Suprise Easter Weekend

Let me just start by saying..HOLY COW!! I totally forgot how beautiful Southern Utah is with all the rocks!!! I haven't been through Kanab and Lake Powell since I was 16 and it was more beautiful then I ever could remember!! I took TONS of pictures on my way down. I definitely need to make trips down to see Bryce Canyon and Zions sometime soon!! But with trips down to see Jon Graduate and then for our Honeymoon I will definitely see the rocks again :)

Yes I did take these while driving..yes I know not the best idea but I was looking at the road and would hold up my camera click the button and then looked at the screen to see if it turned out...I couldn't help it!! The ride back was late and dark so I didn't get to enjoy it on the way back...had to get it in :)

SOOO Jon and I havn't seen each other since Valentine's Day weekend. We had talked at one time meeting in Cedar City and spending the weekend there. But looking at things and his work schedule we decided it would be best not to. So then we looked into me flying down. Flights were pretty pricey so we decided it would be best to pass. A few days before we 'offically' decided the flight was too much, I decided that I wanted to make a road trip and drive down and surprise Jon. SO I casually emphasised that it was to late to buy the ticket and that we would just have to wait until May at his Graduation because we saw each other again. I was sooo excited for this surprise. Believe me it was way hard because we both had our rough days where we missed each other like crazy! But I was so proud of myself, I didn't give in. I decided that since I was going to be down there then I wanted to 'Egg' his room as part of the surprise. I printed out 270 Eggs to color..yes I know it is crazy but I didn't really calculate correctly in my head when it came to printing them so of course since I had them, I had to use them. I colored for 2 weeks during lunch and cut those suckers out. About 2 weeks before I called his Bishop's wife to let them know I was coming and to see if they could help me find a place to stay and then sent a letter to his roommate to make sure I could get into the house. I had Delanne mail it for me from NM so if Jon happened to glance at the postage stamp thingy he wouldn't get curious as to why his AZ roommate was getting a letter from ogden utah. I told Jon that I would be in meetings all morning and that I was going to try and get out early. I love that my managers were all for helping me if he happened to call in..luckily I didn't make a liar out of anyone but myself since he didn't try and reach me at the office. Friday morning came and I was packed and ready to go. We read scriptures together every morning over the phone so I knew that there would be no way I would get out of the house any earlier then 7:30.

The weather was beautiful and roads were dry. I got into Flagstaff about 3:30 and knew I would haven't much time until Jon headed home before his 5:00 client. This is what the room looked like before I started to decorate it :)

I started hanging the eggs up as quickly as possible as I knew it would probably take me a good hour. Meanwhile I am texting Jon and realize that he is still texting me at 4:00 when he had a 4:00 client. I asked him what was going on. He proceeded to tell me that they didnt show up and that he was going to head back to the office

to finish up paperwork...ummm small problem...so I quickly call him to make sure he isn't stopping by the house first..umm sure enough he was already outside at the mailbox. I quickly told him to hold on just a second and started to clean up all evidence that I was in progress of his surprise and then quickly hid in the closet.

I had made a sign to put on his door that said 'you've been 'egged' enter at your own risk' I quickly put it up and then put the letter on the bed that I had typed up. The letter basically said that since we decided it would be too expensive to fly me down for Easter then I used his connections for my own personal use and that there was one more surprise for him in the closet when he was ready.

Well I heard him come in and then heard him ask his roommate if he had decorated his walls, of course his roommate said no. Well then I hear him walking to the closet, I got so excited. He opened the door and then proceeded to scream/yell and basically run away..okay running is a bit much but he did move backwards very quickly to the other side of the room. I was laughing so hard at his reaction. If only he hadn't come early I would have been ready and gotten it on video likeI had planned...oh well. He stood at the other side of the room just looking at me, trying to take it all in. I guess when he opened the door he was looking down at the ground expecting a box or something and surely didn't ever expect that i would be his surprise. After things calmed down he was sooo very exicted to see me. I don't know if I will ever be able to let him live it down but it was definitely a funny experience. He had to leave for his 5:00 client so I decided to not put the eggs to waste that I hadn't hung up yet and finished hanging them up all over his room and bathroom. The Easter bunny even came early ;)
Can you belive that in a city as big as Flagstaff they basically have NOTHING entertaining to do..yes they do have theaters but besides that only bowling!! Not that we have a huge problem with it because it was our first date but it is still crazy, but what can you do but enjoy it. So we
went bowling. I did horrible at it, I could give you my reasons but then they would become excuses so I am just going to say that I did not do my best. Jon did pretty good, bowled over 100 I think..which for him is nothing.

This man is so funny!! and I love him to death! Believe it or not, his favorite color is pink and he has this breast cancer pink hat. I don't know why he put it on but hey it looked cute so I took a picture :)

Saturday the weather was beautiful so we took at walk around a duck pond. We had stopped to look at something and then this duck just starts waddling up to us. So Jon being the boy he is stooped down and held his hand out like he had food and we soon as many ducks around us...

to bad it was a disappointment to the ducks that he didn't actually have anything.

I love that camera's come with timers now a days...yeah this picture was taken by itself siting on a tree stump with a timer...

We decided that afterall it was Easter that would 'die' easter eggs..yes I know I spelt it wrong but some will get it..okay only Jon but I had to add it...anyway..it had been years since I had dyed easter eggs so I was very excited. Jon ate 3 out of the dozen because they had cracked while boiling...I think he just wanted to eat them :) I really wish I had taken pictures of the last 2 eggs I did. I dipped the egg in one color and then let it dry. Then I took the crayon and scribbled on it and then dipped it in a different color and so on and so on...so when it was done it had all these different color scribbles on them...













For General Conference on Sunday we headed over to his bishops home. Man you don't realize how good you have it in Utah until they are unable to get it on TV this time for some strange reason.. So we got creative and pulled it up on the laptop and put the laptop in the middle of the room while we sat around it. It was definitely wasn't not as easy to keep concentrating but what I actually understood was awesome. Between sessions Jon was playing around his the Bishops kids Ronnie who is 15 sent jon to sit in the corner under the stairs..it was pretty hiliarous.

Tess (9) and Brent (5) were playing horsey with him. In this picture Jon was trying to buck her off. I love how her hair is flying from it.





All in all the weekend was fabulous!!! I am so lucky to have this man in my life and I thank my Heavenly Father every day for preparing us for each other. It is crazy how just weeks before meeting Jon I was telling me friends how I wasn't up for the dating game and that marriage freaked me out enough to keep me single for a while.. but when things happen they happen.

Sunday was a hard day as I had to leave. Luckily the road were good and I only had 1 Deer scare through all of the moutain passes I had to go through. I did only go as far as Fillmore and then was up early Monday morning to finish the trip to go back to work...LOVE road trips!!