Excuse me while I continue to do more research on Tim Tebow so that I will be adequately prepared for future conversations.
You know it was one heck of a weekend when I’m still talking about it on the Friday after it ended.
After getting back from Atlanta this past weekend, my cousin Marisa (whom you might remember from the time we had a little incident in the McDonald’s drive-thru line as well as from the time she came up with an interesting way to stock her kitchen drawers) and her family invited me to come over to watch a little football with them.
(Now, even if you don’t like football, stick around because this post is coming back to British Boy AS EVERY GOOD BLOG POST SHOULD.)
When I talk about Marisa’s family on the blog, sometimes I mention that they’re my “fake family.” This is because Marisa, who is my first cousin, was raised by her father and stepmother who aren’t related to me by blood if you want to get technical about it. Luckily for me, Marisa’s family doesn’t want to get technical about it and have recently taken me in like the lonely post-grad girl I am, thus the invite to football night.
Look at my beautiful cousin, y’all, just look at her. She is SO darling I almost can’t stand it.
When I got there, Aunt Haley was making a cake. So I’m standing in the kitchen catching up with her when I see that she’s putting a bowl of batter into the microwave. Immediately I start thinking that she’s lost her mind but, seeing as we don’t know each other that well, I didn’t think it was appropriate to say “Um, Aunt Haley, I think you meant to put that in the oven.”
Nine minutes later she goes to pull it out of the microwave and it’s just this half-baked gooey mess and I’m five seconds away from going to get Marisa to say “THERE IS A CAKE CRISIS IN THE KITCHEN” when Aunt Haley starts telling me that I’m going to love her famous “lava” cake.
Y’all. Y’ALL. I have never, ever, EVER tasted a dessert more delicious in my entire life. Seriously, it is THE best cake I’ve ever had and to think I was being all prideful thinking Aunt Haley didn’t know how to bake a cake in the microwave! Pride cometh before a fall, but thankfully in this case it was a fall directly into the most delicious cake batter in the world.
I spent most of the game sitting beside Aunt Haley talking to her about what’s been going on in my life, but I did pay attention long enough to listen to the entire room of people talk about what a great player Tim Tebow of the Florida Gators is (keep this in mind because it comes in handy in a few seconds).
The next night was when Gosling Nicholas, Nathan and I headed to the new College and Career thing, you know, the night I met British Boy, aka The Night That Began The Rest Of My Life. They fed 43 of us breakfast for supper, had an amazing devotional with us and then turned on the Wii so we could have a little recreational fun and by some of us I mean Gosling and British Boy.
You’ll notice that no one else is around and that’s because we were the last to leave because Gosling and British Boy were having a little Wii baseball duel whilst I sat nearby taking pictures for the blog because, remember, I wanted to document the day I met my future spouse.
So we finally leave (which, remember, is when British Boy called me “love” as he was shutting my car door AND NO I’M NEVER GOING TO LET YOU FORGET THAT MOMENT) and, as we’re pulling out of the driveway, we begin talking about football and by “we” I mean the boys because, really, does this look like the face of a girl who knows anything about football?
But then British Boy says something about the Gators being his favorite football team and all the sudden I have these bells and whistles going off in my head because HEY, DIDN’T I JUST WATCH THEIR GAME LAST NIGHT?
So I casually mentioned that I caught the game last night and begin praying that he won’t ask me about it because, hello, like I actually paid attention. British Boy is all “WHAT? YOU LIKE THE GATORS?” because, even though he didn’t necessarily express this, we all know he was thinking about how this was the very confirmation he needed that he was to take me as his betrothed.
And I’m all “Oh yes, and what about that Tim Tebow?” which was quite the risky move considering I couldn’t exactly remember if I had the quarterback’s name right and, when pretending to know about a sport, it’s nice if you get the major players’ names right, you know. But I took a risk and IT PAID HIGH DIVIDENDS because — and I kid you not — British Boy throws his hands in the air and says “You and I really are going to be best friends!” and I start hyperventilating and almost drive into a tree at the end of the driveway which causes British Boy to throw up his hands again but this time not in a good way, more like a I’M TOO YOUNG TO LOSE MY LIFE kind of way.
You don’t think this damaged my ring by spring campaign, do you?
this story just keeps getting better and better! i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! i feel like I’m in a similiar situation recently with a boy and its fun to read about the same stuff happening with you!
Strike 1 for British Boy! The VOLS are the best!
GO ORANGE AND WHITE (no blue allowed!)!!!!!!!!!! lol 
Would your very sweet Aunt be willing to supply the recipe for that delicioso-looking lava cake??? I love baking deserts!
haha this cracks me up — but seriously? I florida fan? I’m not so sure about that (Go DawgS!)
ps – I totally agree we need the recipe for that lava cake!
Ring by Spring totally cracked me up. Snag that boy, you two would have the most adorable kids…and maybe the could have British accents too!
this is hilarious! I second that request for the lava cake – it looks amazing.
Check out this article for more Tebow stuff. You probably know by now that he won the Heisman last year and is probably going to be in contention for it this year (even though Colt (GO HORNS!) is going to get it). I didn’t know Tebow was both the son of evangelists and works a lot with underprivileged folks.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview09/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=4391994
Ok, I just want to warn you, that I got matched with someone on an online dating website, who, in their profile, said they broke up with a girl for the sole reason of her bad driving. So you might want to get that together… or I might want to close that match.
Gators…hmm. That’s a poor judgment call on his part, so that’s a strike against him. And just when I was starting to really like him!
I am concerned about the this “ring by spring”.
Spring and Summer is such a terrible time to be freshly engaged. It’s hot (and humid in the south), there are more people in your way, the kiddies are acting crazy because they have lost their school disapline and are scarted about, cloths are less fun and fashonable and nobody likes to kiss a sweaty girl (or guy).
You need to move up your game. Its time to get serious and fast!
A ring in fall or winter will give you more time to “curl up by a fire”, go for a brisk walk in the snow, warm up in eachopther’s arms, sip hot toddies (or cider), etc. Its really a more romantic time to be enagegded.
It’s show time!
OMG the GATORS are my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE TEAM EVER!!! yes, football!!! ::insert gator chomp::
Great move on faking football knowledge
Hee!! What did I tell you!? I commented a few weeks ago to tell you that NOTHING is more impressive to a boy who likes football than when a girl can speak even remotely knowledgably about football! I promise you, even the tiniest nuggets of football knowledge can cover a multitude of “sins”! Figure out if/when/how Florida plays nickel defense and you’re golden! Any girl who can take a college math class can learn the nickel!
I’m just impressed that British boy follows the American football…my Brit friends give me all kinds of grief that what we call football isn’t really football and that whole stupid argument!
Go Trojans!
Umm that cake looks delicious! Would your delightful Aunt share the recipe?
Your talk of this British boy has made me sigh all week
Must. have. recipe. MUST.
You are totally cracking me up with British Boy. He IS simply adorable. My daughter has a British kindergarten teacher and I think it is so adorable how they call everyone “love”. My daughter is smitten with her teacher. I secretly hope she’ll start talking that way. She is learning her phonics from her after all . . .
Definitely need the recipe for the lava cake. Love the story, as said above, it does keep getting better and better. And what was the tweet last night (I think) about dinner with Gosling and British boy? Details, please?
sooooo funny!
Um, just curious… Does he read this blog?
I’m sure seeing his life flash before his eyes only made him want to propose FASTER. And you need to make tee shirts for your ring before spring campaign… that is the best thing I’ve heard all day.
We need the cake recipe!!
I LOVE TIM TEBOW!!!! I want to marry him. He’s not only beautiful and funny, but he’s “saving himself”, as one reporter put it, he does missions trips in the summers, he’s an MK, and doctors had told his mom to abort him. So, there you go. Now you can really be a gators fan!
I LOVE THE VOLS!!! I second, third (or whatever) the motion for the cake recipe!
Tim Tebow is a great guy, and he did win the Heisman Award 2 years ago (Sam Bradford from OU Sooners won it last year – !!BOOMER SOONERS!!) but I still have to go with the VOLS!
For better or worse – always a VOLS fan! 
P.S. I hope British Boy is reading these comments right now! I want to know what he has to say about all this football stuff right now.
P.P.S. Question for British Boy: If they call soccer “football” in England, what do they call football over there? lol
i think aunt haley needs to guest post a vlog on a recipe for that cake! whattya think? i’d love the recipe!
the british boy is a keeper!
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Ring By Spring? HAHA love it Amy Beth, love it!
Too bad that spring just started here 2 weeks ago. There is NO hope for me!
OH, ABB, you crack me up. Seriously. This made my day.