Tuesday, October 12, 2010

We're engaged!

This is quite possibly the most exciting post I've ever written. Justin and I are engaged! He proposed last weekend in Park City and I said yes! Crazy right?

Here's the story.....


Justin told me we were going to visit his roommate
who was staying at his family's cabin in Park City.
He handed me directions that said the cabin was on "Memory Lane".
Following the directions, we turned onto a street that overlooks Park City
and just happened to have a temporary sign, "Memory Lane" posted on it.
At that point I kinda suspected something. :)

Here are some pictures of the view of Park City...


and "Memory Lane"

At the end of the cul-de-sac, Justin had set up a projector
to watch a video of all our dating memories
and pictures from the last five years or so.
Then he told me there was something across the ridge he wanted me to see.
Down in the valley I saw an area lit up with Christmas lights.

I later found out Justin and Ashley had had a busy and cold afternoon getting this contraption ready. A couple hundred feet of Christmas lights, some bamboo sticks, and a few rolls of aluminum foil later...


I turned back and Justin was on one knee. He popped the question and I said yes!

We are such zoobies in our Cougar blue!

We celebrated afterwards with dinner down on Main Street in Park City and then headed home for a photo shoot courtesy of Mom and sparkling cider!

I love that now we both have new accessories on matching fingers.
Hopefully, though, he gets to take his off soon.
Here are the fruits of the photo shoot! Justin was a good sport.

More pictures Mom took...

Naturally, we used the reindeer glasses for our celebration with the family.

Ash was Justin's accomplice the whole day setting everything up.
We owe her big time!

It feels crazy to be engaged after dating for so long. Marrying Justin was always in the back of my mind but now I just feel like I'm letting everyone in on the secret. Plus I have a pretty, shiny something on a finger! If you had told seventeen year-old Allie, drooling at "math boy" in AP calculus that I was going to marry him, I would have died of happiness. He was my dream boy then and he's still my biggest crush!

Tonight I'm celebrating with my girls... Jason DeRulo and B.O.B. concert at UVU!


PS Thanks to Mom for letting me steal her blog post :)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

wahoooo!
so happy for you!

Big Al said...

Congrats Allie! That is so awesome. Married life is the best...seriously. Just a couple of weeks ago Ash and I were looking at a post w/ you in Justin in it. I told Ash, "I can't believe they aren't married yet. They've been dating since we went out to the Brick Oven w/ Sister Barton like 3 years ago." She then reminded me that he had to serve one of those crazy mission things I guess?!? Duh, I guess you guys weren't as slow as I thought. So happy for you though. Can't wait to run into you two in GB over the holidays!

Kimber said...

i love this post! :) so excited for you two!

ashley: said...

Exciting!!!! You look so happy! He went all out on the proposal I am way impressed! You are a doll and I am so glad you found love!

Kimber said...

Congrats!! Congrats!! I loved reading this!!! So glad you documented it so well!! Congrats!!

Jensen Family said...

That was adorable. What an incredible way to propose. They two of you are the cutest and we are so excited for you both.

Jenner said...

super excited for you both!! can't wait to hear all the wedding details and plans :)