A Cinco De Mayo Celebration

It's hard to believe a year has gone by already since Mike asked me to marry him. It was by far the happiest night of my life. I never could have imagined a more perfect proposal from him. It was everything I could have dreamed of and then some. I never get tired of telling the story of how he proposed, and I don't think I could ever forget either - it was my perfect fairy tale moment!

Since it's been a year already I figured it couldn't hurt to include the story of how my best friend asked me to marry him. So here goes....We were leaving the next day for our trip to London and Paris. I had surely hoped in the back of my mind that there would be a ring coming with us. What better and more romantic place to do it than Paris, I had thought (boy was I wrong/glad about that one). While there was no ring in Paris - there was one in New Jersey - which I was totally not expecting!

I came home from my last day of the school semester expecting to celebrate that the semester was over and we were leaving for our vacation to London and Paris the next afternoon. When I walked in from school after taking an economics final, the whole living room and dining room were lit up with candles. Candles on the wall; candles I didn't even know we had. Not sure what was going on, I called out for Mike and he then popped up wearing his favorite sweat pants and T-shirt (so that made me think nothing was up). I asked him what was going on and he had told me we were celebrating the end of the school semester. We went into the living room and sat and talked on the couch for a bit drinking some celebratory champagne (which I had suggested - and also threw me off). (Looking back Mike was also downing the champagne rather quickly)

He then leaned over to the side of the couch and pulled out a dozen pink roses, which I had no idea were over there. While I was looking at the roses and admiring them and just so excited for those, I was (literally) smelling the roses and didn't notice him getting down on one knee in front of me and pulled out the ring box and then asked me to marry him, by this point I'm crying so much and just kept hugging him, 5 minutes later he asked me if he could have an answer, I of course said yes!!!! I still hadn't even looked at the ring at this point, I was just in shock and of course extremely excited! 

And to this very day I am still so excited that I get to marry him and I can't wait for that day to come so we can share it together and have memories forever!