This week Momma M is hosting a Valentine themed week. Today is Engagement stories. I really hate writing about mine and Sean's mushy gushy-ness because really there isn't any. But I'll give it my best shot to mushy it up a bit.
Sean and I were living in Houston when we got engaged. See our above engagement photo. I was living in an apartment on the outskirts of Houston and Sean lived about 15 minutes from me in Baytown in a Camper Trailer because he got paid Per Deim if he lived in a Camper and didn't set up permanent residence...And I wasn't about to live in a camper. I really had some fun times in Houston because we got to do all the big city stuff and it was just me and Sean, but I was SOOO Homesick, we were 6 hours from my home and my friends and family.
Anyway back to the proposal..Sean and I talked about getting married all the time. In fact I had helped him pick out my diamond online from Diamonds.com and I even watched him pay for it...But he told me it would be awhile before he was ready to get married and he wanted to save up enough money to buy a pretty ring setting to put it in. This was August of 2007 and we'd been dating about a year and a half.
From then on out I was always expecting him to propose to me, but he never did. I even wondered if maybe he really didn't order a diamond. We went home once or twice a month and I kept wondering if he asked my parents but he was never with my parents and not with me so I knew he hadn't. I really thought maybe he'd changed his mind.
I had totally given up on a marriage proposal and in the meantime buried myself in work. At this time I was selling insurance and I was so Homesick I cried myself to sleep every night. I was very emotionally unstable because I was so homesick. It's quite sad how homesick I was to be honest... I worked across the road from a Bass Pro Shop and I would go there on my lunch break just because it reminded me of home because it was "outdoors-y." That's how pathetically homesick I was...
Anyway.. I had my license to sell property and causality insurance at the time but wanted to get my Life and Health insurance license. To get your license you have to take a test, and though it's not that hard, there is a lot of memorization and there was way to much on my mind at the time. I studied for the exam but was so distracted by being homesick that I never really learned much. I went to take the test and failed miserably. I felt awful because my employer had just shelled out 150 bucks for me to take this test. Before I left the testing site I made sure and signed up to take it two weeks later, in Mid November on the 14th. I studied some more but again, I was so distraught It didn't really matter much. I took the test again and again I failed it by ONE point!! I was solo upset.
I called in sick to the rest of the day of work and went home crying. I had to stop on the side of the road on the way home because I was so upset. I had just cost my boss another 150 bucks, and I just felt stupid because that test should have been simple. I called Sean and asked him to come over when he could so I could feel a little better. He came over shortly after I got home and suggested that we Go out to eat and go down to Kemah, TX and hang out on the boardwalk, he said that would take my mind off of being homesick and take my mind off of flunking that stupid test.
We had a wonderful time at dinner. We ate at a Japanese steak house on the Boardwalk and had a great time watching the chef prepare our meal. There was a live band out that night on the board walk and the night was beautiful and the temperature was perfect. I had totally forgotten about the test and even forgot about being homesick a little bit.
I wanted to buy some tickets to play some games so Sean went and bought a few and we did all the dart balloon games, softball through, water gun races, etc. Sean suggested that we go on the Farris wheel to spend the last few tickets we had but the wind was blowing so hard that I just suggested we go up in the observation tower so we could look out and see the lights of Houston. We were the only ones in the Tower. It slowly spins around as you rise to the top and then slowly spins back down.
As we were looking over Houston I was really close to the glass and Sean was behind me sitting down, it was breathtaking. The lights were beautiful. Sean then kneeled down off the seat and I thought he was like having some kind of episode because he was scared of heights or something. I looked down at him and he pulled my ring out of his pocket and told me he loved me and asked me to marry him.
I was completely suprised and shocked. I was totally not expecting a proposal, I just thought he was trying to cheer me up from the crying fit I had earlier from failing the test. The first words that spilled out was.. Did you really already ask my parents?! He laughed and said yes and I was in shock for the rest of the evening and called everyone I knew on the way home. It was perfect!
This was right as we were leaving.. I had been crying.
The setting he picked out for my ring is exactly what I would've picked out. It's beautiful and surrounded with diamonds. I'm a very lucky Girl! It's a carat solitaire and then another half carat in diamonds on the band and wedding ring...this was when it was new and shiny :)
It's not so shiny now, I should go get it cleaned...
For my wedding shower my cousin Erin got me a photo that is the acutal skyline of Houston on the 14th of November, the night Sean Proposed. The caption says "Night Sky over Houston" "November 14th 2007, Sean asked and Jenna said yes." It was the Theme for my extra bathroom, Notice I painted the wall the same blue as the sky :) ...you can buy these online but I'm not sure where...
I love this photo because It is EXACTLY what I was looking at when Sean proposed...from that height and that exact view...I even remember thinking the moon looked so pretty. Now I can look at that skyline anytime I go to the extra bathroom to pee and remember that night exactly! haha
Thanks for stopping by...sorry it was so long!!
