I'm going to marry this boy in twenty-nine days.I met Travis John Roe while I was working at Grand Targhee. I was a liftee trying to survive a cold winter and he was a ski bum going to school in Rexburg but coming to Targ way more than his parents knew or approved of. :) He came with a big group of slightly obnoxious but nice friends in baggy snowpants and brightly colored hats. They were always pestering me because I was the only girl liftee (besides Carol...grey hair, dentures, leathery skin...not to much of a comparison. just saying.) and Travis in particular was always trying to get me to put my skis on and go for a run with them. Obviously I was always working so I never did. But he was persistent. :) As a side note: One thing that made him stand out from the crowd was the fact that he was always wearing tie dye. So the season was drawing to a close and I was getting ready to start school again. One day I heard one of Trav's friends yell his last name in my lift line (I already knew his first name) so naturally I facebook stalked him and added him as a friend. He makes fun of me for this now but if I hadn't done it we might never have gone on a date! So we started talking on facebook and he immediately asked for my number and then we started texting. And we went on our first date pretty soon after that. I only had a week left of work and he was going to be done with school that same week but somehow we managed to find time to go out. It was a tuesday. It was actually his birthday. :) Then we went skiing together twice that same week and by friday I was already smitten. I told my brothers like that next week that I thought I was going to marry this guy. They thought I was crazy but I knew there was something special about him. He was one to hold on to. So pretty much after that we saw eachother every day...until I went to Lake Mead with my sister and didn't have cell service for the whole weekend. But when I came back he was still just as interested as before. :) I knew it was just a matter of time. And then one day...about two months later he bought a ring. We got engaged on June 27th and it was the first day I realized I was actually going to spend the rest of my life with him. Then I started getting really nervous. But excited. But nervous. It's a weird feeling. But kind of the best feeling I have ever had. I feel like he was hand made just for me. He just gets me. He gets my humor and he thinks I am funny. He knows how to cheer me up when I am having a bad day and he knows how to handle it when I am super hyper. He is just perfect. It's cheesy and slightly generic but he's the one. I can't wait to marry him and know every day that I found the exact person I was meant to be with.
Someone said this to me the other day...I was telling them about Travis and how it's really soon but it doesn't matter. And he said...maybe you loved him before you came to earth and you should be happy that you found him. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones.
And I really am. I'm one of the lucky ones. :)
