The Engagement Story

The Engagement Story...

The subject of getting married kept coming up often! Not only with us, but with friends and family as well. Everybody wanted to know when were we going to get married, were we engaged yet.. etc. We talked about going look at rings, because I definitely wanted to have some say so in the matter. After all, I'm the one who will be wearing it!! I thought that we would go to the jewelry store and pick out something, get ideas, and Clint would to back when the time was right and surprise me with it.

Little did I know he had other plans!

On January 9, 2002 Clint was going to be passing by my workplace near lunch time, so we made plans for lunch. He was about to go offshore on a job (again). Clint met me at my office about 11:30, so I went to lunch a half hour early. We picked Ryan's simply because it was close and easy and quick!

In the parking lot at work, we sit in my car.
I turn to my left to close my door and grab my seat belt, turn back to the front to fasten it....
Clint's sitting in the passenger seat holding an open ring box "Will you marry me?"
Me, "What??"
Clint, "Will you marry me!"
Me, (stammer stammer... silence... stammer....)
Me, "WHAT? where did you get that?" (the ring - I'm such a dummy)
Clint, "the jewelry store" (CLASSIC !)
Me, "Are you serious?"
Clint, "yeah.. will YOU marry me?"
Me, (stammer stammer... silence... stammer....)
Me, "I can't' believe you did that"
and I said yeah.... and hugged him... kissed him....... and said ............ I love you...
And he was laughing his ass off at me the entire time!!!

Everyone just loves our story because it's so spontaneous and it's a wonderful story to tell. Clint caught me totally off guard, which is what he intended to do all along! What started out as an ordinary day, turned into a day we will never forget.

XOXOXOXOXOXOXO