Home again

We made it back to Austin and we made it back...engaged. I finally have a reason for reading wedding blogs! Oh, and I get to marry Shawn! Double win. He proposed on November 5th. Which Heather tells me, is Gram Parsons and Ryan Adams birthdays. They just happen to be two of my favorites. Nice job, Shawn. I know you had no clue it was their birthdays, but I'm going to give you props anyway.

The story:

Without me knowing, Shawn had gone to pick up the ring the night before. It had been shipped to his office. The next morning, we took an early flight to the Big Island for a few days of vacation. He was too excited to wait until that night, so he proposed at 10am at our hotel. He did the one knee action and said some really sweet things, asked me to marry him and then pulled a beautiful ring out from behind his back. I was so surprised that I hit him on the shoulder! I'm really good in these types of situations, apparently. We then called our families/friends and afterwords went to get some lunch. I ordered a Mimosa which later would trigger a migraine, but not before we hit up the hot tub. I got to show off my ring to some strangers in the hot tub who asked if we were newly engaged or newly married. I guess they caught me staring at hand. I spent the rest of the day and night in bed with a migraine! Bummertown! Besides my dumb head, it was an amazing day.