How we met and Our first date!

So I have been getting a lot of frequent questions about how me and Trent met so I am going to tell the story. :) Well it all started with Trent being friends with my older brother Jake since High school.  My brother threw Tucker Garrett his bachelor party last summer and I was there for the first little bit just on my lap top while all the boys were showing up.  I guess when Trent showed up he saw me and thought I was pretty cute.  So a few months later (I know this is really really cheesy and so typically dumb but this is how it happened) he added me on facebook and I thought why not? He is pretty cute and maybe I can get a date out of him.  So every time I got on I was sorta hoping that he would talk to me but he never really did.  So when I got my tonsils out in August I was on loratab one night and he was on so I wrote, "Aren't you the Trentity?"  That name was an inside joke that my family had about Trent because my brother would always talk like he was just so amazing! And now I can truly see why.  haha well we started to talk and found that we had a lot in common and made each other laugh.  So he was going to a concert that night and invited me to go. Unfortunately I was down and out for my tonsils, but he got my number so he could call me during my favorite song.  So after he did that we started texting and talking a bit here and there.  Then a few weeks later I was going down to provo to see Emily Johnson and spend a night with her, and Trent asked me on a date for that night.  So I dragged my friend Kirsten Nye along ( I just love her)  and we went down and did a double date.  During the date we went to the DI and picked up purple outfits because we were going to be Graping, (look up the youtube video "the grapeist) and then we ended up making a life sized cardboard Kirby cut out.  It was just a fun wonderful date! When I left that night I remember thinking how amazing that date was and I wasn't even sure why.  There wasn't anything super crazy awesome that happened, I just felt really comfortable and with him.  After that he started asking me on more and more dates and he comes down every weekend to see me and spend time with me.  And occasionally when I can I go down there and spend the weekend down there.    Here are some fun pictures of our first date together.

Trent and His Grapist Robes :) okay i would add more but it isn't working right now. haha 

The Engagement

So it finally happened! The much anticipated (mostly by my impatience) engagement is finally official! So I am going to start blogging things about our engagement as it goes along.  This is my first time blogging so I don't really know what I am doing. haha  Well Yesterday February 26, 2011 I was down at Trent's in the morning, and as he was getting ready for the day I was sitting upstairs at the kitchen table just talking with his mom Claudeen (my future mother-in-law) yay!! She is such a sweet lady, I can't wait to be apart of the Burke family, and Trent to be apart of my family. :)  So as we were talking Trent came upstairs and was like, "We have to go pick up Nick (Trent's main man) from the temple at 1." I was like "Are you serious?  His family can't pick him up?"  I was planning on going up to the valley all day and just doing Homework! Trent was like, "No we can just  go up to your place you can get all pretty and then we can just go down and pick him up real quick."  So I rolling my eyes said, "alright fine." So we went up to my house and I got all ready and Trent kept saying, "okay you ready to go now?" and I was like, "we have like 10 more minutes. He won't be out, we have time."  So finally we left at about 12:30 and went down to the Ogden temple where it was super busy! Trent said, "Okay he isn't out yet, because he hasn't called me. So I am just going to park the car and we can go and walk around while we are waiting for him." So I was just like, "okay sounds fun let's do it." I totally wasn't even suspecting it though all the signs were there, but I thought he hadn't asked my parents yet so I thought in my mind there is no way it could happen, he is just getting my hopes up.  So as we started walking around to the front of the temple, he looked at me and said, "I can't wait to be with you forever." and "I can't wait to take you to the temple."  As we walked to the front there was this cute little platform that was in the middle of the fountains and right in front of the temple.  He walked me out there and we were looking up at the temple, then he looked down at me and said, "Brandee I love you so much." so I replied, "Trent I love you too. So much."  Then he said, "I know you wanted to get married at this temple, but I thought this would be just as good."  right then it triggered in my mind what was happening.  He got down on his knee and pulled out the ring and said, "Brandee will you marry me?" So me having that deep Stokes blood in me started to cry.  It was such an overwhelming moment! So I said "Of course." I can't wait to spend the rest of my life plus eternity with Trent! He is the man that I have always wanted! I love him so much and I can't wait to tackle all the adventures we will have together!
And here are some good pictures of the ring.