The Proposal ;)

Wow I need to catch up on this thing haha. So Cory and I have been married for six weeks today! woohoo!!! Man times does fly...anyways Cory proposed on December 10, 2010. I kind of had a feeling that he was going to propose but didn’t really think too much about it to not get my hopes up in case he didn’t. He told me that morning that his sister Jenny was coming over from South Jordan (45 minutes away) because she wanted to decorate the Christmas tree in his parent’s front living room. Ok I thought thinking it was going to be really fun. We had also planned to go to Salt Lake City to see the temple square lights. He told me to dress up warm but cute because we were going to be taking a lot of pictures. So my thinking was that he was going to propose in Salt Lake around all the Christmas lights (and people...YIKES!!!). But when I got to his parent’s house all the family was there and were waiting for me to get there to start decorating. Cory took me into the front room to the living room to show me the tree and our two nephews followed along with everyone else. We started putting some ornaments on and my mother in law, Lisa, says that dinner was ready and to come eat. So we all go back into the dining room to start eating. Well at this time Cory disappeared somewhere but I didn’t think anything about it. He then comes back with a box of ornaments and asks me if I want to go put more ornaments on, without even thinking twice about it I say yes and follow him back into the living room. We start to put ornaments back on the tree here and there. He points at one ornament and says that he likes this one the best. I kind of look at it and agree that it’s really pretty. Cory then says I think it’s my favorite out of all of the ornaments. I again shrug it off and agree with him that it’s pretty. (I was really concentrated on getting the ornaments on the tree I guess). Getting frustrated Cory tells "LaBretta, look at the ornament!" I then look closely at the ornament that he was talking about. It was a star ornament with a little gem-diamond-like thing hanging in the middle of it.

The ring was sitting on the top of the point of the star. Once I saw the ring I started freaking out! Cory took the star off of the tree and took the ring off the star and got down on one knee and asked "LaBretta Ranae Anderson, will you marry me for time and all eternity?" Of coarse I said yes. We then went out to the dining room where all of his family was waiting and everyone started crying and laughing. His parents made us this delicious dinner that we ate in the living room by the christmas tree, candlelight dinner and everything :) it was really romantic!

When it all began....

So Cory and I got married a little over a month ago and its amazing! Not a lot of people have heard "our story" so here it is...We met at our singles ward family home evening activity. We were playing a get to know you game and he came up to me and was asking me a bunch of random questions. Later that night we went outside to play a couple of games, our favorite one is the wink game where you get a bunch of chairs and put them in a circle. Then either the guys or the girls stand behind the chairs while the opposite sex sits in the chairs. Well the girls were standing behind in the first round and Cory came and sat in my chair. You have to leave one chair empty and the girl that is stading behind the empty chair winks at one of the guys that are sitting, while the girls that are standing behind them are looking down. When the girl with the empy chair winks at a guy, the guy tries to escape from his chair to the empty one. Well the girl with the empty chair in our game winked at Cory he completly failed to get out of my chair haha. People like to say that i "man handled" him when they explain this story to other people. Later in the game he ended up getting away from me and the game went on. Then i decided that i wanted him back in my chair so i winked at him and he got away! He jokingly asked me for my number after that and i just shrugged it off thinking nothing of it. So family home evening went on and just as I was about to leave Cory calls me over and tells me that he never got my number while pulling his phone out. I seriously thought he was just tring to be funny and asked him if he was being for real. He said yes so i ended up giving him my number and then ended up leaving shortly. Well he ended up texting me a couple hours later and so i invited him over to watch a movie. Of coarse he did come over and we watched Taken. Good Movie!!! Well the next night he ended up asking me out and kissing me :) and then the next day he met my parents, sister, and sister-in-law. So we dated and everything was amazing and this is our story. Hope ya liked it!