Mark was coming up to visit me from Arizona on Thursday the 19th, I was really excited to finally see him after 2 months of being away from home. I was making all the preparations for his stay and it was all i could think about the entire day. He had been texting me throughout his trip, telling me where he was and when he would get into Rexburg. Then at about 12:30 noon, he sent me a text telling me that he had fallen asleep waiting for the shuttle and had missed it. So he was not going to be able to make it to Rexburg till the next day and would be staying at his uncles in Salt Lake.
I was so sad and upset that I would have to wait to see him one whole day (and trust me, that was to long to wait!). I began to think it was funny he had fallen asleep waiting for the shuttle because mark can fall asleep through anything! However, a piece of me hoped that he was going to surprise me. The time that he would have arrived had passed, so feeling sad, I decided to take a nap in hopes I would wake up happier. I woke up from my nap with a text from mark, telling me that he was looking for my apartment on Google earth and asked if my apartment was to the left or the right of the tennis courts. I sent him a text back saying, "honey, why are you asking me that?" I jumped out of bed, my heart pounding and thinking "HE IS HERE". As soon as my shoes were on I got a text back from mark saying that he only asked because he was bored at his uncles. I was crushed, feeling empty once again, I began to take off my coat...then, looking through my back window, I see mark walking down the street. He had his cell phone in hand and duffle bag in the other, I could spot that boy a mile away. I threw on my coat once more, yelled at my roommates that mark was there and literally ran out the door to go and meet him. I practically jumped on him and gave him a kiss, he was excited to see me, but then said I had ruined his surprise (which I usually do ;) ). We went back into my apartment, kissed, gave him some hot chocolate and then he told me to open up the bag of goodies my mom sent with him. I opened the bag and there was a bag of chocolate, he told me that there was something inside that I needed to see. So I opened the bag and inside was a yellow note that said "Will you marry me?" and to my right, mark was holding a ring box and he was on one knee. We both tried to hold our emotions, we embraced, I put on the beautiful ring he picked out himself and then held each other for about thirty minutes before telling anyone we were engaged. Even though the proposal did not happen the way Mark had planned. It was still the best way for us.
