The Proposal!

It's been two weeks since Brian proposed and things have been oh so wonderful!

I figure a lot of people would like to know the proposal story so here it goes....

I arrived at my house in Parker, CO at 11:15pm. I had already arranged weeks ago to go see Brian as soon as I came home. I said hello to the family and then bolted because I wanted to see my man! :)
I walked into his house and there on the floor was the ring!!! No, just kidding. :) One of the blue shoes was on the floor with a note.

There was a royal blue string that led away from the shoe into the kitchen. I followed it and found an Eeyore keychain that I had asked him to get me! I wanted to match. ;)

The string then wrapped around the kitchen to the living room where there were like 10 bags of Dove chocolate! This is because of the countdown idea Brian had previously....We eat one piece of chocolate together on the phone every night and we put the wrappers on a big calender we bought. This has been really great so far!

The string then led upstairs and outside Brian's room was this HUGE bouquet of gorgeous flowers. This is one of the times I almost cried because he hadn't bought me flowers before! He said he wanted to get me quality flowers and he wanted it to be special. He said in the note with the flowers that he thought this was a special time. :)

*Note: I somehow didn't take a picture of the flowers with my phone. My mom has several pictures though so this will be updated later.

NOW! You need to understand that there had been some things said between me and my sister earlier this day that made me start thinking about when he would propose. I considered he might do it as soon as I got home, but I didn't want to expect it and then be disappointed! So this whole time I was thinking this was a "welcome home" thing. And I loved it! But then it got better. :)

I woke up Brian, like the final note told me to, and then he wanted me to try on the shoes! I put on one of them and then I turned to get the other one from Brian and he was on one knee! This is another time I almost cried. He had the ring on the heel of the shoe and he said "Jamie, will you marry me?"
I took a moment to smile and bask in the wonderful moment and then I said "Yes!" in my high pitched "Ohmygoodness" voice. :)

I couldn't get over how beautiful the ring was...I knew he had designed it but he hadn't told me if it had turned out the way he wanted! Apparently, a lot of people had already seen the ring, too! My sister Ellie had asked forever ago to be the first person I called after he proposed. So even though it was midnight, we called her and she got to hear the joyous news first.

We then sat down together and picked a date! I thought September 1st was a great day and because it's labor day weekend, Brian was convinced when he realized we would always have a 3 day weekend to celebrate our anniversary. :)

SO. 133 days from now, I will be sealed to Mr. Brian Frerichs in the Denver LDS Temple and I just can't wait. :)

Here's a close up of the ring. If you see Brian, ask him to explain the symbolism with all the designing choices he made. :)