Camping and Heart-Shaped Rocks...

Friday, October 12, 2012...John and I went camping with Robin and Brady on Friday night to Saturday morning.  We met them up there after work on Friday.  We went out towards Delta, by the sand dunes.  It was so rainy and cold.  John is the cutest!  We just have the easiest conversations.  It isn’t hard to communicate with him at all.  I don’t know how to explain the depth we have so quickly.  We got out there and Brady made us pizza and then we had cobbler.  The girls were so excited for us to get there. 

Kennedi asked Robin when John was getting there, and asked if he was at work.  I asked Kennedi if she likes John or me better.  She said she liked John better.  I can’t believe that after 4 years of building a relationship with her, in two weeks it can be trumped by a guy I am dating. I LOVE it actually.  I feel like if anyone is going to trump me with Kennedi, I am ok that it is John.  I actually LOVE that it is John.  He is so good with kids, and Kennedi is a hard one to win over.  Anyway, that night, John and I slept in the camper with Robin and Brady.

It was the cutest and funniest thing.  I had taken some lunesta and John and I were talking with our faces close together.  In the morning he told me what happened that night.  He said that I was talking to him really close and I told him that I get a little crazy with my lunesta sometimes and that I sometimes do weird things and don’t remember them in the morning.  He said I leaned over and kissed him a few times and then I fell asleep with my face right in his face.

He said it was the cutest thing ever.  He just sat and giggled at me because I was so cute asleep in his face.  That night Hadlee woke up screaming a couple times and wouldn't calm down.  I took Hadlee outside with her blanket and calmed her down.  John got up with me and came outside and gave me his coat and kissed me on the head.  I calmed her down and then came back in the camper. 
I didn’t want to wake up Robin, so I just put Hadlee between John and I.  Hadlee just snuggled her head right into John’s neck and fell asleep.  John said it was so precious, and he loved it.  He was so good with Hadlee.  She struggled several times at night, and John just helped her not struggle, and was just so good with her.  In the morning, after Hadlee got up, Robin took her and John and I just stayed in bed.  Abbie and Kennedi wanted to come snuggle, so they hopped in my sleeping bag with me and John put his arms around all three of us. 

It was adorable!  The girls ADORE John, and they don’t warm up that quickly to most people.  I feel so blessed that they are taking on to him so well.  He is “in” for sure!  In the morning he said, “Dang, you are even hot when you wake up.  If this is the worst you look, I am the luckiest man ever!”  He is so cute!!!  After we got up and going for the day, John invited the girls to go on a walk with him to find heart-shaped rocks.  He took them on some adventures, and they just had so much fun with him.  He would run off and hide and they would go find him.  They would stop and collect rocks, and they would be laughing and playing.  It was really cute!  He brought back this big heart shaped rock that was amazing!  I told him it was perfect.  We had such a fun time.  We played with the girls a lot and just talked.  We also got to shoot Brady's gun.  It was a really fun trip!

That afternoon, we took off and on our way back, he wanted to stop in a few places.  John wanted to stop in Eureka to see the abandoned town. 

He is so intrigued by ghost towns, and places that have been abandoned.  It used to be a mining town, and when the mine closed, the town kind of closed down as well.  There are some people that stayed there, but most of the places are abandoned and deserted.  We didn’t stop for long, but it was fun to just see the town as it was.  I  love that John likes to stop and see everything.  it is something my dad does a lot.  It is just nice to not be on a schedule and just go on an adventure.  We did that after we left Eureka.  We saw this place on the side of the mountain and decided to stop and see what it was.  John thought it was a “smelter” but it ended up being an abandoned refinery.  It is near Goshen, Utah. 

It is on the side of mountain and made of concrete.  We stopped, and weren’t sure we were allowed to go through the gates, but we went in anyway.  He was holding my hand as we were walking and he found a heart shaped rock.  He told me that he is going to take me on a lot of adventures in our lifetime.  He said that he thought it would be neat if we collected a heart shaped rock for every adventure we went on.  My heart just melted.  Who is this guy that is sensitive and so loving?  I just can’t believe how amazing he is.  He seriously is soooo awesome!  We found a couple heart shaped rocks and chose one for that adventure.  I came home and washed it and marked the back with a date and the word, “smelter.”  While we were up at the top, he would take pictures of us together, and he would pull me close and kiss me.  At one spot, I was sitting on a rock.  He went to help me up and my jeans ripped.

I was so sad.  He just laughed and held me.  It was pretty funny actually.  We drove home, smiling, laughing and talking about everything, like usual.  We just have so much fun together and it is always hard to leave one another at the end of the day!