An Engagement

September 26, 2009:
I can remember this day as if it was yesterday. The day (night) Lucas asked me to be his wife.

At this time, I was living at home with my parents and doing the internship. Lucas was living in Eau Claire, finishing up his last year of college. Lucas had come home for the weekend and was spending the night at my parents' house.

At this point, we had been together almost 5 years (our anniversary was just a couple weeks away - October 11) so I figured this day would come, but I really had no idea when.

That night, we were headed to bed, but every time I would doze off, Lucas would ask me a question. He just would not stop talking... It reminded me of a little kid who is too afraid to sit still because they might fall asleep. I can't even recall what he was asking because it was just goofy stuff that made little sense. I could tell by the way he was acting that he had something on his mind, but I couldn't figure out what it was. Out of the blue, he got out of bed and told me he had to go get a pair of socks on because he can't sleep without them. The room was dark, with no lights on. When he came back to bed, he sat me up, got down on both knees, took me in his arms asked me to marry him. I said yes. I cried. & he cried. I was SO happy. It was still dark, I had no idea what the new ring on my finger even looked like, but we sat there in the dark holding each other for a few minutes. Then I asked him to turn the light on so I could see it. After seeing it, I looked up at him with a big smile and said,well, are you going to kiss me or what? :)

Looking back on this, I'm still surprised Lucas was able to keep this a secret.
If you know Lucas at all, you know he is TERRIBLE at keeping surprises for me a surprise. Then, I even found out he actually picked up the ring at the mall when I was with him! Sneaky. Sneaky.