The Big Question.

Hey Folks! It's round 2 of the Allred Alert. Fun eh? Meh...

Well the story for today is how Shaun proposed. Get ready...

And...
GO!

September 29th was the day (I think) and a Saturday I doubt I'll ever forget.  Quite possibly the longest proposal known to man but the best one out there!

2:30 (roughly) rolls around and I get this text: " Hey, I've been thinking and I feel like we need to be sure we know what were getting into before we get married. Could you come by around 3 to talk about it?" WHAT THE HECK!!! So.freaking.rude. I was super stressed that he was going to end it and I couldn't for the life of me think why he would.  So 3 came and I headed to Shaun's ready for war.

I walked into his house quite nervous and up to his room to find that he wasnt in there. But a pig pigy bank was. It was accompanied by a note that read. I know you said you would never chase a pig but your going to have to follow it around to receive your love letter." I looked at the pig and coming out of the slot where you put coins in was little pieces of paper telling me where to go.

The first one said "where we first met" which was in one of the buildings on campus where they held the swing dancing class. So I headed up and to my surprise there was Lauren Nielsen with a video camera. She told me that in order to receive my love letter I had to do the line dance to Boot Scoot n Boogy. I couldn't remember the dance for the life of me so I just made a little something up (looked like a fool) and received my letter.  It was a little green block with the letter F on it and a piece of paper that told me something about Shaun.

The next place on the list was the TSC patio, where the opening social was (for all of those who read my last post). There I found Cody Nielsen... with a camera... and was told to recite the poem Shaun wrote me for Christmas. I have it memorized but with people down there eating and me being on the spot I totally forgot. So I looked it up on my phone, recited it quickly and received my next "love letter". An O.

Third, Adam's house. Where I had to play my hand at poker. When I arrived Adam was sitting at his kitchen table waiting with all the cards and chips ready to go. I played my hand (won) and received the letter. An R.

Then.. the fun park. Quite possibly the most embarrassing one. I pulled up and saw our friend Logan standing out side of his car waiting. I was told I had to dress up like a cowgirl and run around. I had a styrofoam cowboy hat, cow skin vest, plastic spurs, a sheriffs star, and a  toy gun to carry around. I put it on then realized I had to go inside to run around! I may or may not have thrown a fit. I was so embarrassed! Mind you it was a nice fit but.. still a fit. Finally I went in embarrassed as all get out and ran 2 laps around the rink with one of the employees. Then I received an E.

Then it was to shoot clay pigeons up providence canyon. This is what we did for our first date. And if you know me, I.CANT.HIT.ANYTHING! I went up the canyon to find Adam there with a shotgun and a couple pigeons waiting. It wasn't that bad until the 3 guys who were siting with their rifles started being A-Holes. They were telling me its not that hard to hit one.. Blah Blah Blah. I was so angry with them that I just wanted this one over. So Adam handed me his 9MM, put a couple on the ground and I shot them all. Take that jerks with a rifle and a scope. The letter... It was a V.


Twizzle Berry. Our second date. I went in and the cashier knew exactly what was going on. He took the camera, turned it on, and started to film. He informed me that I was to buy some ice cream. So I did. It was oh so good! I love that place! There was a group of ladies there eating who were  so excited and super giggly about what was happening... weird. E.


THENNNNN Olive garden. I walked in and there was Shaun; sitting at a table with the last green letter waiting.  He didn't say much about all of it other than that I had to tell the waiter a special something before I could get the last letter. Ever heard the song   "Going to the chapel of love?" If not... Here

 Anyway  I had to tell the waiter "I'm going to the temple and im going get married". The minor, nice, fit came again. That is  such an awkward thing to tell  some random person! But..  I did it and the response was hilarious!  It  went a little something like this...

"So I have something I have to tell you"
"ok?"
"I'm suppose to say, I'm going to the temple and I'm going to get married"
"OHHHH?! Thats exciting.... when?"
"I don't know!"
"uh.... [very awkward moment]"
[Shaun starts to laugh]
[I go BRIGHT red]

And that was that. He hand me the letter and tells me to order. We ate and then... nothing. So I got a little confused and wondered if this was all going to happen another day. So, I asked if we could go four wheeling. He said sure, and we left the restaurant.

Confused? Ya, I was too.

Earlier that day Cody came and get Shaun's four-wheeler to fix the tire for him so we decided to take Cody's up the mountain.  It was a pretty fun little ride and I having a blast and completely forgot about all the weirdness that just happened the last few hours.  We got to the top of Logan Peak and there was a fire going with a cooler sitting next to it. OH dear... I didn't want to get too excited so I led my self to believe it was a coincidence. But, lets be honest it wasn't. So I started to get really nervous and tried to stall by hurring to the cooler to grab the stuff for s'mores. I wasn't ready for this so I figured i'd delay it a little by roasting a mallow up. But, Shaun wasn't having that. He told me we needed to wait for the coals. He pulled me up, wrapped his arms around me [me about to faint] and he asked if I knew better what I was getting into. *Remember each block was accompanied with a note. The notes told me he would always be my best friend, an honest man, gushy stuff like that.* Then he told me what he was getting into.. more gushy stuff. Then it came... He got down on one knee and asked THE QUESTION! I didn't know what to do, and my head was spinning so i just kept saying yaay over and over... and he wouldn't get up. I felt like he was down on his knee for years! Finally he stood up and asked if I wanted to see the ring. Oh ya, the RING.. ha forgot about that all together. Guess thats what he was waiting for me to see before he got up. Oops. Well after it was all said and done Lauren an Cody popped up! They were filming the whole thing! Thats great!

Any ways. Super fun day and super memorable experience. Loved it all!

Here's the "Love Letters"

Well thats all for now... Happy reading!

And It Started Like This...

Well folks, this is Shaun and I's new Blog. We thought it would be nice to have one so friends and family can see what were up to while in Georgia!

If you haven't heard the news... Were Getting Married! December 28th is the day, and I sure hope you can all make it! But... thats not what this post is about. This is about the dating story, our dating story to be exact.

This is how it started.... 

In fall of 2010 I decided to take a "country swing dancing" class with my friend Heidi Spjute. While here at USU I got involved with some friends who would go to the Fun Park and swing dance every Wednesday night. Sounds completely stupid I know, but I promise it was actually a blast! So, Heidi talked me into taking the advanced class to learn how to do lifts and other fun things! Well, in this class there was this really cute guy that I noticed once or twice but other than that not much else to say about it. He was a bus driver for the campus shuttle so Heidi knew him (sorta) from riding it every once in awhile. One day I noticed she was talking to him and wanted to see if maybe, just maybe I could get him to ask me out. So I headed over to where they were chatting and... no  such luck. So that was that and I forgot all about the cute guy from class. 

It wasnt tell almost a year later that I saw Mr. Cutie himself again! This time I had a few friends who were part of the the country dance club put on a social up in the TSC (student center on campus). I had a busy night but a couple friends kept begging me to at least make an appearance. So I begged my roommate to go up with me so I could dance one song and she would make sure I was only there for half an hour. Well, I went up danced my song and was walking out when I noticed a bunch of my friends standing on the stairs talking. I figured I better say bye before leaving so I made my way over there. As I got closer I noticed Mr. Cutie was part of this circle. Didnt think much of it other than that. You see I was actually dating a guy at the time and alot of my friends made it very known that I was. So I went to say bye and after them making fun of the fact that I had to hurry home before____[ex boyfriend] found out, not true but still kinda funny. That was when Mr. Cutie piped up with some remark that totally threw me off. You see, I think I had heard him only maybe say 2 words  up until this point so for hims to throw out a jab, a super funny one at that left me speechless. Well after an awkward line of hugs and goodbyes I walked back down to my apt... and that was that. 

THEN, me and ___ broke up so my friend decided to have a big poker night with a few friends in some what of a celebration that I was now single again. Well I went over to Adam's house sat down and started to deal my hand for poker. All the sudden in walked another friend Logan with his roommate who just happened to be cutie! Even though I hadn't thought a second about him  I couldn't help but smile when he walked up the stairs. Logan sat next to me and  cutie next to him. We had a blast, all of us, we were  all laughing the entire night. I remember looking down the table to see if he was laughing that the same things I was every time something funny was said. I still remember how embarrassed I would get because I couldn't stop staring and I felt a bit creepy. But it whatever. I also found that he was SUPER witty and hilarious  He made fun of me just as much as any of the others and took all the jabs from any one else, twist them and shoot them right back 10x harder, it was HILARIOUS! But, that was that, poker ended and we all went home. 

About a week later Adam sent me a text asking if i would go dancing that night, I said no because 
I had a ton of home work that really needed to be done. But for some reason adam wouldn't let up! I made a deal that I would come for an hour but that was it, he agreed and I headed that way. When  I arrived I grabbed Adam danced a couple songs then decided it was probably time to leave. But before i even got off the dance floor adam stopped me and asked if Shaun and called me yet. I was so confused A. I didnt know any Shauns B. Why would  this "Shaun call me"? I asked who he was and he told me the other bus driver who came to poker. I got super excited and blurted out "no, why does he want to ask me out?!" After it came out I felt quite dumb but was relieved when Adam said "ya, but I probably shouldn't have told you that. So, if he asks you pretend you had no idea." I was just fine playing along as long as Shaun did actually ask me out. After this short conversation I looked up and there Shaun was looking over at us but talking to another girl. I was completely confused. I watched him for the next little while and he danced with the SAME girl over and over and over. And when they were in between songs they would walk off and keep talking. I decided Adam must have the wrong idea cause from the looks of it he already had a girlfriend. Checked that of the list. Until Shaun asked me to dance and during the dance asked me to go four wheeling and shooting that weekend. Confused, yes. I asked Adam what was going on and he explained the other girl situation to me.. which is a whole other, super funny story for another time.  Well dancing that night was a success, I finally had a date with this guy 
I had a crush from a distance on and  I got to dance. No home work was finished but strangely enough I didnt really care. 

Well... to four wheeling and shooting we went and lets just say my shot wasn't the best. I literally didn't hit one pigeon. And was quite embarrassed. Especially given the fact that he was hitting EVERY.SINGLE.ONE. Geesh... and i felt it was a super awkward date mostly because I didn't know any one there and every one else did and  I was super shy. So I maybe said 3 words the entire time. After shooting we went at ate at cafe rio and then he dropped me off. HA, that was pretty awkward too. I didnt really know what to do cause i figured I'd never hear from him again so I opened my apartment door and found that it was FULL of people. How awkward is that. doorstep drop off and all your friends are sitting watching the entire thing. DOI! So i gave him a weird side hug type deal and ran in and shut the door.  The end... so I thought. 

A couple days later I received a text from Shaun saying that he wanted to take me out again but was super busy so, maybe just something short like ice cream. I was SHOCKED. But, of course I went. He picked me up at the library and we headed down to Twizzle Berry  and ended up talking for about an hour. I thought it was pretty awkward, mostly because im not a fan of small talk and that was what the entire hour consisted of. On they way home he told me that my friend Adam had asked him if he wanted to double sometime and that he was thinking they should that coming friday. It was really weird mostly because I couldn't figure out if he was asking me or just telling me that Adam wanted to do that. So I just kinda sat and said nothing until i was getting out of the car and Shaun said "so... do you want to go this weekend?"OHHHH you are asking me... way to make that one clear buddy, but of course! I didnt say that- but I thought it!

That friday we headed down to ogden and for the first time I started to feel a bit more comfortable with Shaun.  We ended up being early for dinner so we walked over to Peir 1 and looked around the store to kill some time. It was pretty fun but still some what weird especially given the fact that his sister was on the date with us. She went with our friend and Shaun's roommate Logan so it wasn't that bad. I know Logan and Adam pretty well and they always seem to bring the outgoing side of me out- probably good for Shaun to see that. Actually that was the whole reason Adam decided we needed to go on this date. Thanks ADAM! At the rodeo it got a little awkward, Shaun decided he wanted to hold my hand but I felt super awkward  given the fact that Adam, Logan, and his sister would all be witness to this happening for the first time! So I refused to let him. He kept putting his hand on my leg and trying to move it closer to my hand but I wasn't having it. I folded my arms and consentrated on the rodeo. Period. As we walked out I felt bad for what I just did, and didn't want him to think I wasn't interested so I grabbed his hand and held it all the way to the car... AWWWWE.. sick. 

After that we started "hanging" out a lot more and even made it through Christmas break, and kept on dating after that. We have had a blast together! We have been to concerts, bungee jumping, boating, snowboarding, zip lining and many other things! After he spent a summer in Georgia, he came back and proposed! It was great and I'll tell that story another time. But now were getting married, and moving to Georgia to start our lives together. Im quite excited!