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They met by way of tanner's long legs! Marissa and her mom were sitting in front of Tanner and his friend (they were at a concert or something) and latter he apologized for accidentally bumping into her mom's chair with his long legs. They started talking a bit and right when tanner was wondering how he was going to get Marissa's number, his friend Nikki that he was with asked for her number because she wanted to be friends. So tanner said, "i want to be friends too!" Nikki totally helped him out with that one.

The first time tanner asked her on a date she actually turned him down. It was because she really had something already planned, but tanner still felt a little bad. :) ha ha sucker!

They mainly had fun when they were together. they would go laser tagging and different fun things. When tanner had to study really hard for his finals they would still find time to spend with each other. They would make dinner together. Tanner would often call home and ask for different receipts. I personally think this was so cool! they would cook dinner and sometimes dessert.

I hear wedding bells!!

For all of you who don't know...Tanner is now officially engaged. Her name is Marissa Hansen and she is such a doll! She lives in Rupert, Idaho. Tanner and Marissa met at BYU-Idaho around December-ish. But i don't want this to be a novel...so I will only tell you about the actual engagement excitement. If you have any questions about further details please ask in a comment! i would love to answer them!

Tanner and Marissa happen to share the same birthday, May 29th. (different years of course). So Tanner decided to make this birthday really special and propose. I will now tell the story in two different points of view: tanner and marissa's and mine/my family's.

Tanner and Marissa: That morning they had a nice breakfast then Tanner took her to Fat Cats to ride on the Flow Rider. It is an indoor surfing thing. I hear it's really fun. (they were going to go to Lagoon, but it happend to be closed that day). After they surfed for a while they came back home then went to The Roof in Salt Lake. It's a way nice resturaunt at the top of the Joseph Smith building. They were at a table overlooking the SLC Temple. Then when they got back to Roy they went on a night hike to waterfall canyon. They used head lamps and finally got to the top. They then went to a spot where there was blankets, a place for a fire, firewood, sparkling cyder, champaigne glasses, and a georgous view of the whole valley. Then latter after they talked for a while tanner pulled out the binoculars and started asking her if she could find things like Best Buy, the temple, RC Willeys, etc. Then he positioned the binoculars to focus on a soccer field that had the words "Marry me Marissa?" written in white christmas lights. He then acted like there was something interesting and said "wow, look at this!" Then she looked at it, then looked at Tanner, then looked at the lights again, then said "oh, my gosh. Yes tanner, yes!" Then she hugged him and he said, "Wait, I've got to give you the ring." Then he pulled out a red velvet ring box in the shape of a grand piano. (she is an amazing pianist, she's majoring in music). She put the ring on and then asked, "Is this for real?" then tanner said, "pinch me." (oohh! tender)

This is where Tanner preposed. That is the view from where they sat. isn't beautiful!

Mine/Erin's/Momma's/Poppa's: I came home from the last day of school and was asked (forecefully) to go on a hike with erin, momma, and poppa. I hate hikes, so i asked why? Because we are setting up for Tanner to propose. And that was the first i heard about it. (nice way to find out huh? (sarcastic)) Anywho, we hiked up the mountain while they were at Flow Rider (in the hottest part of the day) and set up everything for them. Then i went to the drive in with my friends, so the rest erin, momma and poppa did. Tanner asked mom about a week before to collect the christmas lights. They then went to the soccer field to set up the lights while Tanner and Marissa were hiking. Mom said it was really hard settin them up in the dark. They used white forks to keep the letters where they were. They hoped it would work. They then sat there for about an hour before Tanner finally text Erin to tell them they could go home.

This is at Lagoon the next day. This is on the swings.

So now i'm about to have a new sister-in-law. She is so cute! She is funny, nice, tall, beautiful, and so fun to be around. Tanner and her are so cute together. They are always laughing and joking and having fun. I love it!! Well, they are going to be Married in the Twin Falls temple on August 22nd. I can't wait!!! well, as i said, feel free to ask any questions if you have any. I'll write soon about our Ohio trip. bye!

~Idaho~

Over memorial weekend we went to Idaho to spend time with our awsome Harker family there. We went to our cousin's homecoming, moved pipe, shot guns, hung out with g-ma Harker, and had a great time with Pam and Layne's family. One of the highlights was going to a cave there in Idaho. It was so cool. I know pictures are worth a thousand words... so i'll just put some pictures on.

this is the opening of the cave. it's so random. if you didn't know where it was you would never find it. It's the weirdest spot for a cave, it's in the middle of a flat, sagebrushy place.

This is our little lizard friend. My aunt's brother pulled this out of his pocket! ha ha

The cave was about a mile long. It was really fun. It was the first cave i've ever been in.

From the left to the right: Me (amber jo), Marissa Hansen (tanner's fiance), Tanner, Amanda (Marissa's friend).

There were two ladders you could climb throughout the cave. Erin's on the ladder, Marissa is in the red, Amanda is on the left, i'm on the right.

this is my model of a cousin going thourgh a crawl space.


My hillarious cousin, Jordan going through the same crawl space. thankfully there were place matts already there.

Strutting our stuff, yeah that's right! there was some graffette on the walls. One was dated back to the 1940's! it was pretty cool.

This was just our immediate family, there was more there.

There were some parts where it was a bit small, but other parts where huge openings. I felt like i was in Lord of the Rings 1 in the caves. Good thing we didn't see any Orcs

After the cave hiking we built a fire and roasted got dogs and marshmallows. It was so good.

The only problem was our car. To get to the cave we had drive on a muddy, nasty road. The next day me and mom went to clean off the bottom of the car and the area by the tires. There was SO much mud. It took forever! there was mud EVERYWHERE!! nasty.

They day before we went to Pam and Layne's farm we stopped by at g-ma's. She drove us around Shelley, where she first met Raymond and where they lived for a while after they were married. We saw her house, their farm, their first appartment and this picture above is where my grandpa was living when they met. It was so cool! it was interesting to see proof that g-ma was young at one time. I was amazed at how much she remembered.

This week was so much fun. It was nice to catch up with my family. they are so much fun. Next week i'll tell you all about our visit to Ohio. Then the week after that i will tell you all about Tanner's engagement to Marissa Hansen. So, look for that! Untill next time. bye! ~Amber jo