It's around mid June 2011. Ethan has plans to go to Mobile to spend a week with Aunt Dede, Uncle George, Jessie, Sarah, Caleb and Ashlyn. The Saraland church of Christ is having their Vacation Bible School this week and Aunt Dede thought it would be a good idea to keep her two great nephews and neice for the week.

I've been harrasing Torey for the past couple of months to buy a very special ring for the ring finger on my left hand. We've been shopping so I can find what I like and he can have a good idea of what I like as well. The entire time I'm hoping this will speed up the whole process. Little did I know it was only going to be my own personal method of torture. This led to some very sad and depressing "cry myself to sleep" moments.

On Saturday while we visit various Jewelry stores I find out that Ethan's ride to Mobile has come down with some type of bed and toilet ridden virus. :-( Ew! Yep. Holly's got some kind of "bug". She's supposed to leave on Monday to take the kids for their week at Aunt Dede's. What am I going to do? I've got plans for dinner with my best friend on Monday night! And I'm hoping it's a very special dinner! Lord, not only do I want her to feel better because I don't want her to be sick, but please I've got to go to dinner Monday night. What will happen if my dinner date gets cancelled?!?! It's NEVER going to happen! I'll NEVER get engaged! (All thoughts from my mental freak out session that I shared with no one!)


I'm hoping this dinner is going to be a very special dinner because not only are we going to Outback, but we just went there a week or two ago and Outback is still a treat for us, he's planned this when Ethan was supposed to be gone so we could be alone, when I suggested we could take the kids to Mobile on Monday since Holly was sick I could tell he didn't want to go, and a few other things that had me feeling this way. Aunt Dede decided she'd wait a week and make sure no one else got the "bug" before keeping the kids, so we left him with my mom instead.


Outback was amazing (as usual) and then we head "home". I'm thinking, "yea right, we aren't going home, he's proposing to me tonight so we can't be going home." We went home! By the time we pull up at his house I'm mentally trying to come to terms with the fact that this isn't going to happen tonight and was not being very successful though I think I did a pretty good job of not letting him know what was going on in my head. As I'm walking up to the back door I see something on the door mat. I was immediately angry because I'd just swept the back patio the night before. I get closer to the door and low and behold it's three white rose petals. I glance through the windows on the back door and there are candles and rose petals EVERYWHERE! The rose petals are laid on the floor in a trail to his bedroom where I find a bed of rose petals on the bed with the prettiest brown and off white box I've ever seen in my life. In this amazing box is a 14k white gold ring with a princess cut center diamond, a halo with tons of little diamonds. Each side has three round cut diamonds going down the side. It's the prettiest ring I've ever seen!!!!

I go to the bed and go to grab for my ring, mid stride Torey snatches the ring from me and says, "Hold ON!" He gets down on one knee, says a bunch of sweet stuff that neither of us remember and asks me if I'll spend the rest of my life with him. My response was, "OF COURSE!"