Flashback Fun-Our Engagement

What I would like to do is spend some time leading up to our anniversary post with some flashbacks. I have very fond memories of our engagement story and some have heard and some have not. If you have you can skip this post ;) Here goes......it is long.


This was the evening of our six year anniversary in March 2003 and I had a super sad day. Trey and I had been having several talks about how he just did not think that we would get engaged anytime soon and he had really prepared me to NOT expect a proposal on our anniversary date. I was just thinking that we needed to be making some decisions soon because I would be graduating in December and would need to move on (very dramatic I know...). I was really ready to get some things decided and be proactive. Not that he was not doing the same thing it is just that I did not know about it ;) I spent that afternoon of our engagement talking to my friend Stephanie in Auburn and telling her that I just did not think that it was going to happen and getting her take on things. She seemed very hopeful for things to work out......

Trey picked me up at my house that night after coming in from Samford for the weekend. He brought flowers and we were off for our date. We got in the car and he gave me a mixed CD of some of our favorite songs that we listened to through the evening. Then we went to Arby's and sat at the same place that we did on our VERY first date six years earlier and ate dinner. Trey was very observant of things like that and always remembered little details. Then we were off to the park and there we talked for a while and he gave me my first of several presents. It was a set of books that he said that he had read in preparation for getting married and wanted me to read them as well. It was the 5 love languages and men are from mars/women are from venus. This kind of angered me a bit as I felt like he was being somewhat of a tease since he had told me there was NO proposal that night!!! Trey got a phone call so I was walking around all huffy and mad and picked up a small piece of driftwood. I thought it would be funny to throw it and that he would dodge it. It was all fun and games ;) Well, he did not and it hit him in the side of the head. EVIL.........I KNOW!!! I was mad!! I think I kind of killed the mood there for a moment but that seemed to be my theme for the night. I only got worse.

Next, we drove over to a newer part of the park down by the river that had sidewalks and benches right in front of the water. We sat on the bench and Trey was kinda acting weird now that I look back on it but I was so ill that I did not see that at the time. He gave me a box that was really heavy so I was thinking clothes or something like that. I opened it and it was FULL of bridal magazines and he told me he thought I might want to start getting ideas and begin the planning for the future. At that point I almost lost it because I was again ......MAD!!!! I thought how dare he continue to tease me in such a bold way! It was pretty much all lost on me at that point. It was official that I was painfully oblivious.

Quickly after that he knew I was NOT catching on so he gave me a handkerchief with my new initials on it. He took the trendy ring i was wearing on my ring finger off and told me i wouldn't need it anymore....I still didn't get it! He told me how much he loved me and that he would always take care of me. Finally, he got down on one knee and asked me to be his wife (I said yes). Then he breathed a sigh of relief because I had worn his butt down all night long being mad because I thought he was agging me on and that I was headed for dissapointment for sure when he dropped me off from our date ;0

Then we made the rounds and went to my brother and sister in law's house to see my family and then he took me to my house where we walked into room of friends who had been waiting on us to suprise me! One of those included Stephanie who I had just been talking on the phone with hours earlier all concerned and worried. He also sang to me in front of alll our firends. I still do not know how she kept it together! I also do not know how Trey kept it together!! I was so bad all night and I am glad he did not just throw his hands up and walk away!

That was a great weekend filled with family and friends and taking it all in. Then we hit the ground running with a date and were married in November less that a year after we were engaged! I can still remember how much fun we had in those first few weeks just sharing the news and being in complete and total bliss with big smiles on our faces 24/7.