Sharing Engagement Memories...

Thanks to all of you for the encouraging words and comments from my last post. I felt obligated to make a post soon so many of you would not be worried about my DH and I. We did have a GREAT talk last night and agreed that we were letting life's many day-to-day routines get in the way of our marriage...work, family, infertility stresses, the economy, etc. So we made an agreement to put our marriage first and let everything else come second.

On the same topic...I read Rebecca Jo's blog today, Knit By God's Hands, and thought it was such a great post. She shared how her husband proposed to her. Her post really brought me back to that special time in my life when the DH proposed to me and what a special and happy time this was for both of us. I thought it would be a great idea if we ALL shared how our engagement memories. AND Kelly is also hosting proposal memories on her blog today too!!!

Here is our story...

The DH and I were 30 years old when we first met one another...he hates for me to say this, but we met on Match.com. Yes, it does actually work :) Anyway, a year and half later we had planned a trip to Lake Tahoe to go skiing. I had so many friends tell me that they "thought" this was going to be when he would propose to me...but to be honest, it was just bad timing. We had just moved into a house and had spent a lot of money on putting in new wooden floors. We hadn't even TALKED about getting engaged. Little did I know that the weekend BEFORE we were to leave for Tahoe, my mom and dad had come over to help us finish laying the floors in our house. Mom and I had gone to Subway to pick up lunch and while we were gone, David had asked my dad for permission to propose. The following weekend the DH and I had landed in Lake Tahoe and were just getting settled into our hotel room...complete with a gorgeous view and a HUGE jacuzzi in our room. We changed clothes and made our way to a local pub to unwind from the long day of traveling. On our way back home, we stopped by the store and picked up a bottle of champagne to take back to the room to celebrate our first ski-trip with one another...yes, it all seems so obvious now, but I was so clueless! We got back to the hotel and got ready to take a dip in the jacuzzi and the DH told me he had surprise for me....he asked me to close my eyes and made me promise not to peak. When I opened my eyes, he was on his knees (in the jacuzzi) and asked me to marry him?!?!? I was so shocked and remembered saying..."are you serious?" Of course I said yes and remember crying tears of joy as we called all of our family to share our news! He had originally planned to propose the next day, either on top of a mountain or at a nice dinner, but the ring was burning a HOLE in his pocket :) Here are some pics of my engagement ring and that special trip....







The DH had my ring made and I can honestly say that it is oh so beautiful! Didn't he do a great job??



This is us on top of Mount Heavenly the day after we got engaged. I was so paranoid because I didn't want to wear my ring on the slopes so we left it in the safe in our hotel room. I could NOT wait to get back to make sure that it was safe and sound.



I can't tell you what an awesome trip this was...it was the beginning of a wonderful marriage and many years of happiness!