a few more things.

just a few more things for today.

first of all let me say i cannot believe that it is june 26th. it blows my mind. secondly i am posting again because today is a special day... 

two years ago today sam gave me this.

what a dreadful and wonderful day that was. sam lived in chicago at the time and i lived in jackson hole wyoming. this is the picture sams mom sent him via email to show him what my ring ended up looking like. for those of you that dont know, sam designed my ring, so until his mom got it, neither one of us knew exactly what it was going to look like. the goldsmith in pocatello had tried to make the one we wanted, but couldnt, so off it went to somewhere in la for a couple of months to try and get figured out. but wala..  it turned out beautiful. 

i say it was a dreadful day, because sam had come home for a week to visit and pick up his buddy andy. well the week came and went with no proposal and the day came that sam and andy had to leave to drive back to chicago. so i dropped him off in preston and we said our goodbyes. 

i cried all the way back to pocatello. crashed on my parents couch and didnt move for 2 hours.

a week before this my roomates had said that they wanted to go up snow king mountian and hike and have a picnic. needless to say they decided that because sam had left, the 26th would be the perfect day. so they kept calling me and trying to get me to come home. but i did not want to budge. my parents were trying to coax me to get out of their house and go home. but i just didnt want to. 

basically my mom forced me to get in the shower.. but i decided i wasnt going to get ready. i slicked my hair back in a ponytail and headband... no make up.. and sweats. wow. i think my mom and dad were going crazy! :) they definitely tried to get me to get fixed up but im kind of stubborn and wouldnt do it. 

anyways i drove back to jackson taking my precious time. my roomates told me they had already headed up the hill because one of them had to work soon. so i went straight there. i did change into levis though and headed up the hill..

as soon as i got to the top the ski lift operator asked if i was kyrsten. i said yes. and he said my friends were waiting down the path and to the right... so off i went.

as i rounded the corner i didnt see anyone so i started whistling and singing.. but no one.

so i kept going and then turned around. as i turned around SAM WAS THERE! he had a big bouquet of roses and calililies. he told me he loved me and wanted to spend the rest of his life with me. he got down on one knee.. and

I STARTED LAUGHING! and said "are you serious?".. oh man

right after that it hit me that i really had to pee.. so i told him and over to the portapotty (sp) i went. 

although i made it hard for him, sam was so romantic and made it really special. :) and i know that every girl says this, but i honestly had no idea he would be there. we had said our goodbyes and for all i knew he was driving through the middle of wyoming somewhere... oh wait he was JACKSON! :) but my roomates did a good job fooling me. they even had some of their cars parked down at the bottom of the hill so i would think they were there! crazy kids. anyways that is my engagement story.. there is more to it but i wont keep going forever!

we carved this that day. sorry tree huggers around the world! 

it says sam (heart) kyrsten 6/26/07

another pic of my ring.. im so vain. :)

also, we went here today. what a magnificent place.

and a happy birthday shout out to my new sister in-law abigail and my darling niece victoria.

june 26th is kind of an eventful day for our family.

until next time

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