This is the story of how Kyle proposed to Naomi…
Written by Naomi and added remarks by Kyle.
I knew Kyle had ordered a ring…he can’t keep secrets from me (I try to but Naomi’s just too persuasive). This was at the end of August and he wasn’t expecting to get the ring until about October-ish but his amazing Uncle Robin went to Vegas and picked it up so we didn’t have to wait for them to ship it. Like I said, he can’t keep secrets (can too). He told me that Robin had picked it up because he was so excited. We got the band and his parents had helped out and ordered the center diamond. We thought we were getting a pretty good deal on the center diamond but it wasn’t what we were expecting so they sent it back. The clarity and coloration weren’t what we wanted(The diamond was actually Yellow). So then, Kyle’s awesome parents went to Vegas to look at a diamond. There was a man selling a diamond and he claimed it to be 1 carat but it was really only 1/2 . So, they just decided to buy a diamond from the jewler because they were already there. This all happened Sept 11- 16th(I actually had to make the decision between the ½ carat and the other diamond during an intramural football game) The ring was done on the 16th and Randall and Lori picked up the finished product. I knew all this was happening because, of course Kyle tells me EVERYTHING. On Saturday the 18th we met Randall and Lori in St. George to look at venues to have the luncheon and reception at. So, we meet them and get in the car with them to drive to one of the appointments we had. The first thing Kyle says to his mom is, “Hey can I have the ring?”(It was actually like the 5th or 6th thing I said) His mom took it out of her purse and just handed it to him with me sitting there. He opened it and looked at it… and said, “DO you wanna look?” I said, “yes, why wouldn’t I.” and he said, “too bad” but in a nicer way(I wanted to show her the ring so bad, it was killing me). As the day continues he randomly pulls it out of his pocket and looks at it and keeps asking if I want it and if I want to try it on. Then he’d be like sorry I’ll give it to you sometime next week so it’ll at least be a surprise. ( J )
We got back up to Cedar around 6:00 and started to
watch the SUU homecoming game on TV and then
the BYU and U of U game. I fell asleep till 9:00
and it was a good thing that Kyle’s roommates came
in and woke me up because I would have slept all
night (Ya she was snoring pretty loud, I could
barely hear the game). As soon as I woke up Kyle
said, “You ready to go star gazing.” I said, “sure.”
He had talked about going a couple times previous
that week but we never had time. I wasn’t quite sure
if we should go because I was going to teach for 3
hours and hadn’t finished my lesson yet and needed
to finish getting everything togWe went out to Enoch to the park and baseball/softball field. When we got there the sprinklers were on so we went around to the opposite side and it kinda smelt bad like a skunk. (back tracking) I also knew Kyle had made me a scrapbook earlier that week and I knew he’d made it because we went to print off pictures at Wal-Mart and I was getting some pictures and Kyle said he wanted the same ones and so that was my first clue. Then he asked me if he could barrow my hole punch. After that I knew he was up to something (I couldn’t believe it when I asked for her hole punch and she said, “you’re making a scrapbook aren’t you.” Who connects asking for a hole punch to a scrap book). Back to the story… Kyle said I could look at the scrapbook and have it instead of the ring and that I’d at least get something that night. We laid a blanket down and with a flashlight we looked through the book titled “Kyle’s Greatest Moments, accompanied by Naomi.” I have a blog titled, Life’s Greatest Moments- By: Naomi” I was really impressed with Kyle’s skills (I did a lot of research on scrapbooks) . He had our pictures throughout the summer and for each one there was a cute saying and stickers that went perfectly with what we were doing in the pictures. I loved it, I really did. He’ll say that I didn’t but I did.(She did love it, after she got the ring J) You have to understand though, at the end there were stickers that had wedding sayings and in the very middle there was a diamond ring sticker in a box. I figured he’d then pull the ring out and propose then so I waited for a minute and he never did anything so I said, “ So where’s the ring? You can’t do all this stuff and not ask me now.” J Back tracking again, Before we left Kyle’s apartment I had to pee and Kyle had the ring box on his dresser. While I was peeing he took the jewelry box out of the box so I didn’t know he had it with him. So as we were leaving I was kind of bummed because I knew he was leaving the ring at his apartment. Kyle then said that he had told me all day that he wasn’t going to ask yet. I was like you have to but I knew that he’d left the ring.(She even patted me down to make sure I didn’t have the ring in my pockets, it made me sad to fool her like this because I knew she wanted it so bad.) We decided to that we’d just stay there till we both saw a shooting star. I saw mine first and then Kyle said, “ let’s go” and I said, “ no we can’t not yet, you haven’t seen your shooting star.” We laid there for a bit longer and were talking. Kyle asked me if I was disappointed that he didn’t propose and I told him that I was but it wasn’t a big deal because he had said he wasn’t going to. I understood and that I’d just wait. He then said, “let’s go” again and I said, “no” and Kyle got up to his knees and I was just laying there and he kept trying to get me up to go. Then he said that I needed to have more faith in him. I asked him, “What does that mean.” After I said that he reached for one of his shoes and took the jewelry ring box out. (It was in my shoe because when I left my apartment I put the ring in my jacket pocket because I knew if it was in my pocket Naomi would find it because I knew she would pat me down for it. Then when we were laying the blanket down and taking our shoes off to lay on the blanket I put the box in my shoe so she wouldn’t feel it in my jacket when we were snuggling.)He was so sneaky I had no idea. J He then made me stand up and he got down on one knee and said, “Naomi I love you. Will you marry me?” I said, “of course.” We kissed(For a long time, I tried to get her to stop after a while but when Naomi’s set on something she does what she wants), there has to be a kiss J we then folded the blanket and walked to the car and I called my parents and texted my siblings and that’s the story… oh, and my lessons on Sunday went pretty well. I was the happiest girl at church. Now we are getting married on December 17, 2011
in the St.George Temple.
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