i woke up the morning he proposed and jumped out of bed, with a feeling it was going to be a great day. it was a perfect day, sunny and bright, and i felt absolutely wonderful....
NOT.
i was actually completely exhausted and my stomach was uneasy. i had gotten about four hours of sleep because i had spent most of the night throwing up. but in no WAY was i going to back out of skiing. it was my birthday and i knew dawson had put a lot of effort into making sure i was going to have a good day. he knew the night before that i was feeling sick, but by then he had already bought my ski pass and gathered together equipment for me, and i was not going to let it go to waste.
so daws came and picked me up to go to park city. it was pouring rain and the whole way he kept complaining about the weather cuz he had wanted us to have a picnic in the mountain. the one day all winter we actually got rain/snow happened to be on my birthday, when dawson wanted a picnic.
rain or shine, i was just happy to be with him.
skiing was awesome! it was my first time and i had a lot of fun. it was frustrating for me though, because i didn't have very much energy and got fatigued really easy. poor dawson forgot his helmet and goggles so he wore his mom's sunglasses he found in the car and a headband, and it was snowing pretty hard so he was probably freezing his face off. we skied a few runs and sat in the lodge for a few minutes sipping powerade. i could have sat there resting all day but dawson was anxious to get in a few more runs then eat lunch and head home. when i asked him why he was so antsy he said he "wanted to get off the mountain before the storm came". whatever.
so we skied some more and once i was completely worn down and was about to fall over (remember, i had been sick and didn't get much sleep), we called it a day and went back to the car to have lunch and play a game dawson had brought. he also told me he had one of my "small gifts" here for me to open.
we put the back seats of the yukon down and laid a blanket to eat our lunchables and drink our martinelli sparkling apple juice (okay, daws forgot a bottle opener so we didn't really drink the apple juice), and play our game. i was really excited when dawson pulled out the envelope of questions that made up our dating game.
he had created this game for one of our first dates. he had printed off a bunch of questions and put them in an envelope and then we went up by the "B" (in the mountains above bountiful) and sat outside and took turns pulling out questions to ask each other. it was one of my favorite dates.
so we once again took turns pulling questions to ask each other. this time, however, the point of the questions were less to get to know each other, and more to give us an opportunity to share what we loved most about one another and to reminisce about our relationship and the times we've had together.
after we had gone through all the questions, dawson gave me a letter he had written me.
(while i read the passion-packed love letter, daws slipped another folded paper in the question envelope.)
as soon as i had finished reading it, he handed me a small box...
(okay while you're screaming in your head how obvious this is, let me fill you in on a couple things...the thought came to my mind a few times that maybe he was going to propose BUT then i'd realize there was no way. he didn't have a ring. he didn't even know my ring size. we hadn't looked at rings at all and he had told me earlier that week we'd go ring shopping in the next week or two. also, he hadn't asked my parents yet for my hand...or so i thought, my mom had totally thrown me off the day before, asking me if dawson was going to talk to her and my dad before proposing, even though he already had. also, the box wasn't a ring box. it was a round, colorful straw box from the caribbean.)
as i went to open the box, he stopped me.
"kandis wait, there's another question in here."
and that's when it hit me.
i stared at him, wide eyed.
"kandis, get the question."
i pulled out the question and opened it.
i said yes.
after i asked if this was real then kissed him then opened the ring then handed him the ring to put on my finger and he reminded me i hadn't said yes yet...
it just happens that i'm in love with the ring. i couldn't have found one myself that i would be more in love with. and it also fits me perfectly.
we got engaged in the back of his parents' yukon, while eating lunchables. i was wearing spandex pants, had no makeup on, and my hair was wet from skiing. and it was absolutely perfect.
-kandi
p.s. we're heading up to sun valley tomorrow for an exclusive weekend hittin' the slopes and relaxing to the max and enjoying us some superbowl! we're pretty excited!
and by exclusive i mean steve and sue will be there too.
