I knew that the proposal was coming I was just not sure as
to when. I had several clues, being that September 19th was our 5 Month anniversary
and his parents were going to be in town. For a few weeks Shaun had mentioned
to me that he wanted to go and hike Donut Falls. After school Shaun was
finished with School for the day he came to pick me up. We then headed to Sandy
to go "Hires Big H" a restaurant which is owned by one of his best
friends father. So we ate there and chit chatted and enjoyed being with each
other. We then headed on our drive up the canyon to Donut Falls. We then went
on the hike and ended up taking a wrong turn. We then ended up hiking down the
waterfall instead of up to it. So we climbed down the mountain into the
waterfall. There we started talking and then set up the camera timer to be able
to get a picture of us in the waterfall. We ended up taking several sets of pictures.
Then Shaun was persistent about taking another round of pictures. (Which me
absolutely in love with pictures was excited about, however I was confused as
to why he would want to do that) Then I thought to myself, " He is going
to propose, and maybe he wants an action picture of himself on his knee."
My heart immediately started pounding as I then began to anticipate the
proposal. We set the camera timer for one last time and then he came and stood
by me. He then proceeded to pull out a ring box, my brain froze. I was confused
he was not getting down on one knee. He then said, " Kaitlin there is
something that I have been wanting to give you." He then struggles to open
the box and then pulls out a beautiful silver diamond necklace! Ha he then
said, " I tricked you huh?" So then we proceeded to climb down the
waterfall/ mountain. Shaun then continued and started to trail run down the
hike. We both ran down the mountain until we got to our car. He then asked me
if I wanted to go on another hike. I thought to myself, " Of course why
not? He is not proposing this weekend." We then got in the car and then
headed to what is known as Silver Lake. He then told me that I could change out
of my muddy tennis shoes into my cute sandals.
As we were not going to be on
much of a hike, but rather a beautiful walk. We got out of the car and began
walking on this board walk that wrapped around the entire lake. The lake to the
right and forest on our left. It was an absolutely gorgeous view and once
again, it was just nice to be with him. As we began walking I spotted a red
canoe in the distance as I then turned to Shaun and said, " It would be so
much fun to go on a canoe ride with you someday. We then kept walking and I
began to see red rose pedals on the ground. At the moment I KNEW it was
happening. As we got closer we were led to that very same red canoe I had seen
earlier. He then said," Your wish is my command." As I looked at the
red canoe there were 2 dozen roses along with a cooler in the canoe with a sparkly
cider mexican drink and roses also laid out on the canoe. He asked if I wanted
to go for a ride. We then got on the canoe and pushed off into the lake. We
just smiled and laughed and talked about how much we have truly enjoyed these
past 5 months together. He mentioned to me that it was the happiest he has ever
been.
It began to get cold as he then asked me if I would like to go back in.
He told me that he wanted to show me something that he made for me. We then
headed back in and he told me to sit down on a log. He then came and sat right
next to me and pulled out a photo book that he had made. The title page said,
" The story of how we met and fell in love." The book went through
our entire dating story, our first date, first hand hold, first kiss, first
time he said, " I love you." We were smiling and laughing as we went
through this book. We got to the second to last page which had a ton of
pictures of all our temple pictures together. He said how he has always enjoyed
our temple trips. He then told me to turn to the last page. As I turned to the
last page he got down on his knee and said, " Kaitlin Elise Gray will you
marry me?" I immediately shouted YES almost before he could finish his
sentence. Then out of the bushes came his two parents with nice zoom in cameras
and his roommate had a video camera, so they were able to capture it all on
film. (P.s. the last page had a picture of the Mesa Arizona Temple on it, where
we will be getting married!)
After his parents kept talking pictures Shaun
then said to me, "Thats not all, we are going to La Caille." That is
a very fancy restaurant in Utah and the same one that we went to when he first
kissed me and told me that he loved me 5 months earlier. We then went there as
his mom took some pictures of us as we reminisced of where we first had truly
fallen in love.
