Our Story

Back in February I made a decision to accept an internship to work in Disneyworld this fall. I was a single girl with nothing to hold me back, and it sounded so fun to get out of Saint George for a semester. I was ready to run away from all the reminders of past mistakes and 110 degree days. I was set on leaving and never coming back. But then something unthinkable happened.Then I did something SO stupid. Something I swore I'd never do again.  
I fell in love.  

I met Skyler at work one day in the break room. He was in training with some kid I knew from school and for some reason I talked to him and was friendly. (Very out of character for me, don't ya think?) I kept talking to him on the IM at work and eventually we started hanging out. I went into the whole thing thinking, "I'm going to Florida at the end of the summer. It's nothing. I don't want a relationship right now. We're just friends. etc." Well, I deep conditioned his hair one night and we ended up kissing. Then we just sort of made a habit out of kissing each other until he decided that he wasn't going to "kiss so many girls this summer." He just wanted to kiss me. On June 4th he made me his girlfriend. I've been the happiest person in the world ever since.

This summer has been the most magical and amazing summer anyone could have imagined. Skyler has completely changed the way I look at life and honey mustard and I'm so in love with him. It's perfect. I mean, it was perfect. Until yesterday.

We knew from the very beginning that I was leaving at the end of the summer and we talked so many times about what that meant for our relationship, but it didn't ever seem like a real thing. But it is. Yesterday I loaded up my little car and drove to Salt Lake after saying goodbye to Sky and our puppy for four months. Come Monday I'll be 3,000 miles away from them. Scary huh?  But I read a quote once and it said:

"Distance is not for the fearful. It is for the bold. It is for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It is for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough."

So here is to hoping we are bold enough to handle this. Here is to the days we are going to laugh and cry and cry some more and then laugh because we are crying in public again. I'm going to miss him. I already miss him. But I know we'll be just fine.
We are writing this blog to share our journey with you. To help people believe in magic and believe in love. Whoever may read this. (Hi mom.) I can't wait for you to read the posts Skyler will write because every word that comes out of that boy's mouth inspires me. He's so loving and supportive and I'm such a jerk for leaving him for this long, but these 127 days are going to fly by. And then who knows what adventures we will go on after that.

xoxo. Whitney.