Our Story
How we Met
Colin and I met in May 2007 from a dating website called Plenty of Fish.
I had set up my profile a couple weeks earlier and I a few guys had messaged me and we talked on the phone but none of them interested me.
Colin had just recently set up another profile after having some bad luck with it before.
I came home from work one day and just decided to take the bull by the horns, and I'm going to pick two guys that I'm interested in and I'm going to message them myself!
There was the "other guy" and then there was Colin. What caught my attention with Colin's profile was that he had a photo posted of him eating ribs and he had barbecue sauce all over his face, and another where he was wearing a giant sombrero. I thought, this guy looks fun!
so I had him add me to MSN and we started talking and we seemed to get along so well. We talked for about a week or so and then he decided to ask me out for coffee one night and I went to meet him. I knew the moment our eyes locked when we met that he was my future husband (he says the same thing) and we've been pretty much inseperable ever since.
We started actually dating on June 13, 2007 and then I moved in with him September 2007.
The proposal
July 21, 2008.
So, I have Mondays off and I spent a nice relaxing day of randomness. I took Amy to her doctor's appointment AND I got to hear the baby's heartbeat which was SOOOOOO amazing!! I dropped her off, lazily wandered around the garden centre and and bought some pretty flowers to plant in our front garden. I came home poured a glass of wine and just had a really relaxing afternoon outside planting flowers....
It was just one of those amazing days where I just felt really centred, peaceful and just really happy....
So Colin calls me and tells me he's going to be late coming home because he wants to go and buy some shirts after work....so that was fine.....
He finnally comes home around 6pm, just as I'm cleaning up outside and I was showing off my garden to him cause I was all impressed with myself and all the work that I did....then he tells me to come in the house. He has to show me something....
So I"m all mucky and gross from being in the garden and I go inside to see what he wants, and he's telling me to sit down on the couch....and I tell him I"m all gross and dont' want to....he tells me that I'm fine and to sit down....
so now I'm mildly annoyed, cause I figure he's dragged me in the house to see something on tv or some other crap AND now I have muck on my couch....
but I sat down anyway.....and then he started saying something about being nervous and then got down on one knee and pulled out the box and asked me to marry him.....and I screamed:
"OH MY GOD!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!? COLIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!? OH MY GOD!!!! COLIN!!!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!? OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!COLIN !!!"(that's just about word for word)
so then he looked really REALLY scared, like he asked me the wrong question..... so then he asked me if I was going to say yes....and then I yelled "YES! DUH?!"
I was in COMPLETE SHOCK!!! I was not expecting that AT ALL! I was hoping that it would happen at some point someday....but I had no clue he was going to propose....(I was still in shock hours after it happend....)
He managed to ask me really quickly because about 5 mins later, Cynthia and Les came over for LOST night...lol He said he went and went after work and bought the ring but couldn't wait to ask me.....
so that's the story of the proposal.....
I'm so EXCITED!!!! He is just such an amazing person....I feel really grateful!!
oh and btw....It just occurred to me today that I didnt' see any new shirts yesterday....yeeeeeah, he totally snowed me with that one! lol
(copied and pasted from my facebook - I wrote this note the day after we got engaged)
