when the twenty seventh began our meager honda civic [filled with myself, hannah, justin, andrew and debbie] was passing through the plains of utah. with nothing but adrenaline running through my vanes i stayed wide awake the whole fifteen something hour drive through the odd hours of the night. the only for sure things that were going to happen on the twenty seventh were a) hannah’s interview in colorado springs and b) i was going to propose to her. everything else was going to be decided on a moment by moment basis. we arrived to denver at approximately noon where we were greeted by john and paula [hannah’s parents]. after a little leg stretching, stomach filling break we loaded up the car again and headed down to colorado springs. justin sacrificially stayed behind and rested while debbie, andrew, hannah and i trekked forward. a majority of the topic in the car ride consisted of preparing hannah for her interview. as we were preparing her my mind is far from insanity because i know that in a matter of minutes i am going to be asking her to take a job that is much more permanent than selling babies. after a few wrong turns and a break to visit the local baristas, we make it to bethany christian services. once hannah exits the car andrew, debbie, and erupt in anticipation. for the first time the whole trip the three of us are alone and can talk about purposing. we come up with some sort of a plan that involves a long walk and a definitive signal to instruct them that it was happening. hannah’s interview ended up being an hour and fifteen minutes. that was probably the longest hour and fifteen minutes of my life. deb bought a toothbrush, we saw rabbits, and we recieved a number of UV rays that made us uncomfortable. after much anticipation hannah came out of the interview beaming. she was extremely excited for such a great interview and as she was talking about the future i could think nothing past the next thirty minutes. we headed to garden of the gods [or gods garden as i called it] and found a parking spot. as my eyes were scanning the landscape to find that perfect spot where i would pop the question i saw it. there was a large meadow surrounded by trees in all direction on the west side of the large rocks. that was the place. so now i just had to go on a walk, turn the talk with hannah to a talk about the future, then give her the ring. well things didn’t exactly go as plan. hannah peed in the bushes, deb was hiding in the bushes, andrew was slighty trailing and i could not carry a conversation without hannah losing interest. after walking on the west side of the rocks as the sun is setting behind the mountains leaving us with crisp lighting in the air. after hannah’s distracting comments [look at the climbers, look at the bats, look at the birds] i managed to make it to the middle of the meadow with her. i had no idea where deb and andrew were but i knew that the time was now. i proceeded to reach into my bag to grab a book i made her. i love giving hannah books in a sense representing stories and chapters of our lives together. so i got a thick book and cut the core of it out where i placed the ring inside of it. on the cover of the book i spray painted our story. i pulled this book out of my back pack and i told her that what was in this book would be the new chapter in our story. after she tried flipping through the glued together pages she found the box. on one knee i fell where i took the book and box from her opened it up and asked her a question that would change our lives for ever. will you marry me. she will marry me. at that point my nervous anxious self turned in to a confidence and overwhelming feeling of life altering success. i [joshua perry hause] asked hannah marie woodside to be my wife. and to celebrate we went to rowdy trout where are closest friends and family waited. the days to follow would be that of rest, relaxation, celebration and the very beginning steps of planning a wedding. this will be a day that i will never forget.
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