When Brandon and I first started talking he was working for Bingham County as a cop. It was Christmas break and I was home from Salt lake for the semester break. Brandon had to work the night of Christmas day and I was leaving the next morning, so when he got off work at 7 A.M. he came to my house and took me to breakfast. It was our first date and I never wanted it to end. I had to go back to Utah so that weekend he drove up to see me and we went to build a bear.
This is our puppy Oakley. We still have her in our house. When we were making the dog the build a bear worker told us we had to give the heart a kiss before we could put it in her and sew her up so we did then she said OK great! now.. kiss each other!! I turned a million shades dark red I was so embarrassed. I just kept saying on no this is only our second date. She kept being persistent, the story would probably be better if I could say that's when we had our first kiss, but we didn't.
We went to temple square afterwards and walked around. It was the best date. Being with Brandon was so fun, we didn't want to say goodbye so I went home that weekend again with him just so that we could be together for another day. His schedule as a cop was 5 days working 5 days off. On his five days off he would come to Utah and stay with my Grandma and we would be together and then on his weekends he didn't have off I would drive home to see him in Blackfoot. Needless to say my schooling pretty much went to crap that semester. I think it was worth it.
Since we were spending so much time together it did not take me long to figure out that he was the one I wanted to be with forever. I prayed a lot to make sure this was the course that Heavenly Father had planned for my life, I wanted to be sure that it was right. My dad gave me a fathers blessing and told me that this was the path Heavenly Father would have picked for me, I felt so much peace. It is amazing to me how God shapes our lives. Just 6 months earlier I had to come home from my mission early for health problems. I felt so bitter because I could not understand why I had to go through that. Now when I look back I can see that God's plan was much bigger than mine. It brought me much more happiness than I could have imagined.
Well we went ring shopping! That was fun I found a few I liked but nothing we had decided on so we went again a few weeks later then we decided to go to dinner at the cheesecake factory at the city creek mall. We were walking through temple square on our way to dinner and all of a sudden I saw my family holding up signs.
I was so surprised because I had no idea that he already had the ring since we had spent that whole day ring shopping. Then I realized what was happening. Brandon got down on one knee and said some stuff that I don't really remember because I was too excited that I was actually getting engaged!!
And of course I said YES!! That was basically the best day.
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