A long, long time ago in a land far away.....haha ok so not very long ago here in Spokane a guy named Garett Johnson proposed to me. Let me recap how that happened. Officially this went down on May 24th.....unofficially, about a week before hand. About mid May we both knew where this relationship was heading and so we talked about the "M" word. For awhile neither of us actually said the "M" word, just things like "Oh I could see you and me like this forever" yadada. Finally, one night we both said the word and the ball started rolling from there. Now that I had a verbal commitment from him I went to work. That Friday I went to a dress shop tried on a handful of dresses and found one I loved! Saturday morning I brought my roommates back to confirm my decision and I bought the dress. After that Garett and I went ring shopping all the rest of the day. I pointed out a couple I liked and basically said surprise me. So now that he knew what rings I liked I was getting antsy, wondering when he was going to pop the question. I kept myself busy with other wedding plans to keep my mind occupied. I managed to get a photographer whilst I waited. We also nailed down a date which gradually kept being moved forward to accommodate everyone....which was perfectly ok with us; we would have gotten married in a week if we could.
This brings my tale to a Tuesday morning about a week later. I called the temple and reserved the date for our sealing....still ringless. Garett later asked me what I wanted to do that night and I said I'm good with whatever. So he told me that his dad, who is a park ranger on Mt. Spokane, said we could go snowmobiling up on the mountain if we wanted to......of course I wanted to! So he picked me up and we went to his house and got all of our snow gear on. Now let me insert here that I was suspicious that something might be in the works; I'm a pretty hard person to surprise. We left his house and followed his dad up to the shed. His dad hopped on one snowmobile and Garett and I got on the other. At this point I was beginning to doubt that anything was going to happen; I didn't think he would propose with his dad there too. So we rode up the mountain and got to the top. Garett asked if I wanted to drive so we drove back to the bottom leaving his dad at the top and I drove us up to the top again. We found his dad and Garett asked him if he could show me the Vista House (this really old, cool stone house on the very top of the mountain). His dad gave us the key and said that he was going to start heading home. We went up to the house and I was so mesmerized by the view that I didn't even notice the house. Finally, I looked at the house and noticed a fire buring inside.....huge red flag went up in my noggin and I froze. I looked at Garett and asked him what was going on to which he helpfully responded with "What is going on???" So we went inside and there was a path of rose petals and candles leading to the fire. There was a blanket in front of the fire and large amounts of food (me knows me well haha) and dozens of roses. As I was processing all of this he got down on one knee and asked the question I've been dying to hear him ask! He pulled out the most beautiful ring and slid it on my finger! Officially official!
So that's the story. Now for the weekend update....Garett told me that we could go camping up at the Vista House Sunday night! So we packed up all of our camping gear that we got from the wedding, a dutch oven and food. We took a bag of Costco pot stickers for dinner and potatoes, bacon and eggs for breakfast. Delicious! We drove up Sunday night around 6:30 and it was pretty dang cold! Garett started a fire and I set up the beds. My boss gave us these self inflating sleep pads that are 2.5 inches thick and super comfy. We zipped our sleeping bags together and it was really warm. So warm that around one in the morning I had to go to the bathroom and suck my head out of the sleeping bag I didn't want to get out. But there's no sleeping when you have to pee. I debated with myself for about ten minutes and finally looked over to see that Garett was awake too so I told him that I had to go to the bathroom. Bracing ourselves for the frigid cold air we ran to the car and drove down to the outhouse. Needless to say I slept much better after that.
