ENGAGED!

First of all I wanted to show you the Man of my dreams, and my beautiful ring before I even begin my story!

It all started with Johns spontaneous idea to drive down to Southern California for the weekend, just for fun I guess! So we just picked up and left! It was a great weekend too! We spent some time with his Grandfather (pa-paw) and family at his cottage in Laguna Beach; we went to a shooting rage, and shot a couple different kinds of guns with his brother-in-law Micah. We went to Huntington Beach with his buddy Corb and enjoyed the warm sunny weather.
THAN.....That night......Saturday March 7th
John took me out for a nice fancy dinner at the Salt Creek Grill not far from the beach.
John claimed he had an up-set stomach and kept getting up to go to the bathroom, he hardly touched his food. Although later I found out that he was making phone calls to family members in the bathroom making sure everything was going as planned.
And he didn't eat because he was so nervous...he lost his apatite!

After dinner we decided to take a stroll down to the Ritz Carlton Hotel where it sits up on a cliff over looking the beach. We had walked around there once before; it has beautiful landscaping and look out points, and being such a beautiful clear night.... what could be better than taking a romantic night time stroll to look out over the coast! LOVE!

At one particular spot something caught my eye as I looked down at the beach...... in the sand I saw colorful words pointing right in my direction saying "JULIE MARRY ME?" At first I couldn't quite see the "JULIE" part so I really wasn't sure if that was for me.

So I turned around to John and he was on one knee with the ring in his hand!!

Breathless, surprised, excited, happy, happy happy freaking out.....

Than he told me how much he loved me and asked me to marry him.... so i knelt down to his level and said yes many times..... :) Happy happy moment.....

The Ring was ridiculously blinging and sparkly.... he must have asked the moon to shine extra bright that night so that I could see the ring sparkle!Its a little too hard to see with the camera.... but this is where you could see the glow sticks on the beach "JULIE MARRY ME?" Its a very faint glow right next to my hair.

John is genius!

We walked down to the beach to meet up with "the engagement crew" John's family and friends. What a perfect night!

Here is some more of the Ring...

I LOVE JOHN KUPPER!

Just wanted to add in my favorite picture of John.

Rugby

I JOINED A WOMENS RUGBY TEAM!!! The Lady Steelers Baby!

Yup! I did! I know it seems crazy, but I actually love it. I'm love playing team sports. A lady I play volleyball with found out that I ran track at BYU and invited me to come to a rugby practice to see if I like it. She said that they had plenty of big girls and needed more quick girls.

I have never played a contact sport before so that worried me a little. But I decided to give it a try. Now I'm offically on the team! I've been learning the positions and plays of the game, and the part that is crazy is that I'm leaning how to tackle! Since I am a "smaller" girl and could easily get taken out by the bigger poly girls, they teach me techniques that help me take down anyone no matter what size... and I'm getting really good at it too!

I just never realized how much self gratification came from tackling! Yet, I also didn't know how sore you feel the next day! It's a really cool sport for all of you that have never watched a rugby game. It like a combination of soccer and football.. sort of. I will be playing "winger" position which is the very back position of the line up next to the side line. They tell me that this is the "fast running and scoring" position so I'm not a main tackler although I may have to do it ... and people will try to tackling me....I'll just have to sprint and dodge all those girls ha ha.

I'm pretty excited! Practices are really fun, and I have a cool team. We do a lot of conditioning and drills to learn the game. I love being on a team again. So anyone that wants to come to my first game March 14th... is totally welcome to! 11am, at the Steelers field which is off Geneva Rd and Provo Center street.