Engagement

My ring!

I was thinking the other day, I've never really told anyone how we got engaged. Sure I may have said "We went for a walk and then he proposed" but I've never really told anyone the story. I think it's pretty cute and so I thought I'd tell it.

A couple weeks before he proposed we went around and started looking at rings just to get a general idea of what I liked. We saw one that I absolutely loved loved loved mostly because I'd never really seen one like it before. I kept my opinion to myself because I really wanted Mark to pick it out. After that day we kind of just left it at that.

On June 16, I do believe that was a Wednesday, which we later found out was the day that Mark's Dad proposed to Mark's Mom, Mark was at work and I had the day off. He called me and said that because of the rain they were letting him go home early and he would be home soon and that we should go for a walk. Now I thought that this was kind of suspicious but I just went with it. He picked me up and we went for a walk to "Our Bench" that's what we call it. Its a place down in the coulees overlooking the river with a bench that we carved our names in. We stood there for a while looking at the view like we always do and it was raining which we both love. I kept trying to feel in his pockets for a ring box but there wasn't one so I was a little dissapointed. He was shaking like crazy and I was getting freezing so I said we should start heading back but then he said we should wait because there was something he had to do first. And then he pulled the ring out of his pocket and got down on one knee! Clearly I said yes and it just so happens that it was the ring that I absolutely loved. It was a fantastic day.

With the Wedding Band