Engaged! :)

As some of you out in the internets have heard, Stephen and I are engaged! It actually happened around noon on Saturday July 11th but we wanted some time to keep it top secret so we could tell some of our VIP's in person. I thought I would let all you guys know by telling the story in my blog since I know the questions will be coming sooner or later.

We'll do it in two parts... Stephen's story leading up to the actually asking and then my part.

Stephen:
So I actually wanted to propose around the 4th of July in San Diego but that didn't work out and what made it even worse was that everyday in San Diego Jess was like, "Today was the PERFECT day!" and it made me want to make it even more perfect.

I didn't ask because it would have killed me to do it without asking her parents. I had been trying to get a hold of her parents but I couldn't track them down. I drove to their house, actually drove past their house the first time because I was so nervous to stop but then pulled back around, but they were either asleep or not home so i just had to go home. The very next day Jess, myself and my mom were leaving to San Diego and I thought I'd give it one more try. I drove up to Jess' parent's house and NO ONE! I waited in the drive way for about a half hour but the time came that I had to leave to pick up Jessica and my mom to leave for SD.

Well after returning from SD I was trying to figure out the best time to get a hold of her parents. Thursday night, July 9th, We went to NewCov's college group and Loren, NewCov's college Pastor, and I had talked a little on how I could get away to drive up to Jessica's parents house to talk to them. The best idea we could come up with was that Loren's wife needed help with some boxes ASAP! That is when I drove off to see her parents. At her parents things went well, I got approval.

I had planned to ask her the next day, Friday, but things were going horribly wrong. Her mom had to go out of town to work, and she had to pick up her dad, then her parent took her out to eat and it was getting later and later and finally I had to say, it wasnt going to happen.

So we talked and I said hey lets go jogging the next morning and to make it a fun jog we will get geocaches along the way. She wasn't really up for the whole idea of running, she was more interested in napping lol. I finally did get her to go even though she wasn't too thrilled. I had planted a fake geocache the week before and programed it into our GPS. This is where Jess' side of the story comes in...

Stephen thought it would be a great idea if we went out for a jog in Woodward Park on Saturday morning...I didn't think it was quite as good of an idea as he did. Some of you may have even read my "tweet" or facebook status stating, "Who the heck does this Stephen guy think he is?! Hungry, jogging, and hot are not meant to go together." I was a little bitter but he somehow lured me in by saying we could take little stops by geocaching in different areas and taking the dogs. (*Side Note* Geocaching is like a worldwide treasure hunt where each "cache" is marked by coordinates that are entered into a GPS.)

As we followed the GPS, we got to this hill and Stephen had told me it was within 10 feet away and that they said this one was "tricky" I started looking in the crevices of the tree and turned around to find Stephen holding up a perfectly cut clump of grass. Underneath was a container he took out and said "there is some kind of story behind this one, oh, here's a letter, read it." As I took it out of the envelope and began skimming it I got very excited and said "Awww someone proposed here!" Then started reading it outload. As I was reading I started thinking to myself, "Wow, these people are a lot like us...I wish we could meet them, I bet we would get along great!" When I finished I looked up to see Stephen on his knee, holding a cute little black box with me beautiful ring. Then I cried a bunch. The End. :)

PS: Jessica didnt say anything for the first 30 seconds, I(stephen) was kind of nervous at that point in time!

P.P.S. Any questions about a wedding are unknown to us too...other than it being next summer or fall. :)


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