How It Happened & Plans!

Everyone has been asking how Matt proposed, so here you go.  As I blogged about a few days ago, we attended a Halloween party at Jared's house on Saturday night... Well, after the party, Matt helped me carry a bunch of stuff into my house, and before he left, he told me he had a question to ask me.  He got down on one knee and was holding a ring - he told me he loved me and asked me to marry him!  I was totally surprised (I had a good idea it was coming at some point, but had no idea he was asking me that night!)  And as I already posted, I told him yes!  (Note: We may or may not have still been dressed as a cowboy and Indian.)  He then placed this beautiful ring on my finger.  Really, the picture doesn't do it justice.  It is big and sparkly and simple and elegant and just perfect.  I love it.  I can't stop staring at it!

I am so excited to marry Matt.  I didn't know if it would be possible for me to love again, but Matt has proven that I can!  I love him so much.  He is wonderful and perfect for me.  And I am excited to be a mom to Kylee.  We are going to have some great family adventures :-)

Truthfully, I wish we could just get married tomorrow, but unfortunately, there are a few steps we have to go through first.  Since we've both been previously married, we have to work through some paperwork with our church and get an approval before we can set a wedding date.  Hopefully this will be a fairly quick process.  We plan on being married in the LDS Twin Falls temple (the Boise temple is currently closed for renovations)... probably just weeks after we hear back!  Ideally we would be married in January, but that could be wishful thinking.  I've heard that the process we are going through could take just a few weeks, or it could take several months.  Keep your fingers crossed for us!

At this point, we aren't planning on having a reception... so if you don't receive an invitation, that's why!  If we do end up planning some kind of an open house, we'll be sure to let people know.  For now, we'll be working on making "my" house "our" house... starting with turning my guest bedroom into Kylee's future room.  I'll be selling the couch/daybed that's currently in there... if you're interested, let me know!  I'll probably post it on Craigslist this weekend.