The Great Gatsby

After having the time of my life at Homecoming with Nate, I had to ask him to the Halloween Dance. He is a really special guy that I didn't want to lose. We had so much fun together and I wasn't going to let any other girl take him to this dance. We had gotten closer within the last month and I was excited to see where things were going with us.

Here's how Nate answered me back to the dance. He had me count the eyeballs and if there was 100 his answer was yes! So I counted through the eyeballs. The first time I counted I got 99. Ugh I sucked at counting. So I counted again. Crap, the second time I got 98. What?? So the third time I had my family help me count haha! After everyone had counted there were only 99 eyeballs. This had to be a joke right? It totally was. Knowing Nate, he was just teasing me. After waiting a little while I actually started to get nervous. My brother started laughing super hard and said, "Haha he said no!!" 

Finally there was another knock on my    door and when I opened the front door the 100th eye ball was there!! "No need to fear, the rest of your answer is here! Yes!!! -Nate" 

    I was so relieved, haha he said YES!

Here's a picture of us after a haunted house we went through for our day activity. It was so scary!! I've been through a couple of haunted houses and this was by FAR the scariest one I've ever been through. It even made Nate jump a lot. I hate scary things but going through it with Nate made everything better. 

This dance was one of my favorites. It was so chill. For our costumes we dressed up really nice and had a Gatsby theme. Nate looked so amazing (once again) his hair was slicked so nicely and he pulled off the theme really well. He even had a cane with him which made the costume 10 times better haha! Our group was a ton of fun. Everyone looked so nice. We had a Gatsby theme dinner and even watched The Great Gatsby after the dance was over. 

 

HOMECOMING

FINALLY homecoming is here!!! My heart was pounding as I was getting ready for Nate to come and get me. I was beyond scared. I don't think I had ever been this scared before. My stomach hurt and my heart never stopped pounding. Especially when he knocked on my door. 

Nate looked so amazing! Holy if I could go back in time to when he picked me up I would. His suit looked so good on him and I swear he couldn't have gotten any more perfect. His cologne he was wearing smelled so good and he had this little smirk the whole time I was trying to pin the rose on his vest. Ugh..haha I've always been awful at that. But he seriously walked through my door and was the man of my dreams. A very tall handsome well dressed boy. His eyes were so beautiful and he has the longest eyelashes o have ever seen. I was speechless. 

The very first thing he said when he walked in was, "you look so good" and once again my heart started thumping so fast!

I could tell he was nervous as my whole family was sitting on the couch watching us get ready for our dance. This was one of the single best moments of my entire life. I wasn't even that close to Nate at the time, but for some reason it just felt nice and right. I had felt like we had been friends before. I was so pumped to get on the dance floor and hang out with him all night!

We went out to dinner and I was once again nervous. Once everyone had ordered it was SO hard to keep a conversation with Nate. He was being so shy at dinner and I had no idea what to do. I kept thinking that maybe I said something weird or maybe he just wasn't having a good time? It was stressing me out.

Funny story...later down the road Nate told me that the reason he didn't talk very much at dinner was because he had a cold and really needed to cough. Haha He didn't want to cough because then I would have known that he was sick and then in his words I "wouldn't have kissed him" haha 

The dance itself was alright, I'm not a really good dancer and Nate totally knows that too. I am one of the most awkward dancers you will EVER find. It's never been a strong talent of mine. Even though the dance was just your average High School dance, the outdoor movie after the dance definitely made this night ROCK.

We went over to a kids house and watched the old Poltergeist outside on his projector. I was laying next to Nate hoping he would pull a move and hold my hand or cuddle with me. Even though it took forever for him to pull a move, he was really smooth about it when he did. He went inside and got us more pillows and once we were laying down again he hurried and put his arm around me.

WOW. I was in shock. His cologne smelled so good and cuddling with him was one of the happiest parts of my life. I felt like the luckiest girl alive.

DOORSTEP SCENE: Yikes, this one is always weird. I knew I wanted to kiss Nate and everyone kept telling me that Nate wanted to kiss me too. 

So he walks me up to my door and gives me a hug. I say, "I had a really fun night! Thanks so much Nate!" and I don't even know what happened but he looked at me and said "goodnight" so I instantly looked down because I was so nervous! After our hug he walks away... and doesn't kiss me.

I'm not gonna lie, I was really sad. I wanted him to kiss me. I sat on my couch looking out through my blinds wishing he had kissed me. When I looked through my blinds I saw his car lights and wondered why his car was parked in front of my driveway STILL. In my head I was hoping so badly that he would come back and kiss me. 

Suddenly I get this text on my phone saying, "wait come back out" AHHHH he is going to kiss me!! I literally hopped off of the couch and started running outside. He jumped out of his car and met me up in my driveway. His words exactly: "I'm sorry, once I got in my car I regretted not kissing you."  WOW. This was something that should happen in a movie. I was so happy he came back! Our first kiss was magical. It wasn't awkward or weird in any way. It felt like I had kissed him before. 

 I mean it when I say it, this night was perfect. 

My 8th grade crush

On August 22, 2015,  I went out to dinner with my family and one of my close friends. While we were at dinner, my friend kept telling me over and over again, "Everyone is starting to get asked to Homecoming." UGH already? I felt like it was too early. So I'm sitting here thinking to myself, "I really don't have any close guy friends who would ask me?"  I told myself  that I probably wasn't going to get asked. And I was fine with that. I had gone to other dances my High School experience and since I wasn't close to anyone, I was fine not going at all.

While we were sitting at dinner my friend mentioned that she knew someone who wanted to ask me. She made me try and guess and I never did because I seriously couldn't think of anyone!

When I went home that night and found this poster on my doorstep, I got SUPER excited!!

"You've caught my attention, lets have a ball at Homecoming?!?"

And on that ball in that cute pink mitt was Nate Schwemmers name!!

   Okay here's the story about Nate. He moved here during 8th grade and he sat a couple seats away from me when we had English class together. Everyone was talking about that one cute new kid. Who is he? Where was he from?? Junior High girls wanted to know every single detail. And right when I saw this cute tall boy in my English class, I couldn't stop staring at him. Haha I instantly started crushing on him.

I told one of my really close friends (Maggie) 

"There's this new kid in my English class. You HAVE to see him. He is so cute." 

I never actually spoke any words to him but I definitely knew who he was. I had always wanted to talk to him in English class but I wasn't ever good at talking to boys when I was in Junior High. 

So you could say that when he asked me to Homecoming, I was FREAKING OUT! My 8th grade crush that I had never even talked to asked me to our senior homecoming?? I had a million of things running through my head.

We've never talked..

I've had a crush on this kid.

He knows me? Haha

Why did he ask me??

Holy crap, I didn't even care, I was so excited!! It didn't feel real.

The Day Activity was awesome! We went up to a condo in park city and played volleyball and then went swimming/hot tubbing. Everyone in the group was so easy to get a long with. And still to this day, I am so happy because some of my closet friends now were some of the people in that group.