The Wildes have it right because they celebrate Thanksgiving on the Friday so that can have everyone there.
Mom and I are matching instead of Michael and me matching. Michael doesn't really have purple; he does however have pink.
Annalisa is sitting at the table with Maria, Bethany, Hannah, and Abby. However, I couldn't get all of them on the camera at the same time and Abby did not want her picture taken. . .So who knows what she looks like.
Thanks Giving Day. We were at Franklin Family's house. All of Their family was there, Mom and Dad, Buffy and Tim with their family, Tony and Heidi with their baby made it up, and James and Charity with baby, I and Michael, and George were always here.
There was Lots of Eating, Talking, and Catching up. So a lot of photos here.
Betsey, Buffy, George, and Ham roll ups a Thanksgiving must.
Gillian with Flower.
Heidi, Betsey, Isaac, and Charity
Tim and Buff
Pretty much everyone
Betsey, Tony, Heidi, George (love his face, makes me smile every time) and Charity. Now we had to have the Big Game. However, I was playing in the Big Game consequently did not take any pictures, but I did get some pictures of more practicing.
So everyone knows that Thanksgiving really starts on the Wednesday with the cooking. While my family was here we had thanksgiving with the Franklin West Family like good old days when Both Families were both back east.
Michael and I arriving at Uncle's Franklin's. Prepared to help cook and practice for the big game!
Michael got me to a place where he could propose without me suspecting it, which is what he wanted. There were a lot of little lies involved but I'll just tell the general story; if you want a full story you'll just have to Ask later. Anyways, he got me to the Provo temple where we were to wait for his brother, Zach, to come out from doing baptisms for the dead. So we sat on a bench by the fountain waiting, just talking and having a good time. I thought we were waiting for a very long time; it should not have taken that long for Zach to come out. However, he was not going to come out the temple doors. He, however, did come along with 3 of Michael's Friends from behind us; Each carrying 3 dozen and placed them around us.
Then Michael went down on one knee. I was not expecting it. I knew he was going to propose to me some time in August, but I was not Expecting it then or there. I was so off guard that I actually said "You got to be Kidding me". He proposed the 5 of August, 4 months after he said the first "I love you".
I've been told that he has had the idea of the 144 roses for a long time, well ever since he saw the Family Matters episode where Steve proposed to Laura with 144 roses.
And with that story we will now have roses at our wedding. My good friend Amy is making the boutonnieres and corsages. And here are some examples of how they may look like.
So I'm pretty bad photographer. But I like looking at pictures, so I take them. I don't really pose people, I just point the camera and take the pictures. Consequently, There are no real good pictures of Michael's and mine Halloween costumes.
Michael was Picatu (or Pikachu, I don't really know the internet has both. And quite frankly I don't really know Pokemon that well) again.
My roommates decided that we should all go as the four seasons. So I was "Summer". We were going to take a picture of all four of us together, but we were never all home, dressed and doing nothing to get us all in one small area and take a picture. However someone did take a picture of Amy "Spring". And she did it correctly.
I also had some glitter on my face but mine was green.
My roommate and I can be very absent minded when it comes to technology. We do know how things work, we just don't always remember to check. Whether it is trying to turn something on that is plug in but not plug into the wall. Or trying to work a camera.
Well at least we figure things out relatively quickly.
Towards the end of my long absence from Provo Michael finally called me and said that I could open the envelope that had “Do not open with out instructions”.
I asked him when, thinking that it would be now, and he said in a half hour, or maybe it was in an hour. Around the same time we would get on Skype. So I waited thinking that I wouldn’t open it till he told me to on Skype. That time came and I got on Skype with Michael and around then the Doorbell rang. Chauncey answered it. It was somebody from Pizza Hut. Well, Chauncey didn’t ordered pizza so he went around to all of the people in the house and asked if anyone ordered Pizza we all said no. We said that we were willing to take it but we would feel bad because we didn’t order it, so we sent him away. I was still on Skype with Michael, but he got a phone call so he muted himself to talk on the phone. Then the doorbell rang again. It was the pizza dude. This time he said it was for a Michael. Well there were no Michaels around where we lived that we knew of. Then he said that it was from someone far far away. Then everyone looked at me, and I decided it was time to open the envelope. In side was a note card with “DON’T FORGET TO TIP THE PIZZA GUY” and some money.
So I got to enjoy some pizza from somebody I love, and got a good story out of it.
So the phone call that Michael got was from the pizza guy trying to figure out what was going on
Well on April 22 I left for Raleigh for 57 days. I’m just glad that it was only 57 days and not 4 months.
Even when I was far away, Michael still showed me that he loved me. Fist off he bought me a web cam and got me on Skype (such a wonderful thing to have.) He sent me a package with all sorts of neat stuff. Kisses, one a day till I came back to Provo, and some extras that proved useful; a CD of songs, a movie and popcorn, so that we could watch it together; an envelope that I was not suppose to open; and a box that I could not open till May 18.
While I was living in Raleigh, I was sleeping on a couch for the most part, so all my stuff was in Mom’s room, including the kisses. Needless to say I trusted my mom no to eat my kisses. However, I under estimated the ability of Chauncey and Melanie’s kids: Chauncey, Jackson and Kate. They are pretty good at finding chocolate. They ate like 10 to 15 days. But they’re cut kids. And they did repay my days back.
