This is how is happened. He went up Tues before Christmas to spend it with his family in Illinois while I stayed here with my family. He rode back with his brother and family on Saturday. Got home kind of late, so we pretty much ate dinner with them before they headed to SC, then we went straight to bed. I woke up and met Megan and Jennifer for breakfast the next morning, not thinking anything, just really excited to have Chris home and I really wanted him to open his gifts. hehehee! We laugh now, because I gave him "old man" gifts for Christmas..... bird and squirrel feeders and food.... picture frames... but really, he's like a female Snow White. We've had deer, squirels, birds, raccoons, and rabbits so far and he LOVES to feed them all.
We sat in front of the Christmas Tree to open gifts. I got to his gifts.... I got a Savannah Tours book (my FAVORITE place), a Smokey Mountains National Park map book (maybe our next National Park).... then a bag with a printed out Menu for McKendricks. He said he wanted to print out Morton's menu, but they didn't have one to print out, but he told me I got the idea... he wanted to take me to a really nice Steak house. YUM! Then, he said, he had some ornaments for me. He pulled out a little tent ornament from his pocket that he picked up at REI..... I already had one, so we laughed as I turned to put it on the tree next to the other. Then I turned around and he handed me a key to the front door- I have been living there for months, but have been using the garage door to get in because we didn't have a spare key for me. hehehehe! He handed the key to me and said, You'll need this if you're gonna be wearing this.... and that's when he pulled the ring out of his pocket to hand to me. He said I had the most dumbfounded look on my face.... I think it took a second to register that it was for real! AND of course I said yes!!!! Why wouldn't I? I love this man!
Here's the funniest parts about the story. He had bought the ring a year ago... even before he bought the house.... and the big leather chair I am sitting on right now, that I sit on every day and nap on on the weekends.... yeah.... he lifted it up and showed me the little safe under it.... said I've been sitting on my ring for a year! heheheheee!!!!!! Under my butt the whole time and I had no clue!
Another story he told my dad when they called to congratulate us.... back when mom and dad moved to Florida, I don't know, maybe March? Chris was in charge of hanging up pictures. He got to what we call, The Wedding Wall, and asked mom how she wanted them to be hung.... we've got mom and dad's huge picture, then Megan and Julie's smaller pictures. She told him she's not sure since she's missing one (hello ours!). He was too funny..... didn't get it at all. Said, well, do you know what size that picture is going to be? Mom said... no, what size do you think you want it to be? Still nothing...... he said, I don't know. Then he said, Maybe we should wait until we get that other picture before we hang these up. Mom said.... when is that gonna be? I can't wait forever! hehehehee! He asked her where the picture was, and she said she didn't know and then asked him where he thought it was...... that's when we died laughing and HAD to tell him to LOOK at the pictures he was hanging up... oh yeah... red face! Little did any of us know..... he had the ring during that conversation too!
He's good...... heheheee!
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