How We Met

So a couple of girlfriends of mine would go up to BYUI and go country dancing every wednesday night. Every week they tried to get me to go, and I would kindly decline! haha! I love country dancing and all, just not a fan of two-step and thats what they do more of up there, instead of country swing. FINALLY one random wednesday in the beginning of May 2012, they asked me if I wanted to go, and my first thought was, 'hmm yeah it might be fun, I think i'd like to go', then turned to, ' oh no, no i'll be fine not going'. Well my friend/roommate saw my weakness at the beginning and told me that i'm going and that I don't have a choice! So they dragged me up there. The first guy who asked me to dance was this little 18 year old freshman, and once he found out I was 23 he bolted out so fast! It was pretty hilarious! Then the next guy to ask me to dance was one of the instructor guys, we was pretty good at swinging, but super fast and tiring! So after that dance I ran straight to the drinking fountain, being very winded and parched. Then all of a sudden this guy (Nathan) behind me says "hey, I think I just danced with your friend Kirsten!"..... my first thought was 'how did you know she was my friend??' but I didn't say that, instead I said 'oh yeah she's my roommate'. Then we just got to talking and joking around with each other. It was a very fun and easy going conversation. I hadn't had one of those with a guy in a very long time! It was refreshing! So we kept talking through a whole song (it was a line dance, so we didn't want to go there ;)). Once the song ended he turned to me and asked me to dance! And the song just starting was one of my most favorite songs "Crazy Girl"! I was pretty excited to dance with this guy, who was so fun to talk to, and to one of my favorite songs! On our way out to the dance floor he asks me if I was excited, I yelled "HECK YEAH!!" =) 

So we danced, talked and laughed, and had a great time, that when the song ended he asked if he could steal me for another dance, and of course I said Yes! (OH and good side note, he didn't two-step, he only country swings! very good thing!) We ended up dancing 3 dances in a row, then he let me go. With the last few songs to go before the night ended, HE FOUND ME! And asked me to dance again! I was so excited! I had been trying to find him for the last little while, but wasn't able to. We ended up dancing the last 3 songs together, having a great time! I had asked him what his story was towards the end of the last song, and he was starting to tell me, but my friends and I had to get going. So he smoothly asked for my number for reason of 'needing to finish his story!' I was very impressed! He texted me that night for a couple hours. Then the next day he called me while I was on my way to Institute. I had gone early to go play the chapel piano, but instead we ended up talking for about an hour, until I HAD to hang up because I had to go start institute. We went on a date that Sunday night, we went walking around the river in Idaho Falls. It took us 4 hours to get around the whole thing! We kept stopping and sitting on all the different benches they have around the whole river and just kept talking for hours! It was the best first date ever! I loved it! After that we pretty much saw each other or talked to each other every day! He made me so twitter-pated! I would get butterflies every time he called or texted, and especially when I was about to see him!!! 

Nathan's side of the story at the dance: He says he had seen me from across the room and said,"yup i'm going to ask her to dance". So on his way over to me, I guess he was just a couple feet away when I got asked to dance by that instructor guy. My roommate Kirsten had been  standing right next to me, because were talking before, so he decided to go ask her to dance! So that is how he knew we were friends! When he got in line at the drinking fountain he saw me and thought 'that's her! that's the girl I was going to ask to dance'.... So he sparked a conversation! And the rest is history!! =)