3 years ago...(almost) on December 23, 2006
I was just reminicing today, and I was remembering when Adam proposed to me. It was on Saturday, December 23, 2006. He had to work that morning at good ol' First National Bank, and I had the whole day off. We were planning on hanging out that night, but I wasn't sure what the plans were. He played it off all Mr. cool and such, he called me after he got off work and said that he had some stuff to do - like go to the gym, goof off; stuff like that. He told me that he'd come pick me up @ 6:00pm to go out to dinner. He wanted to go to the SkyBox Grille, at the Gateway Mall, in Salt Lake City (to watch the Jazz game)- We went there on our very first date and have been there a couple more times after that. I thought it was weird that he would drive all the way to Layton to pick me up, when Salt Lake City was in the other direction. Usually he would have had me just drive to him,(which is in Centerville) but I had no idea that he had all sorts of things planned for me.
He came and picked me up, I totally thought that it was like anyother date night - I was for sure hoping that this would be the night, but I didn't want to get my hopes up. We went and had dinner and watched the Jazz game, I got coconut shrimp and he got one of their famous hamburgers. We didn't have any set plans for after dinner, so Adam "suggested" going over to Trolley Square and sitting in their dollar massage chairs. By this point I should have realized that Adam was reenacting our very first date, but I still had no clue that he had something up his sleeves. After the massage chairs, he thought it would be fun to walk around Temple Square and see the lights, so we parked the car and walked around Temple Square for awhile. For a moment, I thought he might actually just pop the question here, but that's not Adam's style, he wouldn't have done it in the public eye. I was a little disappointed when it didn't happen - he was literally killing me with the suspense! You see.... I knew he had the ring - but he didn't know that I knew that he had it. So for a while there, I really thought any night could have been the night. How I knew he had the ring - he left the reciept in his car, in the glove box one night while we were together, he asked me to get a napkin out of the glove box for him.....I totally saw it in there - it was folded up - but the top corner had the companies logo on it!
After walking around Temple Square, we were again - trying to come with things to do. If you've never been to the Grand America Hotel - I suggest you do, just to walk around in their lobby area; for sure use their bathrooms, they are the most majestic bathrooms I've ever seen in my whole life. I wish I could live there. So that's what we did, we also did this on our first date, we took a "Tour" of the hotel. We used their majestic bathrooms, walked around their lobby and outside in their garden area, by this time they had all Christmas decorations displayed outside. On our first date we ran into two of Adam's really good friends that were also on dates, so Adam planned it where one of the same friend would be there that night too. The funny thing was, just as we were walking around outside in their garden area, I mentioned to Adam, "Hey remember when we had our first date and we ran into your friend Adam?"
Right as I said that, his friend Adam pops out of no where! What are the odds?.....I still wasn't getting it - I had no clue what he was up to! Across the street from The Grand America is the Little America. They have a very comfy place where you can sit in front of the fireplace and talk.
That's exactly what we did on our first date, we ended up staying there until 3:oo am. We just talked and talked - I fell in Love with Adam that very first night. We just clicked.
After talking to his friend Adam for a little bit, we walked over to our favorite place, we'd come here when we didn't have anything else to do sometimes.
They have two fireplaces, the more comfy and romantic one is upstairs....First of all I should probably point this out - I told Adam that I wanted a Apothecary for Christmas. If you don't know what that is, it's a glass vase with a lid for putting decorative things in, for display purposes. As we were walking up to the fireplace, I noticed that they had an apothecary on the coffee table, I even mentioned that to Adam. "Hey, they've got what I want!" As we got closer to it, I saw a little black ring box on top of these white and blue crystal rocks. They were glowing, some how he manages to get them to look lit up. Finally it hit me! My exact words to Adam were, "Nuh-ah.....Are you serious!?!" I was shocked! It finally hit me that all the things and places that we went to, were our first date, he had to help me realize that a little, but he's a clever little Adam. It was exciting! I opened the lid to the apothecary and grabbed the little black box inside. I was kneeling on the floor by it, and Adam came and hugged me from behind and whispered in my ear - "Will you Marry me?" Of course I said yes - Duh! It's Adam - who wouldn't?! He had some help setting all the plans up, like who brought the apothecary to the hotel at the right moment and all that jazz. We drove to his parents house, he had something else he wanted to give me and his parents were waiting up for us. They took pictures and congradulated us - Adam bought be a dozens roses
and brought them to me. It was a great night.
