It's a Love Story

And baby I said yes :)

I would have written this sooner but this is my first day with internet since getting to Provo Saturday! I finally get to be sappy and talk about the love of my life, so just a warning that this is going to be gross. Don't say I didn't warn ya. I'll just start with how we met:

Landon and I were actually in the same ward last year but never really knew of each other's existence.  We officially met January 27th (I figured out the date, yes I'm a creeper) when I was on a date with someone else in our ward and we were waiting in line next to him to see a comedy show. We just chatted about tennis, I thought he was cute but let it pass. A few months later I started having random encounters with him, like when I asked him to check my oil when his roommate wasn't there to do it, or when he came by my apartment to talk to my roommate about something and ended chatting with me for about half an hour (it was kind of an awkward half hour, not gonna lie). From that conversation I found out we were both taking accounting, so after sitting next to him in church and trying to talk to him again (he didn't really talk back) I asked my roommate for his number so him and I could study accounting together. I really wasn't trying to make a move, I was just desperate for help in that class.

He agreed and a few nights later I went over and uhh, kind of studied. As cheesey as this sounds, that night was seriously magical. I felt a connection with him literally right off the bat, and vice versa. He made me laugh without even trying, our conversations weren't forced at all, I thought he was super handsome and I had a hard time concentrating because I kept staring at his biceps the whole time (haha). I didn't want to leave that night, it felt so good being around him and just talking to him. I had never, ever felt that way about someone after just meeting them, and that feeling would only continue to grow. We saw each other every single day after that night. At first it was just to study accounting for a few more nights, but then I would make excuses to go see him. He was obviously being hesitant to pursue me, I can't blame him since I was a dating maniac that semester. So I had to do the chasing. I initiated our first official date which started out at a BYU classical concert, but we ended up finding an empty classroom so he could play the piano (he's SO good). Then I started playing country music on the projector so he could teach me how to country swing. Our first kiss happened the next night on my porch (which HE initiated!) and as he backed away he tripped over a potted plant (I still won't let him live it down). The more I got to know him the more I knew I wanted to be with him forever. I had that thought after the first night we studied together, but everyday it became more apparent that he was everything I was looking for and more. I saw this quote the other day that described it perfectly, "its like my soul saw you and said 'oh, there you are.'" We decided to start praying about whether marriage was right for us the beginning of June, and when he came to Sacramento for the 4th of July weekend we knew it was a sure thing. But I had wanted to wait 6 months before he popped the question, which he patiently did. And this is how the deed was done....:

I was expecting Landon to propose this last weekend, and I had basically been telling everyone that. I got to Paragonah late Tuesday night and after that night and Wednesday I was beginning to suspect nothing was going to happen, and Landon confirmed that saying he really wasn't planning on doing anything. So Thursday I was a little bummed because I wanted to start school engaged. Then I got sick and ended up feeling crappy that whole day. Landon asked if I wanted to go on an ATV ride and watch the sunset up in the mountains later that day and I grudgingly agreed. We headed to Cedar City (about 20 min away) to do some shopping and on the way I had taken Landon's phone to look up something and he freaked out and grabbed it back from me. I was like "uhhh what the heck" and he said he was planning to surprise me at this back to school get together him and his friends were planning the next night, but it wasn't a proposal so I shouldn't get to excited. At that point I was just thinking "whatever, I feel like crap and I'm grumpy" so I just ignored it. But the whole afternoon we were in Cedar, Landon was texting up a storm and leaving me to go talk and the phone, which wasn't making me any happier to be honest. We didn't get back to his house until the sun was already setting, so we just sat around the house for a while and talked with his family, then he asked rather nonchalantly if I at least wanted to go star gazing up at this place we call "our spot" (its this cute little meadow in the forest where we carved our initials into a tree last month. Don't get mad at me environmentalists). At first I was like "No, I don't want to be cold", but he smoothly talked me into going. So at about 9pm we rode off on the ATV (one of my favorite pastime with him) and in my head I was suppressing any thoughts of a proposal because he had legitimately felt bad when he told me it wasn't going to happen until September. Right before we got to the meadow he started yelling and making weird noises, which I didn't think anything of because I was just grumpy. So we get there and it was PITCH black, to be honest I was a little terrified. But he helped me off the ATV, took off his jacket, hugged me and then said "this is it!"....

And all of a sudden half the meadow lights up with twinkling white lights. All I could say was "...what...the...heck". I was literally speechless. And in my head I was STILL trying to justifying he wasn't going to propose. We had to cross this little creek to start on a path of lights, and I definitely stepped right into it, but it was fine. We started walking down and I see his friend Tag trying to turn on music, but the remote isn't working so he runs across the path to turn it on and its our song, Usher's "Without You". And Tag is holding a video camera. And I stop and start crying and hyperventilating. I even said "I think I'm gonna throw up" (which no one is going to let me live down). So we walk down this path to our tree and in front of it is a little table with a ring box perched on top, and at that point I start bawling. We stopped in front of it and he grabs it, but has to wait a couple seconds for me to calm down before he says "Molly I love you so much. Will you marry me?" I of course said "YES!", he slipped the ring on my finger and boom, we're engaged. We also slow danced to this cute song, but I don't remember a lot because I was so astounded that this was actually happening.

Landon really hadn't been planning on proposing then, but his phone had been blowing up that day because he decided to put the plan into action and his friends were running around trying to get things together (thanks so much guys!!!). We'll hopefully get a video Friday of it all, I can't wait to see it! He's the sweetest, kindest, most caring man I've ever known and his faith in the gospel makes me want to be a better person every day. He is so patient with all my craziness and shows me he loves me everyday somehow. I've never had a single doubt since we started dating that I want to be with him for forever, which was something new for me. Plus I love his family too! I can't wait to spend eternity with my best friend after being sealed in the St. George Temple on December 15th.

The End. Or yet, a happy beginning :)

Its goofy, but its the only one I had with both of us in front of the temple we'll be married in!!!