The Speights: 2 Years Ago...

I have been meaning to write this post for a couple days now but i have been busy unpacking and making my apartment all cute and stuff...

Wes and I started dating on February 22, 2009. We quickly fell in love.

2 Years Ago in June Wes and I started looking at rings....we knew we wanted to be together forever...just didn't know when was the right time.

2 Years Ago in October on Conference Weekend: Wes texted me and asked me what size of ring i wore. (subtle is not his cup of tea lol)

2 Years in October later that month...can't remember the exact date... Wes came to Monterey to visit me!

He called my bio dad on the cell phone to ask if he would be okay with him proposing. 1 down 1 to go. lol.

this is us on cannery row waiting to eat at Bubba Gumps

2 Years Ago on November 26th : Wesley asked my dad for permission to marry me. My dad scared the bejeebus out of him when instead of saying yes right away he asked for a spreadsheet. with a budget. and a plan of our life. After i stopped the hyperventilating and taught Wes how to effectively use Excel to his liking...Wes was given permission. lol

2 Years Ago on November 27th: My family went to go see the lights at temple square. My family and i kept waiting and waiting expecting he would propose sometime that night....it didn't happen....shows me for thinking men are predictable.

2 Years ago on November 28th: Wes and I were on our way to go look at some reception halls....WHAAAAT??? you ask. We weren't even engaged yet. Well, I was in Monterey California at the time and just on a week of medical leave. At that time we thought we would only have a few weeks of me actually being in Utah to plan the wedding so we knew we needed to get a move on! lol. When we arrived at the reception hall I was about to get out of the car...and

Wes turned to me and said, "you can't go in there"

I asked "why?"

Wes said, "It's not official yet" (when he said this i knew what was going to happen but i tried to keep my composure and act oblivious to what was about to happen."

We kissed....and as we were kissing he was trying to get the ring out of his pocket and....IT GOT STUCK! not wanting to hurt his ego or ruin the moment i kept kissing until he got it out of his pocket. He then asked me to marry him.

-We joke about our proposal story every time someone asks about it. There were no flash mobs, there were no horse drawn carriage rides, we weren't at some fabulous restaurant. but it was better! We were just being us. just being casual us. laughing on the way there. singing to songs on the radio. It was perfect. Truthfully I wouldn't change anything about it. It fit Wes' personality, it fit mine. It was perfect. he was perfect. Everything about it was perfect.

This is the picture i took of my ring on my cell phone a couple days after he gave it to me. I love this ring. it is exactly what i like. simple yet GORGEOUS!!! Another sign that Wesley knows me well.

I would also like to point out that 2 years ago....the holy war....BYU beat the U of U 26-23... It was an amazing game and that should have been my first clue that weekend was going to be AMAZING!