time in between

below is yosemite, the craggy looking rocks are mt whitney

Well, there wasn't much time in between getting engaged and getting married....about 2 months...it was stressful, but enough time! And i got to go on a sweet trip with my sis that we'd been planning for months...we hiked Mt Whitney in N. California...it's the highest point in the continuous US...almost 15,000 ft. It was rad.

We went to yosemite first to do some warmup hikes...that was way fun...it was rad to be just us...then the big day came...we did it all in one day (which, if i were to do it again, i'll do it in 2 days) so we left at about 3:30am to get up to the base at about 4. It was pitch dark and we had our headlamps and our bearmase ready (it was pretty scary actually! Picture hiking in the middle of nowhere in the pitch dark!) but it was rad...it was cool to see the other hikers way ahead of us...their headlamps looked like little fireflys in the night sky...it was honestly one of the coolest things i've ever done...

About 8 hrs later we were at the top...and you could definetely tell you had less air...the altitude was tough...it was really tough on kel...she didn't do so good....but probably cause she had been stressing out the week before we left planning a bridal shower for me! Its amazing what your body reveals about itself when its 15,000 ft above sea level...

the way down was rough, but pretty sweet...we were definelty anxious to get down...all in all, we had a blast...i love my sister! I did miss mike though...you know how it is when you're engaged and all lovey!! awe...

the engagement

Okay, so here goes..i'm gonna atempt to do a bunch of blogs....it should be pretty exciting. After I made dinner and said by to my man (had to go back to school to work on stuff as usual!) I was going to sit down in a blanket and read Harry Potter 6 (okay, don't hate me...its acutally really entertaining...i never read em when they were the craze...mike was reading the Cronicles of Narnia and I wanted to read something fun like that so I picked back up Harry Potter...i read the first few before my mission...) but then I saw the pic of me and ash with sand on our faces, and i remembered that I should blog...

So, this is how it happened...we were in California over the summer (mike went down for a week to surf with his bf Dave and i came down for a few days and met up) and he surprised me with a ring IN the NB temple....now, near the temple, or outside the temple is nice cause you can scream and be excited but IN the temple was a little rough...it was really tough for me to keep it quiet...but it was amazing...i was the happiest girl in the world...he actually didn't technically "ask" me to marry him....he just took out the ring and said some really sweet things, and pretty soon it was on my finger (don't know how!!:) and he said "i didn't even ask you if you would marry me..." and I just said "YES!"...how "me" is that...and that's how it happend. So here's a pic..