Catie and Dan

Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 12:04 PM

Dan and I had been dating for over three-and-a-half years and I wondered if he would ever pop the question. We looked rings months back in January, and had both agreed on the two that we liked the best, but that’s the furthest it ever went. In August, Dan and I went on a road trip to Colorado from our hometown in Texas.
 
We’d been in Colorado since Saturday, and by Thursday, I was thinking that if Dan was going to propose he would have done it by then, so I convinced myself to just enjoy the rest of the trip and feel lucky that I got to share these experiences with him.
 
On Thursday afternoon, we pulled off the Jeep trail we’d been riding on to grab a quick bite to eat. When we were finished our lunch, Dan begged me to go on one last trail. I was tired, sunburned, and I just plain did not feel good, but Dan really wanted to drive up to Bridal Veil Falls in Provo, Utah. Fine, I thought, one more won’t hurt me.

The drive up was pretty quiet and we stopped just before the top of the mountain to get out and take some pictures. Dan walked toward me and said that there was no one else he would rather be there with than me.  I thought, Oh! How sweet! and gave him a big hug. Then he stepped back and said, “I want to spend the rest of my life with you.” And that’s when I knew. I couldn’t bear to look at him because my eyes were welling up with tears, so I hugged him again and he pushed me away again and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! Of course, I shouted yes probably a million times and he handed me the ring that I picked out back in January. That little stinker had been hiding it under my car seat all the way from Texas!