So, my family has this amazing annual tradition.. Any guesses at what its called? yes, the military ball. whats that? well the national guard band plays to you live while you dance to their music. its alot different than high school dances because you actually ballroom dance instead of do variations of 'moshing'.
my extended family goes to this every year because my cousin and uncle are in the band. I have been going for 4 years now. The first year i was 14 and couldnt really date so i took my best friend Madi. that year it was at the capitol-so beautiful-. the next year i was 15 and went on a 'safe date' with a boy i was obsessed with and i didn't even know him-sam wiscombe. well needless to say, it was awkward. To this day I dont know what my mind was thinking. oh well, he's still a great guy:) haha last year i took a good friend Thomas Illu. Madi brought Ethan Marsh whom she met at EFY that previous summer.
this year i took Nathan Palmer. now heres a little back story to him.
flashback:
i was a sophmore then.. so there i was at the jordan landing movie theatre seeing "the lightning theif" i look to my right and behind me there is a boy that i found very attractive sitting with his family. after the movie we were both standing in the same hall with our families. he looked so familiar so i kind of continued staring at him. then when i got on facebook that night i remembered why! A week before this encounter his cousin Joel began talking to me on facebook. So, i looked at his pictures to see what he was all about. As I was pondering where I saw this great man i remember Joel! so i go look at his pictures and there he is.
Well, life went on and my friend Taylor Bagshaws birthday came up, i went to his party, and sure enough this mysterious dream boy was there. i was so excited and twitterpated. i talked to him alot this night and we each established we were friends:) i found out he was going to be a sophmore next year, so yes i hopped aboard the cougar train.
the football game to kick off the school year came in late summer and he was there. that night we hung out alot! but you know who he was getting to know... chelsea warner. my good friend. great. well i figured there was never a chance for me anyways so i let her take the reigns on his heart if he so pleased.
they went through the year, we think liking eachother, but not so sure. either way, near the end he did not like her. and i still secretly admired his every move. he made me die.:)
senior year came along and we were still friends. not very good ones it seamed but when ever we hung out it was like we were best friends:) i asked him to the sadie hawkins dance. that was the funnest dance i have ever been to! their was 13 couples in our group so it was pretty large. for the day activity we went to a park and played games, which sounds dumb but it was so much fun! me, madi, kenzie and our dates went as minions from the movies 'despicable me'. we both wore yellow shirts, but i wore overalls and he wore suspenders. that night was real fun! the best date i have ever been on!!!
till last night..:)
back to present times
i wore my black and white homecoming dress since it was short so i would be able to dance in it easily. i also wore a red and black blazer over it which matched my lipstick.
we picked up jeffery poole-my sisters date. and then went to his house, when I went to his door he said bye to his family and we started walking to my car when his mom came running out. she said "wait i didnt get to meet her" then she saw me and said "oh, ive met you" she said i looked pretty and we hugged. we got in the car and began to make our way to my cousins house. kathryn and jeff were in the front seats while me, nathan and my mom were crammed in the back because my father was in cedar city with the truck. lucky enough, it was not awkward with mom there. the conversations came easy and when there was silences it was not awkward.
we arrived at the brown ferrin house. i greeted my cousins enthusiastically and introduced them to nathan. he could smell dinner and guessed that it was chicken-cordonblue. how he knew that i do not know. we sat at the table until the adults forced us to get up to go take pictures. they got through all the couples pictures and finally it was our turn. i chose a pole we could pose next to. as we were posing my mom yells out "natalies a pole dancer" i was quite embarressed at my mother but i decided to make it less awkward and replied "he is too!" as i poked nathans chest. we took a goup photo, we did a funny one with nathan in my arms and when i looked at the pictures you cant even see me but he looks so cute:) dinner was fun and really good!
later we arrived at the dance and my family group was the first ones on the dance floor. we partied it up and started to swing dance, jeff taught us some moves and we practiced them the rest of the night. we waltzed during the slow and sometimes just swayed back and forth. my favorite dance was the polka. which you run around the whole dance floor in a circle with everyone else while your spinning and trying not to trip. we got really worn out on that one. dancing was so fun! we tried our best to swing dance and by the end of the night had a nice rythm going! it was never awkward and just had fun! after every 2 dances he would exclaim how much fun he was having, which made me brighten every time.
he would apologize for how gross and sweaty he was, which he wasnt but if he was i wouldnt even care:) i told him that he is lucky he doesnt have long hair that gets crazy snarly. he told me i didnt have that. i knew i did though. i just said, i do but im not letting you see it:P. it was funny how we could talk about our disqusting bodies with eachother.
the best part about the whole night was when we talked about the gospel. we had a couple conversations involving it, mostly talking about how the spirit guides you in your life and i told him about the time when i gave a book of mormon to madis boyfriend dalton. it was cool to talk about the spirit with him.
when i dropped him off he told me this was the funnest dance he has ever been to, i replied "best dance of my life!" and he just stared at me, haha that was the only slightly awkward part of the whole day. he probably just got lost in thought or something.
the next day i could not stop thinking about the previous night! it was so amazing and it was hard to go back to the reality that he didnt like me. (he likes 3 other girls-i know, tough luck right?) well i just kept smiling when ever i thought of last night. then around 4:30 he texted me and said that he was thinking about how much fun he had last night, all day! and we texted from then until 10:30:)
it was so much fun!
i seriously cant handle him!!!:)
im dead. tell me to R.I.P
