10 years ago, Dan and I got engaged, FOR REALS! If you missed my previous post of the FAKE PROPOSAL click here.So New Year's Eve 1999, I was so excited! I had been waiting and waiting for Dan to ask me to marry him and after forgiving(ish) him for the fake proposal, I thought "he's going to do it New Year's! It would be perfect! It's Y2K, we'll be with my whole family, my mom can video the whole thing and take pictures!" Needless to say, I was so excited! The countdown to the year 2000 was killing me. We were all outside my parent's house, my mom had the video camera out, my siblings were doing fireworks, Dan and I were standing on the porch.....it was going to happen....FINALLY!!! Then midnight came and nothing else did. Dan just kissed me and said "Happy New Year Honey!" WHERE'S MY RING?????? I thought. He didn't give it to me at Christmas and now not at New Year's? What the heck was he waiting for???? Well, as the night went on I got madder and madder. Around 2:00 am, he went home and I was still mad. So I went to bed.
The next morning around 8:00, I was awakened by a sweet kiss. It was Dan and he was kneeling by my bed. I had just recently moved back home to save money to get married and I was sharing a room with my littlest sister, Amy, but she didn't sleep in our room that night. But the room was NOT clean and very cluttered. So Dan had to push stuff around on the floor to kneel down...how embarrassing. He pulled out a beautiful ring and said, "do you want to put up with me forever?" I said, "of course I do!!!" FINALLY!!!!!!! I LOVE the ring he picked out! We went upstairs and my parents were in the living room with the camera's waiting for us. They gave us hugs and kisses, then we went to Dan's parent's to show them the ring. Dan's dad was at the stake center getting ready for a stake baptism, so we drove over there to show him too. Then we made a few stops around the neighborhood (that we both grew up in) to show some friends that it finally happened. So it didn't happen how I had imagined it would and Dan has had a lot of making up for the fake proposal and then the non-Christmas and New Year's proposal, but he was totally worth the wait!!!!! And I would not change a thing about how he did it because it makes a really good story!! Love you honey!
