{Annalisa & Hesston}: May 2013

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!