A whole post about...Dave!

My mom likes Dave. At least she keeps saying so!

Dave at Anticline Overlook across from Dead Horse Point.

View from Dead Horse Point State Park, where we met!

We met when he got a seasonal job at Dead Horse Point State Park last spring (2010). It was busy and we all had our own stuff going on so I didn't really start getting to know him until later that summer. We just started talking more and more, but it was still pretty much a work relationship but we were getting to be friends. Then, I needed someone to go with me to Vernal and drive home my Jeep that my brother-in-law had worked on for me.

I asked Dave to go with me because 1) we had the same days off and 2) I was starting to really like him and thought it would be fun. I found out he likes museums so we spent a couple hours at the Utah Field House in Vernal. On the way back, he drove my Jeep while I drove my "new" car. He called me and said he needed gas, so we stopped at Crescent Junction. (Now, I had bought a locking gas cap because I was always out hiking, camping and backpacking and didn't want my gas being stolen...) We found out I didn't have the key to the gas cap! The gas light was on, telling him he had low fuel...so we decided to get it as far as it would go before it actually ran out of gas, then I would deal with it. The Jeep made it all the way back to my house! ...but it made him sweat a little bit and I felt bad and really dumb...especially when I got inside my house and found the key hanging on my wall!!!

He started texting me later that evening and from there we kept texting and talking, and then we started hanging out watching movies and drinking wine...and then I left for 2 weeks to go to CA with my family! A bad time to leave...but I was really looking forward to going with them so I went. We texted and talked pretty much the whole time and decided the date we started dating was August 7, 2010...so now it's been almost a year! Wow...I can't believe it's been that long...

We went to Disneyland last August because we had four days off together and had a great time! I hadn't been around anyone I could really spend 12 hours with at a time in the same vehicle...and we got along great! We're going to CA again to spend MORE time at Disneyland, California Adventure and then a day sightseeing and maybe a little time at the beach. We leave Monday...and I am excited!

Dave's family. We wanted to see them for Thanksgiving but it snowed us in. We ended up going between Thanksgiving and Christmas.