OUR ENGAGEMENT!!

So for those of you who don't know our engagement story i just thought that i would share it with you!

Every year Brandon's family (extended family included) goes on a family trip to Ferron, Utah. It's basically an amazing camping trip! So this year i got to go with them! It was really rainy this year but i had so much fun getting a chance to experience the greatness of a place that Brandon loves so much.

Every year that they go to Ferron they go to a place there called Wood Tick Point. It's a huge grove of aspen trees that they carve their names in. So the second day that we were there we all went down there to carve our names. Brandon's mom, Tammy, told me that I should go find a tree to carve my name into. (when couples are married they get to have a tree together) So i found a great tree and carved my name and the year into it. As Brandon and I walked around we started talking about looking for a tree for maybe next year. We found a tree that we really liked but he told me that it was a rule that you had to be married in order to have a tree together so we would just have to wait. I understood and thought nothing of it.

After we left Wood Tick Point everyone went up to a big open field to go shoot guns. I had never shot a gun before....it was pretty intense! As we were shooting guns Brandon's grandpa, Grandpa Ron, said that he had left his knife in one of the trees and asked Brandon's to run back down there on one of the 4 wheelers to grab it. Brandon left to get the knife and i stayed back with everyone else shooting the guns. Brandon came back and shot the guns with all of us for a little bit. As everyone else was going back to camp grandpa ron let Brandon and me take one of the 4 wheelers to go for a ride. It was a lot of fun! i had never been on a 4 wheeler before so Brandon took me on some fun trails.

We ended up back at Wood Tick Point. When we got there we got off and walked around. As we got further back into the grove, by the tree that we had picked out to carve our names into at a later time, i was a red ribbon tied around the tree. As we got even closer I was able to see our initials and a heart carved into the tree. As we got to the tree Brandon got down on one knee and asked me to marry him......I SAID YES!!!

As we took the 4 wheeler back to camp eveyone was waiting there for us with cups of bird seed to throw at as to say congrats!!!

So that is the story of how Brandon and I got engaged on August 8, 2008!

The Countdown!!!

Well it's 9 days til the big day! Life is crazy right now making sure that everything is ready! But we wanted to start this to keep everyone up to date on the chaos of our lives!!