Engaged!

Well finally the man had proposed to me! July first and I'm just now blogging about it, it's a beautiful ring, hopefully the symbol of a beautiful future. We're thinking next December. 2010! The story:

July 1st 2009, Jonathan gets off work late, around 10:00pm and comes over to my apartment, he tells me he has a surprise for me but not to get excited (haha). He comes in and talks circles around me I guess trying to muster up the courage to ask. He then hands me a small container of markmans jewelry cleaner and says he just stopped by to look at rings and they gave it to him. He thought I might like to have it for my other jewelry. He then insists that I clean my ring that he bought me in Guatemala at that moment. He won't let me drop it in and insists on doing it himself, he tells me to leave it for 2 minutes and then take it out, then he retreats to the bathroom. After about 5 minutes he realizes I've forgotten all about it (haha didn't expect a thing!) and calls out saying I need to get it out. So I look in and see something that looks nothing like my jade and sapphire ring from Guatemala, something with three stones that looked a lot like diamonds with an engraving "te amo" which reflected my old ring so well. That's when it hit me. Not to long from now I would be Mrs. Katie Willocks and I would be so, so very in love with this man forever. And that's when I head to the bathroom to find Jonathan, on one knee, surrounded by rose petals. IN MY BATHROOM. (I had to make that clear) He wispers something about how happy I make him and how he wants to spend forever with me, will I marry him? Honestly I can't remember all of it, and I feel terrible because he worked so hard on it all I can remember is his face and how nervous he was and how sweet and dear he was and that look, that look of total love. I was crying and laughing and not believing that this could happen to me. Me! It was absolutly picture perfect and I'll never forget it.

My father has promised to furnish an overabundance of booze so all should be well! Minus crazy family members. Hopefully by then Jonathan will have a great job as a Physicist somewhere in Oak Ridge and hopefully we will have already bought a beautiful little starter house with a white picket fence and a puppy to boot!

Could be fun to blog about the ups and downs of wedding planning though.