The Proposal

I'm engaged!
The minute it happened I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.
This is not because I got some new bling, but because it's such an incredibly feeling when the boy you love and admire gets down on one knee and asks you to marry him.
I just wanted everyone to know that he is mine.
I am so lucky and blessed and get teary eyed just thinking about how special he makes me feel.

So, many people have asked for "details."  I figured I would tell the story on here, so that those who are far or might not hear from me personally could know how it happened.

I came home Thursday night, tired from a day at the zoo with 5 year olds, and crashed.  I had to get up at one to be ready by two because Kyle and his family were coming to get me at two to go to Oklahoma for the weekend.  Had I know what Friday had in store I would have dolled up and actually put thought into my apparel, but whatever.  : )  We left Carlsbad for Norman, OK and arrived there around noon.  We checked into the hotel, then went to Campus Corner to have Chipotle (of course).  We had lunch, then Kyle said "Do you want to go look around campus and go to the fountain and the library?"  He had shown me both of these places the first time I went to Norman in November of 2008.  So I just thought he wanted to go back to be nostalgic.  His family left to go to the shops around Campus Corner and we headed to the fountain.  I was excited because I love sentimental things and so I was looking forward to going back to the fountain.  He had taken me there my first time and had told me that he would go to that fountain when he was at school at OU as a place to get away.

We made it to the fountain, sat down in the same place we had sat before, in front of the inscription that read, "Sus frases nunca me hirieron y siempre me consolaron," which loosely translated is "Your phrases never wounded me and always consoled me."  We sat there and we talked about the time we had been there before.  He asked if I wanted to take pictures, which I always want to do, so I took a couple.  Then he said, "Well . . . do you want to know the real reason I brought you here," I said, "Sure," thinking he was just going to tell me the significance of the fountain again.  Then he said, "When I was at school here, I would come to this fountain and sit and think about the future and I was wondering (at this point he pauses, reaches in his pocket, and gets down on one knee) if you would marry me?"  He opened the ring box and there were two beautiful rings in there.  I was a complete fool.  : ) I just was completely overwhelmed and surprised.  I remember saying, "Well, I wish I looked prettier."  Haha.  Then he began to explain to me where the rings and diamonds came from, but I was still so shocked that I wasn't really listening.  I was just replaying it in my head to make sure it was real. I started crying and said, "Wait, will you start over, I wasn't really listening?"  He kissed me on the cheek and then explained it all again.

The ring is beautiful and the sentimental value of it is priceless.  He took my granny's engagement ring that my mom had and used the white gold in her ring and another ring to make the ring, then had her diamonds put on the ring as well.  It's one diamond in the middle, then two small ones on the side.  Then he also had the wedding band to show me.  That one is his Nanny's wedding ring, and he had more of my granny's diamonds put in that one.  It's white gold with stars with little diamonds in the middle of the stars.  It's so perfect and I love that he went out of his way to find something from our families and put them together to create something so perfect.  I love it.  I stare at it all the time.  But more than the sparkle of the ring, I just love knowing that he wants to spend the rest of his life with me.  I look at it and think of how sweet, funny, caring, tender, intelligent, and handsome he is and I feel overwhelmed with happiness.  I am so blessed.

The funnest part of being engaged is that I can now look at venues, dresses, etc., and experiencing how tangible this wonderful time is.

I am so excited and I can't wait to marry this boy!

I will have pictures soon.  We took one before the proposal, but I looked so gross from traveling and whatnot that I wasn't too pumped to take any.  Then we went back the next day to take pictures of where it happened, and it was raining!  So, they aren't the most attractive pictures, but they are special.

Here is one from when we sat at that fountain a year and a half ago.