Engagement Story

(Alright, I promised this a little while ago, so here it is!)

Many of you want to know the story of how Scooter and I got engaged.  I will first have to talk about how we met. 

How we met

Back in June the Jesters Royale participated in Battle of the Improvs.  It was a terrifying situation for sure!   Push MyButton, who was one of the teams that participated, was awesome, and we decided that we should be pals.  We would go to each other’s shows and support each other.  We decided to do a bowling hang out in August, where only me and two others on the Jesters team showed up, and almost all of PMB came.  I talked to everyone that night besides Mr. Scooter.  At the end of the night, everyone was hugging everyone, and then I saw Scooter and we decided to hug because everyone else was hugging.  It was the most awkward hug ever! After that I decided to add him on Facebook.

Peace Summit

On Facebook we would chat a little about what was going on with our improv teams.  One day I decided to “poke” him.  It started an ongoing battle where we would go back and forth poking each other.   I then popped up on Facebook chat and told him that I wasn't going to give up, and I knew that he wasn’t going to give up.  He then proposed a peace summit.  I asked him what the peace summit entailed, and he told me a movie.  I thought, we’d be hanging out at someone’s house.  So I asked him where, and he said that it would be at the closest theater to my house.  He then said that we should probably add a food establishment to it.  Not even thinking it was a date, I agreed to this.  Boy, I can be naive for sure!

(We like acting like Delinquents-@WJ Park)

Dating

We became officially boyfriend/girlfriend on September 17.  Dating was fun, and we got close for sure.  Wanting to spend more time with me he joined the Jesters, along with still being on his other team.  We talked about marriage.  We then decided to go look at rings.  I picked my favorite ring from each place, but in the end he got to decide which ring I ended up with.

Proposal

On November 16, I was just having an awful time.  I was planning to run the sound for the Jester’s show that night, but someone dropped out of the line-up so I stepped in.  On the way to the theater I was just complaining away to Scooter, not knowing anything was up.  (Apparently before the show he pulled the MC away and told him of his intentions.  They ended up changing the last game in the show to accommodate for this.)  During the first half I noticed a huge bulge in his back pocket and I commented on that at half time.  At that moment he excused himself to the bathroom. (Suspicious!.. Lol)  The very last game of the show we were playing Double Blind Freeze Tag.  For those of you that don’t know what this is, two people do a scene, while the other actors have their back to the scene, the MC then freezes the game, and then the next person in line taps out an actor, assumes the position that they were in, and then begins a new scene.  I was out doing a scene, and then an actor comes out and then he gets in a completely different position than what the previous actor was in. (Apparently, right before he went to get in the scene, Scooter told him to get in that position) He is down on his knees, with his hands making a bird beak by his face.  He did the whole scene this way. The MC finally froze the scene and Scooter tapped him out.  Scooter is then talking, and that is when my mind finally connected the dots.  I then started to tear up, fanning my face with my hands.  In my mind I was thinking, “This isn’t improv anymore.” He then pulled the ring out of his sleeve and proposed.  Of course I said yes!

Well, there is the story.  We will be getting married on May 17, 2013 in the Salt Lake Temple.

(Us in our Christmas Pajamas)