This was a fun day, everyone getting to know eachother on a more friendly close basis. Thats were crushes started developing also.... and only my girls know this but Mark was my first crush of that group. Not that that meant we got together anytime in that near future but we did become friends. Over the next couple summers we spent alot of time at the tree farm. Best place on the river!
This summer (2003) we all became solid lasting friends. That bond was formed where we would always care about eachother. This however is also the summer were things got a little complicated. I had a summer thing going on with Sebastian and then began dating Tom. But even though I dated Tom through high school Mark was always there as a friend to both of us. And I was always fascinated with Mark, always wondering what made him the incredible guy that he was. The summer before Mark left on his mission we were both single again and we spent a good quality amount of time together. It was easy for us, we were very natural together, naturally good friends and it was so easy to fall in love with him which I knew was happening that summer (2006). We did alot of fun things together, one day I always thought of was towards the end of the summer when it was getting closer to time for him to leave. We decided we would go play some tennis at the new high school courts. That lasted for awhile but Mark and I tend to find new and more entertaining ways to spend our time. And we started hitting the tennis balls like they were baseballs and seeing who could hit them over the fence and farther into the soccor field and that wasnt even enough for us we also would race to see who could get to the balls first. Which involved tripping and tackling eachother. But it was fun, later that day we ended up int he walmart parking lot and we took this picture which i had on my bulletin board the whole time mark was on his mission.
I think you can tell we had fun that day :) Another thing about that summer that I always think about is all the many nights and hours we spent on the trampoline in my yard. We would be doing any random activity and someone would yell TRICKS and it would be a race to the trampoline! And one night we stayed out for hours on the trampoline just talking. It really was an incredible summer. Before he left on his mission he gave a farewell talk in his ward which my family went to and then afterwards he had a lunch/ goodbye party at his house.
The last night I saw him before he left on his mission he came to Lebanon to my house and we again spent some more time on the trampoline. But it was different knowing this was the last time I would see him for two years. I told him how is really hated goodbyes and the worst part was watching someone pull away knowing they could be driving out of your life forever. Two years isnt forever but it can sure feel that way. We took some pictures together and said goodbye on the porch... I had thought about kissing him goodbye. But thought too much about it and that it would probably just complicate things with him leaving and all. So I didnt do it. He walked me back in to my house so I didnt have to watch him leave, sweet huh? But as soon as he closed the door it was so surreal... kind of like a dream, it just didnt feel real like he was actually leaving. But once it hit me I couldnt help but cry.
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We wrote on his mission of course! He went to Uraguay and was a great missionary!
He came back in August 2008 and he shook my hand like a good missionary does :) It was great to see him again! It wasn't too awkward but we were only home for a couple weeks before it was back to school for the both of us. I didnt get to see him as much as I wanted to that summer but at least I got to see him. The next year we kept in contact some.. thats what cell phones are good for. But it wasnt until this last summer that we really got to spend any quality time together. And let me tell you it wasnt and easy start. As this summer was starting I had it in my head that it wouldnt be much different than that summer before his mission. I wasnt expecting anything to happen between us but I was hoping that it would be easy again.But it was a rocky start to the beginning of the summer, we didnt click right away... I tried but we just couldnt get back to where we were. Time can change people ya know. So one night it was kind of the breaking point and he was over at my house and made a show of looking at the clock to see what time it was. So I told him he didnt have to stay, he really wasnt under lock and key! He felt bad of course but after that I was feeling really stubborn, I just knew that after that if he hung out with me it would be because he felt guilty and not because he actually wanted too. So I was all ready to just see him at church activities and give up on trying to become best friends again. But he was texting me that night on his way home and I told him that I just wanted to have fun with him again and that I wanted things to be easy between us again. He said that it could be that way and that he was sorry and everything. But i still felt like he was doing it because he felt guilty which im still pretty sure he was at first. But as we started to do things together again it got better everytime. After a couple weeks I was really starting to fall for him again so I was trying to convince our friend Elijah to set up a date for us to go on. And so me and Elijah started operation Sparkle Markle and we got this whole double date thing set up and Elijah was pretty sure Mark would ask me.. I wasnt totally sure. But i really didnt have to be, because this girl from the ward called him up that week and asked him out on a date and so she ended up going on the date that I had helped plan for me and Mark. Anyways I wasnt going to sit at home alone that night so I went out too. But a couple weeks later Mark made it up to me and we went on our first date, and it was on July 3 we went to Detroit lake and watched a firework show. There were literally fireworks on our first date. It was Pretty sweet :)
After that date it started the monthly determining the relationship talks. Which are never fun let me tell you! Long story short during the summer He decided that it would be better to not date since he was going to Provo and I was going to Rexburg. I wasnt really into that idea... I thought it sucked but what could I do. After he left for Provo we talked everyday! He became my best friend and the person I confided everything in. He helped me through some really tough experiences and was there for me through it all. In october i went down to Payson to stay with my Aunt and he came and spent quite a bit of the weekend with me. Already it was really hard to say goodbye to him. It was a really fun weekend though.
The next month it was his turn to come up to Rexburg! It was his first trip up here. And I got to introduce him to my roommates and we did alot of fun things we went to a bonfire and played hide and go seek in the defense caves and spent time with everyone. I didnt want to be but i was a little dissappointed that I had no time that weekend when it could be just me and him. But it was fun playing football in the freezing cold and showing him around campus. He even got to come to an Oregon Dinner.
I have learned that with Mark everything is complicated!And Right after he came to Rexburg it got complicated again. I met a guy in one of my classes. And He took me out and it was one of those instant connection things. I wasnt sure if anything was going to happen so at first I didnt say anything. But then it got to the point where i needed to choose between Fongo and Mark. And I knew that Mark didnt feel it was right for us to date but i still had that thought in my head that I would ruin everything between us if I did date Fongo. I mean technically you could say me and him were already dating but to tell Mark was something totally different. I finally got up the nerve to tell mark and he basically gave me the go ahead and So I started dating Fongo. That only lasted about a month and it didnt keep me and mark from talking still. We didnt talk near as much but we still kept in contact. And then we drove home together for Christmas and spent alot of time together during the break. When things seemed to be going terrible for me, all Mark had to do was walk in the door and the world would start spinning the right direction again. We went to a new years eve party at our friend Sebastian's house.
Things really got exciting a couple weeks into the New Year. When we stayed up late into the night talking about what a relationship would be like and why we arnt together but how we could be together. But we really didnt get anywhere with the conversation. The next day I was sitting in church and got a text on my phone that wanted to talk to me. So i start thinking of all the possible horrible scenarios that it could be before he texted me and said it was a good thing and he was pretty sure I would like it. Which made me really curious. But I waited until after sunday school to call him. And he told me he thought we should be together and then asked if he could be my boyfriend and I said YES! Of course :) Which was the start of our long distance relationship. But I got flowers from him :)
They were beautiful. He came up the next weekend and we went sledding and had our first kiss and spent every waking minute with eachother. It was pretty incredible.
Then most recently was my trip down to Utah which I wrote about already, but it was Valentines Day and I got to watch Mark with my cousins he is like a human jungle gym but man I couldnt help falling more and more in love with him. He is incredible and He is coming up to rexburg again on Thursday!!!!
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