Read all about my San Diego trip with my fiancee Lane at http://www.jasonandlane.com/2008/11/22/san-diego-trip/.

I’ve been dating this great girl for the past few months. Her name is Lane. Our first date was on April 4, 2008. We instantly fell madly in love with each other. I’ve never felt for anyone like the way I feel about her. She’s amazing! I can’t stand to be away from her for even a moment. We started talking about marriage, which I’ve never talked about with anyone in my life. I just knew I wanted to spend forever with her. We did tons of ring shopping and we finally found and purchased one that she loves. It’s a 3/4 ct. Princess Cut solitaire for the engagement ring, with a 1/4 ct. Diamond guard for the wedding that goes over the ring and surrounds the main diamond. It’s beautiful!

After purchasing the ring I wanted to propose to her on our 3 month anniversary, which happened to fall on the 4th of July. The only problem was that the ring was getting sized and wasn’t going to be ready by then. Well, I didn’t want to wait to get it. So on the 4th of July, as we were watching some fireworks together laying on some grass at a park in West Jordan, I took off her Celtic Love Knot promise ring I had bought her and held it during the fireworks show. She asked where her ring was a couple of times, but I just brushed her off, saying “It’s safe with me.” I was hoping she would just forget about it. Once the fireworks finale started, while holding her, I whispered in her ear “Lane, will you marry me?”, then slipped her promise ring on her finger. She was speechless for a moment, then blurted out “YES!” After the fireworks were over, she couldn’t stop laughing hysterically! It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen! She was so happy, as was I.

I finally got her real engagement ring back from the jeweler the next week. I wanted to surprise her with it, so that day I brought her some white lilies, her favorite flowers. I wanted her to think that the ring still wasn’t ready, and the flowers were to say “too bad.” She had been wanting to take me to a place called Gardner Village. So that evening we went there. I brought the ring along in my pocket. We strolled around the place, going in and out of different shops. After a few hours, just as we were ready to leave, I mentioned to her that I would like to go find a place to just sit for a little while. We found a bench near a stream with geese. We sat down and talked for a moment, then I brought the ring out of my pocket, got down on one knee and asked her again to marry me. She was completely surprised and, once again, speechless. This time I actually had to ask her if her answer was still yes, since she wasn’t responding. She finally said “Yes, yes!”

We are planning the wedding now and are thinking of having it next Spring. I will post more details as we decide them.

Anyway, I love Lane so very much and know that she makes me the happiest man alive!

So this post has two parts. One is for my sister’s graduation and the other is for my brother’s release from incarceration.

My sister graduated from the University of Utah with her Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. She immediately got a job at the University hospital administration department. She is so smart! I’m so proud of her! My whole family came in to town to have a barbeque in her behalf. It was lots of fun! We played volleyball and hacky sack, which I hadn’t played for years. My brother-in-law then barbequed some cheeseburgers and hot dogs. Yummy! It was nice to have my entire immediate family there. It’s been a long time since we were all in the same location. We took lots of pictures. This brings me to my second part of this post.

My brother has been incarcerated for the last 3 years so we haven’t seen much of him at all. He finally got out and seems to be doing very well. He seems to have his priorities and goals in order more. I really hope he stays out of trouble. I’d hate for him to go away again. I missed him. So it’s nice to see him and spend time with him again. He’s so big now…he worked out a ton while locked up. He helped me move a washer and dryer into my apartment and he carried the whole dryer by himself. Just picked it right up and put it over his shoulder. Crazy!!!

My family and I went to the drag races in Las Vegas on Saturday, April 12th. It was a blast! I had so much fun!

I got 3 autographs from some drivers and my picture taken with one of them.

It was so hot, though. I placed sun block all over my face, neck and arms, but I missed a spot. I didn’t get any in my hair line above my forehead. I’m so mad…now I have this dark red line on my head! Oh well, lesson learned.

I haven’t really followed the NHRA Drags, like on TV or anything, but I love to go watch them live. I follow NASCAR instead. The rest of my family follow the Drags, and I follow NASCAR. Oh well.

So I’m sitting at work, formatting and re-installing all my software on my computer because my hard drive crashed yesterday. As you can imagine, it’s very boring so I voiced my boredom to my coworkers and one says “Solve the rubik’s cube in 2 minutes!” Well I can’t do that, but i can try to come close, so he makes it 3 minutes instead. I haven’t tried to solve it quickly in a long time. I’ve been taking my time when solving it lately, taking like 5 minutes or so. So I mixed the cube up and he started the timer and off I went solving it as fast as I can. I got jumbled up a little for a minute and thought “there is no way I’m going to beat 3 minutes, especially with this snag I ran into”, but I kept at it. When I finished it I yelled “Done!” and my coworker told me my time. To my amazement, I had finished it in 2 minutes and 35 seconds! I’m not sure if that is my fastest time, but it felt good to solve it timed that fast. I think I’ll work on getting faster and beating that time.

I went to a Linkin Park concert a few weeks ago. It was my first concert to ever go to. I loved it! They were so awesome! I got some free tickets from my friend Robert. He bought a suite with a great view of the stage. I invited my best friend Ian from St. George to come with. Me and him were the designated drivers for the group. It was kind of fun baby sitting a bunch of drunks. Of course there was a little drama, but nothing that needs mentioned here. Anyways, I had a blast and am looking forward to the next concert I attend.

I received my copy of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard today. It’s so awesome! It’s like having a new mac. The new features are incredible. I especially love the new Spaces app which gives you multiple virtual desktops support. I haven’t tried the Time Machine yet. My plan is to purchase a new external hard drive to use with it.I also bought iLife ’08. I mostly use iPhoto and am starting to use iWeb. Both these apps have a ton more features in this version than in the previous version.

I’ll continue to play around with these new software titles and update you with any more thoughts I have later.