Meeting His Parents

     So, I drove up there Thursday afternoon. We decided to go to his youngest sister, Kallie's, colorguard show. So, I met his mom, dad, and Kadison, the older sister there, and one of his grandmas, so we sat there and talked with them before the show started. Right before it started, Ruth and Rick showed up. (Rick is a guy from church that Tyler's known his entire life, and Ruth is Rick's wife. She isn't a member, but Tyler and Trevor, Tyler's brother, are always finding reasons to make her go to church with them.) Ruth reminds me so much of my mom. She is so awesome. She actually sat next to me the entire time during the show and talked to me. Rick, was a little bit more difficult. The first words out of his mouth, like even before he introduced himself, were "Tyler is going to BYU-I, and that's final." (Rick is the one who's paying for Tyler to go to school.) And so I told him that I wouldn't dare take him away from that, and I think that both of us definitely need to finish school. After the show, he and I went to Sonic and ate dinner, and just sat there and talked about his mission and about some of his friends and stuff. He showed me the emails that he and Josh Blocker sent back and forth about me, and about some other stuff. Then he drove me to town and showed me around a little bit, and then we went home and watched Ridiculousness until we both were super tired.

     Friday, he had to work some, and his mom, Kadison, and Kallie were leaving for Chattanooga for a colorguard competition. So, I went and explored the areas around where he lives. I found some beautiful houses, and I happened to come across this place called Panola Mountain State Park. It had been raining all day, but I decided that I was going to hike down one of the trails just to see what was down in the hills. I found this cute little stream, and of course, I had to take pictures there. Once Trevor got out of school, I went back to their house and his dad cooked dinner for us. (Tyler wasn't home from work yet.) So, it was a little awkward at first, but his dad and brother are hilarious, so the awkwardness didn't last for long. Tyler came home and told me that we were going on a double date, which I totally wasn't expecting. So, we ended up going to see this new move called Divergent with one of his good childhood friends, named Matt Ben, and some other girl, and we ended up going to Waffle House afterwards, and we stayed there for like two hours. When we got home, he decided that he wanted to talk about our relationship, and how I felt about it, and about how I feel about his family. So, we stayed up until like three in the morning just talking.

Saturday, we went to Six Flags, and just had the absolute best time. We met some really awesome people, and laughed almost the entire time. Afterwards, we went to Panda Express and ate, and then went to the horse barn, and brushed them, and put blankets on them because it was supposed to be really cold that night. We ended up at the church, and he pulled a blanket out of his truck and we laid on the ground in the baseball field and talked for like two hours.