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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

tidbit:

in researching photographers:

me: i really like this photographer.
crap
he's in oklahoma
( sent at 12:46 PM on Wednesday )
nick: awww
wow baby your finding so many good photographers
oklahoma
maybe we can pay him in corn.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Proposal story:

engaged: i love seattle!!
whose story you ask? well you know that surprise weekend trip i mentioned nick was taking me on? here's what happened:
i arrived home thursday night ready to get errands finished during the weekend when he told me "pack a bag, we're going on a trip!" i thought.. a trip? hm. i have a surprise baby shower this weekend, 6 parking tickets i need to take care of, desperately needing to clean my apartment: the last thing on my mind was a trip. but i packed my bag wondering what was going on. he was so secretive. friday morning, he handed me my boarding pass and said "surprise! we're going to seattle!" seattle. my favorite place. mainly because, i love the rain. yes yes, i know some (if not many) of you are thinking "how can you love the rain?? it's so depressing" but i just love it.

engaged: goodbye oc.
goodbye oc.

so here we are. on the plane on our way to seattle! i jokingly asking him "are we getting engaged this weekend?" to which he replied, "no. of course not." haha.

engaged: hello seattle!
engaged: welcome to seattle!
we arrived in seattle. it's not raining, go figure. apparently we just missed the huge storm the night before. but it's still cool to be in the city. it's so urban and artsy. i love it.

engaged: on our way to bainbridge.

engaged: on the ferrie..
we immediately went to the ferrie and purchased the 1:00 ticket to bainbridge. bainbridge? i've never heard of it. where is he taking me? on the ferry, i notice these 2 girls taking photographs of each other. they were really hilarious cause the wind was blowing so hard but they were having so much fun. i kind of glanced at one of them and thought "did they just take our picture?" but i didn't want to be paranoid so i didn't think anything more of it.

engaged: the bloedel house.
we get a taxi and arrive at the bloedel reserve. it's a really beautiful property where you can walk through the forest and gardens. it was so serene and peaceful. and no one was around!

engaged: pretty forest!

engaged: walking through blodel reserve!
i think i was glad it wasn't raining because it would have been really muddy. ;) actually, it rained before we got on the ferrie and then the sun came out. we both thought if it was rainy and gloomy, maybe it would have been all scary walking through the woods (twilight style!) hehe. so we walked for about 15 minutes..through the bridges and everything. we saw a swan. it was really nice!
engaged: it's happening in about 10 seconds!
so we're walking around and arrive at these steps, with a waterfall. i see the 2 girls from the ferrie! one of the girls, darrah, busts out her acting skills and says "oh we saw you on the ferrie! you know, i hope you don't mind but i kind of took some pictures of you guys.. do you want to see?" -- since at this point i sort of knew what was happening, I said "sure!" instead of thinking "why did this random stranger take pictures of us on the ferrie, creeepy!!" ;) so she starts flipping through some pictures she took and then we come to these 4 images, she flips through them one at a time:

engaged: will you marry me?
i turn around and nicholas is on one knee with a ring. :) awwwwwwwwwwww.

engaged: proposal.
ps: i think it's funny that he is on one knee and still about as tall as me :)
it all happened so fast and i felt so calm about it, lol. it was so amazing and sweet.

engaged: moment after
it turns out he had done a bunch of research for photographers and found laurel mcconnell. he wanted to be sure we had memories and have the proposal captured in photos :) he had been emailing laurel for a month figuring out the plan. (she's also blogged about our story here!) darrah and laurel were amazing and so sweet. he wanted to take me to seattle to propose in the rain and have it be really special and memorable.

engaged: hurray!
then laurel and darrah stayed with us for a while longer, having a mini shoot. i was so unprepared but it was so much fun!

engaged: aw.
since i didn't want a diamond ring, he had no idea what to get me so he made the ring himself in a 3D program he works in for his job and had it made through a rapid pro typing place. the ring turned out to be so thin because he didn't realize the scale he was working in so it actually broke but i loved it... and i'm going to try to glue it back together.

engaged: ring, made by nicholas.
taken by helen at our friends surprise baby shower..
that is a story i will save for another day.
AND he also made a back up ring (the ring i am wearing now) out of a block of wood. he hand carved it and sanded it down himself. it was the sweetest thing ever and i think it was meant to be because it totally fit perfectly as well. (i was very impressed by his craft skills, since he has never taken a woodworking class!) he is totally a crafter at heart i bet ;) we did end up finding this fabulous custom ring shop in seattle: green lake jewelry. so we'll probably just design our rings there. (if you need a custom ring, this is your place!)
so i'm engaged! i couldn't wait to share it with
all you dear blog friends.
now for wedding plans.
i don't even know where to start!
but i think maybe a wedding blog is coming..? ;)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Phantom of the Opera:

so i had a nice weekend! started off in the morning with nicholas bringing over a book he made for me, entirely out of construction paper... each page had the 'surprise' we were doing for the day. i'll probably post pictures later. some of it was pop up, some of it had moving parts - i was super impressed. ;)

my mom got us phantom of the opera tickets since it was here for a month at the pantages theater, in hollywood. so my little bro and his gf went, along with nick and i. we were in row c, right in the middle! it was pretty awesome, i've never been so close! phantom has always been a family favorite of ours, it is such a timeless classic with simply amazing music. thank you andrew lloyd webber! anyway, i'm really glad nick appreciates it as well.

vday: a love book.
here's the book he made me.

vday: phantom of the opera.
the curtain + statue in the theater, this is actually a pretty creepy statue.

vday: phantom of the opera.
the orchestra, i wonder what'd it be like to play in an orchestra. so amazing!

vday: phantom of the opera.
the ceiling in this theater is definitely legit.

vday: phantom of the opera.
so bummed - they're not doing the old school letters, they just stick a big banner across the sign now instead. note: my slip is actually showing, classy danni, classy. why did no one tell me this? punks.

vday: phantom of the opera.
such a cutie pie!

well, that is about all. he took me to dinner later that night, it was really all we had time for considering it took us about 2 hours to get back to orange county in the traffic. i am not a fan of traffic. but we ate at this nice restaurant that was on the beach, it was lovely. i hope you all had nice weekends..update me about how yours went!