So this semester has been a doozy. Clark and I both have 7:30 class, I have it on Monday Wednesday and Friday and he has it on Tuesday and Thursday. The morning's we aren't in class we are working so we are always up! I also chose to take 18 credits this semester, it hasn't been as hard as I expected it to be but it is still hard. Amidst all the chaos of the semester we decided to go on a cruise for Spring Break, seeing as how we got a great deal and I had never been on one. We went on the Carnival Splendor, Mexican Riviera Cruise. It was a blast.
On Sunday, my mother-in-law Claudia drove us to the airport (she also paid for our flight... thanks Claudia!) we flew into Long Beach California and then caught a little scary city bus that drove us to our ship. This little scary city bus was all Clark's idea, to his credit, it worked out great. We only paid $5 round trip for the bus ride instead of the $70 shuttle service the airport offers. Can you say exciting? Oh and we didn't get mugged. When we got on the ship we ate and did the safety drill thing and went to dinner and watched us sail away.
On Monday, we had a day at see. We filled it with a workout, lots of eating, going to shows on the ship, going on the water slide, sleeping and some dancing. We also had a formal dinner. We loved our waiter too. He was from Costa Rica. His name was Randy and he is awesome.
On Tuesday, we docked at Cabo San Lucas. I absolutely am in love with Cabo. I think it is such a beautiful place. After looking at the little Mexican shops for a while we found a guy that took us out to lovers beach. One side of this beach is calm and the other has some massive waves. I, of course, wanted to play in the massive wave side so Clark and I would run at the waves and as they came in we wound run back as fast as we could. It was so fun. We did it for a few hours. Then, we went on land and went shopping for a little while.We then, went back to the boat and relaxed and played the rest of the night.
On Wednesday, we were still at Cabo so we decided to go Parasailing. It was an adventure. It wasn't as scary as you think it is and we had two couples go before us so we got to watch them before we went. We also went back to my favorite place 'lovers beach' that day and played in the waves again. I got took out by a wave and an old man saved my life too. It was an interesting experience. We enjoyed the sun though!
On Thursday, we docked at Puerto Vallarta. We had booked a canopy tour earlier and it was well worth the money we paid. We got to climb up a mountain and go down 14 zip lines to the bottom. Some of them were over rivers too! It was so cool. After we were done, Clark went to the little animal place by the canopy tours and held an iguana and monkeys. The guy told us to empty his pockets before he went in and held them because the monkeys would take the stuff out of them. He was right. The monkey un-velcroed Clark's swimsuit pockets and proceeded to look through them. It was so cute! I was to big of a wimp to hold them. Clark also played on the slide after. Then, we went and shopped a little and went back to the boat.
On Friday and Saturday we had days at see and just enjoyed ourselves. I woke up one night at 2 AM to Clark eating a turkey sandwich and chips that he had ordered from room service. We had a blast and I'm so happy we can share experiences like this one.
It was the perfect spring break!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
How our STORY began... (Brynne's Recollection)
The Dance
After a fall semester of dating a little and a lot of homework, I decided I was going to go back to school and be really social in my ward, get to know a few of the boys and make some girlfriends. As I ventured back to Old Farm I started of the year with a bang. I got asked on a few dates with different guys. One consisted of a movie and cards, another was a dinner and another rock climbing. It was really fun. Then came the IWA dance. I really wasn't into IWA things at all but my roommates proceeded to consistently tell me to ask someone. I decided it would be a fun "social" thing to do. I went through our ward directory, I laugh every time I think about that morning I did that. It was pretty much really shallow but hey, I had to ask someone who fit my criteria. My criteria consisted of: good looking, fun to be with and not cocky! I thought it was a pretty good list. I narrowed it down to about eight boys in my ward and yes Clark Evans ended up being in my top five along with his roommate, a red head, a good friend or "pre-mi" (as my roommate would say), and my FHE partner.
I ended up choosing Clark and came to find out that he had already been asked. So then everyone told me I should ask his roommate but I thought "If I want a chance to date Clark, why would I ask his roommate?" So I asked my FHE partner. He was an awesome date and we had a lot of fun. Then, Clark found out I was going to ask him, from me (it was a plan). And he set up a date for the evening after the dance. (I was a little difficult to make plans with also, because I was scared to go with him, don't know why, maybe I knew I'd fall a little too fast!) And I DID!
The First Date
That next night (February 6) he took me to Cafe Sabor. We had smoothies there and our dinner and then we headed to the USU basketball game, which we won! After I didn't want the date to end and he asked me if I wanted to watch a movie at his place. We watched Hoosiers and cuddled a little. The funny thing is that we both agreed at the end of the night it was the "slowest, most boring" sports show we had ever seen and next time we watched a movie it would be Remember the Titans. Then, he walked me home, across the parking lot. It was a great first date.
The Other Dates
The following week after our first date he asked me to go dancing at the Fun Park and to Jamba Juice. I think he stayed at my apartment chatting after family night and all these dates we had were the week before Valentine's Day. Guess what was happening that week on campus... an iPod kiss-off.
So that week in English, a boy in my class was filling out a form for it and said I should too. The winners got two free iPod touches. I sent a text to Clark and asked if I should sign up for it to which he replied, "Done!" I ended up signing up the Thursday before it because I was chicken and nervous to do it. Then I found out they only drew ten names, so automatically I thought I would just sign up and not get drawn. Well the next day (February 12) Clark calls me after I'm out of my classes for that morning and tells me our names have been drawn for the kiss-off. I couldn't believe it. I was scared too because I had never even kissed the big guy.
So I went to the TSC excited and nervous. We ended up having to hold a display iPod inbetween our lips. If it dropped we were disqualified.
1st hour- we could touch and the first time Clark met my dad was then, he was taking pictures of us on his phone and sending them to my mom
Next 30 minutes- we couldn't touch and this was way hard because Clark is a foot taller then me, our muscles were so sore after
3rd 30 minutes- we had to put one hand on our head and it could slip past our ear, we still couldn't touch and couples were dropping like flies
4th 16 minutes- we had to raise the same hand above are head and it sounds easy but it was hard to hold it up that long, it was between us and a newlywed couple and they ended up dropping it and we won!
Our First Kiss
After we won I kissed him right on the lips, yep our first kiss in front of everyone watching. It was the best first kiss and how couldn't we after our lips being 2 centimeters apart for over two hours.
My Valentine
That night after the kiss-off he came to my house and gave me a rose and asked me to be his Valentine. We went to Olive Garden for dinner. Then we went to the infamous bench that looks over the island. I thought he would kiss me again there but he didn't. Then we watched 7 pounds at my apartment. It was so much fun. That night I think we decided we were a couple.
The Aftermath
After deciding we were a couple we went on a lot more dates and saw each other every day. One of our dates was skiing. We went to Snowbird and stayed at his house for the weekend. It was so much fun and he told me he loved me that weekend. Then, a few months later after some great dates and fun times together things got pretty serious.
The Engagement
He asked me to marry him on May . We talked by the temple in our church clothes just about life and everything. He acted so suave, I had no clue what was going to happen. Then he told me we were going to Olive Garden and we started driving but were going the wrong way. I asked where we were going and he said, "he had to kiss me up at that bench" I had teased him for not kissing me there. It was a Clark kind of thing to do so I didn't think anything of it. Then we got out of the car and he played a playlist on my iPod, we danced by the bench then as the soon as the song "If I Ain't Got You" ended, he knelt down and asked me with the prettiest ring. I said yes and we kissed and danced and cars honked as they passed. I loved it. Then we ate at Olive Garden and told everyone we knew.
The Wedding
We planned the wedding all summer. I worked weeding and Clark worked for a bug research lady on campus and then on August 21 my 19th birthday. We had a two fabulous receptions one the day before the wedding and one the weekend after. We got married in the Logan Temple. It was a beautiful day and everyone we loved came. We had a dinner at the Skyroom on USU's campus, Logan (Clark's friend) drove us there in his limo. We had a fun program followed by dancing and great food. Clark surprised me with a birthday cake too! I didn't get a wedding cake and I loved it. Then we headed to Park City for our fun week get away.
The Present
After a fall semester of dating a little and a lot of homework, I decided I was going to go back to school and be really social in my ward, get to know a few of the boys and make some girlfriends. As I ventured back to Old Farm I started of the year with a bang. I got asked on a few dates with different guys. One consisted of a movie and cards, another was a dinner and another rock climbing. It was really fun. Then came the IWA dance. I really wasn't into IWA things at all but my roommates proceeded to consistently tell me to ask someone. I decided it would be a fun "social" thing to do. I went through our ward directory, I laugh every time I think about that morning I did that. It was pretty much really shallow but hey, I had to ask someone who fit my criteria. My criteria consisted of: good looking, fun to be with and not cocky! I thought it was a pretty good list. I narrowed it down to about eight boys in my ward and yes Clark Evans ended up being in my top five along with his roommate, a red head, a good friend or "pre-mi" (as my roommate would say), and my FHE partner.
I ended up choosing Clark and came to find out that he had already been asked. So then everyone told me I should ask his roommate but I thought "If I want a chance to date Clark, why would I ask his roommate?" So I asked my FHE partner. He was an awesome date and we had a lot of fun. Then, Clark found out I was going to ask him, from me (it was a plan). And he set up a date for the evening after the dance. (I was a little difficult to make plans with also, because I was scared to go with him, don't know why, maybe I knew I'd fall a little too fast!) And I DID!
The First Date
That next night (February 6) he took me to Cafe Sabor. We had smoothies there and our dinner and then we headed to the USU basketball game, which we won! After I didn't want the date to end and he asked me if I wanted to watch a movie at his place. We watched Hoosiers and cuddled a little. The funny thing is that we both agreed at the end of the night it was the "slowest, most boring" sports show we had ever seen and next time we watched a movie it would be Remember the Titans. Then, he walked me home, across the parking lot. It was a great first date.
The Other Dates
The following week after our first date he asked me to go dancing at the Fun Park and to Jamba Juice. I think he stayed at my apartment chatting after family night and all these dates we had were the week before Valentine's Day. Guess what was happening that week on campus... an iPod kiss-off.
The iPod Kiss-Off
So that week in English, a boy in my class was filling out a form for it and said I should too. The winners got two free iPod touches. I sent a text to Clark and asked if I should sign up for it to which he replied, "Done!" I ended up signing up the Thursday before it because I was chicken and nervous to do it. Then I found out they only drew ten names, so automatically I thought I would just sign up and not get drawn. Well the next day (February 12) Clark calls me after I'm out of my classes for that morning and tells me our names have been drawn for the kiss-off. I couldn't believe it. I was scared too because I had never even kissed the big guy.
So I went to the TSC excited and nervous. We ended up having to hold a display iPod inbetween our lips. If it dropped we were disqualified.
1st hour- we could touch and the first time Clark met my dad was then, he was taking pictures of us on his phone and sending them to my mom
Next 30 minutes- we couldn't touch and this was way hard because Clark is a foot taller then me, our muscles were so sore after
3rd 30 minutes- we had to put one hand on our head and it could slip past our ear, we still couldn't touch and couples were dropping like flies
4th 16 minutes- we had to raise the same hand above are head and it sounds easy but it was hard to hold it up that long, it was between us and a newlywed couple and they ended up dropping it and we won!
Our First Kiss
After we won I kissed him right on the lips, yep our first kiss in front of everyone watching. It was the best first kiss and how couldn't we after our lips being 2 centimeters apart for over two hours.
My Valentine
That night after the kiss-off he came to my house and gave me a rose and asked me to be his Valentine. We went to Olive Garden for dinner. Then we went to the infamous bench that looks over the island. I thought he would kiss me again there but he didn't. Then we watched 7 pounds at my apartment. It was so much fun. That night I think we decided we were a couple.
The Aftermath
After deciding we were a couple we went on a lot more dates and saw each other every day. One of our dates was skiing. We went to Snowbird and stayed at his house for the weekend. It was so much fun and he told me he loved me that weekend. Then, a few months later after some great dates and fun times together things got pretty serious.
The Engagement
He asked me to marry him on May . We talked by the temple in our church clothes just about life and everything. He acted so suave, I had no clue what was going to happen. Then he told me we were going to Olive Garden and we started driving but were going the wrong way. I asked where we were going and he said, "he had to kiss me up at that bench" I had teased him for not kissing me there. It was a Clark kind of thing to do so I didn't think anything of it. Then we got out of the car and he played a playlist on my iPod, we danced by the bench then as the soon as the song "If I Ain't Got You" ended, he knelt down and asked me with the prettiest ring. I said yes and we kissed and danced and cars honked as they passed. I loved it. Then we ate at Olive Garden and told everyone we knew.
The Wedding
We planned the wedding all summer. I worked weeding and Clark worked for a bug research lady on campus and then on August 21 my 19th birthday. We had a two fabulous receptions one the day before the wedding and one the weekend after. We got married in the Logan Temple. It was a beautiful day and everyone we loved came. We had a dinner at the Skyroom on USU's campus, Logan (Clark's friend) drove us there in his limo. We had a fun program followed by dancing and great food. Clark surprised me with a birthday cake too! I didn't get a wedding cake and I loved it. Then we headed to Park City for our fun week get away.
The Present
We are in school now and almost done with the semester. It is so nice to be almost halfway done with our Junior year. I'm loving my Speech Pathology program and Clark loves his Public Health program also. Clark puts up with me being cranky and I put up with his tallness and we get along just fine. We are in love and happy and because of an IWA dance, iPod kiss-off and the Temple, we get each other forever and our happily ever after.
Friday, October 8, 2010
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