30 Day Writing Challenge: Day One

Alright folks! I'm trying to get back on the bandwagon!

I figure a nice way to start is by doing this 30 Day Writing Challenge I found on... yup, Pinterest.

Day one: Five Ways to Win Your Heart.

Soooooo.... Matthew and met in April 2011. We started dating in September 2011. We got married August 2012. Needless to say, over the past 1,300 days (give or take), my heart was won by that cute Matt guy in many ways!

Winning my heart: 

1. We do fun things together. 

thoughts: don't be slugs. 

try doing things and finding common interests. 

we work out, play wii, board games,

hike, we took a dance class.

we also make sure to spend time supporting each other in our hobbies: 

i can't count the number of times i went out in the freezing cold to keep matt company while he took pictures and matt never missed a single concert i played in while i was a student.

2. We talk. 

thoughts: we are a unit. 

we tell each other everything. 

the fun and the not so fun (like budgeting...bahhhh)

we work hard to stay best friends.

matt came to spend a week of summer in my hometown before we started dating. i have no idea what we talked about, but i remember talking until the early hours of the morning. 

while the smoochin was great, it was the good deep talks that caused me to fall in love. 

3. We laugh. 

example: matthew is a huge jokester. 

when we first started dating,  i was out eating dinner with a good friend of mine 

when i got a text from matthew.

the text said he had hurt himself and possibly broken his nose, 

but that he was at home and ok. 

being enormously twitter-pated, i freaked. i ran next door to the cupcake shop and bought him a yummy cupcake. then i power-walked to his apartment as fast as i could. walking in, what do i see? 

a paper towel taped to his face. 

what the?! 

what do i do? 

sit down and eat the cupcake, that's what! 

punk. 

4. We try to be romantic.

thoughts: again-- d.a.t.e. each other. lots of dates. 

snow cone dates, lots of walks, dinners. 

matt wrote down 101 things he loved about me and gave it to me for Christmas. 

i try to put notes in his lunch. 

we set aside a day each week to spend time only with each other.

5. We stay spiritual. 

thoughts: this may be the most important.

we pray together

read the scriptures

go to church/the temple

do it, do it, do it. 

Of course the list never ends. If I could add one more thing that has really helped us to stay in love:  

Serve each other. Do things the other person hates. I hate vacuuming. Matt almost always vacuums. Matt hates folding laundry. I fold. Help each other.