Its Ab'oot Time, eh? I'm engaged!

Did you get my Canadian reference there?  Eh?  Henry and I had to go to Canada last week for sheep meetings, etc.  Little did I know he was also planning on proposing, well "planning" is an overstatement.  He stuck the ring in his bag in hopes of a "moment" arising to pop the question.

The Canadian border is about 6 hours from Billings so we headed up in hopes of getting close enough to stay the night in the US and head over the border first thing in the morning.  Talk about an interrogation!  Henry mentioned that he knew of a few rodeo cowboys that couldn't get over the border and I assumed it was because they stole horses or has smuggled too much Copenhagen... but apparently these border patrol officers are just mean!  I was driving (which I now regret) and this lady asked about 500 questions, where we were from, where we were going, what were we doing, who were we seeing, what is our IQ, who is our favorite actor, which way do we hang the toilet paper on the roll... I mean it got a little ridiculous (might have fabricated a few questions to enhance my story).  At one point I think my voice cracked and I started shaking but she let us cross the border... finally.

Once in Canada we headed to Picture Butte a little town outside of Lethbridge where we toured a cattle and sheep feedlot.  That night we went out to dinner in Lethbridge and ate in an old water tower, it was SO COOL.  I saw it earlier in the day and thought it was just used as a billboard, but apparently they renovated and made it into a restaurant at the top.  It was really delicious food too.  Ric's Grill, go there.


Next day we went up to Acme and toured another sheep feed lot that was EXTREMELY interesting, if you ever want me to tell you about it, ask.  I'll spare your reading eyes.  Once done there we had the afternoon off until our next meeting the following day.  So, I had looked around at what was near us for our "vacation afternoon" and headed to Banff National Park outside of Calgary.

This is what Lake Louise looks like during the summer: not real right?


Also if you are an avid Bachelor fan like Henry me you might remember it from the Bachelor Sean season when they did a polar bear dip and Tierra (the crazy one) thought she died of hypothermia and caused a big scene (dramatic much).

I asked Henry if he wanted to jump in, but he decided against that and stood here instead:

little did I know there is a ring in his pocket!

 We walked around a bit, laughed at some tourists taking 500 pictures of an animal and as we start walking away from the lake Henry says "So, do you want the rest of your birthday present?" and he pulls a little box out of his pocket, and well you know how the rest goes.... YAY!  It was weird because I am a BIG crier, I cry during TV commercials on the reg.  So I was really surprised by my reaction, I was so shocked and super excited that I just stared at the ring and Henry's smiling face to even react to what was even going on!  It was all very exciting and I am just overwhelmed with happiness, I'm that girl I want to punch in the face from being so overly love drunk.  WOO HOO!

And a beautiful ring it is...

I call these my Umpa Loompa fingers

I'm pretty obsessed with it, stare at it all the time.  I LOVE IT.  The style is so me.

So once I calmed down I realized I needed a picture of us in front of the lake!  I found a tiny little Asian girl, who didn't speak any English to take our picture.  She did pretty good too!

Perfection

Henry's side of the story is that I planned my own proposal since it was my idea to go to Banff, if he had it his way he would have proposed at the sheep feed lot.  The whole thing was very "us" I planned it without knowing and he got to wear his muck boots and work gloves while visiting sheep ranches along the way.  He says if he would have planned anything I would have known something was up... and that is true.  It all worked out to be a perfect proposal for our relationship.

I'm so happy I found a partner to share my life with and start a family.  Looking forward to our wedding NEXT SUMMER!  Hope all you crazy Californians are up for a Montana adventure!