Will You...?

I can't say that everything was a total surprise - after all I chose my ring - but I can say that the exact moment was unexpected, and I am beyond happy to be engaged to my best friend.

I started expecting a ring sometime after our 2-year anniversary (Sept '09), so I pretty was pretty much torturing myself with all things wedding, and praying each weekend, each holiday that "today would be the day." I even made sure to get manicures anytime we were going to go do something near romantic or if it was a holiday. Wasted money...

I had a feeling my then BF had purchased the ring sometime before Christmas, and probably sent it to his dad, as he suddenly got really secretive about an email his dad had sent him when I asked what it was about. As I had been punishing myself for months now, I decided to try my hardest not to pry or do any snooping so as not to ruin his surprise.

Well, Christmas...it came, and it went, and my ring finger was still naked.

We went to stay with my BFs grandma to help her with their family holiday dinner. The next night, his family arrives, and while we're sitting in the kitchen, his uncle starts grilling him on when he's going to finally seal the deal. My FI just kept with his same ole "someday soon" response, and we went about our evening. So again...I feel let down. He showed no sign of popping the question any time soon.

That night, we ended up staying up until about 2 am hanging out with his older sister, until I finally made some "I'm tired, can we please go to bed" noises, and we all decided to call it a night. I do my night routine, crawl under the blankets, and my FI turns to me and asks me to get him a glass of water for his allergy meds. Now, I'm already in bed and cozy, and I get cranky at night, so I throw a little tantrum (kicking feet and all) but I finally agree. After all, it's pretty much my fault he has to take them, since I make him sleep in a room with a super shedding dog.

I come back with the water and snuggle back into bed. Now, by this point, we have talked about someday getting married, and I love to have pillow talk before falling asleep, so I suspected nothing when he turns to me and starts talking about our future.

He asked, "So you know how we've been talking about getting married?"

Me ," Yeessss" (duh, it's all I can ever think about)

Him, "Well, when did you want me to ask you to marry me?"

Me, "Uh, sometime before I go back to work so I can be like 'whaddup b*tches, I'm engaged!'"

He then sort of nods, and rolls over like he's going to sleep - which is about right. I usually only get a few sentences of pillow talk before he decides he's met his quota. So I start getting snuggly, and he turns back around with a ring box in his hand.

I have noooo idea what he said after that, I was too busy squealing, and apparently crying (though I don't remember that either). I do know I said yes (I had to ask him later). I very quickly took the ring and placed it on my finger, squealed, and hugged and kissed my new FI.

I do know that I pretty much immediately asked if I could update my Facebook relationships status (I had a bit of a crying jag a few weeks before bc so many people were getting engaged, and my FI knew about it). He said yes, but we needed a camera to take a picture.

So off I went to wake up his sisters and ask for a camera! At 2:30 in the morning!

We were all super excited, and I think stayed up at least another hour before I could finally calm down enough to go to bed :)

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