Adiós 2015 (a year in review)

Well I made it through another semester, another year. Its been a great one, full of surprises, tears, and memories. Here is my year in review; month by month. (links to other posts included for further reading).

January-  I celebrated my birthday in the mission with my “hija”.

 

February- I served in Suncuan ward in the Atiquizaya stake, and went to see “Los Ausoles” as a zone activity.

 

March- I helped plan a talent show ward activity, and I changed areas to the Centro ward in Santa Ana.

 

April- We had two mission temple trips and brought the Familia Morán, I also experienced my first “quinceñera” party.

 

May- We went on a beautiful adventure with the Familia Melendez to cerro verde, and Raul got Baptized as my mission miracle.

 

June- I finished my 18 months as a missionary and flew back home to Chicago to see my family.

 

July- Sheldon and I reunited in Chicago after being apart for 2 years (too long) and I  started a internship job as a research and development scientist at Now Foods. I also went to help at Girls camp for a day.

 

August- Our family went on a vacation to California; Yosemite, San Francisco, and Monterey.

 

September- My dad helped me move into my new apartment in Rexburg and school began. Sheldon and I did some fun hikes.

 

October- Dad, Mckinsey, Sheldon and I all met up for general conference. We also carved pumpkins, went to a Lindsey Sterling Concert, went shooting… And my favorite: took a day trip to Yellowstone.

 

November- Sheldon and I celebrated 2.5 years together, went iceskating, I had a mission reunion, My parents came to visit for the weekend, I went to the Lloyds for Thanksgiving, We took a trip to Utah to see the lights.

 

December- I took part in a live nativity as a shepherd girl, and Sheldon proposed! I also finished my fall semester finals and flew home to Chicago to spend christmas with my family.

 

 

 

Engaged! (how it happened)

On December 5th 2015-  The man of my dreams and my very best friend asked me to marry him. 

 

Heres how it all went down:

Saturday (yesterday) we planned to go to the temple in the morning, then go to Idaho Falls to do some Christmas shopping, lunch, then in the evening go to i-jump with some of Shel’s friends. I thought it was a pretty packed day already- so I didn’t expect anything crazy to happen.

6:30- Wake up and get ready for the day

7:00- Leave my house for a Temple session (but we didn’t get in until 8:15)

10:30- Got back to my house to change to normal clothes

11:15- Drive out to Idaho falls

11:45- Arrive at Taylor’s house (Sheldon’s twin brother) wait for their little boy to wake up, and talk about our days plans for shopping. Also they convinced us to join them for lunch and take family pictures for their little baby’s birthday.

12:30- We ate lunch at Reed’s dairy. (Grilled cheese, Chocolate milk and Ice cream. Yum!)

1:30- We got to the Greenbelt to help them take family pictures by the beautiful wintery/ icy waterfalls.

1:35- I ask if Sheldon wants to take a “selfie” there as Taylor and Rachel walk around to the other side and leave Sheldon and I there alone.

1:40- Sheldon asks what our favorite memory is together and I think; “hmm… we have too many, maybe when we went to general conference” I said… And then he replied; “mine is right now” then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him.

1:41- Through a HUGE smile, I said YES! and hugged my new fiancé.

1:42- I then realized that Taylor and Rachel where there the whole time taking pictures. So sneaky, it was all set up.

1:45- They took more pictures of us and of the ring.

 

Basically the rest is history, we did end up doing some christmas shopping, and went to i-jump that evening. We celebrated with some chocolate pie too. But our day turned more to the excitement for our future and we called family and friends to share the news.

I LOVE my ring! So we actually went ring shopping while in Utah (previous weekend adventure) so Sheldon could see what I like, well he ended up ordering it and proposing before I could suspect anything. He’s also happy because he got a pretty good deal on it.

We are SO excited for our life together! As of now we do not have an official date set, but are planning for a wedding in the middle of April, after the winter semester ends. Then we will be sealed in one of God’s Holy Temples for time and all eternity .

I am one happy girl!

#ForeverTheLloyds