The Best Day Thus Far!

Well, I'M ENGAGED!!! Yup you read correctly!! So this post is gonna be all about how wonderful last night was and how much I love my "fiance" 

(Just a side note John told people to read my blog to find out how it all went down. That is a lot of pressure on my part. I mean what if I forget something, or add something, or don't do it justice?) So this is my warning that if this is a crappy post you can blame it on the pressure!!!!

The Ring!!!!!

FYI- pictures do not even come close to doing it justice!!!

So we decided that we wanted to do a date night last night with just the two of us outside of Tooele. So we had it all planned out we were going to go into Salt Lake for dinner and then to walk around the temple. (By far one of my favorite things to do!) So we were going to eat at this restaurant that John heard about that supposedly has the best Philly Cheese Steaks. (Johns favorite) but a couple days before I asked him about it and he said there was a change of plans that we weren't going there anymore, and he wouldn't tell me where we were going to go. So I was confused cause he was so excited about this other restaurant. So i dropped it. So he picked me up from my house and we headed into Salt Lake. We stopped by my grandparents house to say hi and introduce John to them. That was really good, my grandma really likes him and my grandpa didn't give him to bad of a hard time. After we left there we headed for Olive Garden. Oh I forgot to mention that while driving to my grandparents house he decided to tell me where he was going to take me for dinner. So I was super excited and I could tell that he was because of the diet he was on he hadn't had a chance to eat any good food so it was bound to be a great meal!! And of course it was, we couldn't even finish all of it. In fact we only ate a couple of bites from our main course, and doggie bagged the left overs. So after dinner we drove up to temple square and started walking around. We walked around for a while went into both visitors centers (Looking for my old roommate) and we went and sat on the couches looking at the Christus Statue for about 10-15 min. it was nice!!! After that we continued to walk around the temple and stopped at the reflecting pond and just took in the amazing sight for a good 10 min. It was amazing, the Salt Lake temple is by far my favorite!!! After that we walked back to the car and he told me that we were going to go to a look out that he used to go to in High School. It was a quick 5 minute drive. We got out of the car and walked to the overlook. It was breathtaking, you could see the whole Salt Lake valley!! We sat there and talked about trains and how small the temple looked compared to the other buildings. And then he started telling me a story about how that was almost the exact spot where his grandparents got engaged (this is when I started wondering if he was going to propose but then I thought "No he doesn't even have the ring yet" so I continued listening to his story) He told me how his Grandma was probably the most amazing woman he has ever met, and how he has only met one other person who was as amazing as her. (remember I may not have the story absolutely word for word) And me of course being the blond that I am sometimes asks who? LOL Of course he says me. and then he got down on one knee and the rest is history. No, for real I remember him getting down on one knee and pulling out the ring. But I could maybe tell you one or two words here and there that he said. except for something about marrying him. Now I don't know if that is normal but I couldn't even believe what was happening. It was like those movies where people will be talking to someone and the person sees there lips moving but no sound is coming out. It was quite strange to be honest. So I said yes of course and he put the ring on my finger and we just sat there and kissed a little and looked and the view for a little bit. It wasn't until after we were looking at the temple and everything that I got a little teary eyed. I honestly never thought that I was going to have the opportunity to marry the man of my dreams, in my favorite temple. So that kinda hit a soft spot. I was just so happy in that moment that I didn't even want it to end. So after probably 15 minutes of taking in what just happened we went to the car and started texting everyone. Everyone seemed really excited for us. A couple of my favorite responses were from Megan (my little sister) and Shanna (John's brothers wife, my future sister-in-law). So I will start with Shanna's response first. (remember it is not word for word) John sent everyone a text saying "SHE SAID YES!!!!" (but with like 30 more exclamation points) :) and Shanna says- To what? are you getting married oh my gosh I had no idea. something along those lines, and John just laughed because he was getting ring advice from Mark (brother) and told him to keep it on the DL and John figured he would tell Shanna but I guess he didn't so she was totally shocked (I hope it was a good shocked of course). And now Megan's response, so you have to understand that Megan is 13 and in the teenage "I'm to cool for school" phase. So I sent everyone a text saying "I'M GETTING MARRIED" and her reply was....."I know" and that was it. I was like are you serious right now? So I replied and told her that there was a ring now and all she said this time was "AHHHHHHH" and I didn't hear anything back from her after that. So again I am hoping it was a good AHHHH not a bad one. LOL

Well needless to say I had an amazing night. I got engaged and I got to spend a big chunk of time with the love of my life. I was really shocked I had no idea it was coming yet. But I am the luckiest girl in the world. :)

And I am so in LOVE!!!! 

P90X "/

Okay well hear it is, a post that has nothing to do with love!!

So while I was at work tonight I was talking to my co-worker Hillary. (we get off on some crazy tangents) and we started talking about working out i think and how running on treadmills suck and how we hate having to go to the gym. I remembered someone talking about p90x in one of their blog posts and how they felt really good about it. Well I decided to look it up on the Internet and see how much it would cost for the DVDs well I looked on amazon and it was like $300 so I was like heck no techno. Then I found the official site and read all about what each DVD works on and what your potential results could be, and we were both sold. so we decided to go ahead and order it for of course 3 EASY payments of $39.95. lol I really hope that it comes in the next 7 days while I am still super motivated because if it doesn't I may have just wasted a big chunk of change. Okay so realistically no matter when it comes I will be motivated to use it I am just more motivated at this moment in time :) I am also super pumped to start getting back into shape, my goal is to be back in the kind of shape I was in high school by the middle of June!!! But I have a hard time at being constant with working out, we pretty much have a love hate relationship. I love the feeling I get from working out but I absolutely hate the body aches after! Well I have to get back to my work chores so I will keep y'all updated on the whole work-out thing!!!

Trading Places

So there is no special inspirational song for this post, but it still is a love struck one!

  Has someone you loved been sick to the point that, you wish you could trade them places?

Well I can say that I am feeling that right about now. So these last couple of days John has had a chest cold, and last night while I was at work I got some stomach bug and was truly miserable. I went home early and slept all day. I felt a little better after waking up but not terribly. When I asked John how he was doing he told me that he was miserable. :( Immediately I was trying to figure out what I could do to help him. I even ignored how I was feeling because I was so worried about him. I know you are probably thinking "Rika, he just has a chest cold." and yes I know that a chest cold isn't the worst thing that could happen but I still hate that he is feeling so sick. If I could trade places with him so that he wouldn't be sick I would do it in a heart beat. Seeing him sick makes me so sad, it kinda makes me hurt inside. I have never really felt this way about anyone, and it makes me want to do everything in my power so that I don't lose him or the feeling I have for him. Also I must mention that John is probably the most amazing guy ever, since I was feeling sick he wanted me to rest so I could get feeling better but I insisted on coming over. (I just had to do something to take care of him) So I went to his house in my sweats (not the most attractive attire I might add) with no make-up, and you know what he told me? He told me that I was still beautiful with out make-up!!! I am pretty sure I might have been blushing :) But in all honesty I am the luckiest girl in the world!!! It is not everyday that you find someone that will love you for who you are and not care if you dress up or dress down. I love life so much!!!

Okay so one of these days I will write a post that is not all about Love :)

"When you say nothing at all"

Okay so here I go again with the "lovey dovey" posting, sorry to all who find this depressing. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_M6a3enqnE

Okay so I am sure that everyone who likes country even the tiniest bit knows the song "When You Say Nothing at All" Well like the past few posts songs just come on the radio and inspire my posts. Well no surprise here, but I was driving to work tonight and what do you know this song came on the radio. And I was just so touched by it. Usually this song makes me want to gag because I never thought that couples were really like this, well now I can testify to you there are couples like this out there. I was talking to John a couple Sundays ago how bad I am at voicing how I feel about him and how happy he makes me, but how I can find a song that says what I don't know how to, and then I can blog about it. Well tonight I was trying to find the words to say to him how happy he makes me and how much my life have changed for the better since he has come into it. Or how I could just look into his eyes all day and know that he feels the same way about me and would do anything in his power to make me happy, and of course at the time I couldn't get any of this to come out of my mouth. Then this song came on and all of these words were coming and it was kinda overwhelming. I want to call him and tell him right there but I just couldn't. I don't want him to miss out on sleep because of me. So there I was sitting in my car on the verge of tears wanting to be able to tell the man I love how I feel about him face to face and not through some email or song or blog post. But I just get so tongue tied when I am with him. I hope that's a good thing. "/ But anyways, my life is so good right now I have the best boyfriend, the most amazing friends and family. I couldn't ask for anything more!!!