We're ENGAGED!

We got Engaged on May 7th and we're getting married on JULY 18TH in the St. George Temple!

Here's the story for those who don't know it :) 

Brandon woke me up at 5 a.m and told me he had a surprise for me. So reluctantly I went with him as we drove to the other side of town and 

pulled up to a house with a HUGE hot air balloon waiting outside! I was so excited because going on a hot air balloon ride was a bucket list 

item for me! So we took off at sunrise and flew over St. George! It was amazingly beautiful and i had NO IDEA what was coming! Brandon and I hadn't decided on a ring yet so i wasn't expecting a thing! We had been ring shopping for MONTHS and i couldn't find one i liked more than one i had found but was a bit out of budget. Brandon always said "would you still marry me if i just asked you with a cracker jack in the box ring cause all of these are so expensive!"

 and i always told him yes :) 

anyways- We were flying high and all of a sudden brandon started telling me all these cute things (how much he loved me, the first time we met, etc.) and i'm thinking "what is he being corny for? i'm not complaining, but he never does this?" 

then all of a sudden he gets down on his knee and asks me to marry him! Then he pops open the ring and it's this hideous plastic cracker jack in the box ring! I of course said yes and took my plastic ring with 

just as much excitement if it had been a real one! 

You can't really steer a hot air balloon so we landed in the middle of a neighborhood and all the people came out to see what had landed on their yards. Brandons dad and sisters were following us in the car all morning so they were there when we landed. 

We were loading up the balloon as the crowd got bigger and all of a sudden brandon gets down on his knee again and i say

 "what are you doing? we already did this remember?" 

and he says "I figure if your gonna purpose you can only do it once so you'd better do it right" and pulls out another ring box and pops open the lid AND IT'S MY DREAM RING!!! 

the one i've been wanting since February! I was so excited i jumped on him and knocked the ring out of his hand. It was the BEST engagement i could have possibly asked for! 

we are SO excited to get married!