This is a mushy gushy lovey dovey sappy blog post! If you are averted to such things stop reading now. Seriously! Don't say I didn't warn you.
I'm pretty sure everyone in my life is fully aware that I am engaged to the love of my life, Waylon William Dean Hervey. Because; Well, I'm very excited and I'm not a quiet keep to myself kind of excited person. I've been meaning to blog and tell the story of how he popped the question for about a month now but I just hadn't made it to that yet.
I should preface this with some basic info. I met Waylon my Sophmore year of high school. He was a Junior playing on the baseball team with Zach. I fell for this adorable goofy kid pretty fast. We were friends for a year before we started "dating" my junior year. That was it, I'm not sure when it was but eventually I realized this was who I was supposed to spend forever with. We've been through our fair share of troubles; him being graduated while I was still in high school and a year of living 80 miles away from each other were both pretty tough.
When Waylon chose to be baptized in July he thought that I'd for sure be ready to be hitched exactly one year afterwards. Funny as it sounds I told the poor kid no! I told him I needed to graduate before I wanted to get married and that I was just too young still and we needed to grow up a bit. Well.... Let's be real, that thought pattern didn't last too long. One night I had a long soul searching visit with my big brother Zachary and as I talked with him it hit me "What am I waiting for? I love Waylon, I'm never going to want anyone else ever. Why am I being so stupid?" So, I ate my words and told Waylon that whenever he decided he was ready to ask for reals I would say yes. He thought I was playing a joke on him and I felt so terrible! When we were seriously talking about getting married we both decided that we were sick of waiting so we chose out the date July 27th before we were even engaged because that was the first Saturday after the one year anniversary of Waylon's baptism so we can go to the temple.
I told Waylon what I liked in rings and told him that I wanted him to surprise me with the ring and when he asked me. (I know, I guess I'm a little bit demanding.) Waylon decided to have a guy down in Provo make a ring that he had designed. This meant it took a little longer because they had to finish the design, make a wax mold, make the actual ring, and then he had to go pick it up. I thought the ring was still being made when Waylon and his mom and grandma snuck down to Provo to pick it up. On January 16th my dad called me and asked if I could come home that weekend to keep an eye on Perri because my parents were going out of town for a baseball camp with Miles. I told him of course and told Waylon that I'd be home that weekend to babysit. He said "Great, let's go out on a date on Saturday" I was totally down! I got home on Friday and Waylon came over to hang out that night. When I sent him home at the end of the night he said we were going to dinner a little bit early the next night because he had a surprise planned for later. Honestly I thought he was taking me to a movie that I had not so subtly been hinting that I wanted to see. We went to dinner at Calaway's at about 5:30. While we were at dinner I proceeded to whine about how badly I just wanted to be officially engaged and how I wanted to see the ring he had designed. He just said "I'm sorry I should have gotten started sooner." (Basically I'm now a little bit worried about how well he can lie) On our way back in to town he said we were going to the Bluebird. The Bluebird is kind of "Our Place" I absolutely love the old ice cream bar in the restaurant and my grandpa and mom taught me that they make the best butter-cream chocolates in the whole world! Waylon's always been a trooper to take me to get ice cream at the old fashion counter because I have a major sweet tooth and he knows how romantic I think that place is. I was kinda surprised that he wanted to go get ice cream because it was the 19th of January and like 8 degrees outside but I love that place so much that I just went with it. When we pulled in I told him that I thought it was probably a little bit chilly for ice cream and he said that was fine we would just buy some chocolates. We built a 1/2 lb box with all of my favorites and headed home. I told Waylon that I needed to stop at Macey's to get stuff to make Sunday dinner the next day. He said that was fine as long as we hurried so that we didn't miss the surprise. I asked him if it was the movie that I suspected because I had plans to go see it with a friend on Monday and he got such a deflated look on his face and said "You always guess" I felt so bad. We grabbed groceries and headed home. Per was just getting ready to head out with some friends when we got there so I chatted with her while I started putting things away in the fridge. Waylon came back into the kitchen as I was finishing up and suggested we go sit on the couch. Once we were sitting there he grabbed the box of chocolates and handed them to me. Thinking of my buttercreams I was more than willing to tear them open. When I got the lid off of the box I saw the most gorgeous ring I had ever seen sitting on top of one of the chocolates! He grabbed the ring out of the box and landed down on one knee and asked me if I would marry him :') I was so stunned that I sat there staring at him down there for quite a few seconds when finally he said "Can you please say Yes?" I didn't realize I hadn't answered him yet. Per snuck in and caught this special moment for us on camera!
Basically, the moral of the story is that I am the luckiest girl in the world! I absolutely can not wait to marry this amazing man who I was so lucky to find. Waylon is the sweetest most caring man I could have ever found and I'm so thankful every day that I have him.
Wedding planning is pretty exhausting! It's fun but I'm definitely only doing this the one time. We bought the dress last weekend, and are in the process of finalizing the photographer and the rest of the schedule after the temple in the morning.
I've heard that everybody is apparently sickeningly sweet and sappy when they are engaged and I apologize in advance for the sappyness that is probably oozing from my very being, I'm just so very excited.
Well now that I've gushed for a decent amount of time I'll be done. Have a great rest of your week anyone that was brave/tough enough to make it to the bottom of this ;)
-Dan
