.....Life is a Fairy Tale.....

These should technically be at the end.. or maybe only posted AFTER the big day, however, i realized life seems to be getting busier and busier!

 and next time i'll want to write about my honeymoon

 and

 the newlywed life! 

(all the nitty gritty details!)

- not that that will entail much because I really dont want to push the limit here on my blog for the world to read -

:)

So here are a few bridals/groomals...  

 Oh i love the Dandelions.. except if you knew how Jason blew them in my face and I had to pick them out of my hair... I can't imagine what the cake cutting will entail... although I do PLAN on being nice!

Ok... SOOO Here's the story! At least my long extended version!

THE PROPOSAL!!!

It all officially started in Bountiful Utah. I decided last minute to go up there and hang with my soon to be Maid of Honor and just have fun. We just walked around the gateway and then I was starving and it was only like 5:30! My companion said she couldn't  eat till 7 because she had to wait to take her medicine. 

Little did i KNOW... she is a birllant little liar!

So then we went to dinner, and i can't even tell you how cute this place seemed at first. (oh and i forgot to mention i was exhausted cause i worked all day and was running on a few hours of sleep)So it seemed cute.. but LOOKS can be DECIEVING! BECAUSE the people weren't so cute! It was insanely overpriced and not all that good, and i was starving so really anything would have tasted divine!

All i wanted was to order from the kids menu for a few reasons...

1) Cheaper

2) Less food AND you get what you pay for!

3) I didnt want to stuff myself and everything else was HUGE 

4) the adult combos didnt have things combined i wanted.

Needless to say i asked the waitress if I could order from it. She said No, and wasn't too nice.. so i was like, fine and i got some thing that i didnt even like. 

So i was just ready to go. (oh and my girl with me claimed she had to go to my car and grab her pills cause they "fell out" of her bag- and i totally believed her because i had NO REASON to believe Jason would  be up here.)

So we asked for our checks and then the waiter came...and gave me.. NOT my check .. but a little blue envelope with a red ribbon.

ME, being UPSET still about NO KIDS MEAL! AND the GROSS food, thought.. "whats this an apology letter?!" 

To which my companion i was with replied.. "open it" and i said NO, i dont want to. Then she said "what if someone paid for your dinner?" 

So.. I opened it. 

I find a little cute paper all burnt around the edges and had cute little typing with a little line (clue) on the back corner.

The clue was to somewhere i had NO CLUE where it was exactly.. but my companion was like lets go there! I was extremely hesitant because i didn't know who it was from because I KNEW jason worked a double shift that day and had to teach the lesson in church the next day so there was NOWAY he would be down. But she was so on going. So we went.. 

the clue: was something about a round about between draper and lehi.

 ( a 45 min drive from where we were)   

So we get up there and this is the weather...

We literally COULDNT see! we thought we were gonna die! So... we had a lil flash back and had COMPANION PRAYER! 

prayer changes things- proof is we lived through it :) 

so this is what it looked like outside...

 Well there was NO round about and we went all the way through the pass and we were back in lehi! ha.. well .. we went to my house for a potty stop, and to try and map quest this. I was like whatever.. ill just look tomorrow when its not crazy, my companion, however, was like k get a flash light we have to find this. - so i had a feeling something was up and it had to do with jason, but i figured maybe his brother was planting all these and Jason was gonna torture me ALL week  because that is something he would totally Do! 

SO....

Finally we were up there again.. and this is me... 

And It took over two full hours to get here.. that was not "his plan" but we found a four way stop.. 

we would jump out at every corner and run around outside (yes i was wearing sandels) 

and we were pushing the snow aside around every tree stump with our feet trying to find a red ribbon.. 

after one corner we'd jump back in the car and drive to the next and jump out and look again.

FINALLY

The LAST CORNER.. i found this... 

How adorable.. he made the little boxes i found out.. - i dont remember what its called, finished them? 

haha

on the inside was this scrolled little note! you can see the burnt edges.. and it said something 

ADORABLE

on how we both reached "this point" at different times in our lifes and now we get to go down

TOGETHER...

it may not be easier but we'll have each other!

SO CUTE! 

The back of that one had a clue:

HOT TUB!

hahaha yeah i thought.. ya right! my companion had brought my swimsuit that i had left at her house.. but it was a total coincidence. 

However, i still replied and said.. i am not going hot tubing! I can't! 

I HAVE A BROKEN ARM ! 

so i thought on it and was like ok.. the only place we've been hot tubing together was my aunt cheri's house...

so we then drove to Alpine.

So there i am.. out searching around her closed hot tub and can't find a thing is the dark. My cousins turned the light on for me and then said, after looking with me too, "did you check the inside?" to which i said , "well yes" but it was in the dark.

Then they said how about opening it from the back side. 

So my cousin opened it and found a little bottle floating on the inside.. with a BLUE ENVELOPE IN RED RIBBON, stuffed inside!

Needless to say.. we ran to the car and opened it and read it...

It talked of how we were here and we were talking about so many things and what a fun time it was- with a bunch of cute other ROMANTIC things said as well :)

and this had the burnt edges paper-future reference.. they ALL did.

THE CLUE: The APOLLO?

Oh and of course before going there.. we made a Cold STONE run! I was SO TIRED and had a feeling it was gonna be a long night cause I still had to drive my companion back to Bountiful (north of salt lake) and we were in American Fork.

So the Apollo is where we would go dancing in High School and I had first taught Jason to dance!

BUT
THE APOLLO had been closed for YEARS! or so i thought.. 

I got there and they had just barley reopened that week! I walked inside and a lady asked, "are you Rachel? We've been dying all night to open this and see whats inside!" haha It was another cute wooden box tied with a red ribbon! I said it was a clue.. and then we talked about they're reopening cause i was more excited about that at the moment!! haha thats me and my country dancing love, esp at The Apollo.

So i get to my car and open this box. Jason had written how This was ALL my Fault. I got him to go dancing ONCE! HE thought he'd be doing the Dose Doe ALL NIGHT, but instead that night when he got home he was dreaming of all the fun crazy lifts i had taught him and him throwing me around! 

So yes.. ALL you who think its sounds lame.. its not :)

AND 

IT IS 

THE BEST 

WORKOUT!

The CLUE: LOOK UNDER THE SEAT OF YOUR CAR

my reply..." ARE YOU SERIOUS!"

(while looking at my companion.)

so then i try, with my broken arm which isn't fitting, i try! to get out the little envelop under my car!

- my companion unlocked my car when " her medicine fell out"-

This note said...

"SERIOUSLY?! Thats what you said to me when i asked you if you wanted to go look at rings. Yes seriously!" Then he wrote of how we drove in this car from Cedar City to Lehi talking of the possible "future plans" that was are now making, with all the cute mushy stuff inbetween.

THE CLUE: The TEMPLE!

Thanks Goodness, he wrote which one cause we've been to Timp, Draper, and St George together. 

So off to Timp we were. 

I searched the Grounds and found another Wooden Box with a Red RIBBON! and also.. a not so nice security guard! 

haha yea... that was interesting.

So this cute note has a little testimony of the savior at the top and then talked of how he had talked to my dad and my dad had him promise him two things.

1) that he would take me to the temple

2) that he would treat me as Heavenly Father would treat his Daughter

Then it said some more cute things.. but i'll share the ending... 

"How grateful I am to have the temple to be married to you for time and all eternity because i know NO other amount of time would be long enough"

YEP! he's so CUTE! and not to mention tears came to my eyes on that one.. and ALL i wanted to do was SEE HIM! I didn't care about anything! 

THE CLUE - (yes is goes on on on on on!) 

YOUR GUITAR! 

Ha by then.. i was just SO tired and said, "You've got to be kidding me! MY GUITAR IS IN PROVO!!!"  It was like a little past 11:00 pm. 

So off to provo.....

AND.. THE FREEWAY WAS CLOSED SO TRAFFIC= HORRID!

We get to my apartment, i look everywhere around my guitar and can't find a thing around my guitar or case. So my companion mentioned to look INSIDE the guitar. 

I shake it and here something ever so quiet...

Inside was ANOTHER!!! blue envelop with the RED RIBBON

This cute one had the lyrics of the song i wrote on the guitar for him called 

"MY ETERNITY" (you plus me)

To which the last line he changed my lyric to "OUR ETERNITY"

Then below that he had the lyrics to the song he wrote me on the guitar.. 

the last verse said...

"i hope this gamble of mine doesnt break my heart in two.. 

IF YOU ONLY KNEW...

would you stay in my life..

would you be my wife?

i hope you feel the same as i do too."

(he had never sang me these last few lines...)

so then.. i thought what the...! is this it! the proposal! where is HE?! 

my companion said," i dont know schwartz... i thought it ended here" and she threw my camera on my bed. 

The CLUE: DEC 11th 2010

12:05

Haha yeah.. i thought... haha 12:05! what the heck.. 

then i realized that was our first date, being reunited after not seeing each other since before his mission- like 4+ yrs.

then i realized dancing got over at 12 and it was 12:03 am!

So i said, come on hurry lets go!

WE drove to the CENTER in provo where country dancing is.

I walked inside and had to stand there, in the middle.. with NO MUSIC! all by myself. 

My thoughs- No WAY.. THIS IS SO EMBARRASSING .... EVERYONE is looking at me...

oh these dull lights.. cement floors.. is it really here.. is he proposing to me HERE!

THEN... another person walked up to me and said, "are you Rachel?" to which i replied.. 

with a sad tone now.. "yes.... :( " 

he pulled out behind his back ANOTHER box with the RED RIBBON and said, 

"you should go home"

I thought.. you've got to be kidding me.. i was just there.. home in provo.. home in lehi... is this the end of my search tonight and more starts later.. cause i knew he'd be up the following week... 

Well while walking to the car.. everyone was starring! I opened the box and inside...

was...

MY RING!!! 

I hurried and flipped it closed, had a sense of panic.. didnt know if i was supposed to see it! and turned to my companion and said.. ITS THE RING!

she was like, hurry lets go to the car so we can look at it!

We RUN to my Car.. 

and then ....

up ran JASON.... 

My companion had snuck my camera back in her bag, that i thought she threw on my bed saying it was over... she knew.. but that the apt was my last place- hence she is a GREAT lil liar! 

 WHEN NEEDED ONLY ... OF COURSE

I was just so excited to SEE HIM... 

Then he got down on a knee and said something cute.. about how he hoped i would follow him anywhere and he asked me if i would marry him... 

Of COURSE i said YES! How could i even joke with him like i planned on.. with that being 

THE CUTEST proposal EVER! 

I just said YES! and smiled so big.. and wanted to jump up and down , like a little girl on christmas.

Then we hugged.. kissed.. hugged.. in the dark street.. and hugged.. 

you get the point...

Then he took the box from me and asked if I had seen it..

sheepishly i said.. yes but only for a sec.. i didnt know.. i hurried and closed it! 

He laughed and said, "Its ok" and then he put it on my finger.

just a lil side note... HE PICKED IT OUT! all by himself!

All i told him was i love the emerald cut.. and HAVE FUN!

(haha don't worry he returned the same favor and hopefully he'll like his as much as i LOVE mine)

We Then DROVE my companion all the way back to bountiful and got home at like 2:45 am.

He dropped my off.. and then picked me up for church, dropped me off and then left back to Cedar City

.... so he could teach his lesson... 

That he still hadn't prepared!

And That folks... is the beginning of OUR 

HAPPILY EVER AFTER!