Nine months ago next week I got set up on a blind date by my roommate’s girlfriend with her old roommate. I was told she was not only a beautiful blond, but also smart and funny (which happen to match perfectly with my three best traits: handsome, genius, and hilarious). Needless to say I was pretty surprised when I got introduced to a brunette on our blind date (she had dyed it the day before). She was still beautiful, smart, smart and funny so I took her out again, again, again…well you know how it goes. I used to think Salt Lake was close, until I started dating Liz, but have since memorized every billboard from Provo to Salt Lake and from Salt Lake back to Provo (need to know when Tim McGraw plays at Usana Amphitheatre, or when the Utah Blaze, RSL, or SL Bees have a home game?)
In April we decided that we were to get married and started the process. We have since scheduled a sealing date, bought a wedding dress, ordered a tux, and now we finally got engaged on Memorial Day. Here’s how it went down… (special thanks to Kylie for the pictures and John for opening the Martinelli’s…)
Liz did not expect the ring until June 3rd or 4th at the earliest, but I knew it was coming on May 28th…
…John and Kylie invited us to go four-wheeling with them so that Liz was unsuspecting that I was up to anything. We went four-wheeling up behind Kylie’s house in Alpine (we were the second 4-wheeler so we had to have sunglasses to protect our eyes, and these were the ones we found)…
…We first stopped at a look-out point/amphitheatre towards the top of the mountain and took some pictures for a minute…
…John told us that he “had to go to the bathroom” and was going to “explore around” a little bit. I convinced Liz that we should just wait and “enjoy the view” for a few minutes. Meanwhile Him and Kylie had moved a few hundred yards away to a tree house…
…John was so generous to open the Martinelli’s for us as well (he also made sure that it wasn’t poisoned)…
…Liz was getting antsy to get back on the four-wheelers, but John called just in time and told us to come down and he had discovered a sweet tree house. John hid on the roof to film it. This included taking off his shirt because the white was too noticeable and having Kylie break off a few tree branches to cover him up more. We didn’t even notice him…
…Liz was confused when we walked into the tree house and saw the table set up like this (minus the ring, it was in my pocket because John had stashed it so I could grab it on the way in)…
…Ultimately she said YES!!! and was happy that I had surprised her…
…this one below looks awkward because we didn’t want to fall out of the tree house…
…I got a suggestion from my Dad when he proposed he carved his and my mom’s initials in a tree up Provo canyon and then went on a walk and found them (after looking for awhile) so when I was up scouting out the place on Saturday I carved our initials in the tree house Our initials were a little easier to find since they were right in the middle of the tree house…
Overall it was a great day and couldn’t have turned out better. I am one lucky man and we are both very happy to get married August 21, 2010 in the San Diego Temple!
I included a couple of my other favorite pictures of us from St. George and Vegas trips in early May.
St George Temple
Angel’s Landing in Zion’s National Park
At her brother Dave and wife Elyssa’s graduation from MBA school at UNLV, hence the red lighting
Golfing In Vegas, she makes a great Caddy
At the Bellagio and on the strip in Vegas
(I apologize for the picture overload, but if you look at my posting trend, I may not post again until I have a child…)
