"The Proposal" Part 14 in the saga

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There were lil hints everywhere, one that still makes me laugh to this day.....





The phone rings



"hello" i say



"Hey, its Dad"



"hey Dad whats up?"



"well you tell me??" "That boy called me today and asked if i could go to lunch??" "why would he want to do that??



"DAAAAAD??" i say


"whaaaat??"


He really had no idea.....I hung up the phone giggling at the possibility of what was coming....



For days I was on edge trying to figure out when it would be....how he would do it. I'm sure when my Dad actually did get the opportunity to talk to him he understood that he may have just outed "that boy" and made sure he dragged it out for a while so i wouldn't know when it was coming.







So the days dragged on and i eventually went on about my business as usual. I even started to believe maybe i was wrong....maybe this wasn't happening.....


We had just gotten back from the annual "Spring Thing" which if you remember is where we met.... (If you don't PLEASE refresh your memory HERE because its important to the rest of the story)......and this particular year we were old enough to be Spring Thing counselors....so you can imagine i was DRAINED emotionally and physically after dealing with a bunch of teenagers...




Anyway, we had just gotten back the weekend before and i was excited to have a weekend without plans, ya know just to relax....so when he called me up and said "hey wanna go to dinner with The Bucks and Gorena's and D.R?? Remember D.R, our youth pastor?? And the Gorena's well you should know who they are by now, if not CLICK HERE and the Bucks are very good friends of ours as well....


Anyhoo, he goes on to say that Buck man had left some of his equipment for his video camera up at the sanctuary at T Bar M (which is where we hold spring thing) and we needed to go by and get it so we were gonna go out to the "Gristmill" and eat and pick it up on the way home......The Gristmill is located in historic Gruene (sounds like green) Tx, and it is RIGHT on the Guadalupe River where we go tubing every year. It too is a historic building and it has WONDERFUL food, and the town is fabulous to go antiquing in!!!



Anyway I was EXHAUSTED and i wanted NO part of it....but he convinced me so i threw on a t-shirt and a sweat shirt of his, and some jeans and did nothing with my hair and hopped in the car......frankly i looked like ARSE!!!






The whole time at dinner "That boy" was acting strange....he kept getting up to go to the bathroom, which i might add is not unusual "that boys" stomach is ALWAYS acting up....but i could tell there was something else going on.







Now you might think I'm the dumbest person on earth....but i never suspected a thing because i always imagined it would just be He and I for the proposal....ya know?? So I'm just stuffing my face and carrying on like it was nothing special....but wondering all along "what the heck is wrong with him??"







Anyway we are all done with dinner and by this time I'm grumpy.....grumpy as all get out.....if you know me you know that i am grumpy when I'm tired and when I'm hungry.....i had just eaten my face off so it was nappy time.....and it was late....I wanted to GO HOME!!!! But Buck says:







"hey lets go to T bar M now and pick up my tripods"



just then D.R says :



"I gotta get home to the Mrs." "ill see yall later" and he leaves





and then "that boy" says



"lets go with the Buck's and Gorena's to pick up that stuff, come on it'll be fun"

and everyone else follows with a



"yea come on"



I'm like "FIIINE lets just go"



Everyone gets in their cars and we head off..... I make sure and tell "that boy" how tired i am and i just want to get there and get out no hangin around.....he just smiles....



When we arrive everyone gets out and I'm like "SERIOUSLY" just tell him to go get it and lets GO!! but he convinces me otherwise and i oblige.




We walk down the path that leads to an open field with soccer goals and grass, over to the left is a forest of trees and i gently laugh to myself as i remember us meeting for the first time on a swing in that same area several years before. Up ahead is the sanctuary, as we approach the sanctuary buck says :







"hey, whats that?? this is where i groan to myself







And then that boy says "yeah what are those lights"







I'm thinking PULLLLEASE i just want to be in my bed.....but no, we have to go inspect....and as we got closer i realized that i really should have wanted to inspect this more than anyone..... as we pass a big tree someone (D.R) walks out with a video camera and this is what comes into my view......

(Im sorry about the quality, it gets clearer a lil into the video, i recorded this off my TV cause it was on vhs...please pause my music player at the bottom so you can hear his beautiful song!!)




Yes that is "that boy" who has been my husband for almost nine years now, Jason. He wrote me a song entitled "oh Staci" and knelt in the place we met 7 years prior for my hand in marriage.

Here are the beautiful words he wrote just for me

Oh Staci todays the day, we made a commitment and were on our way
the roads been long, but were here now,
were gonna make it someway somehow

Oh staci you mean the world to me
and i will love you for eternity
and i will do whatever i have to do
just to show you that i love you
i love you

It wont be long till we are one,
And we'll live happily, together with the holy one,
Were on our journey, with God as our guide,
Were gonna make it, side by side

Oh staci you mean the world to me
and i will love you for eternity
and i will do whatever i have to do
just to show you that i love you
i love you


I could to say that this is where the story ends, but its just the begining of our lives journey.... with God as our guide.

Stay tuned to learn how i met the two "other" loves of my life ;)