Busy, Busy Life

This has been a fun last two weeks. Sorry I didn’t post last week, I just wasn’t sure what I would post! Life has been good, but not the most happening.

Let’s see, Emily and I have managed to go to someone’s house each Sunday for dinner. It is nice to not have to spend Sunday at our apartments. They are not crazy messy, but they are not super clean either. It is nice to get a break from the mess. Two Sundays ago we had dinner with my aunt and uncle, and then last week with my sister. Both times the food and conversation were wonderful!

Another interesting thing that happened was Emily got her car fixed only to have her brother crash it a few days later. It wasn’t a bad crash and no one was hurt. It was just funny due to the irony that as soon as she got it fixed it got broken again!

We also got things set up for our honeymoon. We are going to be spending the majority of it in Maui, but we are also going to spend several days in Oahu. We are super excited. I have never been there, though Emily has. Regardless, we are both looking forward to it. The cold weather we are having now just makes us want it even more!

On Thursday we had a fun valentine’s day. Emily made me breakfast in the morning. At night I took her to Sleeping Beauty (a ballet.) It was a lot of fun. We then finished the evening by getting some frozen yogurt. We were going to go to the chocolate, but unfortunately it wasn’t open.

Other than those small adventures we have just been busy with getting ready for a wedding a surviving school. Emily has two block classes right now, so it is like she is taking 20 credit hours, though in two weeks a lot of that will go away. That will be really nice for her. It will certainly give us more time to plan for a wedding.

And that is my life till now. Sorry that this post is so hurried and terse. I feel like I never have time to just write. Hopefully we’ll get more of that come summer! 

Proposal

This has been amazing week! First for the big news, I got engaged! Emily and I are getting married!!!

It feels great to be able to come out and say that. We are planning right now to get married on Saturday 4^th in Seattle Washington. We will be having a reception there that day and also hopefully on the 18^th in Utah. I’ll definitely post more details as everything firms up this week.

The proposal was also fun. On Monday I went and ordered the ring for Emily. We had gone ring shopping, but that was just to help me know what she liked. I still had to make the final decision. So I picked one that had a really pretty halo. In fact it was the only one with a Halo that we actually liked! It was just perfect.

I then spent the week telling Emily we still need to look at some different styles. I did this so she wouldn’t know the proposal was coming up :) (It worked too!) On Thursday I picked it up. Luckily I go to the gym every day, and so t didn’t raise any questions to have me gone for a while.

Friday was the day I proposed. We started the night by going to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. It was really yummy! We had both been craving Italian food, and so it was perfect. After that we went to see Wreck it Ralph in the movie theater. It was a great movie. We were both nearly in tears by the end of the movie :)

After the movie we went and walked around the Riverwoods. This was the site of our first “official” date. It was just great to walk around and talk about all our memories over the past year. We finished the time at the Riverwoods and went and got hot chocolate to warm up a little bit.

Once warm we headed up into the canyon to go and look at stars. This is one of our favorite activities to do together. This was also the only clear night the whole week. We got to look and the stars and it was wonderful! It was cold though, and so we didn’t stay too long. As we were walking back to the car I told Emily that it was okay that we didn’t stay too long since we could do it for the rest of our lives. I then told her that if that was the case I should make it official. I then got down on one knee and proposed to her!

She was speechless for a few seconds before yelling “YES!!!” It was really fun. I also had a photographer hidden to take pictures of the moment. Because it was dark we had the photographer come out to ensure that we could get some really good pictures of the night as well.

And that was the proposal. A great night. Emily loved the ring and the proposal. A great way to start off our engagement!