6 More days!!!

6 More days!!!

In lew of it only being 6 days until our wedding and the fact that I have yet to post any engagements, groomals or mention anything in regards to our story I have decided to do it all now!:)

The Story:

Jake and I met officially an hour after I recieved my mission call to Yekaterinburg, Russia on July 14, 2010 at a local block party.  He claims that he had wanted to ask me out for some time before that and never had the chance.  I had seen him around campus and one of my best friends actually had pointed him out a few times saying that she wanted to line us up.  I didn't remember this when we started talking at the block party but I did remember him from church and my mission prep classes (which he just happened to go to). I wasn't too excited to talk to him at the block party since I was pretty overwhelmed after just getting my call and I was more interested in socializing with other friends.  He kept talking though and telling me EVERYTHING about Russia.  I remember thinking that this guy was obsessed with Russia.  About a week later I was at my house hanging out with my friends and he happened to be next door at my neighbors house for FHE, well my friend Lauren and I ran next door to grab some ice cream and say hi and while I was scooping up my ice cream he came in and started talking to me about big surprise... Russia. Asking if I had been practicing or had learned anything since getting my call.  I told him that I had been learning the Russian alphabet from a lady at work and he insisted that he was going to quiz me.  Not feeling confident in my skills and wanting to get back to my friends I hurried and left.  Awhile later he showed up at my house and I ran upstairs to my room to get my cheat sheet. He followed me upstairs and we started talking more about Russia.  While we were up there he invited me over that Wednesday (this was on a Monday) to go over to his house so he could show me pictures from his mission. 

My roommate Caitlin kept making a big deal about me going over there and the fact that he liked me which I kept reassuring her that he was just obsessed about Russia and I actually showed some interest in his stories. I was over there for about 3 or 4 hours talking about Russia and when I went to leave he invited me over that Sunday to make me a Russian dinner of Borsch. Later that week he was at Raging Waters with some friends and told his friend Justin that he loved me and wanted to marry me.  Justin of course thought he was crazy and told Jake that.  Sunday we made Borsch and he told me that his friends were having a bonfire in the canyon and asked if I wanted to go.  We drove up there but it was supposedly at a mythical 3rd dam that we were never able to find.  We decided to go to the Nunery and try to scare ourselves with an old superstition.  We ended up holding hands and then driving to Logan Peak where we went on a moonlight walk and had our first kiss.  On the way down he picked me a gorgeous boquet of Wild Flowers and stopped at every flower that we didn't already have in the boquet.  I discovered that night that he was interested in more than just Russia.  We spent as much time as we could from then on.:)  I was still planning on serving a mission but decided it would be alright to have a boyfriend.  We were falling fast and although Jake didn't worry about the fact that our time was running out and I needed to make a decision I did.  While driving back from Idaho to meet his family I started wondering if that was still the right path for my life to take. My life was already set in the direction to go and I worried about all the things that would fall out of place if I decided to not go.  The next day I was working at Dillards and my now boss came in and started talking to me about an opportunity for a job at Stevens Henager College.  He had been in before and discussed it with me and I had dismissed it before but I realized talking to him that day that no matter what I decided to do things would work out.  That night on a drive out to the Box Elder County Fair he told me if I decided to not go on a mission that he would ask me to Marry him on the spot.  He also told me that he loved me that night, something that we had tiptoed around because of the mission.  We decided that the next day being sunday him, myself and my mom would fast about my decision.  I recieved a blessing from Jake, my dad, and my brother Daniel and on the drive home that night I told him that I still needed to go on a mission.

I cried the entire way home as we told each other that this was the end but how much we loved each other.  He made me promise to talk to my Bishop first and that I would tell him my final decision on Tuesday. I went home completely distraught but luckily one of my best friends, Sophia came and picked me up and made me stay at the Kappa Delta house that night.  The next day was my day off and I had told my little sister that I would take her shopping that morning before her soccer practice.  We got back pretty early and when we arrived my dad was walking up from the barn.  He could see that I wasn't my usual self and asked me to go talk to him in his office.  We spent the next 3 hours debating every pro and con of each choice and giving me spritiual guidance I needed from my dad to help me make the decision.  After that I ran into my mom who I also sat with for a quite awhile and talked through things.  After that I decided that I needed to talk to my Bishop and before finalizing my deicison I talked to my sister Carin.  It was definitely an emotional day!  I called Jake on my way back to Logan not being able to wait another minute to tell him.  When I arrived he picked me up and twirled me around and gave me a kiss.  I kept trying to tell him I wanted to talk to him but he kept putting it off and telling me we should go on a drive.  We ended up in Green Canyon and decided to go for a walk.  We got a little bit up the trail when I finally told him that we needed to sit down on that fence and talk to him.  When we sat down I think I just started blurting everything out about how emotional of  day it had been (I'm surprised he didn't think I was some emotional freak) I then told him that I couldn't go on a mission because my heart was somewhere else.  He paused for a minute and then asked if I was sure and after I assured him that I was, he told me there was only one thing he needed to ask and that was if I would marry him!:)  

These are some of my favorite Groomals and Bridals that we took!:)