Okay so Shawn doesn't believe in blogging...

...even though he's the one who started the blog...hah!! I love his pieces...

Let me take you back to the day of November 20, 2007. ...or a few days before...
The week before the 20th our friend Fuji Jingle sent me a text message asking me to help him suprise fuji mingle by taking her up to the aquarium while she thinks he is out helping his dad and SUPRISE...HE'S AT THE AQUARIUM! This was a little strange to me for a FEW reasons...

Number one: Why would he want to suprise her at the aquarium? Yes we all know that she wants to go but he hates fish...so Why wouldn't he just give in and take her himself??

Number Two: I told Shawn about it and he seemed WAY too excited that I was going to the location of our first date without him. He would be here the day after but he had to photograph something so he couldn't come up the night before. Or so he says...

Number Three: When fujimingle and I decided to have a girls night the night of November 20th, I suggested the aquarium and she WAY too readily agreed to go to the aquarium without her hubbabubby.

So the night in question rolls around and I pick up the Fuji mingle. It is sooooooooooo cold so we stop by the gas station to get some hot chocolate...My hot chocolate of choice?? MINT hot chocolate (yum a dum dum). While at the gas station I start telling the Fuj that I was having a really hard time knowing that Shawn was proposing during Christmas Break. I wanted it to be a suprise!!! So she asks me if I think he will wait to do it then. But I told her,"No because he told me he has plans for it that he cannot break." Oh well...lets get going. As we are getting on the freeway I tell her that its a good thing Shawn wasn't here because there was no way he would give me a kiss with mint on my breath. The whole way there Fuj the Jingle is sending me text messages asking where we were and then the last text message he sent me when we were almost there was "This place is closed...come anyway".

So we get there and there is no Jingle in sight so Mingle and I still walked up to the building to see if we could find out why they were closed...so Fuji she says "Lets go in!!" And we get in but I'm feeling kind of weird that they've been closed for 45 minutes and the doors are still unlocked. we get in there and she see's Fuji he around the corner and goes 'what are you doing here?" and he goes "Suprise...I wanted to suprise you" Now, I know this kid better than that. He would have had flowers and he would have been dressed nicer. so I'm sitting there sippin my hot chocolate laughing to myself about how cute they are when none other than MY LOVE COMES AROUND THE CORNER!!! ...with flowers no less. I was so excited to see him I completely bypassed the flowers and wrapped my arms around him. I honestly thought he was just here early to suprise me. He hands me my flowers and puts his hands on my arms and says "Karey, I love you and you know i'd do anything for you." He then proceeds to get down on one knee and I IMMEDIATELY burst into tears. "Karey Elizabeth Haddock, will you marry me?" Some how I managed to choke out a Yes. He stood up and I wrapped my arms around him and laughed and cried and said I love you who knows HOW many times. He then looks at me and says," Do you want your ring now?" OH YEAH! I forgot there was a ring involved!! It is so beautiful!! So after a few more hugs, kisses and I love you's we left and thanked the staff for staying open (shawn had to BEG the aquarium to stay open so he could propose to me there). Halfway into the parking lot an employee came running after us and said,"The management wants to know if you guys want to come back inside for a dance." So they had us stand on the compass in the lobby and they played Crash Into Me by the Dave Matthews Band. I was so busy crying and hugging him I could barely move.

Once again we headed out and made our way to the Mayan where we had dinner on our first date. And the very amazing fuji's came with us because we love them and we were so excited that they were part of this special night. I love that Shawn Barlow Romney more than anything in this whole world. That was the best night ever. And he is the best man I have ever had in my life...and i get to keep him!!!

Okay Mr. "when are you going to post???? have you posted yet???" This one was your job :P But since someone else seems to have the same posting procrastination issues I do I'll post this.

WE ARE ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm going to make Shawn post the story but until then you can view the story at aparkromneyfamily.blogspot.com

Saturday

Okay just so you are all aware...I have the best boyfriend in the world. Look at that face! Awwww I loves him....anyway onto the point of this post. World's best boyfriend suprised me and took me on a picnic on saturday to the most beautiful park.

We sat under a very old, knotty (K-N-O-T-T-Y...got it???) tree,
that sat right next to a pond that led into some wetlands that you could navigate on a boardwalk.

We had subway, potato salad, and chips hahaha...

Who do you think ....

...has a bigger mouth?

After we ate we just sat under the tree that we have now dubbed as "our spot" and talked and laughed and just enjoyed our time together. He told me that he wanted to just do something nice for me since every time we're together on the weekend we are always running around busy busy. So he wanted to take some time just he and I to take it easy and enjoy each others company. He's the best! I love him to pieces.

Viva Lost Wages!

Shawn has been on my case the last week trying to get me to tell you about our Las Vegas trip. Well....I guess I'll stop being so lazy now...here you go.

So last weekend I went down to ephraim to visit Shawn. Half way down there I thought it would be alot of fun to go down to Vegas. At first he thought I was kidding and was not about to let that happen. But after about an hour he got kind of excited about the idea and off we went to Vegas! Shawn's brother Josh and his wife Becca live down in Vegas with her parents so we called to make sure it would be okay before we really left but they happily let us stay with them (on opposite ends of the house for those of you wondering :P)

Shawn and I of course hadn't eaten all day when we decided to take this last minute road trip. Sooooooooooo the obligatory road trip grub...McDonalds.

20 minutes outside of Vegas we got stuck in a dead stop traffic jam. We figured it was for the normal reasons....invisible road construction. But as we started moving we discovered that it was a semi trailer on fire!! We tried to get a picture but none of them turned out.
Driving all day does wonders for your complexion. Finally!! We arrived at Vegas. Becca's very generous parents took us out to eat, thus beginning my new obsession with coconut steamed rice. After dinner we hit the strip with Josh and Becca.
First stop, The Lions Den at MGM. It was really pretty cool to be that up close and they were really really pretty cats. The only part that freaked me out was that all the trainers were just freely walking around and PLAYING with the Lions. Cool albeit a disaster waiting to happen!

They have this place called the mile long shops or something or other on the strip so we stopped in there. It was about that point in the day though that Shawn and I had just about had it! We were so tired! And when Shawn gets tired his hair turns blue and he offends Japanese people.

The next day our first stop on the Strip was Caesar's palace. Of course....Trouble follows Shawn and he had a little run in with the law. Meanwhile, Josh compared bald heads with a butler.

After Shawn's little skirmish with the officer we decided we want to watch the light show in Caesar's palace. So we waited.....

and waited.....aaaaaaaand...

That was about as exciting as the light show got because they forgot to fill the room with fog or something because you could see little lights turning on in the ceiling but you couldn't see them go anywhere.....

So we visited Pegasus....I don't think he liked us very much seeing as how he tried to stomp us to death.

Apparently in Vegas the statues live and breathe in Vegas and if you pay them you can get your picture taken with them. I think this statue dates back to the 13th century Rome....why is Shawn holding his hand???

This Statue was a little bit frisky and while we were taking the picture kept trying to get me to actually kiss him. But I had no idea where that grody chunk of marble has been soooooooo that didn't happen.

This is straight proof that evil does exist in Vegas. Creepiest thing ever.

Last stop in Vegas....THE COCA-COLA STORE!!!!!!! However...the Polar Bear wasn't in a very sharing mood. All I wanted was a drink rudey pants.

The Polar Bear liked Shawn alot better than he liked me. See that smug bear giving Shawn a hug while he death grips that giant bottle of coke? Shawn...I think its time you bring me back a polar bear's head.

The Story I Have To Tell Everyone

So i have to tell everyone the story of how Karey and i came about. We meet during this last summer. I really liked her the first time i saw her so i asked her out on a date. She said "NO!" I didn't know why she said no and she couldn't give me any good reason why the answer was no. I was crushed and upset because she couldn't give me any reasoning for it. It made me mad! However, i really liked this girl and i wasn't about to give up that easy. I kept hounding her and asking her out all summer. I was bound and determined to get a date with this girl. Nothing was going to stop me from getting what i wanted. Now! Many people would think that i was being a stalker and run as far away as fast as they can however, Karey didn't think that. Lucky for me she still wanted to be friends. That, i guess, is what gave me a ray of hope to keep fighting for what i wanted and that was Karey. We hung out all summer and became really good friends. I never stopped asking her out all summer and still the answer was the same.

The summer came and gone and still nothing had happened between Karey and I. It was time for me to go back to school. I told her that it would make my whole summer if she were to go on one date with me bafore i returned to school. She agreed! I couldn't believe it! I finally got what i have been fighting for all summer. I planned out a really nice date. We went to an Aquerium and then I took her to the Myan for dinner. (The picture is of us at the aquarium on our first date.) She loved it. Two days before i returned to school we decided to start being exlusive. I went to school and did the long distince dating, which by the way i do not suggest. It is so hard! The rest is history.

Now we are planning on getting married and i will be officialy proposeing soon. We are thinking about the first weekend of July.

This is a start of a beautiful relationship.

Listen....

Do da Do! Do you want to know a secret? Do da do! Do you promise not to tell??

I know what Shawn's getting for Christmas and he doesn't!! Mwahaha!

It's a start

This is a start of our now blog to tell everyone about the Shawn and Karey Romney Family. Well we aren't really a family yet, however we will soon be one. Keep cheacking our blog out for more information on our soon to be family.