I was on my way home from school shopping in Las Vegas with my mom & my sister Jamie when I got a message on Myspace from Tyler Oliver.(I want to say it was August 2nd or 4th 2009) It said something along the lines of, "I've had you on this thing for a while now and I've never talked to you. So whats up?" & those are the first words my husband ever said to me. At the time I never even imagined us getting married, let alone dating.. He was what you would call, "A player". He was known for dating a lot of girls. & that was exactly what I thought he was trying to do with me. But I was also the girl who talked to a lotttt of guys, so of course I talked to him anyways. I ended up giving him my number that night.
The county fair was going on at that time, & I went with my mom. He texted me & said he was going to be there too, but I didn't really plan on seeing or hanging out with him there. We were in the middle of all of the rides & I texted him saying, "turn around" & I stared at him from about 20 feet away. I saw him look down at this phone & even though he was surrounded by a group of people(girls) he turned around & waved at me.
Later that night when I was home from the fair, he texted me & said, "do you want to hang out?" I said yes. He came to my house to pick me up, but he was so nervous that he made his friend Riley ride with him. WHICH ISN'T LIKE HIM. He is the type to hang out with any girl & not care what they thought about him. So they picked me up & we went over to Rileys brothers house. (also known as the hobbit house because it is in a basement & the ceilings are really low) I sat there awkwardly on my phone in the "egg chair" for probably an hour. I think at some point Tyler may have given me his jacket because it was freezing. Him & I ended up leaving & we drove to his house. (his parents were out of town) I remember as soon as we walked in the front door, he locked it. He said, "I hope that isn't creepy, I just lock the doors when no one is home" hahah or something like that.. we went down stairs are played bowling & golfing on the Wii. Which I won. (;
I don't really remember much about the days after that.. beside that everyone kept telling me that he was just going to play me. That he was going to get what he wanted & leave. What they didn't know is that I hadn't even let him kiss me. I wasn't like the other girls he dated, that were easy & would do anything. I think it was maybe 2 weeks of hanging out every day before I let him kiss me, outside of my house while he was saying bye to me.
Then a week or two after that I messed up.. I went & hung out with a kid I had liked before Tyler. Tyler & I weren't officially dating, but we had only been seeing each other. I told Tyler that I was going to hang out with Tanner, but I didn't tell Tyler what happened while I hung out with Tanner, until that night.
I was laying in bed & Tyler called to say goodnight. We hung up & I texted him immediately & said, "will you call me? I have to tell you something.." He called me back & I told him what happened. It wasn't until that night that I realized I had to have Tyler. That I didn't want anyone else, & that I didn't want anyone else to have him. That was the first night I cried to him, & the first night I told him how much he meant to me. Luckily, I wasn't just "another girl" that he didn't care about. Luckily, I wasn't another girl he could walk away from & not care.
I think it was the next day, or two days later that Tyler officially asked me to be his girlfriend.
August 21st, 2009.
