Friday, April 16, 2010

Dum dum da dum :)

Well, it's official! (as you all know by now) But Austin and I are engaged!! It has been completely wonderful and I am so excited :) Sorry for the week long delay but here is our story...
Last Friday, Austin and I both took a day off work and went up north, with the intent to hike near Show Low, have a picnic lunch and just get away. I have to admit, when Austin asked me to go I had a pretty good suspicision that this was why. But the day before we left, plans kept changing. We looked online and found that the forest we wanted to head to was closed seasonally and woudn't reopen til May.
So we modified a little and headed up early Friday morning for the Rim area. But alas, when we made it up to the turn off for the Rim Road Lakes, it was barred and locked. So...we were kindof at a loss. I gave up hope that he would be asking, because all the plans got frustrated.
We spent the day in various places, four wheeling for a while,

having lunch at Kolh's Ranch,
visiting Chrisopher Creek, but ultimately ended up deciding to head to ShowLow anyways.
On our way there, we saw the turn off for Snowflake, AZ. Austin said he'd never been to the temple there so I said, Well then let's go!
We wanted to stay until it got dark to look at stars (we have both taken astronomy and agreed that stargazing for class in the city is not as fun) So we had several hours to kill.
We arrived at the Snowflake Tempe at 3:30 and walked around for a while. We sat down on a granite bench behind the temple, overlooking the back fence and the rest of the city.

Austin then told me we should play a game. He was going to draw something in the dirt and I would guess what it was. And vice versa. So he sent me down the steps and around the other side of the temple while he drew.
After a few minutes of waiting, he came and got me. I walked to the back fence where he had drawn and started at the ground for a bit. Suddenly I realized what he had written.
I caught my breath and turned around. He was sitting behind me on the step, holding the ring.
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> It was beauiful and so perfect. The whole day had been. And I was so relieved that he actually did ask!! :) He even suceeded in surprising me

1 comment:

  1. This post made me smile a lot. I am so happy for you. Enjoy this exciting time, it goes by fast!

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