the end of the beginning

Hello! i still need to put up our independence day photos!! brit reminded me on her blog today eeek. okay okay, i'll get to it. one thing at a time. time to finish up this story i'd say eh?

" so, i'm standing in my bathroom, half ready, with my whole family giggling, taking photos, you get the picture. OH, don't forget to picture me, mad as can be that my fiance bailed on me this weekend.

BUT, i have this envelope in my hand, and i have the stragnest (very obvious) feeling that everyone else knows what's going on. I open it, and there is, this, amazingly cute, letter inside. (haha i just realized how dumb that sounded. obviously ther's a letter, it's an envelope.) Anyways, so i'm reading, and it's from tyler. and it's talking all about how gushy in love he is with me, and giving me clues to where he wants me to go next. at this point i'm beyond excited. For some reason, him being here absolutly has not crossed my mind. I guess i thought he felt bad he wasn't coming this weekend, and was trying to be cute or somehting. SO, we jump in the car and drive to the next location!!

at the next place, my dad was there, holding another envelope. I ripped the thing open and started reading the letter, which of course being the ball baby i am, i'm BALLING. it's so thoughtful, and cute, and my dad's here, and just everything was perfect. At the end of the letter, i'm supposed to get in my dad's car so he can take me to the next and last spot. but i have no idea wehre we're going, or to what end this is coming!

We start driving, and i'm a little startled that my dad is very emotional. I think that's what tipped me off that mayyyybbbeeee something big might be happeneing. Then, i about threw up from excited-ness nerves when he pulled up the the temple, and i see tyler standing there, in a suit. I jump out of the car and run up to meet him, thinking "oh how cute! he surprised me! he came after all!" but, then i start to see my surroundings, and all my family is here. why would they want to witness a gushy kissy greeting?,......brain is fuzzy....might throw up...and then BOOM! tyler is on his knee, holding a box, holding my hand, telling me he loves me and wants to spend eternity with me, asking to come back here (temple) in 4 months...4 months? whats in 4 months? to marry him!!!!! then my brain catches up and i realize HE'S PROPOSING TO ME!! he opens the box, there's the most gorgeous ring i've ever seen, and it fits. He stands up, and we hug, and i know. I know that he's the one. that this is real. that this is right. that this is forever.

during the next 4 months, he continued to come up EVERY weekend. we planned a wedding. we planned a life together. we fought plenty, but we always knew that this was the real deal. We got married on april 11, 2008 in the mt timp temple for time and ALL eternity. My grandmpa Clark sealed us, which was an amazing expirience. He told us that this sealing was like super glue, and that we'd never come apart if we stayed close to eachother, and to God. I was a little nervous about getting married in our temple clothes, just because it was all new to me, but i have NEVER felt so pretty, and good, and at peace in my whole life. I cried like crazy, tyler even shed a few tears. I knew, as we were married, that i wasn't going to end up like my parents. that we were going to be happy, that we were going to stick together like crazy glue, because we were crazy for eachother. The beauty is, we still are. :)

okay, done!! i'm happy i got that done. i can cross it off my list. much quicker and easier then WRITING the whole thing down in a journal or something :)

hope you're having a good day, xo