The Proposal

I know some of you have been waiting ever so patiently for this post, so here you go! ;) Just a warning, it's a lot of words!

It was Wednesday July 27th. The day did NOT start out very well at all. Have you ever had a down day where you just felt awful and there was NOTHING that was going to make it better? You didn't feel very pretty, you didn't want to get out of bed, you just wanted to crawl in a hole and never come out? Well, that's exactly how I was feeling that day. I almost called into work I was so depressed. I didn't want to face people one bit! But I forced myself to work and I survived. (barely!) Earlier that day, Chris had told me to just come over to his house when I got off work, and so that's exactly what I did! I hadn't heard anything differently so I drove to his house. I parked my car in his driveway and got out of my car. Right at that time, Chris was coming out of his house, saw me, and yelled quite loudly, "Oh SHOOT!" You can imagine how that made me feel. Made me feel like he had forgotten I was coming and didn't really want me there! He tried to tell me that he said that because he had forgotten his work keys or something at work, but I can always tell when he is lying cause he isn't a very good liar (which is not a bad thing! :). I didn't ask questions. I just accepted his story. So I went in his house and I still just felt really blue and sad, so I started telling him how I was feeling and it brought on some tears that us girls just can't control sometimes....right in the middle of this he tells me that he has to leave and go somewhere but he can't tell me where, that I just have to trust him. Hmmmm where do you think he went? :)

So he gets back to the house right when I was finishing making dinner and so we eat and he tells me he wants to go to the Visitors Center that night. Right before we leave the house he puts a jacket on, which I thought was really weird since he NEVER wears jackets and it's JULY and super hot outside! But I didn't say anything and we went on our way. We got to the visitor's center and they are doing construction at the temple right now so there is no grass, lots of bulldozers everywhere, and a bunch of dirt. It really didn't matter to me cause we were by the temple of it's beautiful anyway, but Chris kept saying how sad he was that there was no grass, and that it wasn't romantic, and I was like, we are at the temple! You don't need grass to be romantic! :) We looked around the visitors center (while we were in there they gave us little bookmark) and then we started walking around the outside of the temple. We were walking, enjoying each other and the beautiful night. He then started telling me how much he loved me and was so happy with me and didn't want to be with anybody else. At that point we had come to the "Brides Garden" where they have a little gazebo and flowers and benches. Chris stopped and took off his jacket and made me put it on. I didn't remember saying I was cold, but I just went with it. :) So we were standing there talking and then all of a sudden he says he wants to see the bookmark they gave us in the visitors center. I reach my hand in the pocket of his jacket to get it and I feel the bookmark, but then I also feel a little box right next to it. I pull both things out and just stared at the box. I couldn't believe it! He took the box from me and went down on his knee. That's when I started BAWLING! I am sad that I don't remember a lot that he said cause I was crying so much and so excited. But he told me that he loved me and wanted to be with me forever and then he asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes and he put the ring on my finger and made me the happiest girl in the world. We left the temple so happy and started making phone calls and sending out texts and going to our houses to show our families. I can't wait to marry Chris in 6 weeks! :)