Since May

Jen and I have been dating now for a little over five months now, and things are wonderful! Even though we still live 700 miles away, we've been able to see each other about once a month since March which has been really nice. In March I came up for a friends wedding and we had a get together of a bunch of mission buddies and then went out to breakfast the next morning. In April, I came up for conference. Jen got us great tickets to the solemn assembly, it was awesome!! Then in May we decided we'd give the whole dating thing a try so while she was visiting her brother in St George and I was visiting my brother in Las Vegas, she drove down and we went on our first date, first we went bowling. And even though I fell on my face while bowling, she still went on to subway, and a movie afterwards.



In June, Jen actually came down to California to visit me. Way awesome weekend as well as a much needed respite from a stressful summer school class. We went up to Hollywood one day and visited the natural history museum and then went to the observatory and watched a movie there .
[Kevin wouldn't tell me where we were going so it was a fun surprise, and we definitely had fun taking silly pictures and talking about the exhibits, especially these two emus.. ]
The next day, we went to a place called Crystal cove and jumped off a rock out in the middle of the ocean way fun. [This place was amazing, you fell through the air for a long time before hitting the water it was so much fun.]
Sunday we went to church and my ward absolutely loved her (she was even recognized in Sacrament meeting). [I had the great privilege of seeing the world's greatest primary teacher in action, even when his class size was tripled because the other teacher was out of town that day, it didn't phase him at all :) ] She was also able to be there for my nephew, Jake's, first birthday. The next day I had class, we went out to dinner and then she caught her flight back.

In July we got to see each other a lot, well relatively a lot. My family was doing a family vacation up to Idaho and on the way we went to Lagoon and Jen met up with us there, she stayed and camped with the family for a few days. We had a blast!! Then my family and I went up to Ririe Idaho and stayed a few days there, then on the way back I met up with Jen and stayed at a friend's place in Provo for a night, Jen and I went on a hike, and then Jen and I drove down to Vegas to meet up with my family the next day. In Vegas we went to adventure dome at Circus Circus and to a buffet it was a great weekend.

[Kevin also drove up with a mutual mission friend the week after for a couple of weddings of friends of ours and he stayed in Provo again. We basically spent the whole weekend with each other again and had tons of fun meeting up with friends and dancing at the wedding reception :) I got to take him to my church on Sunday and random people kept coming up and saying how cute we were... lol. He also started teaching me a little sign language, I love it]
In August Jen and a few of her friends came down and stayed with us.
We met up at the beach on Saturday and then went to a party at her Uncle's AWESOME house, it was great fun. It was also the first time I met any of her family, and they were awesome. The next day she went to church with us, and to the temples and saw the Hollywood walk of fame, it was pretty sweet. Monday we went to Disneyland and had a blast. Then she left on Tuesday.












In September I flew up and surprised Jen for her birthday, we went bug collecting and had a wonderful although extremely short weekend. [Best birthday I've ever had, opening my front door and finding Kevin :). I also found out two important things about Kevin on our bug collecting date: he's a fearless bug hunter and a genius.. he stole my net from me and pronounced death on any bug that opposed him.. as for the genius part just ask him about getting me sunflowers :) ]
In October I went up with some friends for conference. It was great. An amazing conference, and amazing company :) We even got to see good old Stephen Peaden!!

As for now, I'm missing her like crazy, counting down the seconds (approximately) until I see my other half again, and trying to balance all the other less important things that make up my life while constantly thinking about her.