A long play-by-play of Tim's and my first week

I don’t think I ever wrote about Tim’s and my first date, or our relationship in general before we got married, let alone our wedding day. I need to write a lot of this stuff. So…since I’m completely awake while my husband is sleeping, I’m going to write this stuff up.

First date: October 23, 2009

Tim and I went with a group of his friends from his old summer ward and went up to Salt Lake to go to the Haunted Village. Tim and I are both pretty brave people and so neither of us really got scared at all. In fact…it was pretty lame, but it was wonderful to be with him. Before our date Tim and I had gone to a stake dance and we were both kind of dancing in the same group. I had thought he’d liked my roommate but after the dance he asked me out (great sign! He saw me dance first and still wanted to take me out!). However, when we were on our date I had no idea if he liked me or not. When we first got to his friend’s house one of the guys there asked how long we’d been dating. “Oh, no. No. This is our first date.” Haha, I think he was nervous. At the time though it came off a little bit like he really didn’t want people to think that we’d been dating. Silly me, I think I was nervous too. Then when we drove up to Salt Lake we had the patrician in the back of the car down…no contact at all. Although thinking about that now, I think I may have put it down to demonstrate with my hands different dives that I’d been learning in my springboard diving class-so that wasn’t his fault. It was kind of a bummer though that we weren’t scared at all at this Haunted Village. I really would have liked the excuse to cuddle up to him a little bit. I tried to at one point near the to grab onto his arm but it just ended up being awkward. So yeah…I wouldn’t recommend the Haunted Village.
The great part about the date being not scary was that Tim and I were able to talk a lot. It was one our first date that I found out he really likes M. Knight Shamalan movies. That he likes a lot of different genres of music. That he has five siblings and that there are three boys and three girls in the family. He told me stories about his mission and we talked in Spanish in the back seat of the car. We talked about his friend and the girl he was on a date with lol. We walked over and looked at the “This is the Place” monument; I’d never been there before. The group we were with kind of wanted to watch a movie after we got back to Provo, but once we got there no one wanted to watch one. So we all went to Smith’s where Tim’s friend got icecream. We weren’t really hungry, but Tim bought us martinelli’s apple juice-also a first for me. We went back to his friend’s apartment, got in Tim’s car, and he was driving me over to my apartment but I didn’t really want the night to end. My roommate, Jerri (ironically, the one I thought Tim had had a crush on)’s birthday was the next day and I needed to get her a birthday present. I asked Tim if he wanted to go to Walmart with me to get a gift for her. I was kind of nervous presenting this idea because I didn’t know if he’d want to spend more time with me that night. I’d had such a good time and wanted to see him more, but I couldn’t be sure if it was reciprocated. Luckily for me, he wanted to come. So we went to Walmart, hung out there, got Jerri some earrings for her birthday and then drove back home and ended the evening.
It was one of the best first dates I’d ever been on. I’d been on dates with more fun activities, but I’d never had such good, open, easy conversation with such a cute, nice guy before.

The week after our first date.
Tim and I basically saw eachother every day after that first date. On Saturday the 24th he came over to my house to audition for a Stake Relief Society dinner. The men of the stake were going to be performing for all the girls and we had to hold auditions to make sure they all had a good talent to share. Tim came over to my house with a curly, moppy wig, huge glasses, tight, high-waisted jeans, a vote-for-Pedro shirt…yup. You guessed it. He was NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE!!! He did the whole Napolean dance for me and a counselor from the other Relief Society. She didn’t know that we’d gone on our first date the night before, but he was SO good! It was hilarious! He was super funny and had amazing moves. I was sold.
Sunday. I saw him at church and at ward prayer. He was really nice and waited for me after I’d finished talking to everyone I needed to see that night. Unfortunately, I had a huge paper that I needed to work on and couldn’t really hang out even though I wanted to. After working on my paper for a little bit, I don’t remember who started it (I think I did), we had a texting conversation and I told him I needed a break. So I went over to his apartment and we watched an episode of Arrested Development. We both discovered on our first date that we both really liked the show. So we sat on a love seat. I don’t think we touched at all though, and we laughed and watched Arrested Development until 12 until I had to go home and continue working on my paper.

Monday. Monday night we had a multi-group FHE activity-carving pumpkins. Thankfully, both of our FHE groups were together. Tim and I grouped up to try and carve a pumpkin. I actually have no idea what it looked like. I think I tried to shave pokadots on it. Anyway though, Tim stayed the whole time because it was an activity at my house and I had to stay to help clean everything up and I wanted to make pumpkin seeds. So he helped me get the pumpkin seeds and wash them. This night was big! We broke the touch barrier this night. I threw pumpkin guts at Tim and he proceeded to smear it on my arms and then face. Either way…thank you pumpkin guts. We got into a little fight with them and it was really fun.

Tuesday. Tim came over after we were both done with school and he called his mom for her chocolate chip cookie recepe so that we could make cookies and go take them to some of the girls in the ward. He came around with me delivering cookies and we just walked around and talked-it was wonderful.

Wednesday. I went to Eagle Mountain to see my family and had a slumber party with my niece Olivia. We texted each other until I was falling asleep and we said goodnight.

Thursday. Thursday night we watched our first ever movie together. Tim and I watched The Village by M. Knight Shamalan. I’d never seen it before and it was SO good. One of our favorite movies now I think. That was also the first night that Tim and I ever held hands. I think I said something like… “you and I have almost known each other a week!” Tim’s response, “Let’s celebrate!” and he grabbed my hand. I was so excited through the whole movie.

Friday. Tim’s good high school friend Meredith wanted to throw a Halloween party and so they had a party at Tim’s parent’s house. I was dressed as a cavewoman and Tim was Bob Marley (complete with shirt patterned with marijuana leaf design). We carved some pumpkins and just hung out and it was really fun. However, on the way out to the party and his parent’s house we decided to start dating each other. The conversation went something like this…
Tim: “Hey, do you want to come to dinner on Sunday with my family?”
Megan: “Wow. Do you normally invite people over for family dinner?”
Tim: “Yeah, we usually bring over the people we’re dating….Not that we’re dating or anything! I mean…unless we are…?”
Megan: “Tim, what’s your middle name?”
Tim: “David.”
Megan: “Timothy David Ellertson, do you want to go out with me?”
Tim: “Yes.”
Megan: “Good. I do too.”
And then something happened where he said something aobut me being his girlfriend and I teased him about me asking him out and then he was like no, it can’t stand like that. So he said “fine, let’s break up” and I was like “what?!” and then he asked me if I’d go out with him and I said “No. You just dumped me and broke my heart.” Hehe. And that was it. We were officially dating. Yes…one week to the day after our first date.

Saturday. Halloween! Tim and I went to a couple of dance parties. It was great! But even better than the parties…Tim’s and my first kiss! He kissed me in the living room of the Pillar House and I was so high about it that I can’t remember much about it other than it was phenomenal!

Ok…that’s our first week. It was eventful, magical, wonderful. And if anyone actually reads this whole post…wow. Kudos.