Today is a very special day for my husband and I because exactly a year ago is when he popped the big question... Yup that big one that most people say yes to and then it changes their lives forever and the pretty lady gets some bling to put on her left hand ring finger!
This is the picture of my bling. That my wonderful husband decided to show everyone except for me of course before he actually proposed to me.
I've decided since today is such a fun lovey dovey day of my past it is time to write down how he proposed to me and that whole process. I think I wrote one right after we got engaged, but I have no clue where it is and so I want to write it again... so brace yourself for a very long and fun post of Scott and Caitlan VERY dragged out proposal. (You'll understand why I say dragged out soon enough).
Here we go! Scott and I had been dating for about 6 months until he came home to "officially" meet my family during Christmas break. He had already meet my dad kind of, but this was his first time meeting my mom and coming home with me. Everyone knew that it was the "meet the parents before I propose to her" type of thing so that was no shocker. However, my parents did tell me a couple weeks before Scott came to not have him ask them for permission to marry me when he was there. I thought that was way funny, but also I think it made it nice because Scott and all of us were able to relax a little more.
Okay now fast forward a month and it is the end of January. Scott's sister (Laurie) was getting married so naturally we drove down to Vegas (where Scott's family is from and where she got married). We took two of Laurie's friends down with us since they also wanted to be there for the wedding. It was fun driving down with them, but I also love car trips with Scott so we could just talk about our random stuff and with other people in the car sometimes that can get weird. We waited till they fell asleep and then we were able to talk and then when they woke up we would talk with them and then when they feel back asleep we would talk, you get the point. One of the times when they fell asleep Scott said something along the lines of Caitlan I have a secret to tell you. I got excited and had no clue what he was going to say. Well that is when he began to tell me about how he had asked my dad for permission that week. I was shocked considering Scott parents and family still didn't know we were seriously talking about it. Side note: Scott is a sweetheart and didn't want to tell them because he didn't want to take any of the attention off of his sister and her big wedding. He decided he would tell them after her wedding and I told him that he needed to tell them before we got engaged*
I began to freak out because I got all nervous that he had the ring in his pocket and was about to propose there or something. He didn't thank goodness, but I was still super nervous about the whole situation of knowing he had talk with my dad. We were driving down to his sister's wedding where I would be meeting ALL of Scott's family and none of them know what Scott had done and I needed to keep it all a secret! Wow talk about nerve racking. The funniest/weirdest part was watching them take family pictures and thinking to myself I am going to be in that family. I wonder if they knew we were getting engaged very soon if I would be in these pictures. The whole time we were there stuff like that was going through my head like crazy!!!
After the wedding we drove back up to Utah (where we live right now and are going to school) and had to say goodbye for the weekend as I drove back down to Ephraim (where I was going to school at Snow College and Scott stayed in Provo (where he was going to school at BYU). The whole time I was driving I was freaking out more because Scott basically just told me that he could propose to me at anytime now. So I was thinking it was going to be either this next weekend or the weekend after that! Yeah total freaking out. I got back to my apartment and immediately told my roommates and they started to get excited too as most apartments full of girls would.
The next weekend came and I was able to go up north to surprise Scott since one of my friends was driving up to the Provo area. He was really surprised and kind of thrown off/really excited! After an hour of being there Scott told me how his brother had invited him to go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and I got super upset because that is one of my favorite places to go and he was going to go without me and not reschedule! So my roommate and I started to head out for dinner and Scott went his separate way. Come to find out now he was actually going to pick up my ring right then from the guy who made it! He was able to plan a later time to pick it up from him and was able to come eat dinner with us. He was sly and told me how he was able to reschedule with his brother. I was now one happy girl to be able to spend more time with Scott! The weekend came and went too quickly and again I had to leave without a ring. I wasn't too upset to go back not engaged since I surprised him.
The next week I had to give a talk at church so Scott came down for the weekend and I though for sure with it being close to Valentine's Day he was going to propose. The topic I was given for my talk too was on love. It was super funny because I was starting to get impatient waiting for Scott to propose and may or may not have called him out on it during my talk. He didn't even really hear that though because I guess he was showing my roommates the picture of my ring and telling them the day he was planning on proposing to me! How rude right?!!! That weekend came and went and still I wasn't engaged!
The week after that I knew I was going to get engaged. It was three weeks now since he told me he had asked my dad for permission and I was ready to get engaged. That weekend he came and picked me up in the morning from the Sarah's apartment and brought me a bouquet of sunflowers! Sarah is one of my really great friend's who also introduced Scott and I to each other which makes her an eternal friend of ours! Later that day went to Color Me Mine, one of our favorite places. It is this really cool place where you pick out something to paint (we choose a plate) and then you paint it and give it back to them. They fire blast it and then in the next few days it is all ready for you to go pick up. I totally recommend it. While we are painting it and deciding what to do Scott gets this great idea to put our names on the back and the date we had already planned on getting married. Okay how obvious is this right?! He brought me my favorite flower in the morning, now putting our wedding date and Caitlan & Scott Hansen on the back, and now I'm waiting for him to get down on one knee... That didn't happen and I was SHOCKED!!!After I don't even remember what we did because I was kind of upset and still not engaged. That weekend came and went and still driving home to Ephraim not engaged. Worst of all every time I came back my roommates and everyone else would always ask are you engaged yet? I hated telling them no since everyone was just waiting for it to happen.
Okay this post is getting really long so I'm going to say To Be Continued and start writing the rest in a different post. Why? I'm not sure, but I'm going to... There is actually three parts click here for Part 2.
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