Some big NEWS!

Sorry I've been absent from this blog of late.  I've been a little preoccupied...

See back on the first weekend in March I went on a ski trip with my Sunday School group.  Sadly L-dub had to stay behind and be all responsible and work. sad.

BUT

He showed up on Sunday, with a surprise...

 For weeks leading up to the trip Lucas kept offering me sums of money to stay home from the trip and save him from the boredom that was sure to ensue with me being 10 hours away and him left all to his lonesome for an entire weekend.

On Friday, March 2nd I packed up and headed for Colorado with 20 some of our Sunday school classmates for a fun filled weekend.  

I enjoyed a day full of skiing on Saturday and after arriving back at the condo, exhausted, I called Lucas to recount the events of the past two days.  He told me he was headed to his sisters house that evening to watch a movie and would probably head to bed early that night ~this is where the truth bending began, for Lucas was NOT in Lincoln but had just arrived at his aunts house in Denver in order to surprise me the following morning at Copper Mountain. 

Bright and early Sunday morning me and my fellow skiers headed to the slopes for our final day of skiing and snow fun.  After arriving at Copper Mountain things started getting fishy.  Tom (Lucas' right hand man in this scheme) pulled Kristin (my roomie and ski buddy) aside to inform her of Lucas' master plan for the day.  I witnessed this exchange take place but thought nothing of the incident.  After everyone had geared up we headed for the lifts to enjoy our first run of the day (Tom had mysteriously dissapeared at this point... ya, I still wasn't catching on to anything).  When we reached the top of the mountain Kristin informed me that she needed to use the facilities and asked that Iaccompany her to the bottom of the mountain.  See, Lucas and Jill were supposed to be there at that point but due to a slow running bus they were slightly behind schedule.  When we reached the bottom of the mountain no one was there to meet us, not strange at all to me but Kristin began to wonder and quickly got on her phone to call her "sister" aka Tom.  She then suggested we try another run we hadn't yet done that day.  So off we went to the next ski run.  Meanwhile Lucas and Tom met up at the bottom to sort out details and prepare for what was to come. 

On our way down the mountain Kristin got another call from her "sister".  I also received a text from others in our group letting me know that people were meeting at Center Village (this honestly had nothing to do with the events of the day but happened to work into the plan and make me less suspicious of Kristin's pushing me stop once again at the bottom).  When we finally made it down Kristin called the rest of their group to see where they were (really she was phoning Tom to check and see where we needed to be).  Trekking down the sidewalk in ski boots I was scouring the crowd for the others in their group.  Only I did not see them.... I saw Lucas, at the bottom of the mountain with a huge grin on his face...  and the jig was up.  I quickly dropped my skis and hurried across the snow and into his arms.  There was some fumbling of words, pulling off of gloves and Lucas dropping to one knee where he asked me to be his wife.

I said yes.

And here we are today planning the rest of our lives together. =)

**That's the version taken from our wedding website.  Sorry I was lazy and didn't want to write it out twice. ;)

Side notes that make parts of the above story more amusing...

Saturday night I was talking with a couple people about Lucas' attempted bribes to keep me from going.  One person said, what if he offered $1000? Then Becky said, "If he offers that much he should buy a ring!"  Tom (who helped Lucas plan the whole proposal) quickly exited the conversation without any comment.  We thought we made him uncomfortable, apparently he was afraid he would slip up and say something. haha

For those of you who are wondering, Kristin was never calling her sister... she was calling Tom the whole time.  I didn't realize this til I asked her later how her sister was and she just started laughing... ya, I'm pretty gullible.

There was a small crowd that gathered to watch the whole proposal (well, from the point that he got down on one knee)

Jill took pictures of the whole thing and Tom took video.  I'll try and post some of those later.

After he proposed he asked what I wanted to do.  I wanted to ski more, Tom found this amusing.

Apparently when he had supper with my parents on Friday night to gain their approval my mom said "She'll definately come back with you".  My dad said "No way she'll stay and ski!" Lucas agreed with my dad... Dad and Lucas were correct. =)

That's about sums it up. I'll be staying busy wedding planning for the next few months.