Engagement Tag

Our Engagement Story: After Dating at Ricks for about 9 months Brady went to Ohio to install security systems for Apex Alarm and I went home to Idaho for the summer. We left under the title of "friends", although we both knew it was way more. During that summer we talked every single day but I tried dating other people (per Brady's request) while he was gone. As much fun as I had that summer, I just felt that my life was so much more when Brady was around, not thousands of miles away. We finally made it to August still as "friends."

Three weeks before Brady was supposed to come home his sister, Whitnie, randomly showed up on my doorstep. She chatted for bit and then left me with a sealed envelop. I opened it and in her writing was a clue that started a scavenger hunt. I thought, "How sweet Brady had her come do a scavenger hunt for me." So my sisters, my mom, and I jumped in the car and headed to our first destination (no one knew what was going on at this point). We went to a few places around town and finally ended up at the baseball field in my hometown. (baseball was a significant part of our relationship because Brady had played for Ricks the year that we dated, our first kiss was on the baseball field, he first told me he "liked me more than a little bit" on the baseball field, and we went up there often just to talk and get away). I picked up a clue on the pitcher's mound, and then went to get the last one on the bleachers. I picked up the final clue where there was a necklace and a long hand written letter from Brady. Since all the girls were in the car, I decided that I could read it when I got home, so I pick it up and jumped in the car. We drove back to my house which was about a block away from the baseball field. When we got there I was reading the letter and at the end there was a part that I didn't understand. I asked my mom what she thought it meant and she told me to go back to the field, there must be more. Still not sure what to expect at this point, I drove back. As I got close I could see someone standing there on the field...as I got closer I realized it was Brady. I was ecstatic!!! But I still had no idea what was going on. I jumped out of the car and hugged him for what seemed like forever, when I felt him rummaging in his pocket my heart skipped a beat but I still wasn't totally convinced of what was going on. Then he got down on his knee...and the rest is history!!!

We always laugh about it because when I was picking up the clues he was behind the baseball field in the trees watching. I was supposed to stay on the bleachers and read the letter and as I got to the end he was going to come out, but I just picked up the clue and got in the car and left. He wasn't sure what was going on so he just sat there and waited...it's a good thing my mom figured it out and I went back. Thanks mom!

I tag everyone who reads this. It is fun to go back and feel all the excitement again.