April 27th..... I Can't Wait!

We are getting married on April 27th!! That's only in 29 days! I am so excited to marry my best friend and be with him forever!

How We Met

My friend, Courtney Cotter, and I decided one night that we were going to go to this luau stake YSA party thing at someone's house in Gilbert. She had heard about it from another one of our friends. I remember not really caring about it and kind of didn't feel like going, but since she wanted to go, I went along with her. We ended up staying until the end when there was only a few people left, and that's when Courtney and I saw Thomas and Brian Nielson. Courtney had heard about Thomas in high school and kind of knew him, so she started talking to him. I started talking to Thomas' friend Brian. Courtney and I left the party super happy that we had just talked to 2 really attractive guys. We wanted to be brave and bold and ask them on dates, so a few days after that or so I think, we got their numbers somehow and called them and asked them on dates. Courtney went with Thomas, and I went with Brian.

We planned a super fun date! We were really excited. We went goofy golfing at Golfland and then went to Courtney's house and made pizzas and watched the movie Matilda. I had a great time with Brian and I remember thinking he was really cute and fun.

I remember totally trying to pursue Brian. I texted him quite a bit and we hung out quite a few times. Thomas liked Courtney after the double date. Him and I a few times got together and would just talk about how neither of them liked us. I remember one night we talked on his roof for a while about our situations. That night was when I realized that I might like Thomas. The more I thought about it, the more I knew it was true. I had so much fun being around him. We loved talking and could easily talk about anything for hours.

There was a week when we watched all the Harry Potter movies. Yeah.. we're kind of obsessed. I knew that Thomas didn't know yet that I liked him, because I hadn't shown any signs yet, so I remember that during one of the movies I put my legs on his lap. That was my type of flirting I guess haha. Anyways, during the 7th movie (part 1), we held hands. Awwww! Haha so cute, I know. Stephen was there to witness it! Haha I feel bad... probably so awkward. Especially because after the movie ended, the room was dark and we were just quietly laying there, and all of a sudden our faces were close to each other and we kissed! Yeah... with Stephen in the room... He had no clue this was happening haha. Welp, the rest is history! Oh and this happened on Memorial Day, so May 31.

Valentine's Day

Before Valentine's Day, Thomas and I had talked about getting married, and we'd even gone to a few jewelry stores in the mall so I could find out my ring size and show him what kind of ring I wanted. 

Valentine's Day was coming up, and he wanted to plan something special. His brother told him about this amazing restaurant called Mastro's City Hall Steakhouse in Scottsdale and made a reservation for us. Thomas told me that is was really expensive and fancy, so I was super excited to dress up nice and go to dinner there. Earlier that week I had talked to someone who had been there, and they told me how nice it is and how it will cost at least $150. I was like holy crap.... dang haha. I had no clue it would be that expensive. She said that if he's taking me there, he's planning on doing something special (aka propose). I wasn't sure, because we had talked about waiting a couple more weeks at least. He seriously threw me off and made me think that it wasn't going to be on Valentine's Day.

Dinner was perfect. We had shrimp that was seriously the best I've ever had, and amazing steak. My favorite part of the meal, though, was the bread. It was delicious. I'm craving it now..... The dessert was fabulous, too. 

At the end of our meal, the waiter comes to us and says "I'm sorry to tell you this, but I have some bad news..." We were like crap what is he going to say?? But then he goes on to say... "Your meal has been paid for." What?? We were so confused. He told us that Thomas' brother, Aaron, who made the reservation for us, had paid for our meal. It was like a Christmas present. Thomas almost started crying he was so happy (remember it was like a $150 or more meal haha). What a great start to our evening together =]

After dinner, we were talking about what we were going to do. We talked about maybe just going somewhere and talking, or walking around somewhere. He got a text from his mom saying that he needed to get these chairs from his aunt's house. Thomas felt bad because he said he was supposed to do that earlier but he forgot. I didn't think anything of it and didn't mind at all, because his aunt lives right by his house. We get there and start going through the side gate when I heard drums. I was like what is going on?? Thomas said it was probably the neighbors.... Liar! We go in the backyard to get the "chairs" (yeah that was a lie... and I totally didn't even expect anything because Thomas was so chill about everything and didn't even act like anything was going on!) and there was a band set up. Guitar, drums, piano, everything. There was a bench in the middle of the grass. Thomas told me to go sit down. Right when I saw this set up I knew he was going to propose =] 

They played a song (Thomas, Ryan, Justin, Brian, and Stephen) that Thomas had wrote. It was about me and it was the sweetest thing ever. I was just sitting there with the hugest smile on my face. I was shocked to say the least. After the song, everyone left and Thomas came down to where I was sitting. He told me he loved me and wanted to marry me. I seriously don't even remember him asking me to marry him... I was in shock haha. I just remember grabbing his face and kissing him- so happy. I finally realized he was waiting for an answer haha so I said yes! Of course! We called family and went to see our parents and show them my ring. It was such a perfect night!!!!