Posted in Lifeon May 27, 2009
The story begins like this. Upon moving to Colorado, I met a wonderful girl with the name of Sandy Carter. I quickly found that I had a serious crush on her, but she had a crush on this other guy, so I considered things game over.

On the front porch swing
Over the summer of 2008, I established quite a friendship with Sandy, and I realized that I enjoyed her company more and more.
Near the end of July, we were both at a party, and I really was interested in her. We decided to hang out on the swinging bench on the front porch. I put my arm around the back side of the swing, just a little too shy to put it around Sandy.
My parents came to visit me in August, I knew that I wanted to be more than just friends with Sandy. At Church, Sandy befriended my mom, and I felt that I was given a green flag.
After my parents left, Sandy was visiting me in my apartment watching the olympics, and turns out that we started holding hands. About a week later after a stroll through a park we kissed. That night, Sandy was so happy that she couldn’t help but to call and tell me how happy she was. It was then that I asked her if she would be my girlfiend, making it official instead of assumed.

Sandy and her gingerbread house
I think things started becoming more serious during December. Sandy and I had lots of fun Christmas activities, including making cinnamon ornaments and real gingerbread houses.
When I visited her and her family during Christmas, I began realizing more clearly just how much I love her. Ideas about marriage were forming in my head, and I wanted her to visit Oregon before proposing, so I made arrangments for us to fly to Oregon for a three day weekend in the middle of Feburary.
And that is how the story begins.
4 Comments
justin hileman
May 27th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
“… turns out that we started holding hands.”
That’s my favorite part of this post
Bruce
May 29th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Very nice. Is that porch swing picture a reenactment, or the real thing?
Jacob
May 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
@Bruce – The picture was the real thing.
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