THE JOHNSONS: May 2008

*HOW WE MET*

I wish I could say we met in a really cute and romatic way, but truth is we didn't..It all began at a little place we call Olive Garden, I am not sure if you've heard of it :) But we met back in 2003 while we were both working there. We were best friends for about a year, and itwasn't until the end of the summer in 2004 that we both relized we were in trouble ;) We dated up until James left on his mission.(oct. 17th 2004) We wrote each other throughout the two years. I never thought I would be one of those girls to wait for a missionary, but it was definatly worth the wait. James got back in Dec. of 06 and it was like he never left! We immediatly knew we would be together the rest of our lives!

*OUR ENGAGEMENT*

We got engaged on Saturday February 10th 2007 at the San Diego Temple. James was very VERY sneaky when he planned the whole trip out. He spoke to my boss at work to get the days off so we could go to Cali. He also talked to my best friend and her husband to have them go with us. All he says to me is that I need a vacation and he's worked everything out so I can leave the next day. So the four of us drive to Cali...we spend the night at Vegas ( Thanks to Jeff we got to stay in a killer hotel!) After spending a couple of hours at the Vegas Temple we head of to Disneyland! After I saw that James was taking me to disneyland I was SURE he was going to propose....I remember standing there in front of the Castle after the fireworks holding eachother thinking...."ah this is it!"...wow was I ever wrong...i waited and waited and NOTHING! I was so sure he was going to! he had been dropping hints all day! :) needless to say he didn't propose that night. Saturday was the day we were driving back home, but before then we decided to stop by the San Diego Temple ( my FAVORITE temple) to do baptisims. Once we were done and we were turning in all of our stuff, one of the sister asked me if I was forgetting something, I thought she was insane and all I could think of was gettign outside to meet up with james. Then she looks at me and says are you SURE you didn't forget anything? As she was saying that she pulls out a small white box, my heart dropped! She said a tall handsome man left it for me. This was it! I opened the box to find...NOTHING! just a small piece of paper...on that paper was a sweet note about our relationship and on the back of the note was ," Here's to the FUTURE....come and find me outside..." So I start running out of the temple like a crazy woman, I ran around the left side of the temple to find absolutly nothing! (Apparently I had gone to the wrong side) I was thinking at this point it was all a sick joke when rachael found me and pointed me to the right direction. There I saw my prince charming waiting for me infront of the temple. He knelt down on one knee ( at this point I was already in tears) and looked up at me and said, you've been my princess now let me make you my eternal queen and take you to the temple....then he asked me to marry me ( there was a little more that was said, but you get the gest of it.) I obviously said yes....and well the rest it history!

My Beautiful Ring :)