The Proposal

Wilson kept me on me on my feet, for months. We had the date, had a venue, I even had my dress before he actually popped the question. He had even fake proposed a couple of times (he thinks it was HILARIOUS of him..), which made me want to punch something. It had gotten to the point where every time we planned a date I would get all giddy and think that tonight would be the night. And date after date it didn't happen, I was getting super impatient.

Well on a Friday we planned to go up to the City Creek and go to dinner at my favorite place in the world, The Cheescake Factory, mmmmm. I was on my toes the whole entire time thinking the same thing I thought every date. After we finished we started on our way home to my dissapointment, no proposal in sight. As we got closer home, he suddenly turned and started towards the Timp. Temple. My heart dropped, I started getting so excited. He could tell, and he started smiling. We sat at the temple and we listened to our "songs" and got all mushy. Then he turned to me and looked me in the eyes and said, "There is something I have wanted to give you for a long time, and just didn't know how..." and pulled out a box. It was a big box, so I just thought, "Hey maybe its like one of those christmas gifts that are little and expensive so you hide it in a big box so they don't know" I ripped the lid off the box... and there were a pair of scriptures... SCRIPTURES. Before I sound like the most horrible person ever, it was so cute, he had my name on them as "Alexia Liljenquest". It was the sweetest thing. But it wasn't my ring, and to make things worse he gave them to me, and then did a whole, "WELP, lets take you home." At this point I was livid, I was ready to cry, and yell, and throw a 2-year old tantrum and demand for him to propose. He could tell to and thought it was the most hilarious thing in the world. I was steaming as we were driving up the street to my house. He was blabbing on about something, and I wasn't listening because I was so angry.We all of a sudden pulled over to an orchard by my house. While I was saying swear words in my head and ignoring him, he had been telling me about this orchard he wanted to look at this orchard that I was considering to take our engagment pictures in. It was 11:30 at night, so I was confused on why in the world we would want to look at an orchard. We got out of the car and he grabbed my hand and just started walking into the pitch black. and then we turned a corner and this is what I saw:

& then this happened...

& he gave me this...

It was the best night ever. :)