October-the love month

On October 17, we celebrated
6 MONTHS
as husband and wife.
We went to Applebee's and reminisced about our adventure so far as a duo.
We both agreed it was pretty great. :)
we started thinking about all of our "firsts"

October 2013 was a pretty packed month for our "firsts" and I am so glad we wrote them all down :)

On October 1, we celebrated the one year anniversary of the day we met!!
Exactly one year ago on that day, we were in Room 214 in the Clark building in our Family Foundations class.
I had talked to Brantley once before on the very first class when he asked me if I was trying to add it (I was on the wait list and so was he) But we never had really "met"
(I also thought he was WAY too cute and I was like a little girl too nervous to look at him. true story.)

BUT on October 1, he came up to me while I was packing away my notebook in my brand new backpack
"Hey, is your name Claire?"
My heart stopped as I looked up and saw that cutie.
I also think I started sweating.
He complimented me on my blue flower dress and asked if he could walk me to the library.
What I thought: UM YES ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
What I said: "ya sure"
haha
He walked me to the library (actually showing me where it was-I still got lost on campus a lot)
 he asked me to "lunch sometime"
my heart was his right then.
I was so mad I forgot my phone that day when he asked for my number.
I had to wait TWO whole days before he texted me. But it was worth it :)
On my walk home from the library,
A voice came into my head
"This one is different, be yourself with this one"
I will never forget that walk home
It was the perfect day and I love that story and that man with all my heart. 

Our Story

October 1-First meeting 

see above

October 4-First date at the Haunted Straw Maze and cocoa bean(So fun. I was so scared and grabbed on to Brantley's arm a couple times on accident...maybe not on accident ;) We went with two other couples (first time I met either of them) and this year we went to the sealing of Ben and Kenzie! They are our favorite. We celebrated our one year anniversary of our first date with them by going back to the haunted maze and cocoa bean :)

sorry bad quality

October 8- First time I saw Brantley play basketball and met his parents.  

Oh boy I was scared for this one. 

Brantley invited me I think the day of, I think not expecting I would say yes 

(we were texting and I asked him what he was doing that night because I wanted to know if he was with a girl  

and he invited me!) and I was so there.

It was a 30 min. drive to Idaho Falls.  When we got there, I sat with his mom. 

That was so scary.

But I loved them from the get go! :)

I think this is when I really started liking him because his mom was telling me all these wonderful things about him :)

also he was really quite attractive making every 3 pointer he shot. 

I will just list them from here. I have way too many good stories about us 

October 12- Tennis and Subway date 

October 13- Talk at the Temple (PIVOTAL)--this comes into play when he proposes :)

October 15-attended first devotional together (at BYUI thats a big deal)

October 17- swimming date and we told each other we had crushes on each other <3 

October 18-Deep Love concert and 4-wheeling

October 20-dinner with family and holding hands 

October 25-26-Took a trip to Utah! (we stayed with separate friends) and this is where we had our first kiss in the BYU gardens in Provo :)

October 30- Boyfriend Girlfriend :)

As you can probably tell, from day 1 we spent all our time together. 

I loved October and all the months after :)