Coincidence?

So, I moved to Utah, I'm thinking its been about 9 years ago. One of the first girls that I got to be friends with was my friend Aimee. I think we've lived together at least half of those years. So what are the chances of two really good friends getting proposed to at the same place, same way?

My Proposal: We had gone ring shopping together the past few weeks, so I was expecting a proposal at some point. Ryan texted me at work and said not to eat he wanted to take me out somewhere nice to dinner. So, of course I knew what he was up to. He took me to the restaruaunt the Roof in slc which has a really cool view of the temple and really good food. Afterwards he took me to Liberty park. (We had gone there together on a date in the first couple months of dating- where we actually broke into the bird sanctuary next to the park thinking it was a playground and he told I think it was my family when he was on the what they call the "hot seat" a little later that was when he started thinking I could be the one) As we were walking along the path way in the park there was a blanket with roses, sparkling cider, and candles lit up and he popped the question.

Aimee's proposal 2 1/2 years later: They have been ring shopping for a while so she also was expecting a proposal some time. It started out as a regular night. They ate dinner together and then planned to meet up later to go to the gym. But he called her later and said is it ok if they went some where to talk. He told her he wanted to go to the slc temple but really took her to, you guessed it Liberty Park, where he had a blanket, candles and roses set up and asked the question. I think she said the reason he proposed there because that is where his grand parents got engaged there or something like that.

Other similarities- They were both mid-week proposals, tues for aimee, wed for me.
Both our rings were too big and we had to get them sized after the proposal, (its hard to part with your ring when you've waited so long for it) and both happened about the same time of night.

Anyways I just thought it was crazy that two good friends got proposed to at the same place with the same blanket, rose, candle plan. I mean 5 years ago when we were hanging out complaining about guys and not being able to imagine marrying anyone, would you think it was possible that both of our future husbands would propose to us at the same park in the same way? Really what are the chances?

Recent Activities

So, last weekend we went to my friend Aimee's boyfriend's parents cabin in Midway. We went to an outside skating rink where I tried to ice skate. I'm definitly not very balanced on skates but I didn't fall either probably because I was going so slow. I never really ventured out on my own either I was always holding on to somebody. Afterwards we went to the hot springs and when I say hot I mean it felt like your skin was going to be burned off if you moved at all. Slowly we made our way to a little cove where the water wasn't quite as hot and then afterwards we had some dessert and played a few games so overall pretty fun night.

This weekend: Saw the movie "Yes Man" with Jim Carey at the dollar theatre with our new bachelor buddies (April & Clint) and a couple of their friends, the movie was better than I thought it was going to be actually. Valentines Day Ryan made me breakfast got me some roses and a pint of Haag & Daas ice cream and I got him some Jazz tickets and a sweater. That night we went and saw the movie Slum dog millionaire, It is rated R but it is a really, really, good movie, ( there is no language, no sex scenes, no nudity, no graphic violence) I'm guessing it is rated that because of the seriousness nature of parts of the movie. But if you want to see a really good movie I highly recommend it. Then we went to the Outback for dinner. So to sum it up a pretty good V- Day. Made even better because of the nice 3 day weekend. Sunday is so much better when you know you don't have to get up the next morning and go to work.

Also, I've decided to get into this whole face book thing, because I've realized lately, everyone is on that thing, even my mom. (no offense mom) It might be time we get the internet at our house so we can join the 21st century.

California Trip

Work out place at Venice Beach.

This is Ryan's creative photography work (above) I like the pink flowers, this is right by our hotel.

Us at Hunington Beach Saturday night

Ok, this blog is for Penny since she said my last blog entitled "Updates" was no longer valid, which she is right about. So, last weekend Ryan's company was sending him to Anaheim to film a covention for one of their clients and I decided to tag along at the last minute. A very good decision on my part since we left slc on friday morning and an hour and half later we were in 83 degree weather with palm trees. We stayed at the Hilton Hotel where the convention was right next to Disneyland. Our room actually over looked part of the park. Friday afternoon when we had checked into our hotel we walked to this outdoor mall place and ate at the Cheese cake factory for a late lunch, so yummy. Then unfortuantely for Ryan he had to go do some work for a couple of hours and I relaxed at the pool. That night after he was finished we went back to the outdoor mall did a little shopping and ate at this old fashioned hamburger place that cost as much to eat there as it did for us to eat at the cheese cake factory, go figure. Anyways, sadly Ryan had to work all day on Saturday starting at 7am and wasn't done until 6pm that night. Meanwhile, I leisurely slept in, went to lunch with my bro Orson and then we headed to Venice Beach. (see Orson's blog for additional photos) which was really cool. The weather was sunny and nice, we walked on the beach for a while and then walked along the boardwalk, saw some street performers and some weird people and a bunch of ways to "legally" get marijuana for medicinal purposes if we had been interested. Then we headed back to the hotel picked up Ryan and decided to eat dinner at Hunington Beach at this mexican restraunt across the street from the beach. It was so hard to leave the next day, I was beating myself up for not planning better so we could have stayed another day. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to go back again. ...