Hey all,
So here's the story of Jacob and I.
Last year around February, I got offered a job in Yellowstone National Park. I took the job working at the Yellowstone General Store at Old Faithful from June until August. I showed up in June, about as excited as I could possibly be to work and live in Yellowstone (one of my favorite places on earth)! I started the job and it was pretty terrible at first. It had been about ten days into the job when someone invited me to go to employee bingo night after work. I don't really like bingo, but I had nothing better to do so I went to bingo night. While there someone brought up why I had a Michigan hat on, so I told them that my brother was on a mission there for my church. Out of nowhere, this kid asked what church I belonged to and I told him the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He got excited and said that he was a member of that church too, that he had recently converted and loved it. After that we started hanging out all the time, because we had our religion in common and therefore had the same lifestyle and values. We went on lots of fun adventures, and on June 24th we decided to start dating, and become official boyfriend and girlfriend.
After that things were pretty cool. We hung out all the time, and created a special place out of Observation Point. This is a mountain near Old Faithful that at the top you can see almost the whole geyser basin. (My new favorite place to watch Old Faithful). We went up there a lot after hard days at work and just talked and got to know each other. Sadly, the day came that I had to leave Yellowstone and go back to school. Since that time Jacob and I have seen each other every weekend, and done lots of fun activities in Idaho Falls and Yellowstone. Last weekend, we decided to go up to Yellowstone for one last weekend there together. While we were there we hiked to the top of Observation Point and waited for Old Faithful to go off.
Once Old Faithful started to erupt, he told me to stand up. I did, and he gave me a hug and said "I love you." I responded "Ok, I love you too, but I want to watch the geyser." He again said "You don't understand I love you!" Once again, "ok, I love you too, but I really want to watch this." For a final time he said it and got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife. I couldn't possibly say no! I was so excited! We stayed up there for a few minutes after that and talked, and then walked down and finished up our last weekend in Yellowstone cruising around the park looking for animals. We plan to get married on January 8, 2011 in the Idaho Falls temple!
