Soon to be Mrs. Jefferson Johnson!!

Well, I figured that it was about time I start contributing to this blog and what better opportunity then to make the big announcement that yes WE ARE ENGAGED!!! I think most of you already know but it finally happened and I’ve been a very happy girl since then.

It all began on Thursday when he told me that he lost his keys to Chichi (his Dodge Neon) but I didn’t think much of it and figured they would show up soon. Well, they didn’t turn up and very early Saturday morning (1:45 am to be exact) my roommate came in and said Jeff was trying to get a hold of me. I had just barely fallen asleep and my phone was on silent so I had no idea he had been calling. I called him back right away and when he answered he sounded kind of panicked and was like “hey, you know how I lost my keys?” He then began to tell me that when he had gotten home the police were there and that someone had stolen Chichi and that they found it on BYU campus! He asked if I would come pick him up because he didn’t have spares for Chichi. I told him of course and that I’d hurry. So I just threw on sweats and a sweatshirt, no make-up, and kept asking my roommate “is something going on?” She of course told me no but I didn’t know quite what to think. I kept telling myself not to get my hopes up, but secretly I was hoping he had something up his sleeve.
I got to where he said Chichi was on campus but I didn’t see anyone so I called his phone but there was no answer so I called again and no answer…so then I started to panic! All these thoughts started running through my head and I began to think he was serious and that he was maybe off chasing after the guy who stole his car! I was trying to figure out what I was going to do when I got closer to Chichi and saw red stuff all around the car and got even more scared but then realized they were rose petals and on his window he had written READ with an arrow pointing to the back. On the back, there was a card he had written for me and at that point I just started crying. I reached the end of the card and it said “Meet me where I first asked for your number” (which was near the Humanities building for those of you familiar with BYU campus). Still crying, I ran to the spot, and there he was waiting. He came over and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him! I could hardly get anything out but of course I said yes! By that point, my crying had turned into laughing and I couldn’t believe everything that had just happened. BYU definitely will hold a special place in my heart now.

All I have to say though is that I’m the luckiest girl and I couldn’t ask for anything more! I can’t wait to marry the man I love and be with my best friend for the rest of my life. The big day is June 26th and we all hope you will be able to share in our special day!

New Mexico Game

As I sit here writing this Blog (weird word) it hurts to get up because we had our second game of the season last night and all I do is run and get hit for 2 ½ hours so as you can imagine im pretty sore today. At the old age of 27 my body cant take as much of a beating as I used to and growing up with 4 brothers probably cut a few days off of my recovery time. Some already know that on Friday night Chelsie and I got engaged and ill let her elaborate on the whole “how did he do it?” but yesterday we played New Mexico who I really wasn’t all that impressed with. On the first play of the game we had a play call just for me and I ended up scoring my 2nd TD of the season. We jumped ahead of them by 15 in the first half but in the second half we had 4 people get hurt so they chipped away and ended up taking the lead with about 2 min. left in the game. We got the ball back and got a couple penalties to start the drive so it was very frustrating. It was third down and we only had a minute left in the game and I told my coach to run the same play that we ran the first play of the game which I scored on. At this point I was exhausted and really only had 1 more play in me so I made sure that I got open. We were about 35 yards out from the end zone and Wissler (our QB) put a ball in the corner of the end zone and I snagged it for the go ahead touchdown. I looked up at the clock and there were about 50 seconds left which is a lot of time to score since the field in arena football is substantially shorter. Since our defense is very sketchy we actually ended up giving the game away with 8 seconds to go on a 4th down play. I was fired up. It would have been nice to be the hero of the game but oh well. I think im going to start playing defense because our team needs help. New Mexico wasn’t that good and im pretty sure in a couple weeks we will beat them down there in New Mexico. That was our last home game for 3 weeks and we will be traveling to Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. So far it has been a great experience to play in these games against some pretty good competition.

Easter/Wizards Game

So Chelsie and I got to spend Easter with her family up in Syracuse which was so fun! She has all of her immediate family here in Utah so they all came over with the nieces and nephews (reminds me of our family). Chels and I hid 100 eggs for the kids which honestly was VERY hard because they live in a new development which has very few surroundings so we had to get creative and hide them in the grass!! haha. Overall it was a great time to be with her family and its nice to have a place to go during the holidays. Chelsie gave me a picture for Easter that was very sweet of her.

So yesterday Chels and I went to the Wizards and Jazz game...........not good!! We didnt have Gil or Caron Butler so as expected we got CRUSHED! It was close for the first 4 min. of the game but unfortunately for the Wiz games arent 4 min. long. We didnt stay for the whole game but we got some pretty good pictures out of it :)

My first Pro Game

Well i have to be honest and say that last week I was VERY nervous for our first game with the Utah Saints. We played against the Wyoming Calvary who won their division last year so as expected we got crushed. I wont even mention the final score but it was our first game ever as a franchise and they have been around for over 6 years but in reality we just didn't play well at all.....obviously. You cant really win with 8 fumbles and when we actually held onto the ball we would score! I had my first touchdown of the year on like a 4 yard slant and JoJo said I had about 8 catches but I really cant remember because I got my bell rung on a post across the middle. I got fired up when I got rocked so the rest of the game I was playing with a chip on my shoulder and it didn't help that we were down by like 40pts. It was a very fun game and a special one because Dad hasn't seen me play football in probably 9 years and him and Justin flew out to watch my first game. Its fun playing in front of your friends but there is something special about playing in front of your parents. Mom couldn't make it out to the game because she was helping Kim with her new born baby boy and she was definitely missed. We play New Mexico this weekend and from what I hear they aren't too good so Im confident that we will come out with a W.