Picking out the ring...

Okay so this is something I really dont want to forget cause I think its cute. So we went to az to see tommys brother edward. we had such a fun time with his little family and the night before we left I had told tommy that the next day i wanted to go shopping. Just the 2 of us. Since he had gotten home we really hadnt been able to spend much time just the 2 of us. So much family to be with. Which was fun dont get me wrong but we need some time alone too.That morning as we were getting ready to leave tommy said he wanted to watch a movie. I was sad because I had been looking forward to shopping with him but I realize how much he loves movies and he hasnt seen so many since his mission. So I was just gonna let him watch it and leave a little later then I wanted to. He took a shower and told me he wasnt going to watch the movie and that we were going to go shopping. I just felt so special. Like really he didnt have to do that. It was very considerate of him and honestly made me feel a little selfish and bratty.ha ha..hes so nice to me... So on the way home we did some shopping. We didnt get very far. We went to the mall like 5 minutes from his brothers house. So the first store we come tois a diamond store and tommy was like lets look in there. So i was like yeah this is so fun I really never have looked at rings and never tommy and I together. So we looked and the first place we went i saw the ring I loved. The man his name was ryan who was showing us around was so nice and helpful. So he showed us some other rings but I really loved the first one I tried on. (funny thing about this is I loved the first wedding dress I tried on and it ended up being the dress I got as well. just a little side note.) So we went to a few more ring places but nothing else caught my eye and no one else was as nice as ryan. I ended up going to pacsun which was having a major sale. I was sooo excited and looking around alot. Tommy said he was gonna go to a shoe store real quick but he would be right back...he ended up rushing back to the ring store and told ryan he wanted to buy the ring right then and there and to hurry..HE asked how tommy got rid of me and he said I was in the dressing room. ha ha...so he bought the ring. OKay funny thing I saw him talking to the lady at pacsun, well i thought he was just asking her for a shoe size but he was really telling her that he just bought a ring and to please hide it in the shoe box. I thought that was a clever idea. I can be nosey sometimes and I would have noticed the ring in his pocket for sure. So I love my ring and it was so fun to be able to pick it out. I love tommy and im so grateful to be able to call him mine. He really is so good to me.

Im engaged...

So on Jan 6th 2012 tommy and I headed down to san diego to visit his brother tui in the navy. We were planning on this for a while since my cousin was getting married the next day in the san diego temple. We figured it would be fun to see him and then we wouldnt have to leave home so early. As I was getting off work I called Tommy to make sure he would be ready to go and he said lets go to the beach. Something fun about tommy is he is spontaneous and likes to change up the plans sometimes. Its good for be since I'm a planner and like to know whats going on. I think were good for each other that way. =) anyways. to make a long story short tui was expecting us so we ended up going to san diego as planned not the huntington beach as tommy was planning. We first drove to this area by the water that was full of fog and looked a little creepy if you ask me. Tommy told me to keep driving and we ended up going to this beautiful beach that was by a hotel that looked like a castle. It was perfect. By the water, and rocks and not too many people around which was just what I wanted. I really had no idea this was coming. We sat by the water and listen to the waves and enjoyed the beach. Then tommy told me he had something. He pulled out an ipod with speakers and turned on a song and told me he wanted to dance. Its called next to you by christ brown. Before he had told me this song makes him think of me and it was alreadt special to me. It was funny because as we were trying to dance to it we couldnt really since it wasnt that slow. We were laughing but I kept telling tommy how cute he was to do something like that. Then he told me that we should leave. So we started to pack everything up. So we did and then tommy told me we should go for a walk. At this point I thought something was up. Why would he tell me we should leave then go for a walk. He didnt seem nervous the whole time he was calm and so normal. So then when we were walking I was wondering what was going on so I wasnt really paying attention to what he was saying and I wish I was. He was telling me how much he loved me and etc. Thats really all I remember. Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. It was so cute. I loved every minute of it. We will soon be married very soon on march 17th 2012. I cant wait for the day when I can finally be together for time and all eternity with my very best friend. It was very special that the next day we were able to go to the san diego temple and sit in the celestial room together and I just felt so at peace and I thought of the day that I too could soon be there with tommy making those sacred promises and blessings. =)

Tommys homecoming..

Wow my goal of writing on here weekly has for sure failed. Life has been so busy but great.,..let me first share that tommys homecoming was so amazing..I love being able to just be in his presence. When I first saw him at the airport I wasnt sure if it was going to be awkward but it only lasted about 5 minutes as he greeted his family first. Then he asked to take a picture with me. I knew he wasnt going to be weird around me. We took his straight to the stake presidents house where he was released. It felt like we just started right where we left off. Because of his timing coming home and me working at schools it ended up that they had christmas breaks around the same time so i only had to take a couple days off and I was lucky enough to spend a good 2 1/2 weeks just doing fun stuff together. We got to spend time in san jose tommys home town for the first time together which was alot of fun. We were able to go to utah to the temple with lots of people from my mission and we even had lunch with the jones who served in tommys ward when he was a child. They have really been like grandparents to tommy. We even got to spend time with my cousins jareds family. They were nice enough to let us stay with them and caitie was off work so she even came along which was lots of fun. We enjoyed celebrating christmas with my family a few days early which was sooo much fun. I loved every minute of it.l Then we headed back to san jose to spend christmas with tommys family which was also amazing. It was so good to be with the family. After we came back to my family to spend a few days. We were lucky to have beautiful weather and got to ride bikes at the beach which is something I really love so much. Then we headed to az to visit tommys brother, sister-n-law and the cutest niece ever miss kyleigh. They made us feel so welcome and it was just alot of fun. Then it was time to head back home to get back to work and start up pathways through byu-i which I must say I love so much. Its so spiritual which I have ever experienced as I attended school and I love that tommy and I get to do it together. Its fun to work on the hw together and be able to attend institute each week together. I have mostly loved just being able to have my best friend around me again to laugh and joke and talk about whatevers.