The Beginning of a Great Thing

So this is the first time Nick or I have ever blogged, and we are pretty excited! I feel like my mom when she first started facebook and didn't know how to do anything...she's so funny and I love her so much! Anyways...we'll tell our story along with pictures (we love pictures!) and hopefully you will enjoy it!

Nick and I met outside our bishop's office the second week of fall semester at BYU in 2010.  We were both getting new callings, and he said he went on his mission to Louisville, KY.  I was so excited because that's the mission that I grew up in in Evansville, Indiana!  The next week, Nick asked me on a date.  We went shopping at Macey's for dinner supplies, went to his apartment and carved things out of potatoes, cooked the potatoes, ate dinner, played some games, and finally made brownies.  It was a pretty fun night.  We actually didn't see each other for a whole month after that!

Our stake had a Halloween dance at the end of October, and we just happened to walk home at the same time so we walked together and got to talk some more and I thought he was the sweetest guy ever!  So the next week, our bishop challenged all the girls in the ward to ask two guys on a date during the week.  I asked Nick to go rock climbing with me, and he said yes!  It was so much fun! After that day, we talked almost nonstop throughout the week, and the next weekend he asked me on another date to babysit his nieces, Lily and Ella. We never wanted to be apart after that :) Here are some pictures from when we were dating:

On March 31st, Nick proposed, and I said YES!!! He took me out to dinner to Cafe Rio (my favorite restaurant in the whole world!!) and then to see the movie Tangled. I loved it! When we went home, I was going to change into my sweats (I always do that right before I go to bed), but he said that I shouldn't change yet, so I kinda thought something was up. He said he wanted to go on a walk, so we did, and he wasn't saying much so I really knew it was coming. We started walking towards my favorite place on campus, the gazebo behind the Hinckley Building.  It's so gorgeous, especially in the summer when everything is green and there are beautiful flowers.  I used to sit up there and write in my journal or talk with Mindy (my best friend!) as the sun was setting last summer.  Anyways...we got to the gazebo, and on one of the benches there was a white table cloth with sparkling cider, cheese cake (my favorite!), and candles.  He asked me if I wanted to sit down next to it, so I did, and then he got on his knee and said he wanted to make this the best day for me, just like on Tangled, and then he asked if I would marry him.  I said yes!! I was so excited that I couldn't eat any of the cheese cake or drink the sparkling cider. Nobody believed that we were really engaged because the next day was April Fool's Day.  It was pretty annoying, but it was still an amazing day!