As it goes for morgan; i was invited to a new years party at jareds house and went with a friend. We walked in and got to see and meet his parents and were hanging out downstairs for a bit. She and i then went upstairs where all the people she was friends with were hanging out and i had kinda one of those cheesy heart skipped a beat moments and lost my ability to speak for a little bit as soon as i saw jared sitting in the middle of the couch talking with a group of people. It took me most of the night to even speak to him but as the story goes i kinda just showed up at their house and never left.

Bit of a crazy story but hopefully will be a funny one. Jared had been asking me to go backpacking for a few weeks at this point and we set a time aside to backpack around lake texoma and try to camp overnight. We woke up early and got all our backpacking essentials put together and drove out to lake texoma. When we got there it was a really pretty morning and we were both excited to see how far we could get through the trail. An hour or so goes by we made it about five miles in and stopped at a camp spot, both of us were pretty tired but decided to try to get further down the trail, we walked another mile and a half and by this time the heat of the day was setting in (about 90 degrees with 99% humidity) and so we made the choice to turn back to go to the campsite at 5 miles. We get back and are both just dying from the heat at this point, and if you know me you know im not very nice when im too hot. But Jared was so excited and really wanted to take a picture with me for our first backpacking trip. Of course being the grumapotomous i was at that time i was not being agreeable. I kept telling him “i dont know why you feel the need to take a photo, its 100 degrees out” and “im not taking my hair down or looking good for the photo, just so were clear”. So he carves out a tree and sets up his phone ignoring how rude i was being and he set it up as a video. So the video starts and he came walking up to me and of course i instantly ruin it by telling him his fly was down from going to the bathroom a little while ago. Oops! So he fixes it and starts posing for some pictures with me and all of a sudden dropped to one knee. Of course i was so excited but instantly so upset with myself for being so ugly about the heat and not wanting any photos. Ultimately it ended up a beautiful moment. We thought we were gonna camp out that night but after downing half our water and finding water moccasins in the lake we made the decision to hike out and head home. As we were trying to head back to the truck the day only got hotter and we were both struggling. We barely made it back to the truck because i was struggling with my 40lb pack and jared was having some chest pain. But we were able to get home safe and sound before the giant unexpected storm hit that night. Thank goodness we didn’t stay to camp in it.