The Proposal

How He Proposed

It was March 2004. I had been on a youth camp retreat as an adult volunteer all weekend. I had a great time, but the showers only ran cold water and camp food gets a little old after three days... so I was a little gross and and starving. :)

Chad still wanted to take me out to a nice dinner... in the West End in Dallas. It was also around our 1st Anniversary, so I figured that was why he wanted to take me out and didn't think much of it. I thought it odd when he insisted we go to Spaghetti Warehouse, but thought, hey, he's probably wanting some pasta. :)

In that restaurant there's a little train caboose in the middle, we got seats in there. We had a nice dinner and then I started to excuse myself to the restroom, when Chad said, "Uh, no! Don't go... they're.... bringing... you something for our anniversary!"

(Odd, I thought again, but ok...) A few minutes later our waitress plopped down my favorite dessert (cheesecake) in front of me and said, "This is the only one we have like this."

I immediately looked down and there inside the cheesecake was a BEAUTIFUL three stone ring. I looked at Chad, then back down, and then back at Chad. He grinned, got down on one knee, and then popped the question. I said "YES!" and the people sitting near us started applauding and telling Chad how smooth he was. :) It was a great night.

I ended up taking the cheesecake home because I was too excited to eat it. You can see where the ring was:

Us later that night. Told ya I was a hot mess! :) But extremely happy!

And here's the pretty ring: