This story should be prefaced by sharing the fact that since I have known Matt the mention of a wedding or marriage was enough to start him sweating, stuttering and border-line panic attack. Matt knew I had always said I wanted my proposal to be a surpise so apparently once he had decided he was going to propose he figured it would be best to keep up the charade of being absolutely terrified of marriage and let me tell you he did a great job. I can 100% assure everyone that I had no idea it was coming.
So onto the proposal story...
We were at the beginning of a vacation that included visiting Phoenix, Bryce Canyon, Zion and Death Valley. We are both photographers so it was a trip geared around taking pictures. We were staying the night at an awesome bed and Breakfast near Bryce. Woke up bright and early this morning to photograph sunrise at Inspiration Point Bryce Canyon. The sunrise was amazing (took this pic there)
We were running all around taking photos and had finally stopped at the top view
ing area, took a few photos, set up my tri-pod to take a photo of us. This photo:
Right after this photo he was packing his camera up as I babbled on to him about the photo we just took and about the camera he was using (apparently he was taking the ring out of the camera bag), he gets up walks over to still completely clueless me who is still babbling on about stupid stuff and he gets down on one knee. I barely remember what he said- but he cried. My response was absolute shock and my very typical response when Im shocked is "SHUT UP!" and jaw dropped. Once I got over the shock of course I said yes. 
This was right after- so excited and clueless that I had the ring on the wrong hand hahaha
The ring is perfect as it was his grandmothers ring and she had given it to him over a year ago saying she knew I was the one (which again I had no idea he even had a ring) which makes it all the more special.
Its was an incredible day and I couldn't be happier that such an amazing person wants to spend the rest of his life with me. The best part is it came at a time where I had honestly gotten to a point where "getting married" was not such a defining point in our relationship anymore and I realized that what we had was great and while I was ready whenever he was- it was ok if he still needed more time (he comes from a divorced family and that really was always a concern of his). In my mind I was thinking he would be proposing in another year or so..so truly when I say I was blindsided I was truly so shocked. ack I love him 