Our Engagement

In May, my family was going to the Manti Pageant and Clint met us there (he was still living in St. George). Before the pageant started, he asked to talk to my parents and they went on a walk while I stayed with the rest of my family. Clint and my dad are both pretty quiet people, and from what I understand, my mom kep the conversation going pretty much the entire time. Finally Clint asked my parents for permission to marry me. My dad asked him a few typical dad questions and then gave him a "yes."

After that, Clint told my dad he had something for him. He reached into his pocket and pulled out ten plastic cows in trade for my dad's "ten cow daughter." This will only be funny to those of you who have seen the video Johnny Lingo. For those of you who haven't, basically it's a movie that takes place in the South Pacific. I'm not sure if it's really tradition or just in the movie, but according to village customs in Johnny Lingo, 3 cows will buy a "fair" wife, while 5 cows will buy a "fine" wife. The guy in the movie offers 8 cows to the father of the bride, which was unheard of. The moral of the story is... apparently I'm a 10 cow wife. (Good thing Clint didn't know I don't cook or else I probably wouldn't be worth very many cows. Even fake ones.) The funniest part is my dad has had the cows neatly lines up on his dresser ever since.

My daddy, me, and the ten cows

Clint and the ten cow wifey after his talk with my parents. I got myself a creative one :]

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On July 3rd, Clint was in Salt Lake and we had just been hanging out at my grandparents house with all of my extended family. We went down town and ate and then walked around Temple Square. After a while, we were really just walking around aimlessly, and then I saw a little pioneer house that I wanted to go look at. Right then, Clint was all of a sudden in a hurry and took me across the street. When we got over there, there was a horse and carriage ride waiting for us. At this point, I thought that he was going to propose, but didn't know if he was just trying to trick me so I was a little bit anxious.

Clint planned the carriage ride so that it was at my favorite time of night, right before sunset when everything looks gold- I call it "gold time" :] So we rode around in the carriage for a while and to be honest, I don't even remember what we talked about. We got to a park and Clint proposed to me right there at gold time. Even though we had talked about getting married, I was still so excited because it just seemed that much more real.
 Just something funny that happened...When we got to where the carriage was dropping us off, my mom and cousin were there taking pictures. A couple of people walking by thought that we must be famous since we were being photographed, so they started taking pictures too. I can just see them trying desperately to figure out who these "famous" people were so they could try and sell them. Too funny. I don't know where the pictures are that my mom and cousin took, but I'll have to find them and put them up. I haven't even seen them yet, actually!