I believe it was two posts ago where I had mentioned my love for Kliff Kingsbury and threw out the idea that I was going to write to him.
Well I did. Literally right after I posted, I immediately began writing him a letter. And no it wasn't me declaring my love for him or anything of that nature. Although I did mention a wedding, but we'll get to that. So I shared a story with him about my grandpa Len. Last year was when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and I shared with Kliff how we would watch the Texas Tech football games at the nursing home and how much closer we got because of it. I also mentioned how I bought one of those, "Our Coach is Hotter than Yours," shirts which is my favorite shirt ever! And I said how I would joke with my grandpa about Kliff and I getting married and what not to lighten up the letter. I pretty much thanked him for bringing my grandpa and I closer in his final months. If you really want to see what exactly I wrote, I can email you a copy of the letter.
Once I edited it and had my mom read it over and edit it, I printed it off like 6 different times. The first time it printed crooked, and then a few times there were ink spots and this had to be perfect. Then of course my signature wasn't perfect on one of the copies, so I had to print another one off. But it was work it. So I walked to mail services and had it mailed off. First I had to buy an envelope and of course the writing on there had to be perfect so it took me literal like 10 minutes to write out the address. The guy I handed it too was 1) happy & shocked that I knew how to properly address an envelope, apparently there are college students who don't know how to do that and 2) was intrigued on why it took me so long to address it. He jokingly asked if I was sending it to the president and I responded, "No my future husband." The look on his face was priceless. So that was sometime last week, perhaps the 20th I believe.
I told myself I would give it two weeks for him to receive the letter and hear a response, and if I didn't hear back in two weeks, then I would lose all hope and probably cry myself to sleep for weeks.
Friday night I was out with my grandparents and didm;t get back to my room until 8:30ish, but I will tell y'all that story in a separate post. So we get back to my room and my grandpa is going to help me un-loft my bed, so I needed to move things around. I was busy moving my shoes and some other stuff when I noticed a letter on my desk. Truthfully I didn't pay much attention to it because there was no return address, it was turned upside down, and my grandma was rushing me. So after 5 or so minutes, I needed to move my desk which meant paying more attention to the letter. I glanced at it and saw that post office mark over the stamp and saw it was sent from Lubbock, TX. That meant it was from one person, and one person only. I literally began to shake and freak out. My grandma was confused as to what was happening and my grandpa was still trying to work without me. So I literally began jumping up and down and screaming. I opened it, carefully of course, and saw the heading of the card and it read: Kliff Kingsbury. So naturally I began to cry because I was so happy and excited and I couldn't even at that moment. I knew I had to call my parents because they're really the only two who can relate to my excitement. And yes, they were super excited for me. My grandma had no clue who I was even talking about, so she didn't understand my level of happiness. She was more concerned with me helping my grandpa, but how am I supposed to move my bed when Kliff freaking Kingsbury wrote me a letter. Me, Kliff Kingsbury, a letter. Yes it's all true. Literally to try and explain my level of excitement, just cannot be done.
But I should explain why this means so much to me. Yes it's true that I am in love with the man. Have you seen how gorgeous he is? He's a gift from God. But that's not the only reason why I love him. He's super humble and an all around good guy. I actually just read an article on him by Sports Illustrated. A few years back a woman who was getting married and worked at Tech who was close with Kliff had lost her dad and asked Kliff to give her away. Which he did. He also ushered people to their seats because the usher was late. That may not seem like much to some of you, but he's just such a nice guy. And he cares about the fans and people in general. He also lost his mom to terminal cancer in 2005, which has affected him. He's hardworking and amazing and just a good role-model. Although I look up to him for other reasons...
The fact that he actually took time out of his day to write me back is just awesome in my opinion. Not many athletes, coaches, celebrities, etc. do that. And he did. And it just makes me so happy.
I just wanted to share this with you guys, because most of you know how obsessed with the man I am. And like I can't even right now :)
P.S. I've included a picture of the note, just in case any of y'all want to see it!
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