Betrothment...ing.

And now, the moment you've all been waiting for...

So... We're engaged!

Mary got home from her mission (Geneva, Switzerland) on Thanksgiving Day. We were officially engaged (ring and all) by the following Thursday.

So we've been engaged for one whole week now. It's fun. I'd rather be married, but this is exciting.

A lot of people have already told us and I know that many people are thinking that we've been moving a little fast, and maybe too fast, but Mary and I are both thinking: FINALLY!

We started dating our senior year of high school, which was the 2003-2004. We've been together since December of 2003, but we weren't always "together."

After graduation in May of 2004, Mary left to go to school at Utah State. She came to visit every few weeks and things were tough, but we got through. I was always paranoid that she was going to find some hottie hunkball of deliciousness and leave me all alone... I got over it. Eventually.

January 12th, 2005: I enter the Missionary Training Center to serve a mission in Mexico. So from January of 2005 to January of 2007, I was on my mission while Mary was at school.

December 25th, 2006: A phone call. I get my Christmas phone call and Mary tells me that she has been called to serve in the Geneva Switzerland Mission and she leaves May 9th, 2007.

January-May 2007: Bliss. This was the gap that we had where we actually got to be together while we were together. We spent the roughly four months together going on dates and talking and just being together and trying to be strong for what we knew what was inevitable.

May 9th, 2007: Goodbye Mary. She leaves and I'm sad. While she serves in France and Luxembourg, I am going to school and work. I talk to her on the phone on Christmas and Mother's Day.

November 27th, 2008: Mary comes home. I freak out and go completely crazy. I surprise her by being at her house when she comes home from getting released by the Stake President. We hug. A lot.

Since then, we got into talking and making plans very quickly, our engagement being great evidence of that. We had a ring picked, a reception hall booked, and a temple reserved within the first week of her being home. She still has some adjusting to go through, but we're getting there are we are very happy.

"So how did you propose?" (That was you asking me that question, by the way.)

I made a video about all of our inside jokes and cutesy memories and sent her on a little scavenger hunt throughout the house to find some stuff that was also relevant to our awesomeness.

The very end of the video tells her to go to her room and POOF! Out of nowhere, I appear. I'm painted in blue and I sing 'Never had a friend like me' from Aladdin. Just kidding. I don't do that. I hand her a little note, which she reads out loud, followed by me dropping to one knee and proposing a betrothement. That isn't a word.

Betrothing.

She said yes. Wooooo!