I Am Engaged!!!!

The Proposal

August 14th 2008, Thursday

The day started off with our 2 mile walk and then with me cleaning out my old bedroom at my parents’ house with the help of Jaimi Hunt (friend). That morning I couldn’t explain it but I felt sick to my stomach with nerves… not sure why I was feeling so nervous… but all morning my nerves were getting to me as we were cleaning the house… until about 1 pm when it was time to pick up Rachel (sister-in-law) to go to lunch. We picked up Rachel and took the trash to Jaimi’s apartment because there were 5 bags of trash and it would have filled up my little dumpster… then we headed over to Chick-fil-a for lunch, but I just couldn’t eat… I did well to just get a small fruit bowl eaten and a sprite and I stole a few fry’s from Rachel’s plate… but I felt so nervous that the butterfly’s in my stomach were not flying in formation, they were more like a small hurricane starting in my stomach… I told Jaimi and Rachel that I felt that Todd was going to ask me to marry him tonight…

After we dropped Rachel off at her house Jaimi and I went back to my parents’ house to get more trash out before I had to leave for Saginaw, Texas, to meet up with Todd and Rebekah for dinner that night…

I got to his house before he got home from work so I let myself in and I just felt fidgety so I noticed that the dishes needed to be done so I did the dishes to keep myself busy and wiped down the counters… then made the beds… still felt fidgety… picked up the few toys Bekah had left out in the TV room… while I was in the TV room I saw Todd pull up and get out of his Jeep… with roses in his hand… 2 roses one tall one and one short one… (to represent him and Bekah) and Bekah got out with a little pink pig key chain for me to take with me on the Susan G. Komen walk in November… (as I saw him get out of the jeep upon seeing the roses I knew that he was going to ask me to marry him tonight)

As Todd come into the house he handed me the roses and gave me a kiss, and Bekah gave me the little pig… I went to help get Bekah changed for dinner while Todd went to the bathroom… After we got Bekah ready she suddenly didn’t want to go to dinner with us she wanted to go to the babysitter’s… So we stopped by the Play Time (day care/sitters by the hour) and dropped Bekah off and Todd and I went on to O I Shii Sushi Japanese Stake House for dinner where we had Hibachi dinner… started off with a mushroom and chicken soup followed by a small salad and then our Chef came out and did a WONDERFUL presentation!!! And prepared all our food… we had scallops and stake with shrimp and fried rice and eggplant mixed vegetables… it was all so good but I just couldn’t finish all of mine so we got a to-go box and took the leftovers home for Bekah to have later… after we got back to Todd’s house I went and put the box in the fridge in and sat down on the couch to wait for Todd while he went to the bathroom since it was almost time to go and pick up Bekah from Play Time…

As Todd walked out of the bedroom he had something closed in his hand… and he looked at me and his eyes ½ filled with tears, and I just knew that he was going to ask me!!! I had been sitting on the couch with me feet tucked up next to me and as I went to sit up he came around and took a knee right in front of me and took my right hand as he started to speak…
“I have to believe that our lives were meant to be together and that we found each other when we did for a reason… I can’t promise that our road with be easy, but I will promise you that our road will be easier together then it has been apart… I would like to ask you to become my life, my lover, and my friend for all eternity… Will you be my wife?” and he slipped off my CTR ring on my right hand and put the engagement ring in its place…

“Yes” was about all I could say as I saw the tears running down his face and I could feel them running down mine.

Then there was much hugging and kissing… and I moved the ring to my left hand and Todd looked down and said “hmm wrong hand…” and I told him “in Russia that would have been the right hand” we both laughed a little and then continued to cuddle on the couch before we had to go and get Bekah at 930.

After we picked up Bekah and got her home, we got her into bed and said her prayers… then Todd and I sat and talked some more.

And I asked him when did he decide to ask me tonight to marry him? Was it about 1 pm today? And he said “yes, how did you know?”… and I told him about my feeling of nervousness this morning, and it turns out that our spirits seem to be so in touch with each other that I could sense that something was causing him to be nervous today… and it seems to be just one more piece to the puzzle of our lives that we are meant to be together!

Our Wedding Date is set for May 23rd in the Dallas, Texas, Temple.