Engagement...

Now, I could go through this date by date, but that would take a while. I will jst mention that there were a few other notable dates, the third was a whole event-went to a matinee movie with Stefanie (Wes's sister) and Jesse Heaton (after I got rear ended in a hit and run on the way to the theater), ate ice cream at Snelgroves (where I met Ashley-another sister), stopped by the Fairbourn's house to visit (that's my aunt/cousins), then went to a Utes Basketball game with Cathy, mom, dad, Mel, Spence, then of course, he kissed me the first time that night. That was also the night he realized he was going to marry me (I knew I was a good kisser, but I didn't realize I was that good!!) :)

Then there was the date where Wes tricked me into meeting his whole family, complete with grandparents and all (well, not all as Steve, Wes's dad was in Canada working on the temple). He told me he was going to cook Filipino food for me for dinner, abd we would eat hat his house. But when I got there, it was a full Thanksgiving-style dinner with the whole fam instead...scarry!!

We packed in a lot of dating in those few short weeks...I have always said it was 3 1/2 weeks before we were engaged, but I just looked at a calendar, adn it looks like it was actually about 4 weeks before we got engaged, sorry about that gross inaccuracy! But, that said, let's fast forward to Feb 4, 2001...

Just a few days before, we had talked about how we were definately dating exclusively and had been for a while actually without talking about it. By this time we were seeing each other basically every day. But, we were not going to see each other on this Sunday, Feb 4th for some reason. It was a Fast Sunday (in the LDS church, once a month, we have what is called a fast Sunday where we fast, or do not eat or drink for 2 meals basically. We are supposed to fast with a purpose in mind, and we are supposed to pray to begin our fast and to dedicate our fast to that purpose.). I had decided to fast that day to determine whether I should marry Wes, as the thought of marrying him had been on my mind a lot.

I went to church, and for some reason my family wasn't there that week, so I sat next to my x-boyfriend's mom, who also happened to be the stake president's wife. As I sat there next to her, and she was telling me all about her son (the x-boyfriend) and how he was doing on his mission and how he would love to hear from me and stuff, I was praying to have a big confirmation that I should marry Wes. I was afraid that if it wasn't a big confirmation, I might miss it completely. I got an answer that I should marry Wes while I sat there in church.

Like I said before, Wes and I were not supposed to see each other that day. For some reason I didn't think we were even going to talk-it seems he had something that was supposed to keep him busy all day. Needless to say, I was surprised when my phone rang in the afternoon and it was Wes calling to tell me that he had gotten a bad haircut. Evidently, he had made Jessice (his youngest sister) buzz his hair, adn she had never cut anyone's hair before, so it hadn's turned out quite as expected, and he just wanted to call and warn me. Then as we talked he mentioned that he would like to go do something fun tonight, so maybe we could go to his cousin Mickey's house and play games with Mickey and Natalie (his wife) in Provo. So, he called Mickey and arranged for that.

We played games over there and they even let me win some. It was fun. Evidently, everytime I turned my back, Mickey would harass Wes about how he needed to ask me to marry him. On our drive home (it's about an hour drive), Wes was talking about wanting to go to medical school. I asked where he hoped to go, and he said "I don't know, where do you want to live?" I kinda ignored that, but then he kept bringing up, "we" and connecting me to him future plans. So, by the time we got back to my apartment, I was wondering what he was trying to say, if he was trying to ask me to marry him. He walked me into my apartment and kissed me in the kitchen, and I said, "Do you really thing we are going to get married?" (He grabbed me by both shoulders and pushed me arms length away at that point) I said, "Have you prayed about it?" (he continued to stare at arms length with a horrified look, then without a word walked over to the couch and sat down. Then after an unbearably long silence he said, "come over here and let me tell you a story."

This is what he told me: He said that after our 3rd date, he had gone into his house, and knelt down and prayed to know if he should marry me. He laid in bed listening for an answer, and eventually got an answer that he should marry me. Then he asked me if I had prayed about it, and I told him I had and told him my experience of earlier in the day. Then he said "So, We're getting married?" And I said, "Yeah, I guess we are." Then he said he loved me, and I said, "you do?" He said "I wouldn't have asked you to marry me if I didn't love you." I said "Oh...I love you too."

And that is how we got engaged!!