It has been a long time coming!
Lets start from the beginning for those that haven't heard, or would like to hear again, the story of Jarom and I up to this point.
**If you just want to hear just of the engagement story scroll down until you see a picture of me with a ring!
There are many different places that I could start from, but I will start from my internship!
I went on an internship to Washington D.C. from January until May. I have the best roommates (Shannon you are included in this), had top of the notch co-workers, and interned in the best place in the world, the Capitol. I loved working on Senator Hatch's health staff with my supervisor Pattie Deloatche, among with all the other amazing health team including Paul, Karen, Jay, and Janet.
Mindy Chidester was one of the interns I worked with and was dating George White (now fiance). George White is going to the Naval Academy, which for us girl interns translates to many guy friends, not to mention hot and smart guy friends! Mindy decided to throw a party for us and asked George if he would bring some of his friends to the party.
We made Cafe Rio salads (which was delicious and I would love that recipe!) and I was in charge of making tortillas and the guys were in charge of flattening the tortillas. This is where Jarom comes into the picture (he literally
jumped into the picture)
! 
He tolds us about a dance the Midshipmen were putting on and invited us all to come.
I had a lot of fun at the dance and Mindy told me later that he wanted to ask me out. I was very excited when he finally called (good thing Mindy gave me a heads up about it!) and we went to the National Geographic to see a documentary, we ate shish kabob's, and saw the Pentagon memorial. I had a great time with him and he was bold enough to ask me out again, for a date in three weeks! He asked me to go to the OAR concert at the Naval Academy. We hung out every weekend after that with the exception of him going to Utah and me going to Shannon's cabin for conference.
A week before we were going to go to the OAR concert Jarom asked if I wanted to go to the Navy Army Lacrosse game. He mentioned that his family would be coming out to it as well. We had a lot of fun despite the constant drizzle of rain (Jarom's dad, Ken, was nice enough to give me his raincoat). Jarom's family is pretty funny especially when I was introduced to their Uncle who never was their Uncle. They had me going for months on that joke. They were very nice to get me a ticket to the LAX game and I was very happy to meet them! Thanks Ken and Mary! Rachel and Kellen, thanks for riding in the car with us!
We went to the OAR concert that night and had a blast! We went to many more fun things while I was in D.C. including the I-Ball, the D.C. Temple, the Great Falls National Park, and of course the Ring Dance.
After I came home from D.C. and Jarom was done at the Naval Academy, we were able to spend 7 weeks together. It was great to be able to spend time together. It was also nice to be with both of our families and hang out with them. We went to Bear Lake, Heber, a couple of concerts among other things and got engaged!!!!!!!
We got engaged on the 4th of July!
Jarom and I went to a breakfast that morning with our ward and went on a bike ride up the Temple Quarry trail. We didn't have any set plans for the day, but we planned our day together (I thought if he were to ever ask me to marry him #1 he would be nervous and I would be able to see him shaking and #2 he would be on a tight schedule to get where we needed to be going and a little anxious about it).
After our bike ride we watched a little of the Tour de France. He let me pick where we were going to go eat dinner and where we were going to see fireworks (I thought if it was going to happen that night he might have had a more ridged schedule...thought wrong). Right before the fireworks were coming on he asked me if I would like my own ring. Now mind you, I was wearing his class ring from the Ring Dance that we went to. I would wear it from time to time. I told him yes I would like my own ring (I still didn't think he had a ring by this point)! His next question was if I would marry him! I said yes of course, not that anyone was wondering, but I had to put it in there. He took his class ring off my finger and put on my own! I couldn't believe it! I am engaged! YEAH!!!!!
I am so happy to be engaged to Jarom, the love of my life!
Now about the date-next summer. We don't have an exact date yet since Jarom goes to the Naval Academy and they are not allowed to get married until they graduate. This means we will both graduate next spring and in between now and that time we will be able to see each other about once a month until school ends.
Until Laurie came! Then I had two friends and they both were jealous.
This is how Liz and I felt after four hours in the pool. We could start to see a little red. We figured a towel is the best sunscreen around because the bottle in her lap wasn't doing us much good.
This is how Liz and I felt after four hours in the pool. We could start to see a little red. We figured a towel is the best sunscreen around because the bottle in her lap wasn't doing us much good.
