It was around our 4 yr anniversary. We usually don't celebrate anniversaries.....we're just not really into that. Plus, we don't really have an official date......just sometime between the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day. But this year we decided we'd go out to celebrate since 4 yrs is a pretty long time.
Wait....let me back up a little to 2 days before. It was Friday morning and I was awaken by the buzzing of my phone. I had a new text mssg. I groggily clicked to view the mssg from my friend Stacey.
Guess what? I got engaged! I'll tell you more about it tomorrow!
OMG!! What?! I was so excited I couldn't sleep anymore. I called my bf to tell him the news. Then I texted her back.
Ahhhhh!!! CONGRATS!!! Btw, thanks for being first. =P
We've had this little inside joke going for a while now. At our church, we were the only 2 girls our yr that were in a dating relationship....and the only ones any where close to getting married. Except neither of us wanted to be the first to get married. So when I heard the news, I was really excited for her.....and also not-so-secretly glad that I wasn't first.
Well wouldn't you know.....2 days later Jeremy proposed to me! It was the most unexpected thing in the world.....especially in light of the fact that Stacey had just gotten engaged. That was surprising enough as it was. Seriously, one of the first thoughts that went through my mind was, No one is going to believe this!
So how did it happen? Well, that morning when I called Jeremy to tell him that Stacey had just gotten engaged, he instantly thought, What are the chances!? Jeremy and Stacey's fiance have met before, but they definitely had not planned to propose within 2 days of each. That was totally a coincidence! Jeremy called up his brother and asked him if should still propose this weekend. He was worried I might think it was a joke. His brother told him to just go for it since he had already been planning it.
So that Saturday, we had a little church get-together. Everyone was congratulating Stacey's fiance, and then turning to me and Jeremy and joking that we were next. I kept saying, "No way! Not for a while." I honestly thought it would happen later in the yr.....maybe in the summer. Little did I know...
As the day wore on and the get-together was wrapping up, I started bugging Jeremy about what we should do that night. We had set aside the evening to celebrate our 4 yr, but we hadn't made any real plans. I kept asking him what we should do before dinner since we had a little down time, and he kept saying that he was really tired and that he wanted to go home and sleep. I told him to just come over to my house and sleep, but he kept insisting that he wanted to go to his bed and sleep. I thought that was kinda weird because he usually says that my bed is way more comfy than his and he always falls asleep in my bed. But I didn't push the matter. Strange as it was, if that's what he wanted, then....whatevers.
I went home and was bumming around the house. I started to get lazy and didn't really feel like getting dressed to go out. I was almost fine with just not going out at all. I called Jeremy to see what the plan was. We can be really indecisive at times. What should we do? I dunno? What do you want to eat? Doesn't matter. Where should we go? I don't care.
Finally, Jeremy suggested heading down to Orange County to visit some of the places we used to hang out at back when we went to school down there. Uh....why?! I got a little suspicious there, but then I wrote it off because he was being so casual about everything. If he had made reservations somewhere, that would have totally tipped me off, but he really didn't have any set plans. He played it so cool that I didn't really suspect anything.
We finally decided to grab dinner at Roy's, this place we had heard about while vacationing in Hawaii but hadn't had a chance to try yet. Then we hit up this French-Japanese dessert and pastry place. Afterwards, Jeremy suggested we go to the Orange County Performing Arts Center to check out their new music hall and to take some pictures. There was this one Valentine's day where we spent the evening shooting pictures in Chinatown for an assignment for my photo class. It was really fun and since we hadn't done it in along time, he thought we should go.
When we got there, it was really windy and cold! I wasn't feeling particularly inspired to shoot, so I let Jeremy do most of the shooting. Actually, Jeremy had wanted to go to an opera that night to celebrate our anniversary since that's what we did on our first date.....but I said vetoed that idea. Haha. Eventually, Jeremy walked over to this bench and sat down. I hesitated. I started to get suspicious again. Why is he sitting down? Why? What's gonna happen if I sit down?
I hesitated a little longer. I thought that if I didn't sit down that maybe he wouldn't propose. Haha. Well I still didn't really think he was going to, so eventually I sat down with him. We were talking for a little bit when out of nowhere he whipped out this scrapbook he had made. Uh....what the? Why is he being so crafty? He's never this crafy! More suspicions. He flipped open to the first page and their was a little note about our 4 yr. Oh....phew! Ok, it's for our 4 yr anniversary. As he flipped through the pages, I kept wondering, Is he going to propose?! I almost asked him flat out, but decided it might ruin the moment if he really did.
As he got to the last page, he hesitated for a second before flipping to it. OMG!! On the last page of the scrapbook was a picture of the most beautiful ring ever....and the words Will You Marry Me? I was stunned. Even though I was slightly suspicious at that point, I didn't really expect it. Next thing I know he had pulled a red box out from somewhere and was on his knee. I don't really remember what exactly happened at that point. I think he probably said, "Will you marry me?", and I answered, "Yes!" I grabbed the ring out of the box and slipped it on my finger. It fit perfectly! We hugged and suddenly I thought,
Wait! Did you ask my mom?
Yes, he had. The weekend before, I had gone up to Nor Cal to shoot an event, and that's when he took my parents out to dinner to ask for their blessing (Jeremy was advised to ask for their blessing, rather than ask for permission). Apparently my parents grilled him big time. Don't get me wrong.....they like him....my mom just has separation anxiety issues. After some tears on my mom's part, I guess he left with their blessing.
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