Our Engagement at Alta Ski Resort

For those who have never heard how we got engaged, heres the story:

It was a cold, Saturday December day and Kevin had gone skiing.  He wanted me to come up and meet him later in the afternoon at Alta, the 3-4:30 free session, so I could continue to learn how to ski.  Well it ended up you  needed chains or 4-wheel drive to get up the canyon that day, so I was wondering how I was going to get up there.  My dad was very willing to take me up to skiing that day when I told him I didnt know what I was going to do (now I know why).  But it ended up that kevin came all the way back down to pick me up and take me back up there.  I thought this was kind of strange but just thought he really wanted me to go skiing.  So we get up there and it is really cold.  So he makes sure I am all bundled up, and I remember him just being so cute with me and helping me with everything.  While hes putting everything on me he puts an avalanche beacon on him and says that we are going to learn how to use that today since my parents are always kidding with him that he needs to be safer on the mountain.  So on the third run he leads me over to this tree area.  Tells me to look away while he hides the other beacon.  He then hands me his beacon and teaches me how to use it and sets me loose to find the other one.  By this time, I was freezing and about ready to be done.  I couldnt find the beacon for a few minutes and began to become frustrated.  I asked him if we could do this another time because I was about to freeze but he was oddly persistent on finding this beacon so I continued on.  When I finally found it, I throw it to him without looking at it and got up.  I turn around and Kevin is there down on one knee, holding out a ring that was tied to the end of the beacon.  And without a sound of nervousness in his voice says "Malorie, Will You Marry Me?"  By now, I was shaking all over! I couldnt believe that I had not seen this coming and it was all a complete suprise! We had talked about marriage, and kind of when we wanted to get married, but I didnt think he was going to ask me for another month or so.  The first thing that popped into my  mind, and the first thing I said to him was "Did you ask my dad?" This was always very important  to me.  He kind of laughed and said "Yes Malorie."  So then it was ok for me to say... "Yes!"  I put the ring on, and couldnt help but ask if it was real (it was HUGE.)  He said no and said that he had gone to Kohls right before he came and picked me up and picked out the prettiest, fake ring he could find haha.  Well it was now past 4:30 and a ski patrol came by us and told us that we had to ski down and leave.  I wanted to be like HELLO we just got engaged can you give us a moment!! But we skied down and the whole time I just couldnt believe that I was now engaged and had this ring on my finger.  While taking all my gear off I was just in shock and staring at my ring.  After we had gotten warm, kevin took me to the Ariel restaurant at Snowbird.  It was perfect! The view was so pretty and the food was so good.  As we left we called our friends Jordan and Lyndsey, who had just also gotten engaged, and told them the news.  We then debated on who of our families to tell first.  We decided to stop by my house, but only tyler and zoe were home.  We didn't want to wait, so we went over to kevins house.  We decided that we were going to hide my ring and just hang out with them for a while.  We ended up watching the BYU game for about 20 min and then out of the blue... Kevin goes "So..did I tell you we're engaged?" He said it so nonchalantly that everyone was like hey thats not funny if your kidding!  So i popped out my ring and the best response we had was kevins little brother Patrick.  He jumps out of his seat and yells "I KNEW IT! I knew you guys were going to get married!" 

And thats how we got engaged.