The Proposal

After dating for a year and a half, which is FOREVER in the mormon world, I was sooo ready to marry Brett! But I was still waiting for that dang ring!! We had definitely talked about it so I knew it was coming, but I still had no idea when that actual day would come! Every day I kinda would get my hopes up, wishing he was going to propose that night. It was pretty hard not to be disappointed when I felt like it was never going to happen! Then one night I just had this feeling it was going to be THE night! He was saying all week how we were going to do something fun on the weekend! But then the night came and he acted like he had no plans, we even tagged along with my family at dinner? Then we went back to his house and he was laying on the couch saying he didn't feel good.  I was so thrown off and so sad because I really thought it was going to happen that night! He could tell I was sad and said you know what... how bout you go home and get your swim suit and meet me back here and we will go hot tub somewhere. When I get back to his house he had the boat out, hooked to his truck! We weren't going hot tubbing, we were going to the lake!! He just needed a reason to get me gone for about 15 min to get the boat set up.  He was acting a little weird though. He kept saying he had to go to the bathroom and went in the back room. One time he was in there for 15 min! I thought for sure he was super sick and asked if he needed me to go get him medicine. What he was REALLY doing in the back room, was trying to get the safe open, where my ring was!! But of course I didn't know that at the time and I thought he just had bad diarrhea!! Finally, he was ready to go and we were off to the lake! The whole idea was very spontaneous, especially since it was already like 10:00. But it made it way more fun and exciting!  I honestly thought he was just trying to make up for me being a little upset earlier. When we get there he had chocolate milk and powder doughnuts, which is a little tradition we have. (The first night we met at the gas station we shared those to snack on) I honestly felt like we were in the middle of nowhere and it was only us two that existed in the world. He pulled the boat in a little cove area and we floated there in black night, listening to our music. Train was playing, when he said " hey I have something for you!" He opened the little black box and there was my sparkly ring!  That night then turned into one I will never forget! 6/6/10

This is the ring he proposed with...It is the actual diamond but not my setting. He was having my setting made at Christopher Diamonds and let me wear my diamond in the temporary setting until theirs was about done.

On my birthday before we left for the airport to Cali, where we were taking our engagement pics, he surprised me with my actual ring!!  I had no idea what it was going to look like. He designed it himself and did an awesome job!