Our love story today is by my good friend Sara. When I first read her story I was so into it my heart was racing haha. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oq0PsJVPWQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Hi my name is Sara! Stacey asked me to write about my love story for her blog. I am engaged to a wonderful guy named David and he is just the cat’s pajamas. I love him so, but it wasn’t always this way. 
You see David and I met through the college group at our church through mutual friends. He was and is the quiet one, and I am well…the loud mouth
rambunctious one. So needless to say, this wasn’t really your love at first sight kind of meeting. David tells me now that he thought I was really attractive, but a little too on the wild side for his taste. But we were still friends, and would hang out in large groups all the time. I thought he was very nerdy. He is an engineer, so he talks, thinks, and acts like an engineer. Need I say more? And to top it off, I felt he had this unhealthy obsession with the packers…and he still does, but now I am into it so it’s okay. I would ask him to hang out with us in smaller groups, and he would tell me things like “I have to do homework” or “There’s a Packer game on, sorry”. And I was just like “who actually does their homework?!?” Well David did, and it paid off because of the nice job he has now. So you are probably wondering how this all went into motion right? Doesn’t seem like either one of them really likes each other right? WRONG! Even though David was the complete and polar opposite of all the guys I had dated or been interested in the past, I was just plain head over heels. My heart skipped every time I saw him at church or when we were out with friends. I mean literally, I had one of my friends feel my pounding chest at church, it was the real deal. And it made no sense to me; I had no explanation as to why I was so infatuated by this boy. But you see David didn’t seem interested in the least. I was always the one to initiate things, invite him places, text him, you name it and I was the one who set things in motion. I even painted this kid a picture of a Led Zepplin album with an angel on it! And still nothing! Well we started hanging out in smaller and smaller groups (thanks to me!) and finally David and I went for a hike all alone. Just the two of us, and it was wonderful. But did anything come of it? Of course not! I mean I did take into consideration that David had never had a girlfriend and didn’t have that many close friends that were girls, but come on!
But still I was so infatuated with David that I even signed up for a church trip to Colorado that he was going on. A backpacking trip. No bathrooms. No hotels. No showers ( well except for one day). Limited not to mention gross food. No make up. Oh and I forgot to also mention that the objective was to hike to Mt.Princeton AND summit it… And that its elevation is 14,197 ft.… Um…yeah! I must have been on some crazy love juice, because if you know me, I would be the last person you would suspect to go on that trip. So by the time this trip rolled around I was on my last nerve. I was totally head over heels for this guy and it felt as if I didn’t mean anything to him. I put all this energy into our friendship hoping and praying that something more would happen and it hadn’t. I was defeated and sad. Rejected without actually being verbally rejected. Every single one of our friends knew that I was in love with David, but David. My mother told me to give up, she told me to cut my losses and that I was worth more than this. So I went on the trip with a totally new perspective. I wasn’t going to go on this trip for anybody but me! I was going to prove to myself that I could do this and I would get to that top of that dang mountain, even if it killed me! (Which btw it almost did)
So here I was on my way to Colorado with this boy who I was really trying to get over and suppress my feelings for, yeah should be good right? I tried my hardest not to gravitate towards this fella, but alas I found myself near him constantly. But it was weird because it was not always me initiating it. It was mutual!
Shocking right? I was stunned, but I tried not to let myself get too excited. Maybe it was the lack of oxygen on the mountain affecting his brain? You know? Girls gotta guard her heart. So needless to say, we were pretty close the whole trip. He was my buddy for hikes and was nearly always by my side. And the other girls on the trip suspected things. So there were nights where I poured my heart out late at night in our tent, and there were lots of “ awws” and “OoooOoos” and giggles.
But my heart still yearned. The day or should I say butt crack of dawn (we left at 3 in the morning and I got my period! Double yikes freak out! ) came when we were to summit this beast of a mountain. And I will spare you all of the details. But David was by my side THE ENTIRE TIME! He encouraged me and even physically gave me his hand to get up the steep parts. My best friend Tracie could see from below us and always talks about how it was so sweet she almost barfed. Ha. But let’s take her word for it. I was so blessed to have David on this journey; I don’t think I would have made it to the top if it weren’t for him. Forget liking this guy, I felt like I was in love with him. For real real love, how could I not? He literally lead me up a mountain and then back down. I trusted in him and he did not disappoint. 
So we eventually left CO and headed back to good old WISCO. And David took me home from church and chatted with my Mom and I for a bit. And once he left, my head was spinning. And my mother’s head was left shaking; because I was right where I had started…but worse with the intensity of my feelings. A couple of days passed since the trip and I hadn’t really had too heard from David, until my phone started going off. I it up my phone and glanced at the screen and all I read: Incoming call David Figie…um what? Did he forget something at my house? Had he been in an accident? Why was he calling me? So I picked up hesitantly and this is how it went:
Me: Hello?....
David: Hey Sara, its David Figie
Me: Oh, hi what’s up?
David: Nothing too much, how about you?
Me: Good, did you need something? What’s this call for?
David: Umm nothing, just to talk…
Me: …Oh okay…
And we proceeded to talk on the phone in a somewhat awkward conversation, but it was good and cute. And a few more days had passed and we went to a friends going away party and that’s where it happened. We were alone on a walk from the park and David said those words I had waited so long to hear. “I like you…a lot” Eeeeks I died inside when I heard them! Was this real life? Am I floating? I actually started laughing and said “are we really doing this right now?” But it wasn’t in a mean way; it was a just checking to make sure this is going where I think its going. Ha! To my laughing David replied, “ hey stop laughing, I’ve never done this before!” Which I did and told him I liked him too and that I was just really happy we were finally having this talk. He asked me to be his girlfriend, and the rest is history. We have been together for two and half years and I love it! David is one of the best things/ people to happen to me and walk into my life. He is so opposite from me and really balances me out. I cannot wait to tie the knot with this stud and make a life together. We have been through so much together and I really treasure our love journey, which all began 14,000 ft in the air...
PS: If you were wondering what took David so long to realize his feelings, he told me later on that he had no idea I liked him. He figured I had so many guy friends and was so flirty, that he was just another one of them. PSH! He should’ve known I had only eyes for him! ;)
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