The Story
So the story goes a little like this - I left Colorado Springs at 6:30pm local time with the intentions of driving out here for valentines day, likely proposing. It was quite a weird feeling - I felt like I was beginning my own Odyssey and for some weird reason it involved Nebraska and Iowa. So I drive into the morning, crash in the back of the truck for a few hours, watch a sunrise over the great Midwestern plains, and keep driving.Now, at 9am I get a text message from Shay - "You're on your way out here, aren't you?" I'm like, holy freakin crap!! The biggest slip I had was the night before when I was talking to the gas station attendant. He was going to play poker - and I said, with Shay on the phone, "Y'all have any casinos out here or you going to somebody's house?" a question I don't need to ask anywhere in Colorado or west thereof. She didn't get that part of the story. Yet, through woman's intuition and the half-lies that I had been coming up with, she woke up with a feeling - and I got pissed. A month's in planning and the best element (of surprise) is blown. Katie can attest to this one - I came very close to abandoning my plan of proposal. However, I convinced her that she needed to be in her office for a delivery, and I went along with my plan (even though deep inside she still knew).
First step of plan was to get the office staff involved. The ladies were of course all over it. Pastor Jim is "the diverter", then Mary was the "flower deliverer", and I forgot the rest of the roles... Anyways, I pick up some of Shay's favorite flowers, show up at the church, Jim's in Shay's office "meeting", Mary heads back with her "Valentine's Day Delivery." Comes with a card. I bought this card almost eight years ago for the purpose of proposing - says all sorts of sweet things and basically puts into beautiful language why I love her. At the end of the card, there's like an interior back page - I wrote "STOP! Before you turn this page, call me!" She missed that part, didn't read the card, accidentally turned to the last page that said "Will You Marry Me?!?" I don't know this until well after, so when she calls and I'm sitting outside her office, I'm a little surprised why she's so quiet - like she's in a state of shock. I'm thinking to myself, if a valentines day delivery did this much, what is this proposal about to do? So I play dumb to further sell that she just got a flower delivery, she's sitting there thinking that I'm going to propose over the phone, I say turn the page, I walk in, she freaks (not expecting to see me), then proceeds to hide under her desk. Hehehehe. I get on a knee, pull out a ring, propose, she's crying, I'm crying, she says yes, secretary got it all on camera, and we're quite extremely stoked! We've been looking at each other, wiggling toes... It's quite surreal!
I had two other surprises for her too. One, the stone is the stone that my father gave to my mother on her engagement ring - so there's a pretty amazing significance there, especially if you know my story. Two, I bought her a plane ticket that departs Denver Sunday morning! Yay! It'll be fun kidnapping her and taking her on a road trip!
posted by Devo @ 9:51 AM
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