Tuesday

September 25, 2012...

Was one of the greatest days of my life; The day my love asked me to be his wife.

We rarely have days off together, let alone in the middle of the week, but we both happened to have Tuesday off. After sleeping in that morning and lounging around the house we decided we wanted to do something to get out of the house. My mom had been telling us we needed to drive up to Cedar Breaks since we moved here, so that was what we were going to do. I wanted to get some new pictures of us and since the leaves were beginning to change I thought that was the perfect opportunity! So we packed a little picnic and headed on our way. We reached Cedar Breaks (which is completely breathtakingly beautiful) and I realized I didn't put the memory card back into my camera. I was SO bummed. It was also so freezing cold that we decided to head back down the canyon and find a little place to pull off and eat our picnic. We tried like 5 different spots before we finally found one that was flat enough to sit and in the sun where we'd be warm.
Aust was setting up the picnic and I was wandering around like a little kid pulling off the branches of the prettiest leaves to take home with us. When I was done I came over, sat on the blanket and was about to go to town on my sandwich when Austin said....
"Before we do this....let's do this." and he knelt down beside me, held out my beautiful ring and asked me if I would marry him.
We had looked at rings and he knew exactly what I wanted. I knew the day was coming eventually but I didn't expect it to hit me the way it did. I couldn't stop crying. I love this amazing man I have spent the last 2 years with and he was asking for my hand him marriage. Of course I said YES!
Since I didn't have my camera (BOO!) here are a few pictures from Austin's phone.

[I love him! Check out that grin he has]

[Here it is folks. The bottom band is the promise ring he gave me on our year anniversary...we are also adding a plain rose gold wedding band on top. He spoils me]

[Trying to control my tears so we could get a picture haha]

[My sweet Grammy that passed in July is buried in Cedar City, so we stopped by to bring her some of the leaves I picked. She was the first to hear of our engagement. I love you Grammy]