Also this past week was this cute little guys birthday! He's such a stud and his little brothers are pretty cute themselves! Happy Birthday Brycie Poo! He and I have nick names for each other, he calls me deedster and I call him Brycie Poo, did I mention how cute he is?!
Tomorrow Jeff and I are giving our "Graduation talks" at the singles ward. Haha isn't it funny thats what they call it when you get married? Anyways he's pretty nervous but it will be fun! I have to say I am going to miss that ward. I have made some of my best friends there and I love the bishopric! It's going to be weird getting used to a family ward again but I'm excited to be able to start my life with Jeff! It's been a crazy road, but deep in the back of my mind I knew I would end up with him after all this time!
Here's how it all started.....
When I was 16 my friends and I were absolutely obsessed with big nice trucks. It just so happened there was this really nice truck that we would always see driving around Brigham and cruisin main street if you will. We would always see it parked at Smith's and found out that whoever owned this truck worked there. We would get brave and pull into Shopko where this truck would hang out and try to talk to Jeff and his friend but Jeff wouldn't give us the time of day haha! We would leave notes on his truck and everything! (Can you say STALKERS?!) Anyways it was time for me to get a job and my family being the Smith's famiy they are, kinda automatically got me a job at Smith's. I started working there and finally Jeff stopped me and asked if I was the one leaving notes on his truck, which I admitted to along with my friends and we just started talking from there. My friends and I decided to go to Temple Square one night at the end of November to look at the lights. We had a huge group going so I invited Jeff. This technically was our first 'Group Date." I had started liking him but we were trying to set him up with one of my friends but later that night we got talking about kissing and how I'd never really made out. (This part I'm not particularly proud of) We ended up making out in Smith's parking lot that night haha and didn't think anything of it but after that we started hanging out more and more and ended up dating for about 2 years. We went our separate ways and kept coming back to each other even after being in other relationships and for the past 3 years he told me he knew he was going to marry me, which I thought he was crazy! Turns out this last time we started dating again it just felt completely different from that "First Date" as I call it I knew we would end up together.
Now for the Proposal... For about the last 3 years Jeff has been trying to get me to go to Park City with his family, as they go every year. This time I actually went. We had gone ring shopping but I didn't really expect anything. I had a feeling it could happen up there but didn't know he had gone back to the jeweler or had talked to my dad, which turns out he's very sneaky!! Anyways we got up there Friday and had a blast all day, then Saturday we got up early and went and played on the Alpine slide and all the other fun rides there. We decided to go swimming and hang out there and as we were at the pool Jeff mentioned we should go for a little hike to finally use his metal detector which he decided to bring last minute (or so I thought) Anyways I was super tired after we got done at the pool and didn't really feel like going on a hike but I decided to suck it up and go. So here we are walking around with a metal detector to get to the hill where we decided to go. We finally started using it and it started going off, so Jeff tells me to start digging...Really?? He was just standing there watching me dig in the dirt with this little stick I found cuz I had nothing else. He leaves to start looking around some more and tells me to come over where he is cuz it's going off pretty strongly. (I'm a little annoyed at this point haha) I go over there and see a doller bill and a little plastic baggy. I grabbed the dollar bill all excited I actually found something on our adventure and he tells me to grab the baggie. This made me nervous as I had no idea how long this bag had been there or what could be in there, but I grab it and I was like oh cool someone lost a ring... then it clicked, He grabbed the bag and got my ring out and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him and the rest is history!! Here's a picture of us right after...
