Here's the complete story of how it happened:
It had been a long day. Mitchell and I had watched Georgia play LSU and lets just say that wasn't very pretty. Because UGA lost, I was worried that Mitch would be in a nasty mood for the rest of the day. Before the game was already over, he turned to me and said, "Let's go. I don't want to watch the rest."
Our plan was to go up to Thanksgiving Point and look at the real live reindeer they have there. But first we had to get a lint roller and socks.
Mitch went downstairs to get his coat and the whole time he was down there I was thinking he was getting the ring and that night would be the night.
We got to Wal-Mart and he was joking about proposing in one of the aisles. I said "No way Jose, Its NOT happening in Wal-Mart. I would be so disappointed."
"Haha you don't have to worry. I didn't even bring the ring, So I couldn't even if I wanted to."
My face must've looked really sad because then he said,
"Oh. You thought I was doing it tonight?"
"Well yeah, Kinda."
" Oh, well you picked all your makeup off already and we didn't really dress super nice."
" Jeez what are you trying to say?! I don't look very good? Thaaaanks."
"No but don't you want us to be in awesome outfits looking extremely nice for the pictures?"
I didn't really care and by this point I was just like forget it, it's ok.
"Sorry Jord, but I did leave it at Terri's house."
I got over it and we were on our way to Thanksgiving Point. We saw the signs for the Christmas lights and decided to drive through and see all of them. It was really awesome! After that, we parked and got out to go see the reindeer but we accidentally went into the wrong building where a Ho-Down was taking place. We hurried out of there and finally found the reindeer. The temperature was soooo cold that night that I was over seeing the reindeer and just wanted to go into the shops. We walked inside and looked around and found this awesome botanical garden tucked away inside. There were trees and waterfalls and bridges, it was SO pretty.
We both went on about how gorgeous it was in there and Mitchell said, "Maybe we could get married here or have a reception here or something"
"Umm, First of all we're getting married in the temple and this place is tiny. There is no way a reception would work."
"Well ok but we could do something else special in here. I could just propose right now."
"Yeah, except for someone forgot the ring!!"
"Wanna bet?"
Mitch proceeded to get down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I really thought he was joking at first because I trusted him that he left the ring at home. I said "Seriously?" and I don't even think I looked at the ring, just at him and after I said that, his face got all worried and he gulped, "Yeah?"
"YES!" and hugged him and grabbed the ring out of the box myself. hahha oops. He put it on me and we started to walk out to leave. We had almost left the shops when we remembered we hadn't taken any pictures! We ran back and had someone take a couple. They turned out awful. We took our own and those worked out better. We walked back to the car a little happier and me wearing only one glove so I could keep looking at my ring :)
And the rest is history :)
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| Our picture we took in the indoor garden. |
