The Proposal! ~ Heather Rose

Sunday, October 14, 2012

The Proposal!

Posted on 8:45 PM by Heather

October 13, 2012 at about 6:30 pm my life changed forever. The man of my dreams finally proposed! I can't believe it is real, we are really engaged! Cody and I have had such a rough ride getting to this point. I think we have endured things through the dating phase that most couples would never have to face. But I also know that is why we are where we are, that is why we have made it to the point of being engaged. We have learned to love each other and endure anything we are faced with hand in hand, together.

Cody told me that Saturday (the 13th) he has planned for us to go to dinner and a haunted house. We spent the morning playing with our dogs and watching some of our favorite TV shows. We had planned to go to dinner at 7:30 that night. At about 3:00 pm Cody told me his uncle was drawing the personal cartoons of people down in City Creek. I had met his uncle a couple of times before this and knew he was an amazing artist, so I thought this would be a lot of fun! We once got a cartoonist picture of us done at the State Fair, and I love it! So I thought it was a great idea to get one done by his uncle who was so good at drawing!

We headed downtown and walked around trying to find the ice cream shop he told me his uncle was set up in. We finally found it and his uncle was set up with a really cute drawing he had drawn of himself and the chairs and easel. He was drawing a picture his son and we waited a few minutes while watching him finish up. Then we sat down to get our pictures done. :)

It was a little bit awkward to sit there as he was "drawing" us. He has us smile while he got idea of how we look so he could draw it. We sat there about 10 minutes and I glanced over at Cody to see what he was doing. I had seen some kind of flicker behind me and a quickly glanced behind me and saw a crowd of people, but from what I could see, they weren't looking at us and I didn't think very much of it. Maybe I just assumed it was other people waiting to get a picture drawn, I don't know what I was thinking.

After about 15 minutes in the chairs, he said he was done and he flipped the picture of us around to see it! It was so cute of us, I loved it! But there were these big empty word bubble above our heads and the Cody stood up. And that's when I knew. :)

Cody asked his uncle, "What are these bubbles for?" And his uncle replied "Oh, I figured you could write what you want in them." Cody then said, "I know what I want to write." He then turned to me and took my hands and made me stand up. At that point he looked at me and said "Heather, I love you so much. We have been through so much to get to where we are today and it has helped me come to know that I want to spend the rest of my life with you. *Gets down on one knee and pulls out the most AMAZING ring EVER!* Heather Rose Stam, will you marry me?" This is when I see that "crowed waiting for pictures" come in the doors with laughs, huge smiles, flashing cameras, and familiar faces. I think somewhere during that time I said an awkward and shell shocked yes. I pulled Cody up into a hug and he put the beautiful ring on my finger!

After that, I was lucky enough to have friends and family there to hug and love on. :) All of Cody's immediate family was there, and four of my best friends from my childhood! But when I saw my older brother there, he was the one that made me cry. He definitely got the first hug. My parents were not there because they don't support my decision to marry Cody. It's been a struggle for my family and something we will continue to work on. But to see my older brother there meant so much to me and to hear that my sister-in-law and little brother would have also been there had they not been obligated to work, was such an emotional thing for me.

After we spent some time taking a lot of pictures and talking with everyone that came, Cody and I went to dinner and a haunted house with my good friend Chelsie and her boyfriend Josh. It was a lot of fun to be able to spend time with them and do it with a pretty ring on my finger. Which my bragging rights for my ring comes in here- we got it from J.Brooks Jewelers (S/O to them, they are SO amazing!). Cody knows the owner of that jeweler so we got a slamming deal on the ring! My ring has 94 little diamonds in it and 95 with the beautiful 3/4 ct. pear shaped center diamond. Yes, I love it very much. :)

It's so unreal to be actually engaged now. It's something that we have been thinking about for quite a while now, but has been such a tough place for us to get to for so many other reasons. But it really felt like the moment I had a ring on, things changed. Our commitment to each other became so real and so solidified. I have always felt very comfortable with Cody's family, but now I felt like real family. I honestly could not be happier with my decision to marry Cody, and it's been so cute to watch Cody as he has gotten just as excited as I have for this to milestone to happen. I love Cody so much!! We have decided to get married in March because that's what works the best with his and my school schedule. I don't want to get married in December, which is Cody's first school break, because that will be a week or two before I am set to take my NCLEX exam. So the next break we have is spring break in the fall. We have the Salt Lake temple scheduled on March 8th (it may change to March 7th because I've learned weekday weddings are so much cheaper than weekend weddings, but we haven't decided for sure quite yet...I will update soon!) so make sure you can come!!

Thanks again to everyone who came out to watch the proposal and take some amazing pictures for us!! We are so happy and I couldn't have a better guy to spend the rest of eternity with!! :)

Pictures for your enjoyment!

My beautiful ring!!

Our picture that we filled in after he proposed.

Although we do have pictures of the real proposal, they are on everyone else's camera still... so this picture was a cheesy reenactment of the proposal, but still cute. :)