92 days and counting :)

Attempt at blogging number 2!

So in the month and a half that I forgot I made a blog a lot has happened!
 Christmas, New Years, and my personal favorite GETTING ENGAGED!!!
To give you a little background I accidently snooped and saw a text from Eric's mom saying that they "bought the ring" and that she would send a picture soon! Needless to say... Eric wasn't too happy with me for ruining the element of surprise!

So on Christmas Eve, after our crazy day of racing from family event to family event, me and Eric went over to the Allred's to exchange gifts with the family. After everyone had opened their gifts Eric told me that he needed to go get me my Christmas present... Well I had made Eric promise me that he wouldn't get me a gift since I knew one gift was coming for sure and that was more than enough, so I gave him a dirty look for him making me look like a horrible girlfriend without my gift for him and reminded him of the promise he made! Eric, being the sneaky person he is, just simply said "just wait and see"... What in the heck is a girl supposed to think about that?! It was going to happen, I knew it! So he brings out a gift bag and I open it. (the brat really did get me an amazing gift!) The whole time I am opening the present and Eric is standing there nervously rocking back and forth and so I start getting all nervous and shaky! So once I have opened everything Eric pulls out a black ring box and gets down on one knee and says "Lex... Will you marry me?" So at this point everyone is watching and I am freaking out! Then Eric opens the box and says "even with a gold ring?" (I told Eric if he bought me a gold ring I would say no... Totally as a joke!) Eveyone started laughing and I felt super stupid and it was pretty funny...

Needless to say, I learned my lesson! I will never read Eric's texts again! 

 On December 30th (Exactly a week after the fake proposal) me and Eric decided to go out! We drove into Salt Lake and went and saw the movie Tron at Gateway and then the sweetheart took me to Olive Garden! During this date some weird things were happening... I had made a comment about how I needed to have Eric's amazing sister Emily paint my nails again before New Years Eve so they looked good for pictures (I thought for sure it would be on New Years) and Eric assured me my nails looked great (normally he would reply with the "uh huh.. sure thing" not fully paying attention type of answer...)

 Weird thing #2 While we were waiting to be seated at Olive Garden Eric texted his mom and said "Will you clean the living room up a little bit?" (apparently I didn't learn my lesson very well! :/) So all during dinner I kept thinking that maybe it was going to happen that night but the more I thought about it the more it didn't make very good sense and so I decided that it wasn't going to be that day! Then as we were leaving Olive Garden, Melanie called Eric and told him that the whole family was going over to his sister Kami's house to play games and that if we got home early enough we could come play if we wanted. At this point I was positive it wasn't happening! So we went to Kami's and we started playing Yahtzee and then Emily (clever her!) told me that she needed me to help her approve photo tags on facebook so we went into the office and we were on facebook when Brittany came in and told us that Eric was going to be playing the new song he had just written if we wanted to come listen. I started frantically scanning my brain... I couldn't remember him talking about a new song at all! So when I walked in the room Eric told me to sit down next to him... I was soooo nervous! He then played me the most amazing song and the whole time I was trying to not cry and look like a baby in front of his whole family! Then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him (for real this time) and I just hugged him and said yes and then hugged him some more and it was so amazing! After everything, Eric's amazing sisters all gave me hugs and everyone was so nice and it was just the best night!

 SO this long story brings us to the title of this post... Eric Chad Allred and I will be married in the Draper Temple on May 6th 2011... in exactly 92 days! I can't wait to join the Allred family and be sealed to the love of my life for all time and eternity! :)