Here are some pictures from when we very first started dating! The middle one is the first picture I have of us - I think it was our 3rd or 4th date.
Tony and I met at the Polo Ralph Lauren outlet store in Park City. He started working there in Aug. 2005 and I started working there in Sep. 2005. It was my very first day at work and before each shift they do what is called a shift meeting, where all the employees get together and the manager assigns where everyone will be working and tells what the goals for that day are. Like I said, it was my very first day and I didn't really know what was going on. All the employees got in a circle and standing right across from me was Tony. I remember looking at him and thinking he was the "hottest" guy I ever saw. I was only 16 years old and I was dating someone else at the time but I couldn't stop staring at him. I had to keep telling myself, "you're dating someone, he's way out of your league, he probably doesn't even notice you...etc." But to my surprise, everytime I looked up at him he was looking at me, noticiably looking at me! It was almost uncomfortable haha! Because everytime I looked at him he was smiling at me. After the meeting I had butterflies in my stomach but I tried not to think about it. I went to work in the women's side and he was working on the men's. We didn't talk much until the end of the shift when we were waiting for the manager to close the store but it was just small talk.
For the next month, I secretly had a crush on him and every shift I worked I hoped he worked too. I had stopped dating the person I was dating when I first met him but I found out Tony was dating another girl that worked there. I still just thought he was really cute and when my friends came in the store, if he was working, I would always show them who Tony was and tell them how cute he was. One day I came in to work after church and He told me I looked really cute that day.
Then came Oct. 29th, the day I had been waiting for. It was a saturday and I had to work. The day started off good because another guy from work asked me to hang out after work. I told him I could because I didn't have any plans. During that morning I also heard the girl that Tony was dating talking to her friend and she said that she was supposed to go to a movie with Tony that night but she couldn't because she had to help her parents move and she was really upset because she already told him she would go. The next thing I know, Tony came up to me and asked me if I wanted to go to a movie with him! Part of me wanted to say, "NO, I know you're just asking me because the other girl can't go with you!" And I also already had plans with the other guy, but I had a huge crush on him and I was excited that he asked me. But like I said, I knew he was already supposed to go with another girl, so I said yes, but I played it cool like it wasn't a big deal. He wrote down his number on a piece of paper and gave it to me. I was ringing at the cash registers and just left it on the counter and I guess it fell on the floor. The next time Tony came over to me he saw his piece of paper on the floor and was like, "Oh, I guess you don't really care about my number," and gave me a really hard time about it. Haha the playing hard to-get was working. Then it was time to get off work and the other guy that had asked me to hang out asked me if we were still planning on hanging out that night. I froze because I had totally forgot I had already told him I'd hang out with him before Tony asked me. I couldn't think of an excuse and Tony was standing right there, so all I could say was, "Sorry, I'm going to a movie with Tony." I felt so bad as he had this really disappointed look on his face, made the "pssshhh" sound as he rolled his eyes, and just walked out the door. Oh well...Later that night after work Tony and I decided to meet at Gateway to go to dinner and see a movie. There are some really funny things that happened that night.
The first was I got there first and was waiting for him on top of the escalator by the movie theater. I'll never forget what he was wearing because I noticed him before anyone else coming up the escalator. He was wearing jeans complete with LOAFERS, a DRESS SHIRT, a HOODIE, and a Yankees BALLCAP covered with PATCHES! Hahaha there was so many looks in one but I decided he was trying to go dressy (loafers and dress shirt) and casual (hoodie, jeans, and ball cap) and I had to force myself from laughing... but if anyone could pull it off it would have to be him.
The next funny thing is we ate at California Pizza Kitchen and before our pizza we ordered a spinach and artichoke dip and it came with black and white tortilla chips. The whole time neither of us touched the black chips and just ate the white ones. When it came down to only black ones left, we both stopped eating and all of a sudden Tony said, "What, do you have something against the black chips? Are you racist???" and I was thinking the exact same thing about him haha!
Then we went to a movie. Tony thought the movie about Johnny Cash was out and wanted to see it but it wasn't out yet so we had to pick another one. We decided to watch "Prime" which neither of us knew what it was about, but we decided to see it because it was supposed to be funny. Well, ironically the movie turned out to be about a woman who is dating a man 16 years younger than her. In the middle of the movie Tony asks, "So how old are you?" Now I had told him how old I was the very first night I met him when we were talking at work. I also knew how old he was because he told me that night as well, so I thought he knew but didn't care, but I guess he forgot. I told him that I was 16 and that I knew I had told him that already. He kind of freaked out and refused to believe me, so much that he made me show him my driver's license to prove it. After he got over the shock that we were 6 years apart I guess it didn't matter to him, just like it didn't matter to me because we clicked instantly.
The last funny thing is after the movie, for some reason, he wanted to get ice cream and eat it by the capitol! (Random, I know!) By now it was midnight and the only place open for ice cream was a sonic drive in. After I called my mom and made up a story about where I would be so I could be out later, (Sorry, Mom!) we went to the Sonic and sat for a long time there eating our ice cream and talking. It was really cold and he crawled into the front seat with me so we could share a blanket, then we had our first kiss. He is the only boy I have ever kissed on a first date! After, he still wanted to go drive by the capitol and I don't know why but for some reason we couldn't find it! We ended up going way up City Creek Canyon (we were close!) and having to pull off the side of the road because I think we got lost!
It was definitely the most random, adventurous, first date I have ever been on and we definitely got to know a lot about each other through out it all! It is also the only first date I have ever been on that wasn't awkward at all, no awkward silences or feeling like I had to always be talking. Even so, after it I wasn't sure if he would ever ask me out again because I knew he was dating other girls and after all, we had already kissed. But to my surprise, the next time I saw him he did, and from there we went...*
