On February 14th (Valentine's Day of course!), I was surprised by the love of my life with the best proposal ever!! He had me completely unsuspecting...like I literally didn't know he was going to propose until he was down on one knee. I started the day out
thinking he wasn't planning on doing anything special for Valentine's
Day since the whole night before, he told me he was gonna be busy with
homework, and that we needed to pack for our cabin trip this weekend. I
was totally bummed since I knew he knew how much Valentine's Day meant
to me after having so many bad ones in past. I was honestly upset, and
was on the verge of tears when he told me good night the night before. I still had MY Valentine's Day gift in store for him, and the next morning.
Little did I know that he had a WHOLE BIG SCHEME planned for the whole
day to surprise me with things. It started out with one of my bosses at
Nu Skin bringing a vase to my desk. I was really curious after that. A
half an hour later, another lady we work with brings 2 roses and puts
them in the vase. Then I came back to my desk later to find a cupcake
from this really yummy gourmet bakery in Utah. And THEN I came back
even later after a meeting to find 2 stuffed puppy dogs holding even
more roses. By the end of the day and getting even more roses handed to
me by another co-worker, I had a dozen roses. When I left for the
night, around 7:00, he was out in the parking lot holding another
bouquet of colorful daisies, and said "Let's put all your stuff in
car. We gotta go." When I opened the car door, there was Red Robin on
the floor that he had picked up so we could eat dinner right away (the
restaurant where we had our first date). He then drove to the bowling
alley where we had our first kiss.
Red Robin - the restaurant we ate at for our first date!
My jacket that he got me a couple days before for our cabin trip!
After that, we kept driving, and he
asked me if I knew where we were going. I wasn't sure, so I just let
him keep driving, as we pulled up to a spot in the canyon, where we had a
really good talk about marriage and the things we are hoping for and
expecting in it. We got out of the car, and it was FREEZING by the way
haha. He put like 3 coats on me and tons of blankets, so I was this big
blob waddling up the canyon lol. We finally reached our
destination....a hammock set up in the middle of the walkway. He
crouched down and started lighting candles that surrounded the whole
hammock. We were cuddling, watching a movie on his phone, when all of a
sudden I heard this loud buzzing sound. After thinking it was a bug, I
realized it was one of those rose fireworks that spin around and buzz
really loudly. I was getting scared thinking that these one guys that
were parked near us were throwing them at us, and Hesston was like, "Ya,
let's get out of here." The fireworks started flying faster, and I was
like, "What is happening??" He then got down on one knee. and said
"This is what's happening....." and he asked me if I would marry him! I
was so in shock that I was like "Are you kidding me?? I can't believe
this! Yes, of course I will :)" And got emotional, and he was kissing
me and stuff, and then his brother's come running down the mountain (the
true firework hooligans) and took pictures and video of us after just
barely getting engaged. After that we called all our closest family and
let everyone know!
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| In our hammock right before he proposed! |
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| So happy I'm in love with my best friend :) |
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| In the car on the way back, about to call and announce it to everyone! |
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| At The Riverwoods! |
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| The ring! |
