Right after Christmas I headed up to Sun Valley Idaho to see Brad and meet the rest of his family. I had a great time with everyone. Everyday at 2 anyone who wanted to play soccer or football would meet at the main cabin. Pretty much anything went, including de-pantsing if meant scoring for your team. Snow shoeing was another big activity, I learned the hard way that you have to be in shape to be the leader. Every night we either watched a movie in the theatre or we would all play a game. Brad's family is very outgoing and adventurous which always made for a good time. I was sad when it came time to leave, but we can't wait to head back next year!

He popped the question!!!

I was planning on Brad coming down on Friday, i thought i had everything covered. I was swapped with projects for nursing and assignments that week and it looked like a tornado went through my room. I decided to get off work a little early and go clean my room and take care of the of the HUGE pile of clothes. On my way home i saw my little brother Ethan ahead of me in his truck, i honked my horn to get his attention. He started spazing out trying to call me on my cell, which i left at home. I just followed him to his house. He kept bring up the weirdest topics, and every time i told him I was going to head home and clean some stuff up, he would ask me another question. Finally, I told time i had to run but to come over later. I got home and everyone was in the front of our house... I headed to my room to grab come nursing videos...I opened my door to candles and flowers everywhere. The candles spelled out.. "I LOVE YOU" and "MARRY ME". I was startled and nervous. Brad was playing one of our favorite songs as he asked me to dance. I was so nervous i just kept backing up until i had no where to go. We danced and when the song ended Brad got on one knee and asked me to Marry him! Later he told me his plane was late, he could not figure out where my brother parked the car for him to use. Ethan went to get a lighter to speed up the process when i honked my horn at him. He was planning on having a trail of candles from our drive-way to my room. My room was almost lit on fire while everyone pitched in to light all the candles. I loved it

Traveling back and fourth..

Brad traveled almost every weekend to either Arizona or New Mexico depending where i was. It was always worth the drive to go pick up my best friend and Brad was always planning his next trip to come down. Somehow we still managed to stay on top of school and our jobs with everything between. Sometimes we would just stay in Mesa or we would just come back to Thatcher for some fun!