Several wonderful months passed with the two of us exploring our new relationship and trying to settle into our new roles as boyfriend and girlfriend. He got used to the idea that we were going to be holding hands and kissing *gasp* in public sometimes, and I got used to the idea that we didn’t have to be together every waking moment.

Time passed entirely too quickly and soon it was time for me to move home for summer term (I had a great summer job waitressing at a luxury resort near my house) and time for him to move down to Dallas to begin working for “Uncle B” (as a certain friend of mine likes to say). Somehow I convinced That Boyfriend to make the 10 hour drive up to Washington with me and help me move, and also so he could meet my family, as they had been dying to meet him for months now.

Because my family lives in such close proximity to each other he didn’t just meet my parents. He met my mom’s parents, my mom’s grandma, my dad’s parents, my aunt and uncle and their 6 kids, an aunt and uncle and their 5 kids, two sets of aunts and uncles from Seattle, as well as various couples close to my parents who were dying to know who Jenna was dating (TH was actually my first steady boyfriend since high school several years earlier so this was a big deal).

He made such a good impression that I think my family started liking him better than they liked me. ;)

We spent a day or two showing him around the family farm. We didn’t actually drive this tractor but I gave him a taste of a farmer’s life by making him get inside. I think he decided he liked his cushy desk job better than the noisy tractor environment.

We also had a race to see who could get the irrigation tubes started the fastest…

he won. By alot. And I felt ashamed of my skills as a farmer’s daughter.

By far That Boyfriend’s favorite stop during this trip was the organic pea field. He could have stayed out in that field for days hunting for pea pods and picking out the peas. I was a bit overcome by how cute he was and hoped we would get married.

After a few days he went home and left me with a family gushing about how wonderful he was. Of course they didn’t need to tell me, I already knew that. If only we were going to be seeing each other more than once a month for the next 10 months…

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