Engagement

Well it's official!! I know its probably not a huge surprise to most of you, but I can now tell you that Ryan and I are getting married on November 21st in the Draper Utah Temple!!! We have known that we were going to get married for a few months now, and it's exciting now that it's official!

I was able to go to North Carolina and spend some time with him and Tyler and Katie and Kendalynn this last week. I had a great time and it was really hard to come back to Rexburg.

So just to share the story with you guys on how he proposed. Well as I am sure you all know, we met on a cruise, and we both like scuba diving. On Thursday we drove to the coast and went diving. We dove two ship wrecks. On the first dive, it was fine, we were at the bottom of the ship (in the ship) and I was off exploring. And I turned around to see where he was at, and he told me to come here. As I approached him I could see that he had a sea shell in his hand. And I was thinking oh nice, you found a shell, good for you. But didn't think anything of it. Well then he opened the shell, and there was the ring. He then had these little cards taped up so he could take them under water and it said "Kara Marie Buttle will you marry me?" I started hyperventilating and shook my head yes.

Later on I come to find out that he had a couple of different ideas of how he wanted to propose, but he decided to do it this way so he didn't have to say anything. He's so funny. He knew he would probably stumble over his words so this way he got out of it. So sneaky.

So here are a few pictures from my trip.

Me and Katie have the same shirt

Kendalynn

And here's the ring, both Me and Ryan's favorite part is the suspended diamond.

This is at the Duke Gardens, they were so pretty!

This was taken the night we got engaged, right before we went to bed, so we look really tired.

On our way home from diving, I think it's funny that Ryan looks like a little boy in this picture, with his long hair not done. We cut it for him that night. We as in Me and Katie!

Random

So, I've got a few things to share with you guys!!! A few uneventful things. But enjoy:

I MADE THIS!!!! Isn't that pretty!!! I was pretty proud of myself I am not going to lie!!! My first real cake, and it turned out so good!!!

This is where I got the idea from...

It was my roommates birthday!!! She turns 20 on Sunday!! Happy Birthday Janelle!

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And this is me...Counting down the days till I get to see Ryan!

We're down to 4 days!!!

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So get this...my friend, Ben...woke me up and made me get out of bed at like 10:30...lame I know...but that's besides the point. He came over to give me this plant...

Would you say that's pretty much DEAD??? I sure would. He told me it was my job to give this plant some TLC. So what did I do, I watered it, I put it in the sun, and watered again, and did everything I needed to keep it alive. It never got better than this. I failed, but wouldn't you say this plan was past the point of no return?

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Another story...Me and my roommate, Janelle, a few weeks ago wanted to make something, it was Friday night, and neither of us had plans, big surprise (at least for me). So we found this cake recipe online. A one serving cake recipe you make in the microwave in a mug. And this is what I got from it. It was a lot of fun, and actually quite good!