Jake and I have been married about 7ish months now and basically I want to start this blog as more of a journal of our lives. So I will just have to start with when we were dating... Ill only put in the good part and skip the just day to day...
How we were introduced was a bit strange I wanted to meet a guy worth my time not the same old college kid just out to party... so over the Forth of July Lacie and I were just hanging out and she was on facebook and i basically pointed to the screen and said "I want him!" and there it was a picture a bearded man that just looked like so much fun and had grow up literally 30 min from me and we had never met... Lacie being the best friend that she is gave him my number for me... a few days later i got a text and we started talking... The first chance we had to meet was at the 24th in SJ because he was living in Eagar and i was in Mesa so ever excited as i was drove up to meet this hunk of a man... The day we met was one of the most awkward days ever. We planed to met up at the rodeo were we was doing a few events.. well Lacie and i walked right up to him we shook hands and he said "This is Brandis" so we stood there not talking for a while so i started talking to other people that were around and he randomly would rope my feet then walked away... Yup that was our grand introduction... So i automatically though well he must not like me so me and Lacie left to go close some gate at there property...
Later on that day i got a text from Jake asking if I'd like to go to the dance with him... I though what the heck might as well and said yes... I was a wreak waiting for him to come pick me up i was beyond nervous till he pulled up and i just because calm.... We went to the dance accompanied by Wes who I talked to the whole night because Jake was again silent. After the dance he drove me home gave me a hug and he was off on his way... that night he text me once he got home and asked if i would like to go to the snowflake rodeo and dance with him the next night and of course i said yes who could resist that beard. so he came and picked me up (mind you that my entire family was standing in the yard when he pulled up kinda intimidating for a real first date) and off we went, and of course he was still scared so we met up with his friends Brian and Don as soon as we pulled into town. I didn't mind i figured if hew quiet again at least i can talk to someone right... The rodeo was fun and the dance was even better man he could dance so it was a complete blast. we said our good bye's to Brian and don and off we went to take me home... Here comes the good part! We were about half the way to SJ right before Concho when Jake started to slow the truck down me being blind i just though o there must be a animal in the road well it was something but not an animal it turns out it is a drunk girl with flaming orange hair with no shoes on... Jake being the nice guy he is offers to take her back into town and drop her off at her ex's house per her request... well she didn't remember the actual way to get there so about 20 min of driving around we decided to drop her off at the circle k... all the while she was telling us about her family and boy was that a mess... She finally asked our names and was asked bout us well i didn't want to give her our real names or anything so i said my name was Rachel and his was Mark we were high school students and sweethearts i made up a whole long story which she lapped up (at this point Jake was just giggling) so she finally was off our hands and we headed back and about where we had picked up up we noticed a pair of socks on the side of the road... we just looked at each other and started laughing... He dropped me off with another hug and was on his way...
we went back and forth me going up there for a weekend him coming down here for about 3 weeks after that... He was absolutely amazing in every way was how i thought of him... around that time he had called his old boss and gotten his job back and moved down to the valley... we went on dating for around 4 months.
In mid November Jake dropped a bombshell on me and broke up with me without explanation other than i feel we need a break. I wasn't going to stand for that so i told him i don't do breaks i do break ups and that how it went until about 3 months later when we randomly saw each other at Demin and Diamonds a country bar that we went to dance... After that we texted briefly until i asked if he wanted to hang out. He said yes and after that one day we were back together every night but i wouldn't call myself his girlfriend after what he pulled specially without still explaining why. One night i made him sit down and we talked it all out and finally i understood why even though i felt it was a complete wrong way to go about it... He felt that he loved me but wanted to make sure it was real so we needed to be apart for a while... after that night it was all over i was hooked yet again... Sorry the story isn't very exciting but hey it cant all be action packed...
We continued dating till June 4th when we were going to pick something up for his brother at his cousins house. and got pulled over... This was a brand new beginning for us this was the day he asked me to marry him... How he did it was when we were on the side of the road looking for registration he was pulled to the back of the truck and left me there to find it.. well once i looked back to see what was happening Jake was gone and the cop was staring into his car... my immediate thought was crap hes getting arrested... well then the cop proceeds over to my door opens it and asked for my license which i hand over and asks "what is your relation to this mane?" I said "hes my boyfriend." Then he said "Do you know that he has warrants out for his arrest?" At this point i started to get mad and as many know i don't really control my temper well so i said in a very snappy tone "What for?" and his answer threw me over the edge "Back child support!" i was furious how could he have kept that from me and how could he not of been taking care of his kids was all that could go though my mind. the cop then said "can you follow me to the back of the truck please" so i got out ready to let loose on Jake the minute i saw him until we cleared that back of the truck and i saw Jake kneeling there with the ring.. It took me a minute to calm down and collect myself enough to understand the situation. Jake came over hugged me and put the ring on my finger and it turns out that the cop was Jake's cousin and we were right infront of there house so a few other cousins piled out and congratulated us... after that we went to dinner were he finally said... "You never did say yes?" and he was right i hadn't so i said "yeah ill marry you"... we let the family know that night but we enjoyed it for a week or so before we let everyone else in on what was going on...
So that is dating our story...
