.... After crying for a few minutes I decided that I was done with it all and wanted to move on... After the game Ammon, Lacey, Cori, Ry, Lilly and me went over to game night and hung out with Eric for a while. While there he made a comment about how Hayley had been talking about me to him and was telling him he should ask me out. I kinda laughed about it and then sent Hayley a text finding out what she was doing.  After leaving the room and heading down to the car I get another text from Eric saying that he thought Hayley had a great idea. I had to agree! We spent the rest of the weekend texting each other and decided to hang out on Monday night together.

Monday came and I was SUPER excited to spend time with Eric... How could I not be?!?! He followed me home from work and we hung out at my mom's... Everything went well and we really hit it off! Since then we have spent time together almost every day (minus the few days he was sick and the few days he was out of town jousting)... Every day I fall more and more in love with him!