Sorry it has taken me so long to write this post. I feel like I have been so busy of late with work and school and wedding plans. For all of you who have been patiently waiting - I hope enjoy reading the story as much I as enjoyed living it.
Let me start from the beginning. Robert and I were both off on Friday, July 23rd for Pioneer Day. (Gotta love Utah holidays!) Our plans for the day were to attend a session at the Jordan River Temple and then go ring shopping later that day. Well after the session as we were walking out of the temple, Robert suggested we sit down on one of the benches outside. Then he told me he had written a poem for me.
At this point you would think I might have some clue of what was about to happen. Nope! I had no idea. I believe my thoughts were something like "Oh sure, we can sit down" and "You wrote me a poem? How sweet!" Then he started reading the poem and the further he got into it the more emotional I became. When he reached the end of the poem I was totally in tears. It was so sweet and sincere and from the heart. It took me a minute to calm down before I was able to say yes.
In fact (Robert seems to find this part very amusing) I actually hit him and said "You dork, you made me cry". Then I told him that I would marry him. He was so cute and then handed me the rest of the poem (I'm not posting the whole poem here but I will share the piece he handed me after I said yes).
"I am so stoked that you will be my wife
Since we will be together for eternity and the rest of our lives."
We sat outside the temple for a bit longer and then went to Madeline's Steakhouse for lunch. Super yummy food! Oh and a funny thing, I asked the waitress for a frozen hot chocolate. When she tried to make it, the machine sort of blew up on her and she came out covered in chocolate. We were all laughing about that! After lunch we went ring shopping. Four hours later, poor Robert was exhausted (and so was I). We found a ring that I really liked so we put it on hold at the jewelery store. Robert has an uncle out of state who works for a jewelry company so we wanted to talk to him before we purchased a ring. Looks like he'll be able to get us a deal so hooray! Here's a picture of what the band will probably look like (I am a big fan of this semi-bezel style).The plan is to get the diamond from his uncle's company and then have it mounted in a band we buy out here.
I've gotten two of the most important things taken care of. We have the Jordan River temple booked for Friday, December 3rd. We're having our reception the next day (Sat 12/4) at a church in my stake. Fingers crossed that no one dies and wants to have a funeral that day. (Church policy is that anything scheduled can get bumped for a funeral). Who knew? LOL. Life is wonderful and I am so blessed to have Robert as my husband to be.
Amanda is engaged!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
