breakfast food from hell

Random fact about Matt and Bethanie: we are not the biggest fans of breakfast

Even weirder fact about me: I hate hate hate the smell of bacon in an apartment.

I was reminded of this story because my roommate made bacon last night and seriously it smelt...

like a wet dog.

had slept in our living room.

and then pooped everywhere.

But back to the story....

When Matt and I had first started dating (like maybe three days into our love affair) my roommate made bacon :( and this made me very sad. Because i smelt like bacon and my clothes smelt like bacon and my hair smelt like bacon. And I'm sorry, a girl just can't feel pretty if she smells like bacon!!! So i was telling Matt about this and feeling kind of angry about the bacon and out of the blue he shows up at my door with a tube of cookie dough in his hands :)

He brought it over so we could make cookies to get rid of the bacon smell :) So we spent the afternoon making cookies and watching tv and getting to know each other. Matt does sweet stuff like that all the time and he is just amazing in every way. Im so glad i found an incredible guy (who is sexy to boot!) who will bring over cookie dough just to make my day a little better.

Weekend of Goodbyes and Hellos

So a few weekends ago, even though I was swamped with homework, I had an awesome weekend. I got to go to Dallas to see Matt for a few days before he left for Afganistan and then I flew to Gilbert to see my brothers who had just gotten home from their missions.

Even though I was so excited to see Matthew one more time, it was really hard for him to leave.

It was nice to go straight home and be happy and excited to see my brothers who had been serving missions in Hawaii and Mexico.

Matthew was as amazing as ever and we spent our time together talking, laughing, shopping and eating (all of my favorite things with my favorite person)!!!

Blaze and Ryan are both doing great and loving being home (even though they are still awkward RMs!).

They both did an amazing job on their homecoming talks and I cant wait to spend more time with them at Thanksgiving :)

Yep my family is that awesome!

*only missing Matt :/*

wow, I love him :)

i thank You God for most this amazing

Matthew always knows how to brighten the gloomiest day.

Today I got these

beautiful flowers in the mail.

In the card he said

he had been thinking about me

and he loved me :)

I am so grateful for a loving future husband

who always knows how to make things better.

Mmmm I love him more then anything

and I cant wait for him to come home to me.

I love the look of my name with his!

Instant Attraction

I can't say that the first time I saw Matt it was love at first sight (that would be weird stealing a guy from your BFF even if she wasn't interested) but it was definitely instant attraction. We ended up convincing Matt and Bennett to see Leap Year and Cami and I got to the theater a little before the boys. When I first saw Matt, I thought he was super cute and i had no idea why Cami wasn't totally in love with him :)

Such a romantic place to meet your future husband right?

When we sat in the theater it went Matt on the aisle then me, Cami, Bennett and their friend Katrina. Im putting this small detail in there because whenever I used to go to the movies with boys and girls my mom would always asked how everyone was seated haha :) But anywho, even though I was attracted to Matt I tried to just act casually around him and not really flirt with him until i could get Cami alone and ask her if it was ok that I pursued him. Kinda wish I hadn't cause Im pretty sure he thought that i was mean and didn't like him but i guess it all worked out in the end. The movie was great, such a cute and funny love story. I would totally recommend it!

I could tell from the time we spent before and after the movie that Bennett and Matt were total goof balls in a good way, just like all my guy friends on missions and my brothers. Matt or Bennett said something to the extent that we should all hang out again and I said,

"Yeah I could use some more weird people in my life!"

I meant that in the best way, cause i truly think that everyone has their own special weirdness. But of course it made me look like an idiot and i really didn't think that Matt was that interested until...

Let's Start From the Very Beginning

So unlike every other moment in my life, I was not looking for a relationship. I know crazy right, what single girl up at BYU isn't looking for her eternal companion to sweep her off her feet. But I really, honestly, surprisingly was not.

A few months early, I had gotten out of a relationship (in hind sight such a blessing but pretty sucky at the time!) and had just given up on a very desperate try to get this boy to notice me. And by the way ladies, if he doesn't notice you the moment he sees you he's not worth your time. I was just starting to get back on my feet and enjoy my singleness, having fun and living life. So of course that was the perfect time to get swept off my feet ;)

Matt was actually very interested in my dear friend Camiel Eberline. She told me about Matt a month before I actually meet him. Friend of Bennett, took her on a "kinda" date rock climbing, always paid (classy right?) and just wasn't her type.

So when Matt called Cami on a Thursday night (March 18 if you are keeping track) and asked her to go to a dollar movie of course she had to bring her friend to make sure he didn't try to put the moves on her!