in case you're wondering,
So, our e story…
we had dated exclusively about 7 or 8 months. Graduation was a semester away for J, and commissioning, and being assigned to a base. He knew he wanted to be married before he moved away. So he made an elaborate plan up, with my bosses help, my parents’ and grandmother’s help, and his roommates too. By this time, he was in a new apt, and had a roomie whose father was in politics in the state. So J told me we were invited to the election night party for this man, I needed a cocktail dress, and when to be ready.
I had no such dress, but a girl at work offered to let me go through her closet. My mom had come over to visit my grandmother, which was in the same town I lived in. I didn’t think anything out of the ordinary there. I had gone by so they could see me all dolled up, then headed back to my little apt to wait for J to pick me up. He came all decked out and told me, the election wasn’t going well, so we weren’t going to the dinner. But he had brought Chinese (one of favorite date meals that you couldn’t get in the little town I lived in) and told me to stay dressed up.
We ate, and then he ran back out to his car, for I was guessing regular clothes to change into. Except he knocked on the door again, weird, and was holding a bouquet of the biggest roses I had ever seen. He took me by the hand, dropped to his knee, and asked me to be his wife. Somewhere between the tears I coughed out a YES! And he slipped the ring on my finger.
Then he told me my mom was waiting to see us, so we drove up there, and both my mom and grandma were crying too. After we talked for a long time about the whole evening, I said I needed to get ready for work tomorrow, and J told me that I had the next day off. He had told my boss, and all my coworkers and arranged for me to have the day off. It was such a memorable night!
One of our goofy e pictures