Will you be my Forever?

              

HELLO!  Look at this BEAUTY 

          Well, it has been awhile since I've written, and this blog is missing a very important life event.

On Friday December 6th, Bryan and I had planned on going to see Catching Fire with our friends. He called me while i was still at work to let me know what the plan for our evening was. While on the phone he asked "What day do you finish your finals?" I said "Well, most likely the Wednesday or Thursday of Finals week". He then asked when I would go home for the break, and I asked when he would go. He said, "Oh I'm going home Friday night because I have to work that day", so I just told him I would be going home whenever he did! He ended up asking "Well would you like to go on a date with me that night to celebrate making it through finals week?" Now, I'm feeling a little surprised/confused because he has hardly ever asked me on a date in advance.. he then proceeded to say "And we could go to dinner at like Braza Grill or something, does that sound fun?". After that I was sitting there a little shocked. I obviously said yes, but called Brooke the minute I got off of the phone with Bryan. I told her all about how I was so nervous he was going to ask me to marry him, but I didn't wanna get my hopes up! Needless to say, the next two weeks I was incredibly anxious.

Friday, December 20th 2014

Wednesday night I went shopping with my sister. I had been so nervous and unsure of if Bryan would propose to me on Friday night. I wanted it oh so bad, so I finally just gave in and bought a whole new outfit. Thursday I was at Katie Holmes (Murdock)'s wedding and I just missed Bryan so much!  That night I called him and told him I really wanted him to come over. I had hardly seen him that whole week because between his finals, my finals, his studying schedule and his work schedule - it was impossible. He told me he had too much he had to do and I told him he was "the worst boyfriend ever" (obviously I was kidding if you had heard my sarcasm).  He didn't come, so I decided that I should paint my nails just in case as well. That day I went to work all dressed up in my new outfit, and really hoping I wasn't getting my hopes up. I just kept reminding myself that I hadn't seen Bryan much that week, and I should be happy because we were going to go on a a nice date!!

Bryan called me after he finished work, and we were both talking while he was driving to South Jordan and I was driving back to Orem to grab a few more things that I needed for the long break. We talked for a long time, and he seemed all nervous because he thought I wasn't going to make it back on time for our reservation. I got back to my moms house on two minutes after he go there to pick me up :) I'm a pro. SO off to dinner we went. I was still trying to calm myself down in my head, and he asked if I would tell him what his Christmas present was, of course I wouldn't tell him. He was going to get it after we got done with dinner! We arrived at Braza Grill and sat at our table. Oh you should have seen how excited that boy was when he saw all the meat coming around! Like a boy in a candy store. Dinner was really great! And I was super happy to just be with him, but then he was texting his dad! I asked him why he was texting him and he said "I love my daddy" I was like "really? We are on a date, what are you even talking about"?....."Sports"... "Well that's important!!" ha. Best conversation ever. He eventually quit texting his dad and everything was still fantastic. I was SO full. I still haven't admitted to him that Ron randomly decided to take us to Rodizio Grill that afternoon for lunch.... Dinner was much better with Bryan though! :)

So we finished eating and began to walk out to his car. By this point I'm hoping he's going to take me somewhere since he hadn't proposed during dinner. I asked where we were going and he said "to my house, to open Christmas presents"............ yup, not happening. He then said "I get dibs on opening mine first!!!".... "Wow mr impatient" I said.... Aren't I so kind? So I'm sitting there trying to pep talk myself in my head and I realize his hands are FRIGID. I teased him about it because his job is to keep my hands warm, not the other way around! Janet called and "asked" Bryan if we wanted to watch a christmas movie with them when we got back, and he told her no because we were going to open our christmas presents to each other. Don't get me wrong, I was excited to go to his house but I kind of assumed that they would be watching their movie downstairs which is where he said we'd be opening presents so to me that was another confirmation that a proposal was not coming. I knew he wanted it to be a private thing.

Well! We arrived at the Frandsen household and the first thing I see is his family chillin up in the family room watching a movie. They never watch upstairs! We then went to the basement. As we were walking down the step, Rick was coming up as well with a HUGE smile on his face. We continued to the basement and I sat on the couch near the tree. Bryan asked me to scoot over more, so I did. I gave him his present and he opened it. I had given him two BYU hats that were throwback colored hats. He seemed to really like them! Well, he got up, walked to the tree and grabbed my present. A thin rectangular box.... the first thought I had was "candy box"???? I began to open and he stopped me to tell me that he needed to explain a little bit. He reminded me of how I had told him a few times that obviously having him home is better, but sometimes I really missed getting letters from him. So I continued to open the box and there was a stack of envelopes numbered off in order. I took the first one out, it said "August 2009 - We Met" There was this upset emoticon face and I just laughed a bit when I realized he put there face there because we did not really like each other when we first met. The envelopes each had a date and a picture of some important milestone we had reached throughout our relationship: first date, first handhold, first kiss, The night I knew I loved him, his mission, coming home, becoming his girlfriend, until the very last one.... "December 20th, 2014".... no picture. At this point I like know what is going to happen, but it honestly had not completely connected that he was really about to ask me to marry him!

Bryan stood up, and asked me to stand up too. I just kept asking "why"? ha. Duh Chelsea. Way to be blonde here. So, Bryan pulled me up and reached around the tree, and grabbed a box. I kept asking "what are you doing?!" and he got down and one knee and asked me...."Chels, will you marry me"? I freaked and couldn't believe that the ring in the box was the ring I had wanted SO badly. It was BEAUTIFUL!!!! He then said "Chels, you still need to answer.." so then i said "YES!!!". Colton had popped out of nowhere and was taking pictures. Holy brain overload. Bryan, asked me to marry him, he had the ring, AND he had someone taking pictures. I couldn't believe how perfect it was, and then Colton points down at a video camera! The WHOLE thing was recorded. So perfect. I love this man. I really do.

Colton left us alone for a minute and i just could NOT believe what had just taken place. Bryan.. me.. proposal... marriage...together... forever... AH! :) Obviously we had a few people upstairs waiting for us, and so Bryan said it was time to go up. We go on up and Rick says "Sooo..." and I say "I feel silly!" I feel silly? Who am I! But oh, Rick just gave me the longest hug and I just about cried. It was all starting to feel real. Janet hugged me, Erica and Sam hugged me, and Erica said "I'm getting a sister!!" They pulled out Martinellis and gave us a sweet little toast. The rest of the night was a blur. But we visited my family to tell my mom! And then we announced to the world that Bryan and I were going to seal the deal!  So here is the Facebook relationship status I have been looking forward to for so long!!

May 9th 2014 here we come!!!!

Mr. Bryan and Chelsea Frandsen