Happy New Year!

(Mom, I apologize in advance.... I tried to call you today but I think you were at work so I couldn't get ahold of you today).

I'll just cut to the chase... Jason and I are getting married!!!! I know, it's a surprise, right? He proposed last night, shortly after midnight. Of course, I said yes :)

Here's a couple pictures of the ring. They aren't the greatest pictures, but it'll do for now until y'all can see it in real life :)



I know Allison wanted a story so here it is....

Not much story to tell.... I kinda ruined that one

So it goes back a little bit. We spent Thanksgiving with Jason's parents, Christmas Eve with his parents and had Christmas dinner with them. I like his parents, but come on. Enough is enough, right? I wanted New Years to be for us. I had asked him a few days earlier if he had plans for New Years Eve... nope, nothing. Cool, so I started planning (in my head). I had nothing actually done (yet) and hadn't told him (wanted it to be sort of a surprise, since he didn't have anything planned). New Years Eve day was busy- Owen had therapy in the morning (2 hours of OT, which the first hour was really intense and wore on me a lot... more about that another day), Jason had work in the morning. After therapy we met Jason for a quick lunch at Wendy's. He said he was done with work for the day (NOW I know that he told his boss he was going to propose that night so he let him go early ) so we all went back home. He had to fix something on his car real quick then we loaded up my car with a ton of stuff we were donating. He took the stuff to the church while I stayed home with Owen. When he got home is when things started getting not so pretty. It turns out he had been talking with his parents about dinner. He has a tradition in his family that they have steak on New Years Eve. Fine, whatever. But Jason's grill is broke. I bought him a new one for Christmas but then he got ill then I got ill and we just haven't had time to put it together yet. So he really wanted to go to his parents for dinner. I agreed, but I was PISSED. Note that he did ask me before telling his parents we would come so he didn't commit until I gave approval. I'll save all the hairy details but I will say it wasn't my finest moment, I feel horrible now and THAT is when I learned that he just wanted us to relax (which, to him, meant I wouldn't have to cook or clean anything) so that he could pop the question that night. He said he knew that we'd done a lot of his family traditions this past year so he wanted to start the new year off as one for just us, nobody else, and start our own traditions. DOH! Needless to say, I felt like the worlds biggest jerk. Anyway, we pulled ourselves together and went to his parents for dinner. Owen watched a movie while his mom, Jason and I played Scrabble. Then we went home and put Owen to bed.

This is getting longer than I thought.... LOL!

We had gotten a new bedding set for Christmas and we needed to deep clean our bedroom anyway (it needs to be kept super clean and has an air purifier in it so Jason can breathe easier, otherwise he's up coughing/wheezing all night from allergies/asthma). So after Owen was in bed we tore apart our room, moved all the furniture, cleaned everything, moved the furniture around just to change things up and put the new bedding/window stuff up. By the time we were done it was about 10 minutes to midnight. We went downstairs and prepared a drink just in time to toast to the new year and kiss

Then he took me back up to our bedroom (don't worry... still rated G.... ). He had gotten me a nail care kit for Christmas. I had NO idea he actually had a plan for it.... lol. Anyway, he used it to make my nail a bit prettier, did his speech, pulled out the ring, and the rest is history. It didn't go exactly how he had planned (my bad ) but the end result was the same