A Special Day in Our History

Look what I got today...

Dan surprised me this evening with Roses. What's the occasion you might ask? Nine years ago today he asked me to marry him. The proposal was a complete surprise to me.

Here is what I've written down about it in the past:

Dan proposed on Friday, November 1st, 2002. A lot of interesting events lead to it. A week full of weird excuses as to why he wasn't where he was supposed to be. Several questions about if and when my dad was going to be in town, or back from a business trip. A stressed "Trunk or Treat" the night before. At one point he went around to the front of the building and was supposed to open the locked door for me, but never came. Plus there were a lot of strange comments from family members such as : Trenity can say "Uncle Dan", "Fix your hair," after a long stressful day at work doing the monthly inventory count, and "not yet, but soon," overheard in a telephone conversation.

Our parents were going out to dinner together that evening, a first but not too unusual since our Dad's talked all the time at church. Then he called saying he needed help carrying things in from his car, after getting off of work late because he had to run reports to Nick, and not seeing his car in the driveway. I kept chatting away on the phone and he was in a big hurry for me to open the door.

I opened the door to the biggest surprise of my life. I'm still not sure how he managed to set it all up with the front window open and me sitting on the couch. So, when I opened the door there were 12 roses, one on the door mat and the rest on each step, leading down to the driveway. I almost stepped on the 1st rose, I was that clueless at first. But in my defense it didn't take me long to catch on, each rose had a hand written note attached to it, asking if I'd be his wife for Time and all Eternity.

Dan was at the bottom of the stairs waiting with 12 more roses and the ring. When I reached the last stair, he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. Of course I said yes!

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So, I guess some times it pays to be oblivious or just not to read too deeply into things, or ask too many questions. It turns out that my whole family and a good chunk of his family were in on it all along. How he got so many people to keep their mouths shut is beyond me. He got my ring size a few weeks earlier while we were with his parents at Seagull Books after a Stake Temple Trip. He was stressed out that my Dad was never going to be home so that he could ask his permission. When he left me locked outside at the church during Trunk or Treat, he was finally talking to my dad. He has a very funny story about that, I should have him write it down sometime. My mom had told my sister thus the "Uncle Dan" thing. Some of his sisters knew, hence the cryptic phone calls while I was around. Fun memories.

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Back to today, it was a pretty fun day. I wish I could say I remembered earlier in the day what significance this date holds, but that would be a lie. However, we made it an extra special day quiet by accident. I had a doctor's appointment in Reno for my annual, so I left the kids with a friend. My appointment was done in time for an early lunch so I had made arrangements to meet Dan. We were finally able to use a gift certificate I was given before Jack was born. We went to this nice Sushi Restaurant. Since we were early it wasn't crowded and the service was fast. It has been awhile since we've shared an uninterrupted meal. On the way back to the office we stopped at Target to buy the Cars 2 DVD. We kept dinner simple that night, take and bake pizza, and enjoyed the movie.

Thank You for remembering to celebrate that life changing night.