Our Engagement Story

I'm linking up to the Valentine Extravaganza that Mama M over at My Little Life is hosting this week. There is a different theme each day. Today is engagement stories.

This time of year is really special for me and Jacob because 2 years ago we had our first date on Valentine's Day and then we got engaged on February 23! We {Jacob} moved fast once he knew I was the right girl! ha! We'd been best friends for a long time, but that's a story for another post.

Here's our engagement story. Hope ya'll don't mind, but I copied and pasted it from a facebook note that I wrote a few days after we got engaged. It would take me all day to type it one-handed while feeding Lily. ha!

Jacob is the concertmaster for a symphony in a city about an hour away. Last Monday, he told me that he had rehearsal all day on Saturday and he wanted me to come eat lunch with him during his break. He said there was a nice park with a waterfall where we could go and walk around and then go to an Italian restaurant. Well, then every time he saw me last week he gave me a few red roses. By Friday night, I had 11! :) Yes, I’ll be honest, I started suspecting throughout the week, but I wanted to be surprised, so I tried not to think about it!

On Saturday, we met after his morning rehearsal and he took me to this beautiful park. It was soooo cold, but we didn’t mind! :) When we got out of the car, he gave me the 12th red rose that had a scroll wrapped around the stem and tied with a ribbon. We walked around a little bit and then sat on a bench looking out over a pond with ducks and a fountain. Then he told me he wanted me to read the scroll. The first part was 83 reasons why he loves me (I’d done that for him for Valentine’s Day). I read them out loud and we laughed and cried through them. 

On the last page of the scroll was a letter that told me how amazed he is how the Lord has brought us together, then it said to reach into the pocket over his heart and I would find something he wanted me to wear for the rest of my life. (sniff, sniff!) So I reached in his pocket and got the ring and he got down on his knee and said (as best as we can remember), “Kelly Joy M., I love you with all of my heart and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I really want you to marry me. Will you marry me?” I said, “yes, of course!” :) We sat there for awhile longer laughing and crying and not caring that it was freezing cold! Oh, and I must say, the ring is absolutely perfect!! Jacob picked it out all by himself. 

After we left the park, we went to a really nice Italian restaurant and had an awesome lunch together. 

Then I went back to his rehearsal with him. Apparently Jacob, during the morning rehearsal, had shown everyone the ring and told them that during lunch he was going to ask the big question! So we ended up being like 5 minutes late to his afternoon rehearsal and Jacob was trying to quickly get to his spot without making too much disturbance {which is not easy when you are concertmaster!}, but everyone was eagerly waiting to hear what happened. Jacob just turned around and said, “she said yes!” Everyone clapped and was so excited for us! After the rehearsal we drove back to my house together and saw my family and then we went and saw his family later that night. 

It was a wonderful day and I’m sooooo excited to be marrying my best friend in 117 days!!!