The Proposal

<3 THE PROPOSAL <3

My side of the story

When I woke up on the morning of 14^th January 2012 I thought it was just going to be a normal day apart from being in Canada not England. I finally pulled myself out of my warm bed to start getting ready for a very busy day! We were staying with a mother and daughter who Josh met whilst serving in their ward (beautiful people J). After putting on 6 layers (no joke, 2 tank tops, a long sleeved top, a shirt, a cardigan and a coat) and Josh putting on all his layers we were finally ready to be tourists J

This day was the coldest day I had EVER experienced -25 degrees, think of eating a ladle of ice cream and triple that, major brain freeze!!!!! After visiting friends of Josh’s we ventured on the subway to Dundas Square and walked up and down the streets looking in the shops. All the window-shopping created hungry people so we ventured to the nearest Wendys J Baconater and root beer MMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!

We then went to meet Mary at an open ice rink! So cool but so cold!!!!!!! We decided maybe ice-skating wasn’t really a good idea in this freezing weather but we still had to wait for Mary. After an hour there was still no sign of Mary so we headed to a Library to contact her but by the time we got round to emailing Mary the computer shut down as the library was shutting! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

So we decided to head to get a hot chocolate from the best place ever, Tim Hortons and also we could use their free Wi-Fi J score!

After finally being able to contact Mary we saw her beautiful face arrive into the café!! We soon decided to brave the cold and head back to Dundas Square to see all the lights. Through spending a lot of time just walking by myself, as Josh and Mary had to ‘chat.’ After taking lots of photos and looking around we arrived at a square junction that needed to be crossed for us to get to the subway. We stood waiting for our green man to shine so we could cross diagonally across the road. YAY the green man is shining (not knowing this green man was going to change the rest of my life J).

As we started crossing Josh suddenly stops in the middle of the road, my first reaction is to tell Josh that we are going to get run over so come on!! Next thing I know my best friend is saying the most sweetest things (I am not writing as I do like to keep some things private ;) haha!) once catching on to what these words may be leading to I leapt back and screamed. 

He reached in his pocket and out he pulled this massive box at this point I covered my eyes (don’t ask why, I wanted to see the ring too J). 

I finally came around as he uttered the words that every little princess wants to hear, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ and of course my reply ‘YES YES YES YES’ not realizing that I needed to take my gloves off for him to place the most beautiful ring ever onto my finger.

We had claps from every corner of the square and every car beeping their horns and shouting congratulations to us J Perfect J 

What more could a girl dream of.

My fiancé was so brave he stopped traffic to make me the happiest girl in the world J

I LOVE YOU

My 22nd Birthday

For everyone that knows me well knows that I LOVE birthdays! Especially mine! So 5:30am on 16th December was a normal time for me to wake up! Whilst lying in bed thinking I will let my parents sleep in a for a little longer I received a message from an excited dad, so I jumped straight out of bed! To my surprise as I swung open the door I looked down to find Josh just sitting on the landing smiling up at me.

!!!SURPRISE!!!

We both walked to mum and dads room (it is a family tradition to open our birthday presents on mum and dads bed!) and opened cards and presents. Dad returned to the room with my birthday cake (my FAVOURITE, rainbow chip cake mmmmm!!)

Best breakfast ever :)

I then wanted to play one of my birthday games (new Disney scene it! yes I am 22 years old). After a while Josh turned to me saying I still had his presents to me to open. WAHOOOOOOO, I just thought he had forgotten haha! Joshua, mum and I then went back upstairs. Josh passed me a bag full of silver warped goodies. There were 7 presents (my thoughts are in the brackets):

1.   Nutella (Mmmm! Random but I love Nutella!)

2.   Oreos (Another thing I like, but maybe not for my birthday though!!)

3.   Tea towels (Excuse me!!!)

4.   Toothbrush (Is he trying to tell me something!!!!)

5.   Ruler and Rubber (I don’t know what to think!!!!!)

6.   Oxo cubes (Is he trying to tell me to cook?!!!!!!)

7.   Olive oil (Ok, how rude! I don’t understand what meal he wants me to be cooking with all these random ingredients!!!!!!!)

Looking at Josh in absolute confusion he then tells me that I need to take the first letter of each word and then use them 7 letters to create a word!

Whilst trying to work it out mum and Josh were both recording me which confused me even more! But putting the distractions to the side I finally got it!!!!!!!!

  

Toothbrush

Oreos

Rubber/Ruler

Oxo cubes

Nutella

Tea towels

Olive oil

Toronto?! I couldn’t stop looking at Josh in amazement! He was just staring back nodding and with a massive grin on his face!

We are flying to Toronto, Canada on 13^th January 2012!

EEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

Then, mum comes running back into the room with more presents! A big pink polka dot suitcase, winter hats and gloves and spending money J how can my day get any better??!

  

We later spent the day in London ice-skating and eating yummies at Zizzi J

Oh, what a day?!

BRING ON 13^th January 2012!