On September 19^th 2009 I was on my way to my fiance’s house for  a get together with my sister and brother-in-law.  I told my fiance, Ryan, I would come over a little early to help clean the basement and I was running a little late but I figured it was no big deal.  When I got to his house I couldn’t figure out where he was, the house was so quiet. I ran into his brother who is normaly very open and goofy. He was acting really quiet and he wouldn’t meet my eyes which I thought was very odd. I asked him where Ryan was and he said he didn’t  have any idea and booked it out of the room. Ok, well whatever. I started to go down stairs because I decided that was the only place left he could be. As I started to walk down the stairs there were candles everywhere! My first thought was “this is really fancy for a get together to watch “The Office”. The candles made a path all the way through the room, so many candles! Every surface of the room was covered in candles. I asked him later how many and he said about one hundred and thirty. The path lead through the room to the tv and Ryan was standing there in dress pants, a dress shirt, a vest and a bow tie. He looked wonderful! I really just thought he was being sweet. He always does special things like this for me but I was still confused. As soon as I made it to where he was standing this video started to play on the big screen and it was pictures of us together set to music. It was so wonderful standing there while he held me and we watched the video. I still had no idea what was going on. I just figured after the video we would clean it up and continue on with the evening and “The Office”. I didn’t finally get it until the end of the video when across the screen it said “Will you make me the luckiest?” and I turned to look at Ryan and he was getting on his knee. He pulled out the ring and I just started crying tears of joy. He asked me to marry him and spend my life with him. It took me completely by surprise because just days before he had told me not to expect a ring for a few months because of school and other things. I couldn’t really talk so I nodded and sort of said yes! As soon as that happened he stood up and hugged and kissed me and he ran upstairs and everyone  who was conveniently waiting in the kitchen just errupted with cheers! It was very cool. My sister and brother-in-law showed up as we were blowing out the candles. We celebrated the rest of the night with snacks and our show.

 It is exactly 79 weeks until the big day, July 2^nd 2011, (I made a paper chain) so we decided we had plenty of time to take dancing lessons. We are hoping to learn to swing dance so at our reception when it is time for our first dance together as husband and wife we can surprise all our guests and relatives with a show.

One thing I just couldn’t leave out is the video he made me as a valentine’s day gift. He is always so sweet and romantic. Ryan is extremely creative and has a talent for lip syncing so he made me a video of him singimg all these different songs that remind him of me and it is so amazing. I watch it all the time. After seeing this you will understand why I just thought he was being sweet when he proposed because it’s not out of the ordinary for him to treat me and do things like that. He’s my knight in shining armor.