"Heather, will you........"

10 years ago today was an interesting day. It was my Oma and Opa's 50th Wedding Anniversary. If they were both still alive, today they would have been celebrating their 60th with us, but I'm glad they are finally together again celebrating it in a much more beautiful place. So for their 50th Anniversary, 10 years ago, we had a big celebration at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building with a nice dinner with family and their German friends and lots of gifts. Dan had been home from his mission for 2 months. We had decided to date exclusively (again) and just the week before we both had received confirmation that we were to get married! It was an exciting time for us. We had a wedding date pretty much picked but we had not started looking for rings yet. I had invited Dan to come to my grandparent's Anniversary party with me. It was a really fun time and thinking back to it today makes me really miss my Oma and Opa.

Towards the end of the night, Dan and I both needed to use the bathroom. So we took the elevators down to the basement of the JSM Building. After that, we both got back into the elevator but instead of pushing the button to return to the main level where the party was, he pushed Level 2. I asked him where we were going and he said he just wanted to walk around. I thought, cool! So when the elevator doors opened, we walked out and walked around some of the empty rooms on the second level. Then he took me into a room where the Salt Lake Temple was right outside the window! It was gorgeous!!!!! We walked over the window to peer out at the temple. The thought quickly came into my head "if Dan was going to propose, this would be the perfect setting." Just as soon as I was done thinking that, I turned to see Dan bending down on one knee!!! Oh my heck!!! He was going to propose! I had dreamt of this day since I was a little girl! And he had done it as a surprise, totally catching me off guard, just how I had pictured it happening! Dan looked up at me and my eyes started to sting with tears! He got kind of a weird look on his face then said, "Heather, will you..................wait for me to tie my shoe?" Wait, WHAT????? What did you just say, Dan? He started to chuckle and stood back up. You mean to tell me this was just a joke? I had waited for 2 LONG years for you on your mission and you pull this on me? I tried to laugh too and play it off like it didn't bother me. We headed back down to the Anniversary party where we ate dessert and the more I kept thinking about what had just happened the madder I got. So by the time Dan and I were driving home, I wasn't speaking to him. Can you blame me?

When we were on speaking terms again, I asked him "exactly what were you thinking?" His response was "I wasn't planning on playing a joke on you. It was just the perfect setting for a proposal, but I wasn't ready to propose. So I thought it would be funny to fake it. But as soon as I bent down and saw the tears in your eyes, I knew I was in trouble and I panicked. So that's the first thing that came into my head!" Hmmm.....hilarious! NOT! And to make the whole proposal thing an even touchier subject, he didn't REALLY propose for almost 2 more months! So yes this day is memoriable. And now, honey, it's documented for everyone to read. But I still LOVE you! So Happy 10 year FAKE Proposal Anniversary!

P.S. Just so you all know how mean I am, I got him back about 3 years later. I pretended my water broke when I was almost due with Lindsay. Yes, I even poured water all over the floor, so when he came home from work, he'd see it and think that my water really had broken. Man, if you could have seen the way he started running around the house trying to gather everything for the hospital. PAYBACK sweety! Love ya!