Alright, so for all you curious people, here is our story.
Jon and I first met back in January of 2011 (What? When?). As we recalled how long he's been in Ottawa and our circle of mutual friends, we remembered that we indeed had met at our friend Carl's New Year's Eve party in January. I had to admit, I barely remembered him there, and he only remembered me because of my very memorable best friend Sierra :P.
In July 2011 I came home to Ottawa to start my year off. When he 'met' me, I looked something like this:
As I got back into the swing of things, I was invited out to a number of social engagements. I began to get to know Jon, and thought he was a pretty awesome guy. Referring back to this post, that tells you how we began dating. Our first date was Jan 24, 2012. We went out to the Notre-Dame Cathedral and to Dunn's in the Market for dinner afterwards. We went on another date on a tour of the Parliament Buildings and dinner at some little Mexican food place in the Market.
We saw each other every day for 4 weeks and we were already talking about marriage. But, we needed to pray about it. So we did. And we each got our own answers. Mine came while I was reading through old journals. I was reading about other guys that I have dated and this feeling of peace just came over me. It reassured me that this time it was different and I knew I had my answer.
As I was driving Jon to the bus stop that night, I told him I had gotten my answer. He said he got his too, and then he just popped the question "will you marry me?" right then and there while I was driving. Of course I said "yes" and I had to pull over because we were so excited. That was almost two weeks ago, and since then, we've started wedding planning and we went to the temple yesterday. The guest list is almost finalized (we're trying to keep it small to accomodate our student budget) and we're working on finding a place to live for August 1st. "Save the dates" will be sent out soon so keep posted!
Until next time,
Jess
