3 Little Stones That Changed My Life

My last real post was about a remembering a friend I had tragically lost not long ago and how I decided to celebrate his life instead of mourn his death. I went to the New Kids on the Block concert with a few friends from work and it was such a good time. Deciding to remember Adam by enjoying life was a really good decision.

A little over a month after the concert my life changed dramatically. On July 28th, 2009 my boyfriend proposed to me! It was such a great day! It was my one year anniversary with my current employer and it was also the day before my best friend was admitted to the hospital to have her baby. I'll never forget that day as long as live! I came home from work and he was sitting in our living room on our ottoman. He looked so nervous and anxious, like he has news to tell me but at the time I couldn't tell if it was good news or bad news. So I looked and him and said, "Who died?", he looked at me and smirked and said, "No one." I saw him look down and smile at a little tiny box he had in his hands. It was then my heart stopped beating. For just one moment all I did was stare at this little tiny cherry wood box he held in his hands and wondered if this was "it".

He told me to come sit in front of him on the couch cause he wanted to talk to me. I nervously dropped everything in my hands on the dining room table and practically ran to the couch. I felt like the whole world was moving in slow motion as he recited this beautiful long speech he had prepared for this moment. As he talked I found myself wrapped around every word he was saying I just couldn't help myself. It felt as if I were actually hanging on the words as they lingered in the air and made their way to my ears.


As he finished his speech and I thought "this is it! he's gonna ask me to marry him!" He did what he normally does and threw me a HUGE curve ball. He went into the hallway and got a guitar he had purchased over a year ago, that I had no clue even existed, and began to play a song he had wrote for me for just this occasion. I felt my heart melt as he played and every note sounded so crisp and clean I can still hear it in my head til this day.

Once he finished his song, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, it was quite possibly the greatest moment in my life. I of course said yes and finally got to look at the gorgeous ring he had hiding in that cherry box this whole time. A gorgeous 3 stone round cut ring set in platinum, man does my guy have good taste or what?! He painstakingly pick out the ring all by himself, not one single person knew about it nor had any inkling he was planning on doing this. So as I made the rounds on the phone calling everyone and texting everyone the surprise from all of our friends and family was so overwhelming.

After we had called everyone and he tweeted his infamous "She said Yes!" tweet, we decided to go out to dinner to celebrate this awesome occasion. As we were sitting at Carrabbas having dinner, the waitress came by and I just blurted out, "We got engaged today!!!!!!" (Insert big cheesy grin). She laughed said congratulations and said she was just admiring my ring and how pretty it was, to which I replied, "I know", lol. While sitting at dinner my now fiance told all about his journey to get to this day. How he snuck out to the park with the guitar he had hiding in a storage unit so he could practice the song, how he did hours upon hours of research to find the perfect diamonds in the perfect ring for me, and finally how he spent so much time writing his wonderful speech. It was just so amazing to me to see how much time and effort he put into this one day, just to make me feel special. It is definitely a day I will never forget.