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Sarah Leone Damstra
to Scott Brunson:
dear scott,
it's 4:58 AM and I have officially been sitting wide awake in my bed giggling for one half hour unable to go back to a restful sleep of happy dreaming, waking up, touching my ring, and smiling myself back to sleep because it wasn'...;t a dream after all.
i love you.
also i may fall asleep in church this morning.
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Basically:
yesterday I worked really really early in the morning. okay, well 7, but in the summer, the day after school gets out, it's pretty darn early.
but we finished setting up for education week at the bookstore after three relatively short hours.
Kate Forsythe and I had planned on going shopping that afternoon and I invited our friend Amy Estevez, too.
we took off to the car with my car steaming hot (sadly very true) and bought shoes.
and then for my personally favorite part:
we went wedding dress shopping. (granted i had no idea what was in store for that evening, but i had been looking online and didn't even have a clue what size I was [2]).
we went to allyses bridal and I fell in love with the first dress I put on. I ended up putting on quite a few, but the first and last ones were my favorite. we talked prices after and I swear, I fell in love with the most inexpensive dresses. (175 and 289, sooo inexpensive!)
we giggled lots and took pictures (to come).
it was a marvelous shopping trip, I needed girl time.
we finished early afternoon and I took a long long nap.
scott had said he wanted to go on a picnic today and i thought it was random, but went with it.
--the day before we had gone to a barbecue and he hadn't answered my calls and then been really late in picking me up, when he did come I could tell he was really stressed, between these two factors he somehow got away with not telling me why he was so late.--
So he comes to pick me up and because I had extra time I showered and sported my new jeans and cute heels (with jeans, wild).
and from the moment he picked me up he kept telling me to take my time and that I looked beautiful and that I was wonderful, etc.
He does this most days, but today it just felt different.
I just thought he was making up for being stressed last night. silly me.
we went to the grocery store and bought lunchables(pizza for me, sandwich for scott), juice(simply raspberry lemonade, we glared down a kid for it), chips (ritz), and pudding cups (kroger chocolate).
oh were we excited for our food. it was delicious.
so we took off on our picnic.
we went high into the canyon to one of the few parks in the canyon I had never been to before.
he took me to the farthest corner and kept remarking at how busy it was.
we made sure to be extra lovey dovey and kept multiple people from staying (slightly evil, but we were on a date, afterall).
we ate our food and talked, just normal.
then his mother called.
the first thing he said was "WE'RE ON A DATE!" and then kept trying to get her off the phone. this was out of character, normally we would chat with Janet, but he was being so strange. I still didn't think anything of it, he did it humorously so I just let it go without question.
we ate our pudding cups and talked some more, then he suggested we go for a walk.
he helped me up and gave me a hug.
then he proceeded to tell me that our relationship was build on lies.
i was obviously confused.
but that led to how much he loved me and how he thought I was perfect and he wanted to be with me forever. (still i'm completely oblivious).
then he slid to one knee and it hit me.
according to scott my expression was priceless. something along the lines of an open mouth, huge eyes, and losing my breath :)
he held out the most beautiful ring I had ever seen and asked me to marry him.
I left the ring in his hand and gave him a huge hug. then I said yes and kissed him.
he slid the ring on my finger and I about burst with happiness.
Scott Brunson: I love you completely. there is no one else I would want to spend my life/eternity with more. To me, you are perfect in every way, not becuase you are perfect, but because we are perfect for each other. I would not change a thing about you. I cannot wait to be your wife.
HIS CONFESSIONS:
-we had looked at rings a few weeks before and I had fallen in love with one from Wilson's Jewelery. I had tried it on and they had sized me and we had looked at prices, but we left and he said that he was probably going to go with a family friend. We got in the car and then he said he had to run in for [enter excuse here, i thought so little of it I forgot what it was...] when really he ran in and told the owner of the store to hold the ring for him.
-before we went to dinner with his Jenna, he was up in pleasant grove. I didn't ask questions as to why on earth they were in pleasant grove, truly Jenna had brought his diamond over from california.
-when he was late to pick me up for the barbecue on friday it was because he had gone to have the diamond set and there had been some troubles. He spent two hours getting it fixed and making sure my ring was absolutely perfect.
-about a week ago he had stolen my phone and made some excuse that he needed to calll a number back from my phone, really he was looking for my father's number.
-that night he casually mentioned my naming system in my phone and I told him that I had listed mom and dad as aiti and isa, in finnish. I didn't think he had an ulterior motive.
-2-3 days beforehand he had called my father and asked for my hand. my father said yes.
-saturday morning, he had picked up the ring. the picnic was completely planned and he had talked to my father already. I really thought he would wait until we were in virginia to talk to my father and he had told me becuase he was going with the family friend htat the ring wouldn't be done for quite a while.
I could not be happier. we were getting married for time and all eternity in the draper, utah temple on december 18, 2009 at 10 AM.
I cannot wait. I am so utterly and completely in love. I can't wait to be Mrs. Brunson!
also scott is ridiculously smooth. I was completely caught off guard with happy excitement when he slid onto one knee. it was perfect, absolutely perfect.