Engagement: Part Two

THE PROPOSAL

Jim decided to take me out to dinner before I headed off to Nashville to be with my girlfriends. So he suggested P.F. Changs. My favorite restaurant and also where we had our first date once I moved back to Seattle. He also had just had a haircut and looked pretty spiffy (yes I said spiffy) in a nice button down shirt, something he usually doesn't need to wear to work. When I asked him about it he said he was just sick of wearing the same old thing in his closet (his Seahawks or U.W. shirts). Now, I should have been suspicious there, but I wasn't. I too, had just had my hair done that day and was looking rather cute too! So when it came time to get the fortune cookies, one of our fourtunes would be "A suprise will occur in the near future," or something like that. So we headed back to his place as I still had packing to do at my place before I left in the morning. So it was a good thing he invited me up rather than me just drop him off (I had picked him up from work).

I should preface this by saying that it has been a really busy summer and we were apart for 16 days! Which was very hard, so just the weekend before we got to spend some quality time but not enough time together from that 16 days apart. When we finally got to see each other again he said "that will never happen again, until one of us dies, that was way too long." I agreed.

So, we get to his place. He asks me if I want my 4.0 gift for summer quarter and I was like yes yes yes, because let's face it who doesn't love getting gifts! In fact, even when it says please forgo gifts, I think it is a lie, everyone wants gifts! So anway, there we are and he reaches under a pillow and pulls out an envelope. Now, if you read the previous post, I was expecting something from Macy's, perhaps the perfume from Issey Miyake, because he said he consulted with my sister Whitney on something to get me. And the only thing I could think of from Macy's that I wanted was that perfume. So when he pulled out the envelope, I thought maybe it is a gift certificate there. So I open it and...

It was the greatest love letter that has ever been written in the entire universe. He wrote a top five list of reasons he loved me and then later wrote in the letter, which i thought was adorable, "Now I know what you are thinking, why is there only 5? ...We will have years to create more top 5 lists..." Anyway, I was crying and my heart had lept and I was totally on cloud 9, except I still thought where is the gift from Macy's?! I'm horrible I know.

So after that he says "Want your other 4.0 gift?" and he tells me to clothes my eyes and hold out my hand. SO I do, thinking it is the perfume from Macy's. I hold out my hand waiting impatiently for my well-deserved gift. haha. He puts what feels like a box in my hand and I'm totally thinking it is the perfume box, and when I open my eyes it is a ring box that has taped to it, "Will you marry me, please???"

My initial reaction was shock and the adorable and polite "please" at the end. I looked at him started crying and said yes, at which he said "Um, want to see the ring." I hadn't even opened it. At that moment, all I could think about was "us" and our future life together, the 2-3 children we want, etc. It wasn't about the ring at that moment at all. So he finally opens it as I'm balling, and slides the ring on my hand. Then you can probably guess what happens next, some major make out stuff.

Then we make all the necessary calls and I leave on a plane for Nashville.

Engagement: Part One

THE RING

So let's go over the most important thing to some. The Ring. Here it is in all its glory. I think it is a total of 1.5 karats (spelling?) It was very hard to take a good shot! It is the ring I kept going back to over the last 7 months. I love it! Apparently he had had it for a month and I kept ruining his plans. He will tell his own story shortly for this blog. Also on the day he picked it up from being cleaned I was with him. Who knew?! We happened to be walking in Northgate Mall and I wanted to go to Bath & Body Works as some of my favorite stuff was being discontinued. So as we were walking I noticed the jewelry store where the ring I had been wanting was at, and I think I said "Oh look" and he said they are out of stock there. So I didn't even bother going over there if I couldn't try it on. Technically they were out of stock because he had bought it earlier that month from this particular store. So I go to my store and he said "I'm going to head over to Macy's to look at clothes." And I was like, okay. He said he would meet me back where I was. Well like 2.2 minutes later there he was back in my store with a Macy's bag and he said "I just had to go get your 4.0 gift real quick (At the end of every quarter Jim gets me gifts if I get a 4.0, this summer I almost didn't get a 4.0 and he said "let's just get you a finishing the quarter gift then." He's awesome like that). Needless to say he had gone over to the jewelry store picked up the ring from being cleaned and went to Macy's to have the counter girls wrap up the ring and put it in a Macy's bag to look like he had gotten something for me from Macy's. He was so worried I would walk to the jewelry store and try on other rings (I tend to do that) that he hurried back over to where I was.