The Proposal

Jason and I were in Atlantic City for my birthday (birthday - 14 Sept).  Jason loves to play poker, blackjack and any other table game and I absolutely love to play slots!  So we thought it'd be fun to do something different.  We both took off Friday to get a head start!  Friday evening we stayed in the casino pretty much all night but were in bed by midnight... par-tay animals, I know right ;) 

Saturday we got up, had breakfast at a little mom and pop joint, haha, on the boardwalk and came back to the casino... hey, that's what you do when you go to AC! After a while we decided to go up to the room to get ready. I took a while getting ready, longer than usual cause I wanted to doll myself up, duh, we were in Atlantic City :)  I had just got done putting my rings on and headed towards the door... as Jason was following behind me, he said, 'here, I want you to wear this', so I turned around thinking nothing at all and he had this big Jared's box in his hand. I immediately felt like I was going to pass out or throw up, my knees buckled and I started swaying, and could not hold my tears back if I tried to!

He opened the box, got on his knee and asked 'well will you?', I couldn't even talk, I shook my head yes as fast as I could and hugged him straight for a good 25 minutes. I was shaking, crying and nobody could get that smile off my face if they tried :) And yes, it's still there :) We celebrated our engagement at dinner and a night out! I will never, ever forget that night!!!! Sunday on the way home all we did was talk wedding :)

Jason had the ring for about two months, TWO months!  I'm not a good secret keeper when it comes to things like that, there's no WAY if that were me I'd be able to keep it from someone for that long! While I was in VA Beach back in July with the fam, and he was in Culpepper for work, he had texted him mom to tell her he wanted to look at rings when he got home. Apparently one night back in August, he told me he had to go to 'work' and met his mom at Jared's to buy the ring! They were there for two hours, he wanted to be sure it was perfect, and THAT it is! :)  He kept the ring at his parents and the night before we left for AC he had gone there to pick it up.

Now it makes since why he packed himself for our trip! He always NEVER packs himself! That Thursday he went to get the ring from his parents, he stopped by my parents house on the way home to ask my dad :) Very old fashioned but that meant so much to me as I'm sure it did my dad. I would've LOVED to had been a fly on that wall to witness that conversation! Of course my dad said yes but gave him 'the talk', I know Jason's glad that's over with! He also called Amber (THE best friend/maid of honor) to ask if I had any idea. So of course she was dyingggg all day on Saturday waiting for my phone call!

I am, and I'm pretty sure I can speak for Jason too - WE are the absolute happiest we've ever been. I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with the love of my life :)