Engagement (She Said)

I totally admit that I was a basket case during this time!!

I knew Dan was the man I was going to marry very early on in the process. I remember one night Dan and I went to see Pirates of the Carribean and he asked me if I ever thought about us and I said about us being married? And he said yes and I said absolutely! I told him that after he kissed me for the first time I knew I never wanted to be kissed by anyone else ever again. He said "SHAZAAM!" That was way back in June!

Dan proposed on December 29th, 2007 and although I knew we were going to get engaged at some point I was not expecting it when it happened! Dan had me all over the map with this! We talked about getting engaged in December and married in spring of the following year. As december started fading so did my hope of getting engaged that month. I just didn't think it was going to happen. Dan had some last minute business trips that he needed to take and I knew that would probably affect his ability to get an engagement ring. I tried so hard during this time period to not wear disappointment on my face but, I'm not sure how well I did. You'll have to ask Dan that one!

The whole month of december I think every day that I woke up I kept thinking maybe it'll be today! How will he do it? Will I be surprised? Then I would go to sleep at night thinking I don't think it's going to happen. It was AWFUL! Then he got called away on business the week before xmas. He was supposed to be gone 2 days but, was gone over 7. (Thanks Cisco! Appreciate that!) At this point I figured a xmas engagement was totally out of the question but, I was so disappointed there were times I was on the verge of tears and Dan didn't know why. I couldn't tell him!

Then, on Dec. 23 we go to walnut creek to buy gifts for our family and we drive by a tiffany's and dan says wow I didn't know that was there. do you wanna go in? I was like we don't have to. He was like wow I thought you would want to. Well in my head I was thinking. If you are taking me to tiffany's right now that means you haven't even bought the ring yet! UGGGHH!!! We went inside and little known to me he already knew the sales rep and had already picked out my ring. That trip to tiffany's completely threw me off!

Fast forward 5 days and 5 of my brothers are in town with their wives and kids for the week. We go down to my parents house and apparently while I'm talking to my nieces and nephews my mom and Dan are talking about the proposal and that he has the ring and how he is going to do it! He told my mom he was thinking about renting a hot air balloon and my mom says that she's afraid of heights! Dan says well I thought you were already taken! I still can't believe that all of this was going on a few feet away from me and I was totally oblivious. My mom told dan it would be wonderful if we got engaged while the family was in town so we could all celebrate together. Go mom! ;-)

The very next day I went over to dan's. We had plans for dinner. He told me to take a seat because he was doing laundry. I sat down and flipped through a magazine. He walked in and started talking to me. Nothing unusual. Then he said something about he's been carrying something around. I thought he meant emotionally like I've been carrying feelings around that he needed to talk about! Well, a few seconds later he pulls out a tiffany's wrapped blue box and to this day I have no idea what he said. I just started crying. He told me that maybe I could pull one side of the bow while he pulls the other and we opened it together. My hand was shaking! I then opened the box with the ring in it and I went to grab it. He said 'Hold on there!' and he got down on his knee and asked will you marry me? and I said yes yes yes yes yes!! We then put the ring on and I kept hugging him and crying. I then said "I'm engaged!!!" and Dan said "you're engaged?" and I said "I mean We're Engaged!!!" It was the most beautiful day of my life. I can't wait to be Mrs. Daniel Kiewlich!!!