My Valentine

To get into the Valentines day mood, I made sure to stop at the BYUI plant shop on Friday to pick up a new plant…. I got 3 cacti. perfect size for my bookshelf. I couldn’t resist! I also got a fun care package from my family with chocolates and these cute tissue paper pom pom decorations.

So we started the weekend at Applebee’s for dinner and both got a yummy macaroni and spicy chicken dish. We had to celebrate his birthday and 1,000 days together. That evening we watched a movie.

Saturday was our “Valentine’s day” so we exchanged gifts. I got flowers, a balloon, and chocolates. He got chocolate and a handmade jar of stars with “100 reasons why I love him” written on each one.

We also had lots of wedding prep plans; We bought Shel some new white pants, scanned in his baby pictures for a slideshow, and compiled all our addresses onto printable labels! I also bought Sheldon’s ring and we searched online for other details like ties and decorations.

That evening I made dough and cooked us a heart-shaped pizza. It was an easy fun way to do valentines dinner. Here is the simple recipe for the crust- thank you Pinterest!

After dinner, we had just enough time to dress up for our evening Valentine’s dance on campus.


The funny part is that we read on the schedule that it was a formal dance so we wore church clothes, but man were we underdressed…. some girls showed up in prom dresses! It gave us a good laugh along with the music selection of mostly disney…. Well, neither of us are very good at dancing, but we sure enjoyed ourselves!

On Sunday we did church in the morning. We had forgotten to have the sparkling cider earlier on… so we had it with popcorn. Cheers!

 

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)

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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!)

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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.

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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.

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

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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!

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