Alrighty, I know it's been a long time and I promised Linh that I would start keeping up my blog once I was engaged...so here I am! :-)
First I'll tell you, we've known that we're gonna get married for quite a while now. I actually have quite a bit of the wedding already planned...and just got the rign yesterday! I would have had it a few weeks ago but we had it designed so they had to make it and that took a little while.
So Allen was going to propose on Monday but when I got to his house at 12:30, he had only been asleep for an hour (he works grave yard shifts so he sleeps in the morning/afternoon) so he was exhausted. He told me that he had been working on a flier for their upcomming concert but that was a lie. Come to find out, that morning he drove to and hiked up the trail where he wanted to propose so he could make sure it wasn't too muddy. He went up there and got home all in under 2 hours. This was quite a feat considering it took us 3 1/2!! No wonder he was so tired!
Anyways, so we did the hike yesterday. On my way to his house I wasn't sure if we were going to be able to go because it had been raining in North Logan and the clouds didn't look too inviting. I didn't suspect anything because he'd been talking about wantng to go on a hike for several weeks...and he did it on purpose so I wouldn't suspect. So when I got to his house I decided I would let him decide if we would still go, obviously he wanted to, rain or shine, cuz he wanted to propose! Before he left he asked if I minded if he brought his guitar. I thought it was weird that he was asking my permission to bring it, but he asks permission on lots of random things so I didn't think anything of it and also didn't really think it was weird he wanted to hike up with his guitar on his back because he's almost more in love with his music than he is with me...almost.
On the drive up there I asked if he'd heard anything from Needhams because as far as I knew, they weren't done making it! (Turns out he had picked up the ring 4 days earlier) He told me he hadn't heard anything but that we could call when we got back into town and he would see where they're at with it. So we start hiking, Allen carrying his guitar and the blanket, and I had the backpack with our picnic in it. I was kind of whiney during the hike cuz I was already kind of tired from running that morning and he later told me that he felt bad and was tempted to just stop and have lunch on the trail and give me the ring there...but then decided that I had to earn it and get to the top. haha The hike was really beautiful. There is a stream that you follow the whole way up and cross a few times and about half way there is a waterfall. (I would have pics of all of this but I didn't take my camera and Allen is a boy and doesn't think of things like that!) So at the top it opens up to this meadow with grasses and flowers. It was beautiful. And so far, the weather had been perfect and the sun was out. Just as we reached the top it started to drizzle a little but nothing too bad.
We set up and ate our picnic and then he started messing around on his guitar. He stops and says, "Haley I wrote you a song." My response was, "no you didn't". He laughed and said he really had and wanted to play it for me. I had no objection! It is such a cute song and still I didn't even suspect he would propose cuz I didn't think he had the ring! Near the end of the song he says something like, "marry me and be my wife" and I was like...hmm this would be the perfect moment to propose! When he finished the song he laid down on the blanket and we talked for a few minutes and then he gets up, and takes out of the backpack a ring box!! I CARRIED THE RING UP THE MOUNTIAN AND HAD NO IDEA!! Anyhow, he got on one knee and you know how the rest goes. It is absolutely gorgeous and I haven't been able to stop staring at it. Here are a few pics I took with my camera. :)
I'm getting married August 27th!!!
