Preference

Warning: This is a long story--at least I made it one. If your attention span can't handle it, skip to the pictures.
Preference was Nov. 4th. I didn't know it was happening until a week before and I wasn't planning on going until a couple of days later. I didn't know who to ask, I figured all the good guys were taken, so I was just like whatever. But the Sunday before, my friend Stephanie and I started talking about it after choir practice because she was having the same issues and we decided we wanted to go. Once we decided I was all business and I told her I was going to get my ward directory and we'd pick some boys and decide what to do since it was Sunday and we didn't have anything to do anyway. She didn't know I was serious until I came back with the "ward menu," as some gooftroops like to call it. So we consulted friends Jodi and Maren about who was already taken and what the guys we hadn't met were like and we decided on Philip for her and Ryan for me (who's from McKinney--my ward has a strong DFW representation). But then we changed our minds because while we were deliberating we had briefly asked a boy named Cory who didn't have a date yet and he said, "Well, I haven't been asked..." So we took the hint and thought it'd be funny if Stephanie asked him. She wrote a baseball-themed note and gave him peanuts because he's a baseball fanatic. I decided to ask Philip because the day before, while walking back from Helaman Field after playing games with one of the elders quorums, I was talking to Philip and Brent (also from Texas), who was telling me how much water Philip drinks. His last name is Thurston, so Brent was joking that it'd be a great way for a girl to ask him to a dance. I wasn't planning on going then, but the next day I remembered that conversation and thought it would be cute. So I gave him a water bottle with a note taped over the label that said, "Philip, are you Thurston for a date to Preference?" Stephanie and I spent all afternoon making our items in Jodi and Maren's room, with the help of Jodi's plethora of scrapbooking supplies (which made me even more on Andra's side of that argument--all that paper and stuff is fun, but it's too much stuff. It took up at least a third of the space under her bed, which is raised.) It was really fun. Stephanie and I hadn't really bonded before then. We had our friend James deliver our things the next day. And then the next day our friend Natalie finally got up the nerve to ask someone in her calc class and oh my goodness hers was complicated. I admire him for having the patience to get through it. It was like a treasure hunt to one or two more clues and then 25 calculus problems he had to solve to decipher a coded message. But he ended up saying yes with a calc problem of his own. Natalie is such a math nerd. Anyway, we wanted to go ice skating together but Kristin and I couldn't get tickets. We were so disappointed. But we still had dinner beforehand with Stephanie and Natalie and two other couples and then we went to the semiformal luau and it was way fun. A bunch of our other friends were there and afterward we got ice cream and played Mad Gab. So, long story short, it was fun!
Getting pretty-fied. Trying, anyway. My friend Alex did my hair. You can't see the back here, but that's because it got progressively bigger throughout the night. It was a little goofy.


Kristin, Kevin, me and Philip.