our engagement story!!! (from my perspective!)

let’s see.....well that morning (a saturday morning) i was upset with him because i felt like he was scheduling our time together around him and David watching the MSU football game that afternoon and i hadn’t seen him for two weeks because of my work schedule and his work and school schedule. mom was joking around with me as usual whenever i was gonna go see him that “maybe today will be the day!” and i told her that it was definitely not going to happen that day. hehe....little did i know. i thought he wouldn’t do it that day because i knew that whenever he asked me, it would be just us two with no one else around, and we were going out to breakfast, then running errands, taking a walk (and at first i thought, well maybe he would ask me during our walk, but then he said he was bringing Jessie their dog, so then i knew he wasn’t going to), and then i was supposed to see the new really nice camera he bought me for my early wedding present and then i was going to head back home so him and David could have some guy time and eat pizza like they planned. so i couldn’t see any way that he could propose that day. so i left my house at 9:00 in the morning to meet him at the Colonial Kitchen off of Drake Rd. in Kalamazoo! i was so happy to see him though and i forgot about being upset with him and we had a lovely breakfast together and shared some laughs as always! then we went to Lowe’s to look at some paint stuff for future apartment stuff, and once we were done there we walked over to another store to pick up some hair hilighting stuff for me to try on his hair when i was supposed to cut it the next day (sunday). after that we headed to target to buy and SD card or the camera he was going to give me and get some hair conditioner too. then we headed to Menard’s to pick up a brake light for his car since one of them burned out. after we finished the errands then we went back to his house so he could put the new camera battery on the charger while we went for a walk so that once we got back i could try out the new camera! so we headed out for our walk and took their dog. i always love going on walks with Andy! love it! so we had another lovely walk together and on the way back i saw a grey thing that looked like a pinecone “rolling” towards me....or so i thought it was a grey pinecone until it was coming straight at me and i realized it was a small furry grey creature! yikes! i screamed and jumped towards Andy and squeezed his hand since i had been holding it....ahh!! it definitely scared me! we had a good laugh about it after i had settled down from my scare a bit though! once we got back to his house, there still wasn’t anyone at home and there’s always someone there when we’re together, but i didn’t think that much about it because i was leaving in a few minutes once he showed me the new camera! so he went downstairs to his room to get the camera (and the ring which obviously i didn’t know)! he brought it upstairs to the kitchen and i started playing with it to start learning how it worked! then i wanted to try taking some pictures with it so i took a few of Andy, then took a few looking out one of their windows in the dining room, then i headed outside to try a few more things with the zoom lens and then came back inside and took a few more pictures of Andy! (he was probably wanting to hurry up and propose, but couldn’t because his ladyfriend was having so much fun with her new camera!) I then thanked him for his gift to me and gave him a big hug!! i just love hugging him! he’s basically a head taller than me so when i hug him my head comes to his chest and i can hear his heart beating! it was beating pretty fast, but again i didn’t think anything about it because we had just come back from a nice long walk! (he told me after he proposed that he was surprised i didn’t guess it was coming because he was nervous and his heart was racing then! i had no clue though!) he then said several lovely things of which i can only remember that he told me that he cared about me very much! then he started reminicing a bit about when we first met and how after just a few times of being with me and talking to me a little bit that i was a girl he was going to go after! then he said that he had made a rule for himself that he wasn’t going to give me the camera until he gave me another present. i thought he was talking about something else for the camera (which now i know he meant the engagement ring!), and then he said that he had broke that rule though. i was puzzled and later on he said that i had a confused expression on my face when i looked up at him....hehe! i don’t remember much of what he said, but he said a few other things that was also confusing to me then because i didn’t know what he was referring to (hehe! i know now!) and i remember saying something like, “what are you saying?” he then went on and said several other things i don’t really remember but some were special things he says to only me one of which was that i’m so beautiful (which he does say that to me often, but i love hearing it every time!)!! then he pulled the ring from his pocket and got down on his knees and said even more lovely things which i wish i could remember but i was so happy and busy looking at him and listening to what he was saying then and then he asked me if i would do him the honor of becoming his wife and marrying him!! happiness!!!!!!!! i said yes and nodded my head!!! (he said i said yes like 7 times throughout the time he was saying things and asking me!! hehe!) i hugged him and then he put the ring on my finger!!! he told me that he loved me and i told him i loved him!! we have obviously loved each other for a while, but it was the first time we said it to each other and it was so special!! i think we just hugged each other for like a half hour straight there in their kitchen!!! he was like, i know the kitchen isn’t the most romantic place, but that’s how it ended up working out (i was oblivious and was too busy playing with the camera in the kitchen so that’s where it happened)! i don’t care that it was in the kitchen!!! i loved the way he proposed to me and it was simple like us and i am very happy!!!! he then told me that his friend David was coming to not only watch football with him, but to take a picture of us on the new camera since David knew about Andy planning to ask me that day!! Andy wanted the first picture to be of us on the new camera and of my ring, but i had already played with the camera lots!! i told him, that it was ok, the first picture on our new camera was of the person that i was marrying!!! him!! :D So before David got there we took a few pictures of the ring on my hand and then once David got there he took a picture of us!!

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I'm engaged!!!!!!!!!! ahhhh!!!! soooo exciting!!!!! and to the best man a girl could ask for!!!!!! Andy!!!!! =) *happy dance!!!* October 2, 2010!!!!!! *happy sigh!*