What an action packed Valentines Day today was. 

At school today we had a pretty big test on all the massage movements of the 3 advanced facials that we learned recently. During my practical part I was feeling pretty nauseous and my stomach was cramping pretty bad. I was doing my last few movements and I just couldn't remember any of the movements. I guess I started acting kind of weird. I felt like I was going to pass out so I sat down and then could feel my eyes roll back into my head. I guess I started convulsing so they called an ambulance. Next thing I knew the EMT's were asking me a million questions, but I was happy to see that Tim had showed up.

I was literally 2 blocks away from the hospital so I told them I wasn't going to go in the ambulance. Tim drove me over there and we sat in the ER for 4 hours while they ran tests. It looks like the ovarian cysts I was having ruptured and the pain made me pass out.

I felt so bad for Tim. He was just about to eat lunch when my classmate called him and told him to come to the school to get me. He hadn't eaten all day. He had planned out a big dinner to make for Valentine's Day but we were both so hungry by the time we left the hospital that we grabbed a Little Caesar's pizza and ate it in the Walgreen's parking lot while we waited to fill my prescription.

Nothing says I love you like an evening in the ER ;)

Trying to look happy, excuse the stupid face I'm making 

YAY!! I'm so excited! ;) ;)

Our plans changed just a smidgen 

It was a very memorable Valentine's Day indeed! My life never seems to have a dull moment ;)


P.S

I woke up this morning (2-15) at 5 am in even worse pain than yesterday. I called Tim and asked him what I should do. I usually have a pretty high pain tolerance but I was just crying like a baby. After thinking and talking about it for a bit we decided to take me back to the ER to get checked. 

They had one of the BYU nursing students put my IV in and she missed and my arm started bubbling up. I got a little cranky at that point, I feel bad now. Anyways, they found some fluid in my lower abdomen and a little infection in my small intestine. They shot me up with some morphine and sent me home with percocet. I probably won't even remember writing this blog later, haha! I feel so weird. Poor Tim has been babysitting me since 5am this morning, making me breakfast and lunch and heating up my heating pad every 30 minutes. Poor guy. Hope he knows how much I love and appreciate him!

Alrighty boys and girls, here it is...

Tim and I knew pretty much right off the bat that we were going to marry each other. We are in the same singles ward and were friends but hadn't been on a date or spent much time together. At a ward activity we found ourselves standing by each other talking in a circle of people. I was instantly super interested but had decided that I was done trying to make a move with boys and that if he liked me he would just have to do something about it. A couple days later I was at school and had a voicemail from an unknown number. He rambled on for about 2 minutes asking me what my favorite dessert was. I called him back and finally he asked if my roommates and I wanted to come over and make a dessert with his apartment. We did and it was super fun! There was instant chemistry and we could both tell. Ever since we have spent almost every day together. 

Tim told me that he was going to be graduating in April and already had a job in Boston. We both figured we would probably have to break up or try a long distance thing, but decided to give dating a shot anyways. 

Tim and I can talk for hours. One of our favorite things to do is to ask each other the most random bizarre questions about each other. (You would not believe the crazy things you learn about someone so quickly!) 

When Tim would walk me back to my apartment at night it was always so cold so we started saying our goodbye's in the laundry room right next to my apartment. One night we were sitting there talking and I found myself blurting out the words,"I know this sounds crazy but...I love you."Instantly my heart started pounding realizing what I had just said. I sat there totally embarrassed wondering if I had just scared Tim off when I looked up and saw him smiling as he told me he loved me too. 

Over Christmas break I spent a couple days up in Perry with his family and he came up to my grandparent's house and spent some time with my family. 

Over Christmas break we knew that we wanted to be together and that we were willing to make some sacrifices to make sure that things worked out. Our talks from what if we got married turned into when we get married...

We figured out that Tim was going to have a 1 week window of time this summer from July 28-August 5 that we could get married, so we decided to go for it. 

At the end of January we started looking at rings but I wasn't sure when the proposal would be. I have no idea why I was so curious, I knew we were getting married, so when we got engaged shouldn't have mattered but I am THE most curious person ever. I just wanted to know when! Friday night (2-10) I was over at Tim's and got up to go to the bathroom. He instantly bolted towards me and yelled, "you can't go in there!" I shut the bathroom door and then heard a bunch of rummaging. Tim then told me that the next day we were going to go to lunch at Tucanos and then we could go on a little walk up to Bridal Veil Falls. (How could that be any more obvious?) 

The next day he picked me up for lunch and was all dressed up. I thought to myself today is the day!! We went to lunch then drove up to the falls. We sat on a bench and he asked me where I saw up in 5 years, told me how much he loved me and then asked if I was ready to go.

Ready to go?! I thought for sure he was about to pop the question right then and there. 

(Tim found out that I figured his whole plan out so he changed it all up last minute)

He handed me a present and I opened it. Inside was a picture of us that he had framed. I loved it and gingerly set it back in the gift bag. He drove me home and dropped me off at my apartment. He told me he was going to go park the car and that he would be right over. I went inside and laid on the couch and talked to my roommate. I told her I thought for sure he was going to ask me at the falls but that he didn't. I had to leave for work in an hour so I was super confused. We sat there for 20 minutes and then I decided to check my phone to make sure that Tim was okay. I had a text from him that said, "go ahead and open up the back of the picture frame." I did and inside was the sweetest little love note. At the bottom it said to meet him in the laundry room. I instantly started laughing thinking back to one of the days when we were sitting in there talking we joked about how funny it would be for him to propose in the laundry room. 

I bolted out the door and swung open the door to the laundry room. There was my handsome guy standing there with a little box. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I started laughing then jumped up and gave him a giant hug and kiss and said, "yes!"

I'm so excited to spend the rest of forever with my best friend. He is such a blessing in my life and makes me a much better person. 

Wow. What a crazy weekend. I don't even know where to begin! 

My better half proposed to me on Saturday!!!!!!!!

I am so ready and so excited to start this new adventure and journey with Tim. I love him more than I ever thought imaginable. He is so patient and kind and sweet to me. I really don't know what I did to deserve such an amazing guy. 

I experienced my first breakdown today as a flood of memories came back to me from the past. It's hard to let yourself open up and be in a vulnerable position to love and be loved when things haven't always worked out perfectly in the past. It will be worth it though, I know it. It already is. 

                                                                               

Tim graduates from BYU in April in Business Management/Strategy.

I finish my program in June and will then take my state boards to receive my Master Esthetician license. From there I'll go on to get my license transferred to the state of Massachusetts.

Tim heads off to Philadelphia for training for Teach for America the last part of June/all of July. 6 weeks apart...oh boy. 

July 28th Tim gets back for Philadelphia, we get married a couple days later, then it's off to Boston we go! I can't wait!

Here are some pictures from this weekend. I'm so excited that this wonderful man is my fiance. I can't wait to spend the rest of eternity with him. 

After lunch at Tucanos

So lucky :)

I love how his lip curls in this picture haha!

Isn't he handsome??

So perfect! I love it :)

Right after he popped the question!

His face kills me in this picture :)

 I cannot sleep! I think I have the stomach flu... or food poisoning... or something awful. Whatever it is I am not enjoying it. I guess I jinxed myself earlier as I recall myself saying, "I haven't been sick in over a year!" 

Well that clearly bit me in the butt. 

I guess that gives me more time to read Hunger Games. The last three days I have been glued to it! I had heard a lot about it but hadn't read it until Tim convinced me to.  Speaking of that boy... he is great.  I am one lucky girl. In other news... 

I started working at Good Earth Natural Foods about a month ago and love it so far! Right up my alley :) Besides my secret love for junk food...shhh ;)