The Engagement

Something I meant to write about was my engagement. How it all went down. It wasnt too bad for being thrown together in about 30 minutes. I had something elaborate planned, but something came up. Anyway...so the story goes:

I was going to ask her the week after, but she informed me that she would be going to Chicago for a business trip with her boss. I was sad...not only cause I would be away from her for a week, but because I had planned to ask her to marry me that week. Her sister and I had planned out a big ole elaborate surprise. Oh well.

So after I get the news about her leaving, I get with my kid sister and we start tossing ideas around. What are somethings that are important to her in our relationship. The church...ok I have my location. After that I pretty much knew what I was going to do. I went and bought three roses. Two red one pink. I got a friend of mine who works at the church as the sound man and all that stuff. It was going to be perfect for being thrown together.

I took the pink rose and a stool. I sat the rose on the stool in front of the entrance to the church. I took the red roses and tore off the petals. I made a trail from the pink rose all the way to the altar. Then, I took all of our favorite pictures and put then on a slide show on the projector screen. Then, got one of her favorite songs...Love of a Lifetime, by Firehouse, and had it playing. Which is awesome because that is one of my favorites as well. Now all I had to do was remember the little speech I was going to give and get over my gitters.

I made everyone leave. 3 minutes later I see her pulling into the church parking lot. I ran to the altar and waited for her to come walking around the corner. I saw her...my heart started pounding so loud that the people in the graveyard 5 miles away could hear it. I was so nervous that I totally forgot the speech that I had planned. I was stuttering and sluring my words. She was crying and I was just in awww. I finally made it down on one knee and asked the question...to which the reply was of course...YES!

Afterwards we went out and started calling everyone and telling everyone that we saw. We went out to eat and celebrated and just continued to call people. I dont think my heart stopped pounding for at least the next day. But anyway, it was one of the most exciting experiences of my life and I thought that I would share it with you.

Until next time...Adios.