He asked me to be his Mrs.: June 2012

It is Thursday and as you may know I got engaged last Saturday! I thought I was happy before being engaged by dating a wonderful man and talking about marriage. But no one told me when you get engaged it becomes even better! I am more happy than I would have ever imagined in my life! If someone would have told me I could be this happy. I wouldn't have believed them one bit! My life has always been wonderful and I have been blessed a lot in my life. I have a wonderful family. 2 older brothers who are happily married and have the most wonderful wives ever! And 2 magnificent parents. They have taught me so much in my life. They have showed me what it means to love and treat someone right.

Anyways, enough of that mushy stuff I do love my family! They are the greatest! I am happy to have another wonderful person to join my family. Daryl is super wonderful and what I have always looked for in my life. The weirdest thing about being engaged is talking about your future lives together. Me and Daryl the other night were talking about media and how we felt about it with our kids. What we would allow them to watch and not watch in our household. Talk about weird!? I mean I am 20 years old. I don't wanna think about little Klingaman muchkins running around yet. Speaking of that. My new last name will be Klingaman. I mean this is something you wonder your whole life.What your last name will be! I found out mine.It is kinda scary when you are dating someone. You know, you look at there last name and are like Taryn Birdman or whatever there last name is and it really determines what you have to deal with your whole life. Like Birdman not the best last name. Your kids will be asking you all the time...where do we keep the birds? Like is daddy the birdman? Why are you a man too? You know these are all important things to think about. No offense to anyone that has the last name Birdman. But it is not just that I mean what if your kids names that you have loved your whole life don't work with that! Like what if it rhymes or just sounds stupid. That is also disappointing. Klingaman. It a sweet last name. I decided I did well. I mean my last name Willie I have always been sad to give that up. My parents were those one's who thought a middle name and a maiden name was confusing so they just dropped giving me a middle name. I have heard all kinds of crap without a middle name. But good thing is now I have will a sweet middle name and last name.

It was just so weird to me talking about something really important like that with someone. I mean I have been off at college and really on my own for a couple years. You know how easy it is to decide what you wanna do? SUPER EASY! You just say! That is what I wanna do and you do it. Then you meet someone and it's different trying to make someone else happy and caring what they feel. I haven't had to do that. It is nice not making all the decisions yourself. Not that I have really made super big decisions with Daryl yet but that children thing really got me thinking. I mean like I am going to have babies one day! I remember being little and thinking someone in high school was the oldest person ever! I have reached beyond that point my life and it is just amazing how time flies. The older I get the more time seems to go! That is the worst! I like to enjoy the little things in life and sometimes I build up going on a vacation like when I went to Hawaii this past spring break. I was so excited to go and get away from Ogden and then the trip came and went. It was so fun! I enjoyed it so much. It is crazy it has been a good 3 months since that trip. I keep thinking about how excited I am to take Daryl to Washington over the 4th of July! Take a nice week off work and relax and then I start thinking about how fast it is going to go by! We will be back at school and working in no time! Time might go by fast but I am really glad I have found someone to enjoy it with!

I just wanted to share my feelings on how happy I was! Life is really going my way! And Daryl makes me the happiest girl ever! :)

AHH I never filled in when the wedding is going to be. AUGUST 17TH 2012! I am so excited! That will be one of the greatest days of my life! Can you imagine how happy I will be when I am not engaged and am actually married. I can't imagine my life getting any better. But it keeps getting better! And I love it! :)

I got engaged this past weekend! I always told myself that I wouldn't get married till I was 25. But you can't stop love. So this is how I remember the engagement going. I will start with Friday night.

I worked until 7 that night. My boyfriend got off work at 6 (or so I thought) So I started heading home and called him. He answered and said hey! I am just going to shower and than I will be right over. I said okay and drove home. I live in Provo and work in Orem. So that is a good 25 minutes home. I arrived home and sat down on the couch. My roommate Katie and her boyfriend were home. I started having small talk with them while waiting for my boy to arrive. Time started going by really slow. Soon it had been 10 minutes. I felt the anxiety building up in me. Finally I stood up and started pacing back and forth. I started telling Katie and Ryan that I felt like he was going to ask me to marry him that night. I came up with all sort of ideas of why tonight was the night. He randomly made dinner reservations that night. Which was very out of the blue and also we were going ice skating later that night. These plans were all done by him. He had kept saying to me all week. Friday let's go on a real date and have some fun. So that started replaying in my mind. I started to tell Katie and Ryan all of these reasons why it was tonight. I mean why was he showering!? He showered this morning! Also, Why was he taking forever? If he showed up in nice clothes than I was for sure he was doing it! After 20 minutes I was falling apart. Texting him and asking him what the heck he was doing, why was he taking so long!? I couldn't handle it. I was pacing back and forth and driving myself crazy. I just don't want him to do it in front of a lot of people! Then I will go red and get all embarrassed! I started saying. I started wondering if I should change my outfit! Was this a good outfit to be wearing when you get engaged!? All of these thoughts were filling my mind and started really stressing me out. I was just going off to Katie and Ryan about all of this!

Finally after about an hour. Guess who shows up? My boyfriend Daryl. Might I add he was dressed nice. I hugged him and told him he took long enough! And proceeded to ask what he was doing for an hour? He didn't say much but getting ready for our date. I started to get weird because I couldn't express what was going on in my mind to him and ruin a possibility of him surprising me to get engaged. We left and headed to the restaurant. I wish I could tell you that, that was where my paranoia stopped. But it wasn't even close. We had reservations in a downtown restaurant called Little Italy's. We walked in and Daryl didn't even tell them he had a reservation. Great! I thought. Everyone already recognizes him because he had this all planned out. They just took us to a table and no questions asked. I started noticing every waitress and waiter. I was convinced that they were all staring at me. Waiting for the moment when he asked me. I can not even begin to tell you how weird I was acting and Daryl did notice. He asked me a few times why I was acting so weird. I just laughed and told him he was crazy. We ordered our food and I noticed there was guy playing the accordion going around the room. I started thinking about how that was how he was going to get me. He was going to ask that guy to come play a song and than get down on his knee. In front of all these people I thought! I will not let that happen. The guy got closer and I leaned over and told Daryl to tell him not to come over here and that I hated people. He just laughed at me. I had a momentary scare when he came in between our table and the table next to us and said there are 2 things that you should know about this place and I felt the heat begin in my face and race down to my palms where they started to get clamy. I just felt so hot all the sudden. He then stated something about how after your meal you had to get desert because it was the best out there. I calmed down a bit after that but not enough because I could barely get myself to eat my food. Dinner was over and ice skating was next. We headed to my house to put our leftover food in the fridge. We sat down on the couch and waited till 10 before it opened to ice skate. I was pretty tired and he kept asking if I didn't want to go.I didn't want to not go. Especially if he was going to ask me to marry him! I couldn't ruin that! So I hopped up and said let's go!

We headed to the ice skating rink at seven peaks. When we drove by the lights were off and there was no sole in the parking lot. He looked at me and said well I guess we aren't doing that. I started to get nervous for him and asked him what we should do!? He simply stated, Let's just go to bed we are both tired. I kept searching his face and wondering what could possibly be going through his mind. We got back to my place and sat down on the couch again. We both looked at Katie and Ryan and told them that it was closed. I searched there faces to see if they felt disappointment for him or anything. But I wasn't really coming up with anything. We said our goodnights and were going to hang out tomorrow so I left it at that. As I laid in bed that night. I felt disappointment. I was kinda disappointed that he hadn't asked me and I thought maybe next week.

I woke the next morning to a text saying that we had plans today and to be ready by noon! I got up and cleaned the house and showered and was ready by noon. Daryl walked in and the first thing I noticed was that he was wearing jeans. Now, it was supposed to be 90 degrees and I looked at him and said why you wearing jeans! He said because it was cold this morning when I went to work. I was just agreed and let that go. Then I noticed when I kissed him that he had just used mouthwash. Now you don't have to be a genius to know the difference between gum and mouthwash. He told me that I was crazy and it was gum and he hadn't gone home from work. I just rolled my eyes and said alright Daryl. We left and when we got into the car I noticed something else suspicious his water had just come out the fridge. It was super cold. And I looked at him and said you didn't go home huh? He just looked at me and was like gee! yeah I want home! I said I knew it and laughed!

We started our long journey and he wouldn't tell me where we were going but that we were going to eat. We drove down to Orem and tried to eat at fudruckers. "The world's best hamburgers" But it was closed so we ended up going to Texas Roadhouse. Then after that we headed on the freeway and he would not tell me where we were going. We ended up at Thanksgiving Point. Which has the "World's greatest dinosaur fossil casts" We walked around there and took a picture in front of the dinosaur at the front entry. Then he told me that we were going to go to Salt Lake but we didn't have time and we were going to see "The world's greatest organ" But now we were going to Park City "The world's greatest snow on earth" I was like are we really? Why we going all the way up there? In my mind I started to think. This is the day, he is going to ask me today! I mean why would he be taking me all over the place like this? So we arrived in Park City and we got out and stood in line. I kept asking what we were standing in line for and finally he told me the zipline! And that I really couldn't be surprised! When we tried to buy tickets it was sold out. So we ended up buying tickets to the coaster. The coaster is like a 1 seater roller coaster. We went on it and it was pretty fun. After that we played some mini golf. Which I did awful at. Our first date was mini golf and we tied. I have always given Daryl a hard time because everything that we have done. I have beat him out. Except mini golf. But this time he totally won by a lot! Then we got a snow cone and headed to the car. We took a lot of pictures while we were eating the snow cone. It was quite funny. We never got a good picture! But then he used my phone to guide us back to Provo. We were driving along and I kept thinking in my mind. I wonder when he is going to ask me in Provo? This huge date can't be for nothing. As we were driving he suddenly turned off really fast and said I think I remember a nice lookout over this water here. I was like alright. We parked and started to hike up this trail. As we were walking I was telling a story and totally wasn't paying attention. Daryl ended up saying what does that say? Daryl and Taryn!? I looked and to my surprise there had been a picnic set up. He said look here. We have jimmy johns which was the world's greatest sandwiches. And Godiva chocolate which is the world's greatest chocolate. And he bent down and said since you are the greatest girlfriend ever. Will you marry me and have the world's greatest marriage ever!? I said yes! And we hugged! Now let me tell you something. You don't rehearse this moment over in your mind. It only happens once and the things that you do when you are in a moment like that can be surprising. When Daryl asked me to marry him and I said yes. We both stood there for the longest moment ever and both just stared at the ring. I finally picked it up and put it on me! Ha! I mean I was waiting for him to put it on me. But supposedly he was waiting for me to jump on him and hug him like they do in movies! Before he did that. I did do that but after I had the ring! Ha. Stupid Movies are ruining normal things! Ha but it ended up being a great night! And I was so happy! Our friends Katie and Ryan filmed the whole thing. It is very cool to have on video! And I am glad he had it recorded! After watching the videos I can tell how happy am I! That was one of the most memorable times that has happened in my life! I am so grateful for Daryl and all he does for me! And I am excited to start our life together! :)