The Natalie Story

This is my version of Natalie's story:

When you find yourself in a rut, it's time for extreme actions. This was the case during my junior year(s) at BYU. I moved out of my apartment and quit my job at the bookstore. I got a new job at BYU Info. For those of you who don't know it's an elite team of campus operators who answer all general telephone questions for BYU and deal with a lot of crazies otherwise.


On one of my first days of training at info I sat with Natalie and she shadowed me while I took calls. She thought I was 19 and told me she was 30. The first time we hung out as friends outside of work Natalie holds my hand as a joke. The next day at work she tells everyone she held my hand. This is how the longest running joke at Byu Info started, which was: Natalie acting super-infatuated with me and I would act repulsed and deny any of Natalie's stories and make her look crazy. Office rumors about us actually dating would re-surface every time new employees were hired. The jokes were hilarious for us but probably really annoying to everyone else...

Anyways, a lot of time passes between then and when we really started dating. I was graduating soon and Natalie wanted to hang out more. I wasn't opposed, I didn't know what would happen but I let things flow naturally. I do want to note that it was Natalie who DTR-ed me. She thought she was so sly asking a veiled question. I don't know why I wasn't given more intellectual credit but she was caught off guard when instead of responding to her question I replied, "Are you DTR-ing me?" Her face went a little red, but she didn't have to worry I was hers. We've had a lot of adventures since:

Skipping ahead to the engagement... We went up Provo Canyon to go stargazing. This was my choice since we had been there before. I even brought my star chart I purchased at the planetarium. Nerdy? Nope Awesome! Anyways...I told a couple of white lies to Natalie so she wouldn't know that I had the ring and was ready to give it to her on her birthday. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I was on a knee asking and her first response was, "Is this real?" I proved it by lighting up that sparkly little gem with my mag-lite. She turned to into a Jello Jiggler and the rest is history.