// - How We Met & Got Engaged

I gotta do this slowly, or I'll overload not only you guys, but myself. Which reminds me.. HI JESSICA!!!! *waves* She left a comment on Facebook saying she is reading this, so I should be happy about it haha.

OK, this is the story of how we met..

I worked in Richfield & would email my friend who worked in the office there and whine how I wanted a boyfriend. She said try online. I said no way, there are scary people online, but I ended up joining match.com because Dr. Phil is a spokesman, I love Dr. Phil. Plus anything that Dr. Phil supports can't be all bad, right?

I was browsing profiles & came across Brett's. I had to sign up to email him but if I canceled within 3 days, it wouldn't charge my card. So what the heck. I signed up, emailed him and went shopping. I came back, got an email from him and got on MSN to chat with him. This was at 5:00 pm. We quit chatting on MSN at 1:30 am. He worked at 7:00 am haha. We agreed to meet at Starbucks inside Target. He'd given me his number and I told my Mom what I was doing.

We spent the day texting [it was a Thursday] He'd told me he was shy. He wasn't kidding. It was like interviewing him to get him to talk. After about 15 minutes of total silence [well not total but almost LOL] we walked around because he'd just moved here & needed sheets and stuff. He spent over $200.00 which he later told me was to impress me. I waited 10 minutes after our leaving & texted him and we text chatted for a week. I went over 3 times & ate dinner on the patio [I wasn't allowed in his house because my parents hadn't met him] and then my family & I were leaving for Oregon for a week. I knew I was not leaving until I kissed him. It was the most magical kiss of my life. I knew at that moment he was mine.

We left for Oregon & texted the whole time. I seriously felt like part of me was missing. I get horoscopes sent to my phone every morning and the one I got the morning we met said "The delay in your last relationship has put you in a place to meet someone special now." Boy was it right.

Isn't that romantical? hehe

Now, for our proposal story.

He asked! Well, he tried to ask and I ruined it LOL. Allow me to back up. Oh there are so many things I want to write, I hope I remember them all.

Excuse me a moment.

HE ASKED ME TO MARRY HIM!!! I AM ENGAGED TO BRETT & WE ARE HAVING A WEDDING!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, now that that's outta my system. haha.

I knew he'd gotten my ring and what it looked like, I just didn't know when or how I'd get it. I didn't go to work on Thursday because I felt so sick and he'd received the box in the mail & had sent me a picture of the box. I told him if he sent any more photos, I'd let my Mom open them just in case they were the ring.

We'd discussed him asking my Dad before hand and he did. In a text. hee hee. I'm going to sneak into a phone & type them out because they are so precious and made me teary eyed.

Brett: Butch, I got a favor to ask. I need something very special from you.
Dad: What's up?
Brett: I need to ask for your daughter's hand.
Dad: As long as you are both ready, I would be proud to see you marry my little girl! All I ask if that you take care of her. She is & always will be my little girl.
*insert my sniffling here*
Brett: Thank you, I will do my best to make her happy.
Dad: I know you will and I could not be happier to see her with you!! You are a good man Brett.
Brett: *sent a picture of the ring*
Dad: Yes. You have mine & Julie's best wishes. The ring looks very nice.

Wow. So I read those Friday afternoon. Let me back up again.

Thursday night, when all of these messages were sent, I'd told Brett I feel like we're eloping because I knew so much, yet I didn't know when or how I'd get it. I went to bed and then woke up to some interesting texts.

Brett: North or South?
Me: Umm, south.
Brett: Indoors or out.Me: Out.
Brett: Round or flat?
Me: What the hell kind of question is that?? Flat.

OK, so I'm totally confused at this point. I went to get my nails done & my Mom & I went to lunch. I sit down to lunch and take a bite and have this awful pain shoot through my jaw. I ran my tongue over my jaw and then my finger, thinking it was like a piece of food or gum stuck on it. I broke an entire chunk off my tooth. My blood ran cold and I went to the bathroom to verify it. Yep, it's gone. I'm physically sick and want to throw up. My Mom managed to get me in with her dentist as mine doesn't work on Fridays. I tell Brett and he said "Shit." I promised him that no matter what, I would not miss what he'd planned for us. I get into the Dentist & they place some temporarily "packing" on the tooth to patch it up. Great. At least it's pink. haha. It's funny now, yesterday, not so much.

Anyways, so I get it done, pay and am on my way. I go get my check & pass Brett on the road. I got to his house and he greeted me outside and we left in his car. My nose is going ballistic at this point & I'm going through Kleenex like nobody's business. We stop at my house, I get a jacked & some more Kleenex and my camera. Just in case.

We head to the mountains and before we'd gone 10 miles, my Kleenex was gone. We stopped at the gas station and I got some allergy pills & Kleenex and hoped that I wouldn't go through all 65 of them before the night was over. We get back on the road and almost instantly, the medicine kicked in and all was well.

We head to where my family normally goes, but there are no grills. We head back down the mountain, after I took some photos and Brett hands me his phone & I read the messages between him & my dad. We stop at a camp site and unload everything.

We're standing by a little creek and he is all fidgety with his pocket. I didn't think much of it and we head back to the grill and he said he was going to go potty in the bushes. I tell him he is out of his mind as I can see the road, but whatever. haha. He'd gotten me a ring on the coast at Claire's and the poor thing is missing 3 diamonds [aka: glass pieces] and is starting to tarnish. I wear it on my right ring finger and he is holding my hand, commenting on how it's shiny & nice and whips out my ring, and gets on one knee. I blurt out "YES!!!" before he even gets a chance to ask. He puts it on my finger and we hug and kiss and hug some more.

I totally blew it. He didn't even get to ask and I blurted out YES!! haha. It was perfect, absolutely perfect. Afterwards, he pulls out 2 champagne glasses & a bottle of champagne and we toast to us and start to cook. We took a little walk and headed back and the fire was finally taking off, so we got it started and ate. We had burgers [the flat he'd asked about] and cottage cheese and champagne. It was truly perfect.

We packed up and headed back and I said I wanted to go see my Grandpa first. So we stopped in and it, oh it was so sweet. Grandpa had seen my fakey from Oregon and thought it was a real engagement ring. So we showed him my real one. He said he was very honored that we stopped to see him first [he is in a nursing home for therapy and doing excellent with it] and then we headed home. My Mom had sent a text telling me not to tell my Grandma or Aunt first and I was like "OH SHIT!!" cuz I'd shown Grandpa, but she said that was ok and she was glad I did, since he isn't at home. Whew. haha. We show my parents and siblings and Elexa thought it was a joke. Little twit. Eugene is all excited and so is Elexa although I'm still trying to convince her at 13 she is to old to be a flower girl. But anyways.

Daria [my Aunt] comes over and gets all excited, so I called Mam [my Grandmother] and was like, "Trust me, you'll wanna come over." And she finally does. I show her and she's on the top step with me. She turns around, goes over a pop can and hugs Brett first. I would've given anything to of had a camera to see the look on my face when she bypassed me for Brett. haha.

My Dad is already planning the guest list & I've made Eugene a bouncer. My Mom got a wedding planning book and I got a magazine. We were asked a lot what our date is and we finally picked one. While looking at a calendar at Barnes & Noble. Saturday May 23, 2009.
Emily Hill. Wow, that's the first time I've written it out. *does a dance*

I'll do wedding party stuff tomorrow, I have to go to bed, early morning doctor appointment. Oh goody. Hopefully they can figure out why I've been covered in a rash for a week..*crosses fingers*