On this day in History: The k2 Version

One year ago today Kevin Ford walked into the AT& T store in Orem Utah anxious to set up his new phone he had just got for his upcoming birthday. Little did he know that one trip to a cell phone store would change the direction of his life.... for Eternity. 

I was working for AT&T last fall and on a warm Saturday afternoon in Orem, with school just starting and tons of college kids moving back to Utah for the semester our store was swarming with customers.

Late in the afternoon I walked up to an attractive young man in khaki shorts, a polo and hat and asked how I could help him. He told me that he was interested in activating service with us. When I found out that he had already bought a phone and just needed to set up a plan I wasn't too thrilled (aka: I wasn't getting commission on this kid). Not to mention he wanted to be put on his Dad's plan who lived in Washington. Long story short the whole transaction took about 45 minutes. Between calling his dad to go into AT&T in Washington to set up a plan, adding Kevin to the account and transferring his existing Sprint phone number to AT&T I was a very annoyed sales person. Kevin said I didn't smile for the first 20 minutes (I still don't believe it) but somewhere in the middle of it all he said something that made me smile. He say's I smiled real big, flashed him my big dimples and that's when he knew he wasn't leaving the store without my number. I am pretty sure my green eyes, strawberry blonde hair and tight black dress pants I was wearing helped in the whole initial attraction. 

As I was wrapping things up and right before he left he asked if I'd like to go out sometime. A little surprised I replied a very giddy "sure". He asked for my number and walked out..... OK, OK, so I can't leave out the part Kevin loves to tell. When he asked for my number I responded with, "It's already in your phone". Kevin smiled big and thought that I had been the presumptuous one and put my number in his phone before he even asked, but in reality I had.... you know, I like his version better anyways.

I won't deny it that as soon as he left I was smiling from ear to ear. I had worked in the cell phone business for 4 years prior and been asked out a few times here and there by men but I had never felt the butterflies like I did that day. I sent a mass text to Aubrey, Jessica and Brooke (my roommates) and shared the news! I was given permission to add him on Facebook by the girls to make sure he wasn't a creeper. Within a few hours we were FB friends. 

Now, being fairly new to the Provo area and still not familiar with how the dating worked, I was told it would be a few days before he would call me to ask me out. Well that was the first sign that he was different. The VERY next day while at family birthday party Kevin called me. Yes, I screened the call because I was WAY to excited to answer right then. Jessica, Aubrey and Brooke were all freaking out with me laughing and telling me to answer! Well I "missed" his call and ended up calling him back a little later. 

Kev asked if I would like to go out during the week. I felt so lame that I worked every night until 9:30 and then was leaving Friday to go home to Sacramento. I really wanted to go out with him and didn't want him to think I was making up excuses. If I remember correctly we got off the phone that night without a date set up. We left it at, if you have time give me a call. It was a day or two later that Kevin called and asked if we could go on a late date one night after I worked. And we did :)

Well, that's all the "On this Day in History: The k2 Version" I have for tonight. I'll have to tell you all the other stories that followed throughout the week. This Friday will be the one year from our first date and we will be in Salt Lake for the night celebrating Kevin's birthday but I'll share some more stories later. I cannot believe my husband is going to be 28 on the 1st. I give him a hard time about his age (since he is 4 years older than me) but in reality I love it. I love that he is done with school, has a great job and got to experience his 20's before we met. I truly think Kevin's age, accomplishments and goals are a blessing to our marriage, life and our future family.

This weekend was lovely. Another successful DI/garage sale shopping trip. Annalee's baby shower (for the beautiful baby Chloe who came a month early and is doing great). Taking Kevin to Home Goods, a store I love from back home that just opened in Farmington, UT. A lovely session at the Bountiful Temple. Cleaning up the house. Finally filling my vases for around the house and staying up late watching Kate and Leopold. 

We are loving life so much. Loving and living every moment of it to its fullest. 

Happy Sunday Readers.

PS. Yesterday was Kevin's parents 31st Wedding Anniversary. They are such wonderful people and I am so blessed to be apart of their family. They are such incredible people and I love them so much <3