I am....

ENGAGED!!

Rillz proposed to me in Hawaii on Sunday February 13. He took me to watch the sunrise and have a picnic breakfast. I did NOT think he was going to propose. I knew he picked out a ring and thought it was still on layaway. We woke up and grabbed Zippy's breakfast. We went to this ridge called the blow hole. We hiked down to this private beach and had our picnic and watched the sun. After we ate I wanted to hike around and when I was admiring this cove area I turned around and Rillz was holding the ring. The only thing that came out of my mouth was "you're not supposed to have that." Really romantic huh. And Rillz said... "So....what?" And then he got down on one knee and asked me for real. And then I cried... Happy tears! Our wedding is going to be September 24 of this year in Oahu... and a reception in Idaho. Better get started.
This is my engagement/wedding ring.
After he proposed

I am wearing a very ghetto outfit but I didn't know I was getting engaged. And it was 6 a.m. when we left the house.

The sunrise with the waves crashing against the rocks.

Our Zippy's breakfast.

The start of my blog

Ok, so my family is getting into blogging and I discovered it is a great way to stay in touch and a nice way to journal. (Seeming how writing in a journal is not my thing) So my goal is to stay on top of this and really get into it... time will tell I suppose. Well, I will start this with my 2008 year... which was very busy.

To begin: Dan had proposed to me December 1, 2007 at the Idaho Botanical Gardens when they have all the christmas lights through out. We were supposed to just be going for our 5 year dating anniversary and to my complete surprise he proposed. For my proposal ring he had made one out of guitar strings which was really neat and clever.

So the wedding plans began and quickly I realized planning for a wedding wasn't so fun anymore. We knew we wanted a pretty low key vintage wedding. Our friend took our engagement photos and helped us pull the invitation together. We had a cd of our favorite love songs that we sent out to everyone.

The actual wedding went well and Daniel and I stayed pretty calm all day and everything went smooth as far as I know. My dad was in Iraq so I had asked Jeff to walk me down the aisle. As bridesmaids I had Kristi, Heidi, my sister-in-law Katherine, and my good friend Ashley. Daniel had Brent, Jared and Ben as his groomsmen. Gunnar was the ring bearer and we had no flower girl. We found Daniel's tux on ebay for $50 dollars! It was a 1970's brown pinstripe 3 piece suit.

Heidi wanted to make our wedding cake so she started making everyones birthday cakes for the year. I let her do whatever she wanted with it and it turned out great!

My mom made the bridesmaid dresses, Kristi made my hair piece, and I made my boutonnieres. So it was a creative family affair which was so neat to have all those special little things.