First off, I had known that something was up for a while, Nick gets slightly moody like PMS style when huge things are about to happen in his life such as the first time he said "I love you" to me, so I have experience with his mood trends. But for the past couple months something was off about him and I couldn't put my finger on it. Over the summer last year Nick and I were talking and joking around over a few glasses of wine on our deck about him having to propose before 2012 came, nothing serious, right? ;) So as it got closer to the end of the year I started guessing if and when he was going to pop the question and each time I was way wrong. As we entered December I found out I had to work on my Birthday so Nick and I decided to postpone the celebration to the following Saturday. Now each year since we have been together we have gone to Chicago or DC to see the huge Christmas trees, so that Saturday we had a whole evening planned out from dinner to ice skating and later seeing the tree.
So now the real story starts...
Saturday began rather early, I had a hair appointment for my evening date with Nick, I wanted to look my best since it had been a while since our last date together. As I was getting my hair cut the hair stylist was asking me all about Nick and our families (typical salon gossip) and went on saying how she thought that tonight would be the night he is popping the question, and she went on explaining why she thought so and I kept thinking no way this is our typical tree outing. Afterwards I went straight home just to head out with Nick to purchase our new phones which caused us to run a tiny bit off schedule to heading into DC. Two hours later we arrived back home and quickly got ready for our evening together. Nick threw on a different coat right away and I instantly thought its not happening tonight he didn't grab anything extra and he wasn't acting any different than he normally does.
That evening was colder than usual and super windy, and since Nick and I were taking the Metro into DC it felt ten times worse. Now normally when I am cold I will stick my hands in Nicks coat pockets because he is like your own personal space heater, but that evening his pockets were off limits. Then we boarded the train and there was no seating to be found, it was jam packed with people heading out to holiday parties so we had to stand. Now normally when we have to stand Nick will let me use him for stability, that evening, NO, and I was miffed. So after a hour on the train due to track closings, we finally made it into DC and thought we would do dinner first. Now Nick and I discovered this great Irish Bar The Elephant & Castle the previous year so we decided to go back there for drinks and dinner this time. Through out dinner nothing seemed different everything was as it always was between us when we went out. After dinner came and a few beers later to prepare us for the cold, we bundled up and found ourselves speed walking to the National Tree.
When we arrived to the tree there were hundreds of people everywhere getting pictures and oooing and ahhing over the lights, train set, and state trees surrounding it. As we got closer making our way around the circle Nick and I were taking picture after picture. Finally reaching the front Nick had asked a couple to take a picture of us then whispering to the guy that he was going to be taking more than one picture. As I was waiting for Nick to hop into the picture next to me he ended up quickly falling down to one knee and asked me to marry him! I was in utter shock mode which lead to BALLING my eyes out (which I did not expect to cry, I thought I was too much of a tough girl for that stuff, but I did), plus it didn't help that we were surrounded by tons of people watching and clapping and I still hadn't said YES. Moments went by which felt like time had actually stopped and Nick got up and asked if that was a yes because I hadn't said anything (I was speechless...and in shock)(lol), all I could do at the moment was hug him tightly and cry and I finally answered "YES YES YES!!!" and continued on with hugging him. Then he asked me if I wanted my ring because I had handed it back to him haha, and I said yes so he helped me put it on and we finally got our tree picture together:) Afterwards we probably had over a 100 people coming up to us congratulating us people shaking Nicks hand and hugging us, people we didn't even know but had shared our moment with us.
The next day after we talked to our families all morning, we took a little trip out to Bethesda. All week Nick had said he made plans for us that followed Saturday, those plans were an appointment at the jewelers to learn about my ring and get it sized, and the woman wanted to meet me after having dealt with Nick for over 6 months:). Afterwards we went out to lunch still giddy and attempted Christmas shopping which we still couldn't focus on reality so we failed terribly at it.
We have been engaged for a couple weeks now, and I have just been the happiest girl on earth. People say getting engaged doesn't change how you feel, but I disagree, I can't even begin to explain what I am feeling! I have never been so emotional in my life, I get bursts of happiness, nervousness, excitement etc randomly where I have to try and collect myself so I don't tear up in public haha! Although we don't have a date set, we are having a blast looking into all sorts wedding ideas together, Nick has been so interested in helping which makes it even more enjoyable doing this together! Although I think he is mainly excited to use the Seinfeld quote "Wheres my Fianceeee?" (As I posted it)... :)
YaY! I loved reading your engagement story. So sweet and special! Congrats again and I am so happy for you guys!! And ha-ha LOVE the seinfeld referance - LOL!!
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