Roger proposed to me! On august 14th we went on a date to the Olive Garden (my favorite restaurant). I knew that he was going to propose, I had gone ring shopping with him. After dinner, we went to Milcreek Canyon to go on a hike. I love hiking! Before we started our hike, Roger acted like he was digging in his pockets for something, then he looked at me and told me that he had been planning on proposing to me tonight, but he forgot the ring. I thought he was probably teasing, but I wasn't sure. We were having so much fun on our hike. We were laughing so much, I can't remember what we were laughing about, but it was funny whatever it was. I suggested that we have a race. He said okay. So, we started racing up the mountain. We stopped to catch our breath and look at the scenery. It was so beautiful. I was having a lot of fun with our race, so I was about to take off running again, when Roger grabbed my hand, got down on one knee, and proposed to me. I was so happy! Of course, I said, "Yes!"
July 19, 2001 - My mom and Dad were spending the summer in Montana. They took their fifth wheel and parked it at the North Fork. They wanted to meet Roger. I had been talking about him a lot. So, I invited Roger to come to Montana with me and meet my parents. It was so fun to have him there.
I wanted Roger to go on a walk with me, but he didn't want to. Because we were in the middle of nowhere and there is lots of wildlife around. If we ran into an animal, we wouldn't have anything to protect us. On July 19th, I finally got him to agree to go on a walk with me. We walked to the end of the driveway and Roger asked what way we should go. I told him that we should go left, toward the fishing spot. He looked at me and said, "No. I think we should 'choose the right." So, we laughed about that and went to the right. We walked until the forest became too thick. Then we headed back toward the cabin. When we reached the driveway, I convinced Roger to keep walking with me. I said that we will walk until we reach the fishing spot (where we always turn to go fishing), then we can turn around and head back to the cabin. He agreed. We started to walk and we hadn't gotten very far, when a big grizzly bear walked out of the fishing spot and on to the road! I was sooo.... scared! The bear walked out to the road and was walking away from us. I panicked and told Roger that I was going to run. He told me that I shouldn't. He reminded me that the bear hadn't even seen us, so we should watch it, the run, when it was out of our sight. I couldn't control myself. I told Roger, again, that I was going to run. I took of running and screaming, "Bear! Bear!" If the bear hadn't seen us, it for sure would have once I started freaking out. Roger had no choice but to run after me. We made it back to the cabin safely. Thankfully, the bear didn't chase us and kill us. When we got to the cabin, I, of course, pulled out my video camera so we could tell our story. These pictures were taken off of the camera, while we were telling our story.
We went to Bowman Lake in the afternoon. It is such a beautiful lake. We took my raft and had so much fun. I did most of the rowing, because I love too. Roger had the video camera. He is a dork, like me and was really funny with the camera. He recorded me rowing and himself talking. It was a good time!
Here we are later that night. Just chillin'. I'm sitting by the fire reading bear attack stories. I don't know why I like to scare myself like that, but I do.
Roger took a picture of me the next morning while I was making breakfast.
Monday - June 18, 2001
My friend Rachael is leaving to serve a mission next week. We had one last big get together with her before she left. Everybody met at my apartment for the party. I had called Roger and asked him to stop by before we all left. I wanted him to meet Rachael before she left. I just have a feeling that Roger is "the one." After Roger left, we went to my favorite place ever, Ice Berg. I love their ice cream and it is so fun to sit outside and visit with friends while we eat.
The funny thing about Rachael leaving is that she has been saying for years that she will never serve a mission. She was wrong. While we eating our ice cream, Rachael made predictions for what would happen to each of us while she was gone.
She predicted that I would marry Roger in December, get pregnant right away, and have a cute little baby girl to introduce her to when she gets home. I laughed when she predicted that, because I had only known Roger for one week. It's funny how close she was to being right. Roger and I got married in November, not December! That's the only thing that she got wrong. Funny, huh!
Meet Roger! We met on Friday, June 8th. My friend, Janae, is dating his friend, Dan. They wanted to go on a double date, so they both called a friend (Roger and I) and set us up on a blind date. I really do not like blind dates, but I felt like I should do it for Janae. So I went. I decided that I would have fun on that date, no matter what. If he didn't like more or he was annoying, I wasn't going to care. I just wanted to have fun! And I did! We had so much fun together. At around 10:00pm, Janae and Dan were ready to call it quits, but Roger and I weren't ready to leave, so we decided to hang out together and let those guys head home. We went to Roger's house and watched a movie.
My first impressions of Roger were, "Woa! He's tall!" then, "Good, he's cute!" I was excited after meeting him and nervous. We all rode in Dan's jeep. The back seat was pretty small, so Roger and I had to sit really close to each other. I liked that! We went to play at The Fun Zone. We started out our night by playing miniature golf. I'm not good at miniature golf. I thought it would be funny if I trashed talked him a little and bragged about how good I am. He thought it was weird at first, but as we started playing, it was funny. We had a lot of fun goofing off while we played miniature golf and, of course, I lost. While we were miniature golfing Roger told me about a bear experience that he had. When he was at scout camp, he and his friend, Dan, set there tent up pretty far away from the rest of the group. They woke up in the night and there was a mamma bear and her cubs sniffing around their tent. They were terrified! I don't remember all the details, but they ended up just running out of the tent over to the leader's tent. The bears didn't chase them, thank goodness.
When we were playing miniature golf and joking around a lot, is when I really really started to like him. After miniature golf, they tried to convince me to go bungee jumping. I was too scared and absolutely refused to go. So, we went inside to play some games. We spent most of the time playing air hockey. I'm usually really good at air hockey, or at least, I always thought I was. Roger ended up beating me at every game. I was so frustrated, but it was still lots of fun. After that, we sat and watched people karaoke. I wanted to karaoke, because I love it! But I was too embarrassed to do it in front of Roger, since we had just met.
We left The Fun Dome and went to a restaurant to eat. I ordered ice cream. After that, Janae and Dan left us and we went to watch a movie at Roger's house.
It was a really good date!
At the end of the date, Roger and I planned our next date. Since I had plans on Saturday, we planned to see each other again on Sunday. We went rollerblading. Roger asked if I was good at rollerblading. I told him that I was. I thought I was good at it because I had taught myself to jump down stairs on them. The most I could jump at a time was 4. Roger told me that he was terrible at rollerblading. So, I was excited, thinking about how good I'd be compared to him. It turns out that Roger was teasing me when he told me he wasn't very good. Roger is an amazing rollerblader. He can do all sorts of tricks that I could never do. He plays ice hockey and roller hockey, so he is really good. He was skating circles around me. I felt silly for even thinking that I was a good rollerblader. Anyway, we had a lot of fun. We had a good laugh about how he tricked me into thinking he was bad at rollerblading. At the end of our date, Roger asked me when I wanted to see him again. I said, "Tomorrow's good for me." He was surprised by that, but happy. So, we hung out after he got off of work on Monday.
On Tuesday, June 12, 2001 Roger invited me to go boating with Dan and Janae. Dan had his own boat. It was a rainy day, so we were a little cold. I was too afraid to try water skiing. It was fun to watch Roger try though. He did pretty good. It was a fun date. I had my video camera with us on that date. I took a few pictures from my video camera of the fun we had. They are not good quality pictures, but they are better than nothing.
