It was a Saturday and I was supposed to meet up with Mckay eventually. Since we had been dating for a while it was typical to see him every day for some reason. Originally he was going to come over in the morning but he was busy doing things and kept pushing the time back. I was starting to get a little frustrated that he kept changing the plan and was too busy to see me. I learned later that he was busy planning the proposal. After getting tired of waiting for him, I went to campus with my roommates. Mckay eventually met us on campus and then we all started walking back to my apartment. Trying to sound like it was a spur of the moment idea, Mckay suggested that we walk a little bit and get some ice cream. Our destination was the BYU Creamery by Deseret Towers. We walked by the towers where we had met 3.5 years before.
(I don't love what my hair was doing that day. if I had known what was going to happen I would have done something different with it.)
The towers were being demolished but the Morris Center was still there.
Back in the days of freshman year, this was the place to eat, get your mail and socialize. We have many fond memories of that building. We sat on the steps outside the Morris Center (the very steps pictured above) and ate our ice cream while we talked. Then Mckay pulled out this book that he made me and gave it to me to read it. This could have tipped me off that something was about to happen, but if you knew Mckay like I did, it wouldn't seem that extraordinary for him to make a book for no reason. This book is called, "If you give a boyfriend a Kiss."
This book is patterned after "If you give a Mouse a Cookie," a well loved children's book. The book starts, "If you give a boyfriend a kiss, he's going to ask for a glass of milk. When he finishes the milk he'll probably wash out the glass. He might get carried away and wash every dish in the sink!" (This was a common occurrence for Mckay to wash my dishes.) The book continues with each act leading to another, and they were things that we had done together. Things like taking walks and naming the trees around us.
The book ends with the boyfriend getting ready to go home so he asks for a real kiss. "And chances are, if you give him a kiss...
He'll ask you to marry him."
At this point Mckay pulled the ring out of his pocket. He asked, I said yes, and then we spent the next hour calling everyone we knew.
After some of the excitement had died down, we spend the rest of the evening together. We went to Macaroni Grill for dinner and then to see a movie, "I am Legend."
That day was such a wonderful happy day. I'm glad that Mckay asked me to marry him. We've had many wonderfully happy days since.
4 comments:
I love that you saw I am Legend. You should have picked something a little more romantic. Although I guess it was a good excuse to hold hands. I remember that day. We were at your apartment cause Ryan was changing your oil and I was asking you when Mckay was going to get around to popping the question. How funny.
That's cute. I hadn't heard that story before.
I had heard the story but had forgotten the details. Makay gets some good bonus points for the book. We are really glad that Makay and Dallin are part of our family.
I'd never heard the engagement story before. Good job Mckay!
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