Happy February! I can't believe that we are already a month into 2016. Because of Valentine's Day this month I thought that I would start off February with the story of Robert and I's engagement. Excuse any cheesiness, but I'm still dying over it.
Okay so Robert and I had brought up the idea of getting married pretty early on and to be honest I had the idea of marriage in my mind from just a few weeks of knowing him. So as we got closer to the end of the year I was positive that I wanted to spend my life with him. After going on a trip with his family to California, it was a done deal for me. So in early December Robert asked me if I wanted to go on a fancy date for Christmas. I of course was so on board but then he didn't say anything else about it. I was talking to Kate and told her that I thought that he had maybe forgot about it. Well that Wednesday when he came came over he brought it up again and asked when I wanted to go. We decided that Saturday would be good and that was all that he said. Over the next couple of days we solidified everything.
So Saturday came and I was going to help my little sister do her hair and makeup for a dance before we left. We had to run to Walmart because of a lipstick crisis and I forgot my phone at home. The second I opened the door my mom comes running in and says, " Al, Robert's okay but he got in a wreck."! At that point I was panicking a little and just asking tons of questions that no one knew the answer to. Luckily he called me about 20 minutes later and let me know that everything was fine, someone had run a red light but it wasn't too bad and that he would be late to come and pick me up. So about an hour later he got there and we finally left for dinner.( I have to also mention he looked SO HANDSOME, like I died.) We ate At the most amazing Italian place called Cocina Toscana. It was so yummy and I just loved it there. So when we finished the plan was to go look at the lights at Temple Square but it had got pretty late and so we decided we'd skip out on that and do something else. He asked if I wanted to get in the hot tub (umm its 16 degrees.. NO), head home and watch a movie (we never watch movies), or go on a drive and look at Christmas lights. It was a no-brainier for me so we took off to go look at lights. He asked where I wanted to go and I told him we should go to the big houses by the Draper temple. We headed up there and as we were looking at the lights Rob just kept getting more and more talkative and it was all over the place. So we got up to the spot where you can look over Salt Lake county which was also where he asked me to be his girlfriend. We got out and started walking on the trail that led to the lookout. We got there and the view was beautiful.. And cold. He then asked if I wanted to go a little further down the trail. As we kept walking I saw some lights and as we continued I saw the most incredible thing. The trail was lined with lights and at the end there was a bench, table, lanterns, and a canopy hanging with tons of lights. Once I saw it all and I realized what was happening I couldn't believe it. We went to the bench and there was a book sitting on the table. We started looking at it and my stomach dropped. Robert had made a note in his phone and wrote down what we did every single time we saw each other from our first date. The book had it all written down with all of our pictures. As we were looking through it I honesty could not believe what I was looking at and I felt so loved. When we got to the end of the book the last page said, "December 12, 2015: Asked Allison to marry me." Then he got down on his knee and said the cutest and sweetest things and asked me to marry him. I of course said yes. I swear my heart could not handle it all. The showed me that Kate and his sister Liz were there and they came over. Katy was freaking out that I hadn't even looked at my ring. I looked down and died again. It was the most perfect thing and I had no idea how he made the ring in my head a real thing. My mind was going crazy. I just kept saying "Wait. I thought this was my idea". Katy, Liz and his parents had spent so much time and froze setting it all up and it meant so much to me. I could not believe how much thought and care that Robert had put into making it so special for me. It was one of the most amazing nights of my life and I know I will never forget it.
