the very next day, i got home from class in the evening to great harvest pumpkin chocolate chip bread and the ensign magazine (lds.org) on my doorstep. man, that boy moves fast. the next day, we went on our first date which included deseret bookstore, in'n'out, toy story 3, red mango and utah lake. cory and i bonded over the fact that we both wore old spice fiji deodorant-a thing of the past, since being married makes you poor and your husband coupons and buys you old lady deodorant...and i learned of his love for in'n'out-california boy at heart, and now my favorite fast food place ever. we cried during toy story 3 at the dollar theater and then feasted on fro yo with mochi at red mango. and of course, utilizing his ubiquitous apple products, showed me all the constellations through an app on his iphone. i also neglected to mention how i started off the date by saying this wasn't going anywhere because i had a missionary. cory didn't really let that stop him.
from october to april, cory was definitely one of my closest friends, as were his roommates and my roommates. we both dated other people, but it always came back to cory. there were so many fun dates to temple square, out to eat, divine comedy...we watched endless movies and shows at his apartment, went shooting, went hot tubbing. neither of us really thought of our friendship as something that would evolve into a long-term romance. i mean, cory had lots of girls he could and did date, and i was still waiting for a missionary.
in april 2011, i left to go home for the spring/summer, while cory stayed in provo to work on the grounds crew. i remember driving in my brother's honda civic with a broken cell phone (not my fault-always SPRINT's fault), using my mom's green slider cell phone to text cory.
maybe it's because i got an iphone and was finally worthy of cory's true love, maybe it was the distance, maybe it was just time...but we began to communicate in excess. i mean, facetiming, skyping, using voxer, texting, calling, facebooking, tweeting. i began my internship in june and i remember my co-intern asking if we were dating because cory and i talked all the time. cory had mentioned dating in may, but i shot it down, as i did not want to date long-distance. yet, when you have that desire to share even the stupidest details of your life with someone and stay up half the night video chatting for hours, your relationship grows whether you like it or not. so, in early june, i began calling cory my boyfriend (and vice versa-like it wasn't just me making up this couple thing).
honestly, it didn't feel weird or new or different because we already knew each other so well. i don't know when i fell in love with cory. i surprised him over the fourth of july weekend, one of my greatest successes! i had a free flight from southwest and managed to get a day or two off work and told cory, on sunday, july 3, that i wasn't bringing my phone to church or that my mom wanted them turned off, and hopped on a plane to SLC (he could track my location with that one app and i never knew how stalkerish he truly was). he was so mad at me for lying :) my friend darcy picked me up at the airport and then she and i went straight to his door where we rang the doorbell a bunch of times and FINALLY he came and opened the door and looked at me and turned around! he was so surprised and i think it took a little bit for it to settle in. we had a bbq at his apartment for the holiday and laid on his floor to watch movies cause the AC was broken and it was SO hot. it was not so bad leaving, knowing i would see him at the end of the next month.
we started talking about marriage in july, and of course, cory began talking about getting a dog and posting all sorts of pictures of dogs on my facebook or texting them. he left for a family vacation for two weeks to glacier national park and yellowstone. it was such a treat to talk to him. he called me from the middle of a forest, collect, and i remember walking around work in the middle of the afternoon, outside just loving the chance to hear him. in august, i went with my family on a trip to europe and that was really rough because nobody cared about wi-fi, except me and my sister. so a few times that week we would get to use my dad's blackberry or a hotel computer to send emails to our boyfriends :)
back to utah for school...and the chance for cory to meet my dad and brother and aunt! and to learn how the hatches love red iguana. by the beginning of that semester, we knew we were getting married, we just didn't know when-december or april. i told my mom in september and for nearly a month, she asked me every day if i was engaged yet! it was such a fun time of trips to zion national park, camping, shooting, big bang theory and curry take-out. we took astronomy together and went to basketball games, all while looking for wedding rings.
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