The Engagement...Part 2

It was a magical day!  First of all the dogs weren't pooping on the floor.  I spent the whole day in suspense of what the secret that John was keeping could be.

The day went on for eternity!  The plan was that we would go to my Mom's to have cake and then she would watch Baby John while we went to dinner and to play pool afterwards.

When 5 o'clock finally rolled around we left the house and stopped by Kmart and I bought a really cute pair of shoes and a cute pair of white sandals to wear with my outfit!  Later that night I taught John how to bend them to help break them in! He had never heard of that before!

We left Kmart and pulled into my Mom's driveway.  John grabbed the car seat and I led the way to the door where my Mom peered out to check and see if we were there.

I opened the door and walked in and "SURPRISE!!!!" Almost my whole family was standing there smiling and waiting for me!!!

I could not believe it!!!!

My whole life I wanted someone to throw me a surprise party, and this incredible man remembered me telling him that.  I really couldn't believe it!  I stood there like a deer caught in the headlights.

I hugged my Grandma, my Aunt Erin, my Mom, my brother and his girlfriend Baylee, my cousins, my Uncle Greg.  I couldn't believe he had hid it so well!  He had been so secretive but I really did not see the surprise party coming.  John is the sweetest man I have ever dated.

We ate pizza and hung out and then had a really yummy chocolate cake with peanut butter cups inside! My Mom makes really good cake!

Then we went out to play pool at Bailey's.  I really need to play pool more often.  I was getting really good there for a while until I got to be about 6 months pregnant and then it all went down hill from there.  My belly got in the way while I could still play, and then I had baby John and barely played until this night.  It was pretty rough my friend.  My ultimate life goal is to have a pool table in my house.  That's it.  That's all I want.  HAHA!

Then we decided to go over to Music Valley Drive to the Nashville Palace, where my Dad plays in a really great band.  It's good ole country music, and it really makes you want to dance! I LOVE to dance!!! John says he's not a very good dancer, but he danced to 3 or 4 songs with me, and I taught him the basic footwork of the Texas Two Step and he did really great!!! We had some good fries and fried pickles too.

It started to get late and we decided to go.  We headed out to the car and that's when John took my hand and started to walk across the parking lot.

"Let's walk for a little.  I want to walk off those fries," he said.

I laughed, "Okay."  What did that even mean? Walk off those fries?  We hadn't been overly stuffed with fries so I was kind of confused, but I love romantic walks at night so I went along with it without too many questions.

We walked diagonally across the parking lot and then started walking past the closed but well lit shops in the strip.  We passed the Earnest Tub Record shop, a Wedding Chapel that was surprisingly nice inside, and other random stores.  From across the lot I pointed to the Music City Bar and Grill, "That's where we had our first date!"  I exclaimed.

"Yeah, and where you read me the letter," he said.

We walked and talked and eventually ended standing in front of the Music City Bar and Grill.  There were some loud drunk people and a black car was pulled up in front of the bar.

John stopped. "Looks like they are taking an Uber."

"Yeahhh," I answered, kind of awkwardly standing there.  He pulled me into a hug.  It was cute. What was going on....
We stood there all huggy and cute until the car left, taking the drunk people with it.

John took my hands.
"René.  I love you very much, and I have been waiting for the right time to do this," and he got down on one knee and I turned around and covered my mouth, "Oh my God!" I said.  I turned back to him and he pulled out a little box, and said, "Will you marry me?"

"Holy crap yes!"  I said.

It was so magical and incredible and I couldn't believe it!  He had completely thrown me off with the surprise party! I ran back into the Nashville Palace to tell my Dad!! Becky (the bassist and singer in the band) announced it to everyone! It was one of the most exciting days of my life.

John explained the ring he gave me is a stand in ring.  It's the ring his Dad gave his Mom, but he originally gave it to another girl and wanted me to have a ring that was only ever given to me.  Let me tell you, he is really outdoing himself with the real ring! That thing is serious!  I went in to have it fitted, so it looks weird on my hand, but you can see how gorgeous it is!

 So now you know how it happened!  I'm so excited and I can't wait to set a date and start making plans!!!

Hope you guys have a great day:)

 

The Engagement! ..Part 1

SO HE FINALLY DID IT EVERYONE! 

Not that everyone else has been waiting in as much suspense as I have; wondering WHEN he was going to propose, and if he ever even thought about proposing any time soon!!!

Then finally, the week of my birthday, and also the week of John's vacation off of work came!!!

He had been hiding his phone all week.  I was going nuts trying to pry information out of him, only establishing that my Mom was privy to the information that I was being deprived of.

"What's in your phone that I can't see?" I'd ask.

"Something." John said coyly.

"What kind of something???"  I implored.

"Something for your birthday," He would say,  resisting the urge to laugh at his own hilariousness.

"WELL what kind of something for my birthday?" I insisted.

"A birthday something." We usually left it at that, with me wanting to kill John, but also the opposite of kill him which would probably be not to kill him.  (This conversation happened at least once a day in the days leading up to my birthday.)

I love surprises, and I love to try to figure out what they are even more.

The day before my birthday, May 25th, my friend Samantha came over to hang out.  We had BLT's for lunch and my dog Pepper stared with a watering mouth while our other dog Amber paced around anxiously, making sad puppy eyes as she sulked past us and we continued to eat without giving her anything.

Amber and Pepper

John had to go on another mystery errand, which he got the full 3rd degree on (see previous conversation), leaving Samantha and I finishing our lunch and chatting away.  Baby John had been doin' his thing, watching Baby Genius on Netflix, but was starting to get fussy.  I went and got him from his Jumperoo and was standing there next to Sam when she said, "I think he pooped!"  Sure as the sky is blue, I had simultaneously felt the sticky feeling of poop on my arm, and when I looked, it had, in fact, leaked out of the back of his diaper and through his shirt.  I carried him precariously into the bedroom, Sam following behind, both of us laughing about the incident.

Let me interject my own story just to tell you all how much I LOVE cleaning up baby poop smushed up the back.  It's kind of like my own personal challenge, where I see how efficiently I can take his dirty clothes off without smearing it on his head. NOT.  Although, I do try not to smear it on his head.  Pretty much, the Jumperoo is the most amazing thing ever invented, unless John poops while he's bouncing in it...then it's just another stupid toy that I hate! LOL. 

Back to the story.  We are standing there, I am MID WAY through POOPAY and it smells SO BAD.  Literally the worst smelling poop he has ever had.  So BAD that Samantha exclaimed, "OH MY GOD, his poop STINKS!"  I just looked at her and laughed, and when I did I realized that on the floor between where we stood there was a big pile of dog poop on my carpet!!! AGH!

Not a happy Mommy!  We laughed so hard though.  The LOLs just kept comin', but I'm going to blame it on the fumes though, because if you saw a pile of dog poop this big and this squishy looking on your carpeted floor you would have to be high on poop fumes to think it was funny too! No lie.

So who pooped?  Well, thankfully, my son wasn't the evil culprit of the poop stink, but my dog Amber was.  You know all that walking around anxiously?  Staring into our eyes begging for BLT?  That was only 10% begging for BLT and 90% "it's about to rain outside, I'm getting anxiety, and I refuse to go to the door when I have to poop so you BETTA READ MY MIND."  Amber does not go to the bathroom in the house...normally...but when she does it is because she thinks that she has made it absolutely clear that she had to go because she paced around the house looking cray.  Like anyone could POSSIBLY know what that meant.

So, that was great.  I cleaned it up.  It took forever.  It was runny, and gross, and I felt a temporary hatred for all domesticated animals.  Then I got over it, cause you know, she had anxiety,  and that's kind of pitiful.  Sam and I walked out into the living room and there on the floor was a huge puddle of water that Amber had first gulped down (again because of her anxiety) and then threw back up.  YAY.  I guess I don't mind dog throw up so much, but if that dang dog could understand how much we spent on paper towels she wouldn't be off the hook so easily.  Sam went home, John came back from his little "errand," and I told him about the events that unfolded when he was gone. 

I pressed him with more questions about where he went as he walked around the house and went back into the bedroom.  Naturally, I just happened to glance at the floor and there it was...  A PUDDLE OF DOG DIARRHEA.


WHY?
 
WHY? WHY? WHY?

This time, John, sweet, loving, amazing John, cleaned up the dog poop. We laughed about it, despite how ridiculous and awful it was.

"I told you, this day has been ridiculous," I said, both of us shaking our heads.  Ready to relax and recover from this crappy experience, we headed back to the living room.  There at the end of the hall was a puddle of dog pee. That's right guys.  It was like The Nightmare of the Excreting Canines -By Amber and Pepper.  It was an all time record.

That was the day before I got engaged!    

On that note, I will leave you feeling appalled for me while you wait for the juicy stuff in part 2. :)

There will be a picture of my ring in the next post!

Bye guys.