A lovely Drive Home!

So Kortney and i drove home last Saturday and i thought i would just share with everyone how exciting it was for the first 4 hours.



After we passed that craziness it was nothing but blue skies so we were pretty thankful.

I'm Engaged!

Well, it's finally happened. I was able to find the woman of my dreams and I get to spend the rest of forever with her!

So I figured that with the mass amount of people that would like to know how it all happened…..

We got engaged December 18th but let’s start this story a little before Thanksgiving....

To make a really long story a little shorter we talked about getting married. We went ring shopping and the first time that we went she found about a dozen rings she loved, which didn't help me in deciding which one she really liked. Though, you should have seen the smile on her face.

A week later we went again and this time she pointed out 3 that she really liked. I was taking mental notes of what type of features that she wanted the entire time.

I told her that I wanted to buy the ring in cash and that I would not have the funds to do so until mid January. I could tell that she really wanted it but this "excuse" helped her understand why I wanted to wait for so long.

I paid for the ring in cash on December 8th and had to play dumb ever since then. I wanted it to be a complete surprise.

Last week she started talking about how there are plenty of rings that are still cute but a lot cheaper….little did she know of what was going on behind the scenes. I said, "No Honey, I want you to get the ring that you want." I could tell that her finger was getting lonely.

Well, now that I have that preface let me get to the really fun part. Back to December 18th!

At 7:00am I dropped a long stemmed fire dipped rose on her apartment door step (which is nothing uncommon of me to do). I sent her a text and said, "Good morning baby! Happy 7:00, you should check your front door ;)"

By the time she checked, which was shortly after the text, I had already left.

Now, my old roommate Josh works with Kortney and he helped me out with the next part. He let me in her office building so I could place another rose on her desk so that she would get it at 8:00.

She got into work and was surprised! A rose!

To sum up the rest of the morning and afternoon she received a rose every hour at 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00......all the way to 4:00.

I conspired with her roommate to place another rose on her bed so that when she returned home at 5:00 she’d see it.

I had asked her on a date on Monday night for Thursday and told her that I would pick her up at 6:00. I brought the last rose then which makes the final total of a dozen.

We went to a delicious Restaurant called Gloria's Little Italy (corner of University Ave and Center St. Provo). It is one of her favorite places to eat and is where we celebrated our 1 month anniversary (cheesy, I know, but I’m a helpless romantic).

After that amazing meal we drove to the Salem Pond Christmas Lights. They happen every year and the even have floats on the small lake with lit up Christmas tress. It was very pretty, especially after all the snow which we received.

We drove around the pond slowly looking at the lights and then parked. There was a paved trail around the edge of the lake which we followed trying to take pictures every now and then.

There is on spot on the trail with an antique park bench overlooking the lake and the sidewalk bridge decorated in lights. We sat down and I knew I had to do something fast since it was getting colder much faster than I had hoped for.

Sitting there I said, "There is something that I want to tell you."

"What?" was her reply

I lowered myself to one knee and reached in my pocket (now, at my company party a week either she decided that it would be funny if she picked a Ring Pop as a joke and we did tease each other about it.) Before I pulled it out of my pocket I said, "I know it’s nothing much but...." I grabbed the Ring Pop and she got this look of "Chad, you are ridiculous" on her face.

I asked to put it on so she took off her glove and I slid it on her finger. I waited a few seconds and said, "Hmmm, that one doesn't look quite right."

I reached into my other pocket and grabbed the real ring. Once she saw the box she was completely speechless. She didn’t even see it coming.

I opened it up and looking at her I asked, "Kortney, I want to be yours forever. Will you marry me?"

She was smiling quite a bit by this time and replied with "yes!"

I don’t think that I have ever seen a Ring Pop come off a finger so fast!

I placed the real ring on her finger and gave her a kiss.

The rest of the night was full of phone calls and text messages.

She kept looking at the ring a lot and smiling.

You can check out pictures here

I'm Still Alive

Well, this week has been crazy and i feel a little burnt out. I'm just counting the days until i go on vacation December 20th. Well, i guess it's not really a vacation for me until the 24th. I'll be driving back to Minnesota and dropping my girlfriend off in Nebraska on the way. I still will have to work remotely Monday to Wednesday.

My biggest concern right now is finishing my accounting final on the 16th and then a lot of my stress will be alleviated.

I'm trying to alleviated some of that stress by sitting in the massage chair with my lappy at work. it feels pretty nice.

Funny Story for the week. I went to Carls Junior today for lunch and got a #1 hamburger and fries....with extra fries. I had a lot of work to do so i got it to go. I have to preface this by saying that i love fry sauce (Google it if you are confused). They have fry sauce pumps in the store but they cant expect you to be satisfied with the small paper cups that hold nearly enough happiness for one fry. So me, being my clever self, asked for a water cup. Pointing my back to the counter so they could not see me loading up this water cup with sauce I managed to escape without being detected and went back to work. I obviously wanted to surf the internet for a few minutes and multitask as i ate. I had the fry cup and the fry box right next to each other and was in the motion of grabbing my fries and smothering them with that pink goodness. I guess i got into the routine of it when, without realizing it, my brain switched and i decided to put my hands in the fry sauce. Messy. I didnt even realize it for a few seconds as my brain, atempting to multitask, was trying to figure out why my fries had turned into a soft pile of goo. Being silently embarrassed, I had to quickly use all the napkins I had to clean up the mess i has unintentionally made. Lucky, the only people that know of this blunder are those that read this blog. Hope you enjoyed my Fry Sauce Faule.

My new blog!

So i'm teseting this out. I know that am hosting my own blog from my home (thechadchad.com) but i wanted to test having a free blog hosted elsewhere. I'll see how it goes and then decide how i would like to proceed.