A special day

Amy has a beautiful ring on her finger. More importantly she has a wonderful fiance! These two characters are quite the match. They met in one of Amy's classes last January where Todd Smith was a TA. They became friends but couldn't date because he was grading students' work. So they waited until class was over in April. Or almost. They quickly became inseparable and on Nov. 11 he asked if he could come and talk to Riley. I loved hearing him say he had "fallen" in love with Amy and wanted to marry her. The fun part was, she didn't know he was talking to Riley and led her to believe, for a few days, that he still needed to do that so a proposal wasn't imminent.

They had picked out a ring together but she didn't think he had picked it up. He hadn't. Because he was so busy he had his mom in Bountiful pick it up from Salt Lake for him and drive it down for a hand off in American Fork. On Monday, Nov. 15, amidst all the craziness of classes, projects and work, he led her on a scavenger hunt for "dinner" because she had done that for him in the summer. She was oblivious there was more to the evening than just dinner because he surprised her with a song and a down-on-one knee proposal. She texted me, "YOU ARE SO SNEAKY!"

She might be walking on clouds but this mom is too. Prayers have been answered for sweet Amy. And we couldn't have picked a better man for her to marry. He's the real deal.