First of all, I apologize for the quality of the pictures. They were all taken on JJ's phone and when they get loaded on the computer they are tiny and often blurry =(
The story:
Last Saturday (October 27, 2012) JJ and I decided to trade...my heart for his ring =) He thinks he got the better deal, but I know better. =)
The plans for Saturday were to 1) Go to Helen's house and look at what needs done to her porch and 2) go the the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra Concert at 7:30. Just the typical Saturday. Nothing extra special...or so I thought. We got up early and went to a few garage sales (which were very depressing!) and then headed towards Helen's house in Des Moines. We got there around 9am and looked at the porch, cleaned her gutters, talked, laughed, played a little piano, etc. It was such an enjoyable time. It was nearly 2 when we left so we went to Joe's Crab Shack for breakfast/lunch. I had never been there before and it was pretty good (kinda crazy though because it was close enough to halloween that people were dressed up in costumes). When we finished there, JJ suggested that we go to Big Creek State Park for the few hours we had before we needed to get ready for the concert. I had mentioned going shopping, but he wanted to go to the park and I readily agreed. If you have read my other posts, you know that I went there on the 8th and when I was there, I found this really sweet spot and had mentioned it to JJ. I was pretty excited to show JJ the spot I had found, but didn't think we would be there for very long... When we got to the park, we each got out of the car..but then he opened the back door to get something. I was just about ready to ask him what he was doing when a thought hit me...what if he is grabbing a ring?! (JJ and I had talked about marriage and I knew that he had ordered a ring but that is about it. I had tried to get my brother to tell me if he had asked Dad's permission yet, but Jon just said "how would i know, mom and dad don't tell me things") Whatever it was JJ was getting, he put in his pocket which basically confirmed my suspicions. At that point I got really nervous. Thoughts of "oh no! am I ready for this?!" started going through my head and so my obvious reaction was to keep JJ walking and not give him a chance to stop (haha..yes, I really did that). After awhile (ok, it was probably only like 10 mins but it felt like forever!) of walking and talking (about who knows what) I decided I was being foolish and we stopped to admire the beauty of God's creation. You see, with the water levels so low, there was quite a bit of sand showing that usually would not be so we followed the paths as far as we could out into the lake. Then JJ mentioned something about me trying to get Jon to tell me something and I knew it was about to happen..and it did. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!! All I could think of..and apparently say as well...was "wow, this doesn't really feel like its happening..it doesn't feel real..I don't know what it feels like...wait! yes! Ill marry you!" We both laughed and laughed about it and then walked and walked and talked and yah..I was sooo excited I was like hyper! (I still get kinda excited when I talk about it!) I did remember to have him take a picture while we were still there.
About a half hour later we remembered that we needed to get ready for the concert! Of course, I didn't want the people we were going with to be the first to know, so I needed to call all my family as fast as possible! Somehow I managed to call all my family except my grandparents before we had to leave for the concert. I will also admit that I have no clue of anything that happened at the concert. Pretty sure I looked at my ring more than I looked at the musicians. That night I told my roommate, Holly, and she caught my excitement as well. She stayed up with me until 1:30 or so and then I was up for another 2 hours..unable to sleep as I was so excited! I eventually did sleep for a few hours and then waited and waited and waited until it was a decent time to go tell Dana! I actually was still a bit early because she was still sleeping, but I don't think she minded being woke up to a sparkly ring.
Again, sorry about the picture quality. The ring is absolutely gorgeous! He picked it out (actually, he had it custom made because he couldn't find anything he liked lol) all by himself. I did look at rings online with him one time, but I guess he had already ordered the ring at that point. He seriously thought of everything including making sure that it would be smooth on all sides so it couldn't scratch my kids. Love that guy!
And that, my friends, is our story. =)
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