General

You may notice a bit of a difference around here. I’ve updated the scottandjessica.net theme.

1. It’s a bit warmer – just in time for Spring/Summer
2. The green reflects the wedding colors

I posted new pictures to our site. These are pictures of “law school prom,” as Scott likes to call it. We had a law review dinner on Friday night and then Supreme Court Day on Saturday night.

At the Shrine Circus…

After the rave reviews that my first artist’s rendering received…

Too bad plan A didn’t pan out, But i can see why, with that ‘crayola plan’ you were following.
-Matt & Brian Fiddelke

Boy, you draw better than I do!
-Leonardo Da Vinci

Beautiful crayon work!
-Pablo Picasso

I decided to create another artist’s rendering of how it actually happened. The “Plan B” drawing.

Jess gave me a funny (but true?) card over the weekend.

When our story is told
and it will be told
in song and fable and interpretive dance
and puppet show, people will weep with joy
and, through sobs, say,
“Today we have witnessed love.
How can our lives not be bettered by this?”

Okay, the puppet show response may not be so strong. People may not be ready for puppets.

First of all, thank you everyone for your posts. Scott and I are truly blessed to have such great friends and family. I apologize for not posting sooner. Don’t worry…Scott has already scolded me.
I thought I would write about the proposal from my perspective… After we went swimming in the ocean, Scott told me he wanted to get another picture from the top of the cliff with the ocean and the ruins in it. We walked back to “the spot” and took a look around for someone to take our picture. I kept saying that we should just ask anybody to take our picture because even if the person didn’t speak English, everyone knows how to take a picture. But Scott was adamant that we find someone who speaks English. Finally we found our photographer. At this point I wasn’t really paying attention because we had taken so many pictures already throughout the day. When Scott came over to stand by me, all of a sudden he was down on one knee. A part of me thought that he was tying his shoe or something. But then he looked up and asked me to marry him! Unfortunately it took me about a full minute to register that he was really asking me to marry him! And yes, I did ask if he was serious. I truly was not expecting his proposal. In my defense, we have been on lots of vacations before and he has never asked me to marry him on any of those.

So once I gathered my thoughts, I said yes. I didn’t stop shaking for a while. I still haven’t stopped looking at my ring. 😉

The engagement roll of green apple Mentos (goin’ in the scrapbook).

The Photos have been uploaded to the gallery. They might be a bit out of order at the moment and they still need titles and descriptions. We’ll get to that eventually, but right now… Scott need sleepy!

Thanks to everyone that left comments! The response was a bit overwhelming today when we got into Miami and started checking this site’s comments and our e-mail! We really appreciate it! Stay tuned to the site… Jess has been trained on how to post so I’m sure there will be more thrilling stuff coming as soon as we catch up on sleep.

Just to tide you over until I can get some more photos up later tonight. Here’s a picture of the ring (because some of you have been asking).

Well, things didn’t exactly go as planned from what was mentioned in the previous post. We arrived on the boat Monday and were handed a piece of paper that told us we were no longer going to be visiting Cozumel, Mexico. Instead we would be going to Calica, Mexico. So as for popping the question on a dive trip in Cozumel… that was out.

After looking through the excursion choices for our new port of call, we decided to go diving in Key West instead. I did a little shuffling and decided to bring the ring and see what happens. Well we dove… but really couldn’t see much more than 5 feet in front of our faces. Jess decided to sit out the second dive so, back to the drawing board.

Plan B:
In Calica we decided to go on a tour of ancient Mayan ruins called “Tulum.” So what better place to pop out a ring and propose, right? We took the tour and then got some free time to explore on our own. We wandered around a bit and took a dip in the Caribbean. Under the guise of taking the perfect photo, I whispered to a random guy walking by that I’d asked to take our picture, “keep taking them, I’m going to propose!” He smiled and said OK. I dropped to my knee and pulled out the ring, to which Jess replied, “Are you serious???” I just smiled and said yes, and then she did too. We then had a celebratory roll of apple Mentos.

We’ll get pictures up as soon as we get back… looking forward to seeing you all and telling you about the trip.