SHOW US YOUR LIFE - Proposals

Today at Kelly's Korner is about proposal stories.  

I love our proposal story, it makes me laugh!  :)  It was March 2006 and Austin and I decided to take an overnight trip to San Antonio because we wanted to get out of town after all the Houston Rodeo Cook-off hoopla.  I knew at the time that he had gone to a jeweler a while back but knew it would be a while before we'd get engaged because it takes some time to make a ring.  

Here is Austin picking out the ring with his Mom and the jeweler.  Look how cute he is, he wore a suit!  He said he was spending so much money he felt he needed to be dressed up.  Ha!  

Well, unknown to me, Austin got the ring much earlier than planned and it came in a few days before our trip so he got to work planning.  He had my sister and her coworkers helping him try to think of creative ideas of what to do but since it was just a few days before our trip nothing worked out in time.  So, we left Saturday morning for San Antonio and spent the day going to the wax museum, having lunch and just walking around on the River Walk having a good time.  I knew we had dinner reservations and Austin mentioned  he wanted to go to the Alamo before because it's so pretty at night.  I have to admit that I wasn't too excited about going to the Alamo so I might have whined a little bit.  ;)  When we were about to leave the hotel I wondered for a second if he would propose but he didn't have a jacket on so I dismissed it thinking that he didn't have room to hide a ring box.

After we walked to the Alamo Austin started being really weird and circling this statue thing with a bunch of names on it.  I asked what it was and he just started reading the description right off the statue (it was pretty funny and now I know he was just nervous).  Then he got on one knee and proposed!  I started crying and of course said yes.  I was shocked!

So, we're all excited and no one is around to take our picture!  Then two guys ended up walking by and we get our picture and I tell them what happened and they inform us that the statue is apparently haunted and the names on it are all the men who died at the Alamo.  Nice.  

We called our families and friends on the way to dinner and everyone was so excited for us.  

Here we are at dinner.  The waiter decorated our plate for us.  :)  He knew we got engaged because I told EVERYONE we saw that night!  Seriously, EVERYONE!

I think he did a pretty good job with the ring!  The picture isn't the greatest quality but it's BEAUTIFUL in person.  I think so at least.  :)  I love that he did it all on his own, I was totally surprised!  My fingers look really weird in this picture for some reason.

The end of the night with the typical "engagement pose"

Yes, the Alamo is a TOTALLY random place to get engaged but I love the story and we'll always think of the Alamo with special meaning!  Oh, and ironically it was "Remember the Alamo Day".  :)

Four years later here we are!