Fall Semester

Here comes Fall semester, I decided to really focus and buckle down...18 credits, I think I will join the dance team, and yes, I would love to volunteer at Head Start (a preschool for low income families) yes, please make me the manager over all fundraising for Eastern Idaho for a project called the JoveHema Helping Foundation (raising money for kids with medical needs in Honduras). Not to forget my church duties, FHE on Monday's and Tuesday's = Devo! Let's start with Monday's...you get what is called a family it consists of 1 guy apartment and 2 girl apartments...girls out number guys like 4/1 at this college. Try to picture this, we walk over there, there is only a fence between our complexes but some of my new roommates aren't the fence jumping kind...we knock, they answer, we say "Hi, its Monday and we just wanted to meet the guys in our family", They tell us to "Come in," we sit down...its really weird, the girls on one couch, the guys on the other...hum... We start asking the basic questions, 1- "How long have you been going to college?" 2- What is your major? 3- (girls always gotta know) "Where did you serve your mission?" Those are the questions, if you are interested in their answers you will keep talking to them, if you are not...there are other fish in the sea! Ok, so our brothers...Daniel (RM; computer dude), Robert (RM; fiancee dumped him; World War Craft lover...), Jordan River (Pre-mish; from Montana but...NORMAL!), Benjamin (Pre-mish; girlfriend...wait who is she? Another girlfriend?) haha, Tanner (pre-mish; annoying), and...................................... Aaron Charles Key (RM; ATHLETIC; handsome; muscular; super nice and interesting...ding ding ding, we have a winner! For...2 of the girls in our apartment! Oh dang! Leslie calls him the second we walk outta the door. I decided to have a BBQ at my house in IF, music, dancing, food! I invited our FHE brothers and the next day we were making plans to go on a "Apt. date" just so Leslie can go out with Aaron, I am the backbone in the Apt. so I call him and ask for her, he says "ok." Date rolls around and I have just had the crappiest day of my life so I decide that I am not going on this Apt. date, Niki can't find a date so we will stay home together, eat ice cream, and get fat! Aaron comes and finds out we are not going...he makes us go! Really, he had to force me! Can you believe it? I am on a date with 1 guy, three girls, this Aaron guy must feel great about himself, right? My day was crappy, one of my uber rich rommies complained, and complained, and complained about her food...boy they musta hated us but on the drive there and back Aaron and I talked, about everything. I think we kinda forgot that there were TWO other girls in the truck. I sat at one end of the group at the movies, then Nici, the Leslie, AARON, Chelsie, her date, Elisa, and her date. Movie over, go home time. Bedtime right? Wrong! Nici likes him and since Leslie said it didn't work out the way she had hoped, Nici snagged him up! Yes, with a 4/1 ratio guys are similar to a piece of meat, LOL! So, at church...remember I am the one with the backbone, I ask Aaron if he would like to have dinner at our Apt. He says, "yes." Dinner it is, I make everything except the garlic bread with is the kinda you just have to sit in the oven, watch it and take it out...it was burned. I decided if I was going to cook for this date I was going to eat it too, so I asked my friend David Howard to come over and be my date, that way I wouldn't be in another date with 1 guy, and 2 girls...We ate and talked... then David and I left to do a little 4-wheeling (that should make me feel better), Aaron stayed and watched the game at our Apt. and when I got back, I decided to be cool, butt into her conversation about her being to shy to make the first move on a guy, "its easy" I said..."look" and Aaron and I were holding hands. That night Nici told me what she thought of that little move I pulled...she didn't like it. Aaron and I started texting eachother, and then "that" text came...would you like to go to a BYU football game with me? What? :/ Nici, Aaron, Nici, Aaron...she's my best friend?...cute guy, BYU football game? I asked her cause I thought that was the right thing to do, she said "sure, yea go...its ok." So I told him "yes," but that night I found out what "sure, yea go...its ok" really meant! I guess I don't know girls "Golden Rules" very well... I still went!!! It was pretty fun...listened to country music, talked, and then I set myself up for the feeling I didn't think I could feel for him yet...sadness when I asked him to tell me a secret and he told me that he was still in love with a girl that he had dated through highschool, hadwrote him off on the mission and who is now married...WOW! He then asked what my secret was and I told him something different then what I probably should of told him. The game was fun!!! We ate at Olive Garden that night! That was yummy, then when we were on our way home he sarcastically asked " you don't have a boyfriend right?" I said "no," but decided to leave out that I had a missionary because that wasn't the question...oops! That is when things got difficult. He would text me and want to hang out, I would make up an excuse (most of the time they were pretty good ones too, because if you recall the beginning of this post my life was crazy!) Then one day, I had a really rough day and the first person I thought of was Aaron, he asked me if I would like to go on a drive. Driving in the middle of no mans land became a regular thing, I would have a long day at school and we would drive. Nothing romantic...to me we where just friends. One night I got a text that read "What do you want me to do? I like you a lot but it doesn't seem like you are ever going to want the same things as I do?" Well, of course, I was holding back, my missionary, school, everything... I text him back, "I like you but...I don't want anything with you." Ok, so you know how girls are, they expect guys to read the fine print behind those big words, this tiny print probably said "Keep trying, I am scared. I have been dating my missionary as far back as I can remember, I REALLY like you, but I don't want to get hurt!" He must of missed the fine print because he decided to rebound or something of the sort, he decided to KISS a girl...some random girl! Are you serious, did you think I wouldn't find out? Or did you want me to find out? I found out the next day, called him and chewed him out...haha, he hung up on me and I decided to be miserable for three LONG days... I guess he was miserable to because on the third day I text me and asked him, "why he did that? 4real?" He started texting me excuses and I text him back and said "are you not man enough to talk to me in person?" Well, I guess he was because he said he was coming over right then, I said heck NO and that I would meet him at Subway in an hour. (behind the scenes- I was getting ready, makeup, hair, cute clothes) K, perfect! This will make him sorry! I pulled up he got in the car wearing sweat pants and a hoodie...hum. He turned to me and told me "I looked beautiful," I said " yup, whatever" without looking at him cause I knew he meant it and keep driving! My destination, Porter Park. Country music (105.5 the Hawk was playing just loud enough) we started arguing, both making excuses and placing blame...the songs that were playing on the radio were all about cheating and being hurt by someone... then Aaron asked if I had personally selected the playlist tonight, for a second we just looked at eachother and then we started laughing! SO MUCH LAUGHING! We forgot that we were mad at eachother, and then we kissed! :) Yea, our first kiss wasn't that romantic but I liked it! We started hanging out everday and then we started dating, he left for Thanksgiving break back to Washington and I was miserable! I realized that I really did like this guy! He came back and asked me to come home with him at the end of the semester (which was December 13th) to meet his family and see where he grew up, I went. At this point only thinking that it would be fun but because of the weather what is suppose to be like a 9-10 hour drive turned into a 17 1/2 hour drive! We got there and it just happened, I asked him to say prays with me that night and while he was praying, I KNEW! I wanted to be with him forever!!! It was right! I went to bed that night but not really to sleep. The next day we were driving in his big, sexy, Dodge truck and I decided to tell him. I whispered it in his ear, "I want to be with you forever," he stopped looked at me and for the first time he said "I love you! It was perfect!!!
We set the date for April 2nd 2009, I went home for Christmas knowing that we were gonna get married but no ring, we didn't tell our parents yet, and not knowing exactly when I would see him again...HA, he flew me back the 29th of December!!! So, a little over two weeks...those two weeks boy did they drag on though. I didn't know when he was going to purpose? New Years Eve...nope, New Years Day...NO? When? It finally happened on January 7th 2009! He took me to a lake in Washington, it was night and dark and pretty, he asked me to dance with him to a couple country songs and he sang them in my ear, he told me that he loved me and then said I can't wait any longer, he got down on one knee and pulled out a little BOX! Everyone knows what that means!!! "Cassandra will you marry me?" "YES!!!" It was offical, we decided that we wanted to be married sooner then April, DON'T wait if its right! We moved it to February 28th, 2009!