This is the fun part, for sure. we’ve been calling people and telling them our news since the proposal on Wednesday. Everyone has been really excited and supportive! We got a lot of  the regular questions… “did you pick a date?” “how did he propose?” etc etc. I figured I should share more about the actual proposal, then I’ll back track and do a post about actually finding the Ring Of Dreams.

FH came over my house Wednesday night. I was in the back yard playing with Barney:

Me and Barney at Rickett's Glen

When I hugged FH, I felt something in his jacket pocket, but I’ve been kinda paranoid about the impending proposal, so I put it out of my mind. We went inside and were watching tv together for a while. He was being a good boy, rubbing my neck a bit (back to that whole stress thing). He got up kind of suddenly, and went out to the living room, where my parents were. Now, he gets along just fine with my parents, but neither of us have been known to, you know, chillax with them without each other there. That’s when I realized he was asking for their blessing – with me in the next room!!

I didn’t go out, and I didn’t mute the tv to hear what he said. I did start freaking out a bit, but I checked myself before he came back. When he came back into the room, he pulled out the box and got on one knee…. and that’s as far as he got before I went batshit crazy! I was so excited I just hugged him and cried and he clearly knew my feelings on the matter.

So that’s my story! We’re all excited and ready to start this crazy journey in earnest now. I guess it’s time to start figuring out what I actually want to do…