Blind Date Success

Flashback! 

My sister is an awesome person.  She's very smart, multi-talented, dedicated and loyal.  I think she deserves every good thing in the world!  This is the story of how this very deserving woman found true love.  And, like any good story, Reed and I got to play a part in it.  Yay! 

Girls Camp! 

June of 2011:  Meghan went to girls camp and was the camp nurse.  While sitting around the campfire she chatted with a really nice lady who had lots of fun stories and a great sense of humor.  The really nice lady mused that she would love to set her son, Mike, up with a really nice girl.  I mentioned that I would love to set my sister, Leesa, up with a really nice man.  We both got scheming glints in our eyes and planned our dramatic set-up.  I mentioned the plan to Reed and he said he was friends with the man in question and definitely approves of the choice. 

Ensuing months:  We tried but never actually got them together.  But the thought never left our minds.  Reed asked Mike if he'd be interested in going on a double date with us and Leesa sometime and he said that it would be fun.

January, 2012:  Leesa had scheduled a visit to town (she is a successful doctor in her residency at an Emergency Room) and Reed and I absolutely leapt at the opportunity.  We checked Mike's schedule and then I approached Leesa and presented the plan.  She would meet us at Reed's house and we would make pizzas on a double date.  If it went badly then I had an escape plan and she would be able to depart gracefully with only a short bit of her life wasted.  She agreed.

Delicious Pizza

February 4, 2012:   Leesa went shopping for a new outfit and Reed and I went shopping for pizza fixings.  I don't know what Mike was doing but I am guessing it was something masculine like chopping trees or changing the oil in his truck.  Leesa arrived at The House first.  She looked beautiful and a little nervous.  Blind dates are kinda scary!  Then Mike arrived and he had a huge surprise....he had shaved his thick, winter skiing beard!!!  We went to the kitchen where we prepared the pizzas.  I felt so nervous and fretted that they hated each other or that things were going horribly.  Reed smiled and assured me that things were going really well.  I was too nervous to notice.  We ate pizza and I made sure to eat like a pig so that everybody else would look more polite.  Then we played Apples to Apples and had fun laughing at the results.  Leesa and Mike, I realized, were actually flirting!  Leesa hadn't indicated yet that she needed the escape plan so I figured I could relax a little bit.  After the game we went to the living room where we watched skits from BYU's Divine Comedy YouTube channel.  Laughter is a wonderful thing and it helps bond people together so I figured laughter was a must on the date.  Things kept going and going and finally at midnight I had reached my curfew.  So I said that the date was over and that I had to go home.  So Mike and Leesa said goodbye (not before she hugged him and he got her phone number). 

One of my Apples to Apples hands...unfortunate bunch! 

February 5, 2012:  They went on their first solo date together.  He asked her out and she said yes, of course.

Leesa and Mike and their parents

A few months later:  He asked her to marry him and she said yes.  Of course!