January 2010

New Year's Eve 2009 at 11:30 I was driving out to El Dorado Hills to go to a YSA Dance and to surprise Elle. I called her to see what she was up to (and to slyly make sure she was going to be there when I arrived) and got there right before midnight. I think she liked it, even though there really wasn't any way for me to tell... She was with friends and other boy and her response was understandably understated, even for her ;)


Jordan called and said to have my phone next to me at midnight so that he could call and wish me a happy new years!  I thought he was at his aunts house with his family and was very surprised and excited to see him walk into the dance :)


I was with my family previous to that, I left early so that Elle would be the first person I would see in 2010. And I wanted to kiss her too ;) but there were too many people around... And she probably wouldn't have let me. This I know for a fact because the night before we were watching a movie at her grandparents' house in Wilton and she told me that she moved "really slow" and that it would probably be a long time before she even let me hold her hand.


Haha I said I wouldn't kiss anyone unless I was in a relationship with them. I was interested in Jordan but we had been in different states for a while and I was still figuring him out :) so I made him work for it.


Yes, she did make me work for it... Understatement of the year. Anyways, she drove out to Utah with her dad shortly after that. When I got back out to Utah we started to hang out pretty much every day. I had class and basketball practice, but when I wasn't busy we would do stuff together: dinner, playing games, and watching Lost at my apartment (I was trying to help her experience the first 5 seasons before the final season started on tv). She spent a lot of time with her cousins and it was difficult to pry her away from them at first, but it got easier. I remember going to watch She's the Man with them and her and some boys at her cousin's apartment. It was okay. They kind of over-rate that movie ;)


First of all, I love that movie. Meanwhile, I spent most of my time waiting for Jordan to get out of class or hanging out with Kait and Jos. I didn't start school again until April and had a lot of free time on my hands. I looked for a job but became easily discouraged. We watched lots of Lost as Jordan mentioned and he even got up the courage to hold my hand. We went on a lot of drives and talked. Once he even called the BYU operator and asked the girl that answered for some ideas of questions to ask me :) Jordan had a lot of interesting things to talk about and I always enjoyed spending time with him.


So, the majority of the month of January consisted of Elle and I starting to spend increasing proportions of our day together. And a lot of the time we spent together was the Lost season 1-5 blitzkreig that I mentioned earlier. Also, we watched Marley and Me. For some reason that movie made me cry a lot... And yeah, I finally got up the courage to hold her hand. It was during one of our many Lost encounters. And it did take A LOT of courage because Elle is very guarded with her feelings and it was nearly impossible to tell how much she may have really liked me. I honestly felt like she was just saying "yes" to spending so much time with me because she was nice. No reason for me to think otherwise really. But I really, really liked her and I wanted to be in a relationship with her.


In fact, I remember telling her that the summer before she came out. I took her to the invisible city to have a "heart to heart" before I left back to BYU (this was after we went with Alexa and Shaunna to Big Spoon frozen yogurt and Elle dropped one of the big spoons on the ground, making quite the ruckus for which she was very embarrassed until Shaunna told her it was okay and not to worry). At the invisible city I told her that I wanted to date her more and would want to have a relationship if we were living in the same place (obviously not having me at BYU/her in Sacramento).


We are getting off the topic of January but thats ok. Even though Jordan said he wanted to be in a relationship I also knew that he lost interest in girls quickly and had never been in a relationship for longer than three months so I was sure that he would forget about me once he went back to BYU.


But I didn't ;) haha, proved you wrong there babe!              ... back to January...
It was the first month that we were together in Utah and we were definitely starting to build our relationship. I told the girls of the Maple Mountain High School basketball team that I was coaching that she was my girlfriend and brought her to one of the games so they could all see her and be proud of me. And so Elle would get to see me being cool. As the month went on, she finally started to see that I was pretty cool and started to want my body too :)


Best Memory:


I remember it was January 13th when we held hands for the first time! Haha, so much for being "slow" ;) I was really nervous, but I decided to just go for it.. and the rest is history!


My favorite memory is watching Lost together. I do not remember the date we first held hands haha but I do remember Jordan being nervous :)