BYU Graduation

 I finally graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Translation after three years. I thank my loving parents who taught me the importance of school, my crazy roommates who made college life memorable, Dorothy who was the only person I knew in Utah when I first got here, and my professors who taught me everything I know. 

BYU will always have a special place in my heart, after all, it is where I met the love of my life;)

I'm so grateful for the opportunity and the blessing I had to come to this temple of learning and I can't wait to go forth to serve. 

GO COUGARS!!!

 

 
 

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The Proposal

Saturday February 15, 2014

To tell this story, we have to go back to the Tuesday before the proposal, February 11th. Chanel decided to surprise Diane by taking her to Color Me Mine, a pottery store where you can choose and paint your own pottery piece and they bake it for you. They painted cookie mugs with Chanel's being the Cookie Monster and Diane's The Grouch. At check out, they were told their mugs would be ready to be picked up that Saturday. What Diane didn't know is that Chanel went back to Color Me Mine the next day and painted an additional mug which would become a key part of the proposal.

Thursday night, Diane and Chanel received the following group message from Keyla letting them know she would be having a Valentine's Day bonfire Saturday Night. So that's what they planned to do Saturday night. There was never a bonfire ;)

Saturday, Chanel tells Diane they would be going to dinner at PF Chang's, a fancy Chinese Restaurant (under the pretense that his grandpa had given him a giftcard and they needed to use it), and then they would go to Keyla's bonfire for a bit before heading out to a dance.

After dinner, they headed out to the park where Keyla had said the bonfire would be at. Chanel pretended he missed the turn in order to give Keyla and Michelle more time to finish setting up. When they arrive, Chanel says that they've had a bonfire here before and knows where to go. So, they get out of the car and start looking for the "bonfire".

He leads her to an area a little more secluded with a wooden dock, low hanging trees, and a pond. After a couple minutes of walking, Diane jokingly says, "I hope you're not planning on chopping me into little pieces and throwing me in the lake."

Soon, while keeping an eye out for the "bonfire", Diane sees an area up ahead with lights on the floor. they start to walk up to turn into the dead end with tea lights lining the dock, rose petals on the floor, and two Color Me Mine paper bags with thier names on them. Without her contacts or glasses though, everything was still a little blurry for Diane. As they continue walking towards it, Chanel turns into the dead end and Diane, still not seeing the bags with thier names, says, "I don't think we're supposed to go that way." She thought the place was set up by the park for a special event. Chanel smiles as they continue to walk and asks, "Are you sure?" Finally, Diane notices the bags and asks, "Did you plan this?"

She still doesn't know Chanel is about to pop the question. She can notice Keyla's "touch" in the scene and thinks maybe Keyla wanted to do something nice for them. Since there are two bags, one with Chanel's name and the other with her's, she thinks that their Color Me Mine mugs are all that's inside.

However, when she looks inside the bag with her name on it, she realizes that her mug is not inside. Instead, she finds another pottery piece with "Will you marry me?" painted on it. She turns to Chanel who takes the box from her hands, bends on one knee and asks, "Diane Lizette Zarco, Will you marry me?"

Needless to say, she said yes!

►Couldn't have been done without help of Sister and Roomie

Chanel and I

Our Story

Diane Zarco
Diane was born and raised in Sanger, California. She's a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT and graduated April 25, 2014 with a degree in Spanish Translation. She loves cooking, dancing, and singing (when no one is around).

Diane nació y creció en Sanger, California. Se graduó de la Universidad de Brigham Young en Provo, UT el 25 de Abril del 2014 con una carrera en Traducción de Idiomas (Español). Le encanta cocinar, bailar, y cantar (cuando no hay nadie). 















Chanel Rodriguez
Chanel was born in Chula Vista, California and moved a couple times because he grew up in the NAVY. His family settled in Queen Creek, AZ and that is where he calls home. He is currently a student at Brigham Young University studying Statistics. He loves playing basketball, soccer, eating, hiking and spending time with Diane.

Chanel nació en Chula Vista, California y se mudo varias veces porque creció dentro del NAVY. Su familia se instalo en Queen Creek, Arizona y es donde Chanel considera su hogar. Ahorita el es un estudiante en la Universidad de Brigham Young estudiando Estadística  Le encanta jugar baloncesto, fútbol, comer, y pasar tiempo con Diane.











How We Met Como nos conocimos

Short Version Version Corta
Chanel and Diane were in the same young single adults ward at BYU and met at an after church activity. Their first date was to an Air Force activity and the rest is history!

Chanel y Diane asistían a la misma iglesia y se conocieron en una actividad de la iglesia. Su primer cita fue a una actividad de la fuerza aérea.

Long Version Version Larga
Diane knew Keyla, Chanel's sister, and knew that she went latin dancing a lot. So one day after church, Diane went up to Keyla and asked her about the dances she went to. As they started talking, Chanel came over and Keyla introduced him to her. They invited Diane to go latin dancing on Tuesday nights with them and she agreed to go. One tuesday night, Chanel and Diane were the only ones who ended up going because Keyla had homework. At the end of the night, Chanel asked Diane out on a date for Friday to join him for an Air Force ROTC event. And even though Diane's first impression of Chanel was that he was a "player", she decided to say yes.

Chanel knew Diane couldn't eat anything with gluten so he wanted to make sure he took her to an appropriate place. But for some reason, he thought gluten meant sugar! And that Friday he took her to Brick Oven, a pizza and pasta place! After he realized gluten-free meant she couldn't eat pizzas or pastas, he felt awful. But she was able to have a salad. After dinner they watched a live comedy show, went to a dance, left that dance to go to another dance, and then went to watch a movie at a friend's house. It was a long date but neither of them minded :)

Sunday night Chanel baked Diane gluten-free cookies because he felt bad about taking her to Brick Oven. He brought them to her apartment and invited her to watch a musical fireside that Keyla was in that night. At this point she started thinking "he went out of his way to make me gluten-free cookies, maybe he isn't a player after all." So she said yes again and they went to the fireside. Tuesday night they went dancing and as he walked her to her apartment that night he asked her out for two more dates the following next two weekends. It was a gutsy move his friends advised him against, but she said yes again.

Less than a week later he asked her to be his girlfriend!

Diane conocía a Keyla, la hermana de Chanel, y sabia que ella iba a los bailes latinos. Un dia despues de la iglesia, Diane le pregunto a cerca de esos bailes. Mientres hablaban, Chanel vino hacia ellas y se presento a Diane. Chanel y Keyla la invitaron a bailar con ellos los martes y ella empezó a ir. En unos de esos martes, Chanel y Diane fueron a bailar solos porque Keyla tenia tarea. Al terminar la noche, Chanel le pregunto a Diane que saliera con el ese viernes y Diane acepto. 

Chanel sabia que Diane no podia comer nada con gluten así que el se aseguro de llevarla a un lugar apropiado. Pero por alguna razón, el pensó que gluten significaba azúcar! Ese viernes por la noche el la llevo a Brick Oven, un restaurante que sirve pizza y pasta! Cuando se dio cuenta que ella no podia comer ni pizzas ni pasta, se sintió horrible. Pero ella pudo comer una ensalada. Después de la cena, fueron a ver un show de comedia, luego a un baile, luego a otro baile, y terminaron la noche viendo una película en casa de unos amigos. Fue una cita larga pero a ninguno de los dos le molesto :) 

Domingo por la noche, Chanel hizo galletas sin gluten para Diane porque se sintió tan mal de haberla llevado a Brick Oven. Las llevo al apartamento de Diane y la invito que fuera a ver una charla fogonera donde estaba Keyla. Impresionada por las galletas, Diane acepto y fueron a la actividad. Ese martes por la noche salieron a bailar otra vez y mientras la acompañaba a su apartamento, Chanel le pidió que saliera con el dos veces mas las por los próximos dos fines de semana. Ella acepto y una semana después se pusieron de novios! 

Timeline 

October 13th: They met / Octubre 13: Se conocieron

November 8th: First Date / Noviembre 8: Primera Cita

November 19th: Became Boyfriend & Girlfriend / Noviembre 19: Se pusieron de novios

November 23rd: First Kiss / Noviembre 23: Primer beso

January 5th: Said "I love you" / Enero 5: Se dijieron "te amo"

February 15th: She said "Yes"  / Febrero 15: Ella dijo "si"

May 30th: They'll say "I do!"  / Mayo 30: Ellos diran "Si, acepto!"

So I figured I want to remember our dating days, so here they are...