The Proposal

How bittersweet that this is the next post. We go from sadness to incredible happiness. This has been a hell of a year for everyone in our family, but I'm glad it ends with smiles instead of tears.


So, without further ado - I got engaged on Christmas morning!

Danny & I have been together for almost 8 years. I've known for a while that we would be getting married this coming summer, but I was blown away when he proposed.

As this is the first Christmas without my mom, Danny decided he wanted to do my stocking. My mom and I always used to do stockings for each other - putting fun little dollar store items, makeup and things like that inside. We had already agreed that we wouldn't buy each other any other presents since we really don't need anything, so all I was expecting was my stocking.

Fast forward to Christmas morning. Our entire family was in our living room - everyone had come over to exchange presents at our house. He gave me my stocking and then another larger present that was the "guide" for the stocking (I was pretty confused..).

I don't need to say much else. I'll let you read on and go through this as I went through it and how everyone in the room heard it. He asked me to open this, and read it out loud:

Click the photos to enlarge and read the captions.

Gift #1 - Futureshop Gift Card
Gift #2 - Mustang
Gift #3 - Weekend at Bernies on a thumbstick
Gift #4 - A&W Gift Card for 2 whistle dogs

Gift #5 - Vodka

Gift #6 - Total Pet gift card

The campground/care aide story is backwards, but we'll fix it =)

Gift #7 - Mini Oktoberfest Stein

My accident was actually Dec 4th. And those are the
pictures we took the night before (wow!)



Gift # 8

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Opening the ring (please ignore my fabulous bed head):

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The end. =)