Our Engagement Photos!

Temple Day

Well, I go through the temple on Friday! (july 3rd) I'm going through the new Draper Temple and  I'm really excited but kinda nervous (who isn't their first time though?). Brandon is coming up with his parents on friday to go through with me so that'll be nice. I'm really glad he gets to go through with me. It makes it a lot less scary somehow? This week, however,  I'm wearing all my shorts and shirts that I'm never going to be able to wear again after friday. goodbye wardrobe :( lol jk. 

FLORIDA VACATION!

This year Brandon got to come on the Anderson Family Vacation!

 I love my family but vacations are SO much more fun when the love of your life is there :) 

For our Trip we flew from Utah to Denver to Missouri to Tampa where we rented a car and drove 2 hours to Pine Island and then got on a boat that took us to Captiva Island then got on golf carts that FINALLY got us to our little beach house!

 (long day of traveling) 

 The island we sta

yed on had a Club House that included 2 outdoor pools, volleyball nets, basketball courts, ping pong, pool tables, and a playground. They also offered free rentals on bikes and kayaks so needless to say we had plenty of things to do! We stayed for a total of ten days and most of them consisted of sitting at the beach all day, cooking dinner, and watching a movie 

or playing games. One of the days there we all rented

 Vespa Scooters and drove all over Sanabell Island, Captiva Island and North Captiva Island! 

That day was probably my favorite. 

We rented a boat for a few days and went around to other islands too! Unfortunately for us our boat only went about 30 MPH the whole time so we had a lot of down time on  those days :)

Along the way we saw Dolphins and Manatees and they were amazingly big! We all had a

 great time and only came home with minor sun burns and 1000 sand flea bites per person, those are NOT fun :)

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!