April Engagements bring July weddings :)

April really proved to be an exciting month... I'm engaged! I'm sure the few people who read my blog already know, but I'm going to write about it anyways!

It all started on the morning of Friday the 12th. We had plans that he would come pick me up at like 10ish so we could go on a motorcycle ride and have a picnic. Well then I get a text that morning that he has to run an errand for his mom really quick and then will be ready by 10:30. no big deal... well then 11:00 rolls around and so I was starting to get a little annoyed that he still wasn't here and I hadn't heard from him. So I text him to make sure he was still alive. To which he replied that he got sidetrack talking to his mom and still needed to take a shower. Well then he finally shows up at like 11: 45. I wasn't happy. So we go for our bike ride and eat at Chick-fil-a, and then he drops me back off at home because I had to babysit and he had to take his mom to the doctors. I was not a happy camper and he knew it. So he said he would make it up to me that night. Sure whatever.

So he comes back at like 4 to come pick me up for our date. He picked up 2 dozen beautiful red roses, which in my mind was the making it up to you part. Oh how wrong I was. So we proceed to Jason's Deli so we could get sandwiches for our picnic that we were finally going to have. Then we drove out to the Guadalupe river state park to have our picnic. Things were going great and I wasn't such a grump anymore. So we ate and just enjoyed the river. Then we decided to go on a walk, so off we went. While walking we were just talking, holding hands, and ya know doing normal stuff. Well then we came to a dead end so what other thing can you do at a dead end but kiss ;) Then David told me he made me something. So he pulled out this envelope from of his backpack and hands it to me. So I opened it and look at this finger painting he made me which along with the picture said "will you marry me". I look up from the painting and there he was on one knee with a little white box.

I of course said yes and gave him lots of kisses! We then joked about how he really made it up to me and how surprised I was. Then I started all the crazy phone calls to friends and family to tell them the news.

Now some fun facts about me and how I wanted my engagement to be. I did not want to pick out my own ring 1. I wanted it to be a gift from him and 2. because then I wouldn't be waiting for him to propose and could actually be surprised when it did happen. Well before this we had talked about getting married and would joke about rings and he knew what some of my ring requirements were (round cut, white gold, etc.. just very general guidelines) but I didn't know my ring size. So Cindy and I had a girls night on the 11th (the night before he proposed) and stopped at Jared's and got sized. Then that night when David asked what we did, I told him we went to Jared's and I was a size 5 &1/2. He played it off like a champ, "oh that's good to know, maybe in the future I will use that info"... something along those lines. Well little did I know that he had already bought my ring on the Tuesday before and gotten the approximate size from my mom. Since I had told him my ring size I decided that from then on out I would 1. have my fingernails painted and 2. always dress "nice/up" so that whenever/if ever he popped the question I wouldn't look like a slob. Thank heavens I started on Friday since David was so on top of things! :)

 And I have to give props to my parents for keeping the secret! Growing up, I always thought that they would give it away since whoever I married needed to call daddy first. Well I was so wrong! David called and talked to my parents on Tuesday a whole four days before we got engaged. I talked to my parents twice in those four days and even mentioned about maybe marrying David and they just gave me their normal answers like okay sure whatever you think. I didn't even get an inkling that he had called already.

So April engagements bring July weddings! We have decided to get married on July 19th in the Houston LDS temple. That was one of the easier decisions to make. Now we are in the thick of planning a wedding and there are so many more decisions to make! But I cant wait to start my life with David and be able to spend eternity with him!

Oh and since David knows I'm writing this he wanted to make sure that "everyone knows that he really, really, really loves me!"  True story. I am so grateful for him and the love that he shows me.

March Madness!

So, no this post is not about basketball although this years March Madness has been nothing short of madness. I mean come on so many upsets and poor Kevin Ware's broken leg. YIKES!

As far as my march madness, there has been a lot going on (hence my post being a little late...oops). First, there was spring break! Wahoo. I had David, school free, for a whole week! awesome. So we wanted to make the most of it. We did a lot of cool things just right around town like the Riverwalk, the Witte museum, and just chilled.

There were cool photo bombing dinosaurs at the Witte Museum. 

We wanted to have a super fun day too, so we went to the beach. I was so happy to feel the salty windy in my hair, to hear the roar of the ocean, and to feel the sand between my toes! Lets just say I was excited! David had just bought his new Tacoma with 4 wheel drive so we had to try that out! It was a blast to drive on the beach! What a great spring break!

Squinty Squinty! 

Yeah we came across a camel at the beach. When I am rich, I too will take my pet camel to the beach...  :)

David couldn't resist posing his black beauty for a nice little photo shoot. 

Then, my parents came out to visit. It was more fun than I was anticipating. WE took them to some local joints and ate WAY too much food. Also, when us girls get together we of course have to shop! So we shopped until we dropped. I was looking for a specific item while out shopping, heels! I know weird, me wearing heels. But that is the wonderful thing about having a boyfriend that is 6'9" I can wear crazy heels and still be significantly shorter than him. I can finally try and be tall instead of wearing flats to have a bigger range of men to date. Now I just need to make sure I can walk in them. Thank heavens I haven't tripped yet. (key word: yet)

Bought these sexy bad boys..well mom did :) Thanks mommy

Now for the reason this post is so late... I was in Arizona for the past week. David and I went out to visit his brother Jeremy, Jeremy's fiancee Steina, and their son as well as to see Davids old mission buddy, and my friends Kahanu and Krisha. Talk about a full week! so I will let the pictures do most of the talking.

First I got to see this awesome lady! Kahanu was down from Hawaii visiting a friend so of course we had to meet up and cause some trouble. 

We also had a double date with David's mission buddy and we were able to go to the wonderful Mesa Easter pageant. It was beautiful and so nice to visit the temple and to be reminded of the true meaning of Easter and the loving sacrifice that our Savior has made for us. 

One of the things I miss about good ole Cali is In-N-Out Burger. I missed In-N-Out so much that during the 1 week I was near an in-n-out, I went 3 times. I had to stock up for the In-N-out famine I am currently in and do not know when I will be blessed with a delicious double-double again.

Also, Saturday was Off-road Appreciation day so we had to be extra appreciative! Jeremy knew some people that were going to go from Lake Pleasant to Crown King (a 30+ mile off road trail) so we decided to join them. David, Jeremy, and their mom bought a Can-am Commander so we HAD to take it out and keep up with the gang. Well we kept up alright.... except for that one time.

Most of the trail is minor bumps and rocks all over the place except for a few "challenges" that you can decide to take or not. Well Jeremy was driving, I was just the passenger along for the adventure (David was in a friends Toyota FJ) and we did not want to be shown up by anyone! We conquered all challenges (some more than once) except one that we didn't try because we didn't have the clearance for it, even one of the FJ's got high centered.   Well, one of the times we were taking on the hill things got a little interesting. We  had just gone through the rough patch once and looped back for round 2. We were going up, going up, then all the sudden we are going sideways and the rock next to me kept getting closer and closer until we were on our side, skid-plates showing and needing some assistance to get back on all fours. It was frighteningly awesome!

One of the other fun things that happened was going to a Baseball game. We hit up the Arizona Dimondbacks vs the St.Louis Cardinals. We had great seats and just enjoyed hanging out.

All in all it was a great month. Now I could just use a vacation from all my vacations to just chill and
relax. But then I wouldn't have anything to write about for April... so I will find some crazy adventure or event to make blog-worthy.