March 7, 2010

Welp today is our one year engagement anniversary. Ya. Crazy to think that it was already a year ago. It seriously feels like just yesterday.

So I know that not many people do anything for the anniversary of the day they got engaged (most people don't even remember the date) but I thought I would just do something really simple, just to do a little reminiscing. I wanted to surprised Luke and go to the place that we got engaged and have a little picnic. I had everything figured out... I was going to make one of his new favorite meals, wrap it up, grab a picnic blanket, get Luke into the car and head to our spot. There were a few set-backs to this plan.

1st of all: We got engaged at this park that was along the bike trail. For the life of me I could not remember where this park was. My mom was making fun of me because "girls are supposed to remember these kinds of things" but honestly I don't. The day Luke proposed I thought we were just going for a walk along the bike trail, so I didn't pay any attention to where he was driving or where we parked to start our walk. AND after he proposed, I was too excited to look around and remember the directions of how to get to there. So for the past few weeks I have seriously driven to every park along the bike trail that I could see. I even looked at Google Earth to find it, but without luck. and I asked every girl at work if they knew of any park that matched my description. No luck .

2nd of all: The weather the past little while has been absolutely gorgeous. We've hit the high 40's and I think we've even gotten into the 50's a few days.... Until maybe 2 days ago when it started POURING snow. Today is freezing cold and rainy, so I knew that making a nice lunch and having a picnic was now out of the question.

So.. instead of having a cute little surprise afternoon, I just asked Luke to drive us to the park after our Stake Conference. He agreed and we got out to revisit the place that Luke proposed at one year ago today. We stood looking at the jungle gym for a few minutes and both decided that this didn't really look like the one we were at last year. We both thought the swings were on the left side of the jungle gym, not the right. And the slides looked a little different as well. However, we decided that instead of walking around in the cold rain trying to figure out if this was in fact the right place, we would just claim this as our engagement spot whether it was or not.

It's crazy to think about all the things that have happened within the past year, but I sure am glad for that day ONE YEAR ago today where Luke got down on his knee and I said YES. We sure are happy, and I sure love him.


PS: We have become great fans of Jimmy Fallon's late night show. He is so stinkin' funny. The other night we were introduced to this "Let us play with your look" segment. Please check this out. I die every time I see it. It's SO random.