The Last of the Firsts

When you get married you realize how your, first date with your spouse, your first kiss, and the first time you said I love you becomes the last of the firsts. The best of the best, the finale, the ones that lead you to your success as a couple. Your last set of firsts setting the stage for each and every couples beautiful love story.  

09/24/2012 The first message: Mr. Whitesides finally made good on his offer to have us hang out sometime.   What finally made him decide to after five months since we first met? This picture, taken by his brother Dave Whitesides! That man gets all the credit for bringing us together. I guess Nick thought I looked good or something, because he messaged me with the above message to hang out.

What did I do when I saw that message. I literally  jumped up and down on my bed, with his CD cranked up on high with my roomates. Then we kindof drove near his house with his CD still on high in the car and the windows rolled down. IT WAS AWESOME!!  

So he then facebook messaged me for my phone number, we started texting and finally set up a date to "Hang Out," but to this day we both decided it was our first date.

09/26/2012 OUR FIRST DATE: Nick came and picked me up from my apartment at 10 pm, which was after he got off work. We then went to his house and watched BBC's SHERLOCK

Which I seriously recommend because it is amazing, and we ate icecream sundays that Nick made. We then watched SCRUBS which became one of our favs to watch together as well. After the show we just started talking about everything from life, love, religion, food, zombies, and future dreams.  He played a few new songs he had recently written, and we end up snuggling close.  I remember him saying how I was making it hard for him not to kiss me........Which we didn't then (go us for not kissing on the first date!). I ended up showing him my British accent, which he liked. (I'm have British as my mom is from North Wales). We talked for what seemed like forever and we were both so comfortable that we both just fell asleep in each others arms. We didn't even realize that we fell asleep until we woke up and it was 5am. This was especially a crazy phenomenon for me because I have a hard time sleeping, especially while snuggling, even though I'm married. So for it to have worked then is something. We were both just so comfortable with each other, and could really be ourselves.  Nick then drove me home. Best first date/sleepover ever!

11/13/2012 Our First Kiss: All I remember is we had finished watching Sorcerer's Apprentice, and it was during the credits and I kind of leaned in to kiss his cheek, but ended up kissing his lips!! And then we kinda just went crazy! We waited almost two months since we first started dating to kiss! I guess I just couldn't wait anymore, I stole it! We were in my apartment, which is where I said we were not going to have our first kiss. I wanted it to be somewhere romantic like the temple. But it was still the best first kiss I had ever had! 

11/27/2012 I LOVE YOU: Nick was really depressed that day as he had some hard news. He had gone out to see Skyfall with one of his friends to try to get it off his mind, but he couldn't. So he came over to my apartment.  I baked him cookies and gave him hot chocolate, I then told him that through rich and poor, through the good and bad, that I would always stand by him.  I then said I LOVE YOU! I've known it since I first met you, and that I was supposed to be here with you. He just hugged me tight and very emotionally let out I LOVE YOU TOO REB.  It was the moment we both knew we were going to be together for a long time. We also officially established me as his girlfriend, which I had considered myself to be for a while before that. I love that man so much, and I am so grateful for the trials and circumstances that brought us together.  One thing I always tell him is "I would rather everything go wrong, as long as we are going right, because there is nothing else I want or need more than us. You mean the most to me, that is what is important."

So that is the last of some of our firsts, with many more new firsts coming soon, such as our first baby, and our first Christmas as a married couple. Engagement story coming soon.....:D

 With Love, Reb&Nick