It started November 25, 2012 actually it might have started a little before that, but we didn't know that at the time...
Brennen got off of his mission November 9, 2012 which where he was serving in North Carolina for 2 years. He just happened to serve in my ward for about 7 months I believe! Just to make it clear for everyone while he was here he only came to my house for dinner once :)
On to the next! While Elder Burgoyne was serving it must have been a little angel telling me to look him up on Facebook, who has a last name like Burgoyne anyways I was certain to find him on there some how ( stockerish i know) I found him and added him on Facebook not knowing that it was going to be effecting my life forever..
Thank goodness his mother added me for him so all the credit actually goes to my mother in law!
After I had seen that Brennen got off of his mission by seeing him pop up on my news feed I thought that I would take a peek at his Facebook, no harm in that. After liking his new profile picture later that night I get a Facebook message.. who was it from? Elder Hottie? i couldn't believe it! Running into my moms room i went! "Mom mom guess who just messaged me on Facebook?" With a weird look on her face, knowing me it could have been anyone. Who she asked? Elder Hottie I replied as i look at my dad standing there who never knows whats going on.. whos that he said? I couldn't stop laughing, but mom sure knew who i was talking about!
From that message on we never went a day without talking. We texted all day every day, we had so much in common it was weird. I remember one day he said hey we should talk on the phone sometime? Oh gosh how nerve racking that was for me! I remember exactly where I was the first time that he called me, I was sitting in the kitchen I had just finished eating dinner after teaching a long night of dance. The phone rang.. I looked up at my mom with a huge grin on my face. I remember her looking at me saying "Well hurry up and answer it!"
After talking probably for a few hours that night the time difference was killing me, 3 hours doesn't seem like alot but it was and I had school the next day. After that night not only was it texting all day then talking on the phone all night began. I remember laughing and telling each other a million stories getting to know each other and became closer every day that we talked. We talked about our life plans and what we thought was going to happen.. after all of a sudden falling in love are plans suddenly started to change..
We wished that we could see each other and it was starting to suck pretty bad, of course he had plans to come out here and visit the mission again sometime soon but that wasn't going to work for me. I wanted to see him sooner than that. After talking to my mom.. all of a sudden she started looking at ticket prices to fly out to California.. what? what was she doing? my mother out of all people! She started talking to Brennen about me flying out there. wait what? me flying to California alone on a plane? alone? Was this really going to happen after it being talked and talked about it really was going to happen! MY mom bought me a plane ticket!!!! It was part of my Christmas present that year BEST PRESENT EVER!
Weeks went on and school went slow I couldn't wait until January 12 when i was getting on a plane and flying to California to see this guy.. amazing guy who I had fallen in love with over the phone in 2 months? This was crazy and exciting!!! I didn't know what i was getting myself into! After packing probably way to much I was ready to leave. I remember my parents picking me up from school and driving me to the airport what a frightening experience to fly alone! My mom had everything written out for me and maps of all the airports i had delays in.
After being on a plane for what felt like years i finally landed in LAX i was in California!! I remember getting off of the plane and hurrying to find a bathroom, I called my mom and she said you better go fix yourself up before you go see him.. thanks mom. I remember not having a clue where I was supposed to go I was pretty much just walking around like a lost puppy. I went down to find the baggage claim and took a seat. After sitting there for a few minutes I see a handsome familiar face walk through the door with a dozen roses.... my heart melted and my face was probably as red as the red hodie that i had on. Was it really him? was I really seeing the guy that I had been talking to for the past few months.
As we walked to the car both of us were still in shock that we were actually together. I believe it was about 11 in California which meant it was about 2 in North Carolina. I remember being very tired but im pretty sure all of the emotions that were going through my head kept me awake and of course my heart that was pounding a million miles per hour. I remember he took me to In and Out that night. I was so nervous I could barely eat. I thought that we were finally going to his house after the long flight I was ready for some beauty sleep. Well that's not what happened, he said he wanted to take me somewhere else, as we drove he parked and we got out of the car, I remember it like yesterday even though we were in California it was so cold outside, we walked up to this park that was on a hill. It was beautiful I remember looking out and seeing everything lights and stars it was amazing. I was in heaven it felt like. Hoping that sometime soon he would get the guts to finally kiss me.. and he did!! It was perfect, he was perfect everything was perfect I never wanted to go home I wanted to stay in California forever!
Finally after getting home that night we decided to stay up and watch movies, 3,4,5 o'clock passed. I remember we had church in the morning we were probably going to look like zombies but who really cared anyways.
Sunday rolled around and it was time to get ready to church, I had yet to meet Brennens parents. After getting ready I remember walking out of the bathroom and finally getting to meet Kelley, Brennens mom I don't know who was more nervous me or her! Off to church we went. As soon as we walked in I knew everyone was going to be wondering who the heck this girl was with Brennen. I remember meeting alot of people and one of those being Brennens dad! In Sunday school i remember everyone wanting me to read out of the scriptures to hear my southern accent.
After church we ran home to change I knew that he had something planned but he didn't tell me what. As we got in the car and started driving an hour passed he said do you know where we are going? of course it was Sunday so I really had no idea.. He finally told me that we were going to the beach. Walking on the beach was amazing I remember it being really windy and cold. We got to watch the sun set it was beautiful.
And then he had another surprise for me!!
He asked me to be his girl friend, i never thought the day would come!!
Could this trip get any better? After the trip to the beach it was another long night of movies and not going to sleep, I only had a few days there so we had to make the best out of all the time that we had! The next day arrived and he had another whole day planned out for us, of course it was a surprise so he wasn't going to tell me! On the way there he finally told me that we were going to go to the San Diego Zoo!!
It was such a fun time but there was more time in the day and of course he had more planned for us to do, what was the next surprise that he had planned for us to do? Well we were in San Diego and what else is in San Diego that is amazing and beautiful?
The San Diego Temple!!! It was such a great experience to walk around the temple grounds, it was so amazing and beautiful and I just wanted to stay there forever. We talked about how maybe next time we would be there it would hopefully be for something amazing where we both could go in. Hint Hint of marriage. Right then and there I knew that I wanted to be with him even more and possibly for the rest of my life. The time we had together was getting shorter and we didn't have much time, I was leaving the next day to go back home to North Carolina. Of course that night we stayed up all night and didn't get a lick of sleep. The next morning as he was upstairs getting ready and i was down stairs packing my mom was texting me about the time that I had and if I was sad to be coming home, of course I had an amazing time and of course I was sad to be coming home. It was the best time of my life and I was about to leave the one that I was in love with and didn't know the next time I was going to see him again. As I was talking to my mom all of a sudden i started crying.. I was crying I didn't want to leave at all I don't think I had ever been that sad in my life. I didn't know what was going to happen I was about to have a relationship with someone who was all the was across the country from me. How was it going to work? As we were driving to the air port I felt so sick I didn't want to leave at all.. After many tears and saying my goodbyes to Brennen I went and waited to get on the plane to go home. As I was waiting I was talking on the phone to my mom we were both balling our eyes out, the people in the air port probably thought I was about to die or something. As I was talking on the phone to my mom she helped me feel better by letting me know that everything was going to work out. If Brennen and I were supposed to be together somehow it would all work out and everything would be okay and oh was she right...
You all know how Brennen likes surprises, I knew that he was planning to come out to visit me I just didn't know when. A few weeks passed and it was killing me to know when he was going to come out to see me! It was February 14 Valentines Day, I was so sad to not be with the one that I loved. My mom, Ashley and I were running a few errands while my dad and brother went to go run a few errands as well, we were all going to meet at a Mexican restaurant for dinner that night. The girls got to the restaurant first as we sat there waiting I was thinking to myself wouldn't it be amazing if Brennen came walking in with my dad and brother when they got here. I was day dreaming about it, a few minutes I saw my dad walk in, behind him was my brother I look behind him and there he was!! Brennen was here for me behind my brother walking in the restaurant that we were eating at for Valentines Day. Was it really true? did my day dream just come true? It was like the first time that I saw him again I was in complete shock! As we sat there my mom said Brennen is there something that you wanna tell Sarah? Sarah? do wanna ask Brennen how long he is going to stay to visit? So I looked at him and asked how long are you going to stay? and he said forever he was moving here he was going to work and go to school out here in North Carolina. It was like a dream come true I never thought that I would ever hear those words come out of his mouth.
A few months passed and we had the time of our lives hanging out and getting to know each other even more! We went on so many dates I knew that the question was coming soon, it had to be I just didn't know when it was killing me!
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