The Future Mrs. Clark

My relationship with Kyle started on Saturday 26 January 2008 and has been fun-filled and loving ever since. But this past week things got a bit more intense...

Tuesday 16 Sept 2008 was his birthday and I told him to pick a place for me to take him to dinner. He chose El Torito in Dana Point, seeing that it was at the beach and it's nice to get out of the IE every once in awhile. After dinner we parked near the marina and walked out onto the jetty. We sat on the rocks and were talking about how neat it was that we both grew up beach camping at Doheny State Beach and how we looked forward to doing that with our future children, when he whispered in my ear, "Will you marry me?" I looked him in the eye and asked if he was serious. When I saw that he was I said, "Yes, a thousand times yes!" Kyle then proceeded to pull a ring pop candy from his pocket and placed it on my finger. There were a few tears, some hugging and a whole bunch of kissing.

Some people have known that Kyle and I have been discussing the issue of marriage for some months now or knew from their own intuition that it would eventually come to be, but I personally did not expect the proposal to come for at least another 2 months, possibly around Thanksgiving time. So it was quite the surprise when he asked me Tuesday night and completely took my breath away.

He did not propose with a ring basically because I did not want him to. I am rather picky about the ring that I want, seeing that I will be wearing it for the rest of my life. But I also did not want to go ring shopping together because if we started doing that it would be a matter of a few weeks before he would propose, and I wanted that to be a complete surprise. So I had told him that he could propose with a $10 fake ring, a Cracker Jack ring or even a ring pop for all I cared. Then afterward we would go ring shopping together, which we will be doing this Wednesday.

Tuesday night after proposing he then asked how we wanted to announce it. Did we want to tell people right away or wait until Friday night when we were having a birthday dinner with his whole family and my parents? We decided to wait until Friday night at dinner and surprise them all together. Half-way through dinner Kyle says nice and loud, "hey Aunt Kim, we are going to need Sarah and Andrew's mission addresses so that we can write them and tell them we are getting married!" A hush and silence for about 2 seconds comes over the whole group as people are processing and then someone asks, "Is that you guys announcing you are engaged?" A round of congratulations and a series of questions bombard us as we inform them all of how it happened.

Friday 10 July 2009 will be the blessed day in the San Diego Temple.