June 9, 2011

How did you propose? (see Nov. 4, 2010 entry)

How long were you engaged?

I went home for the couple of weeks between quarters at Snow and went to work for the school district during that time. So one day I made deliveries to the Roosevelt schools and then stopped and got some roses. When I got back to Duchesne I stopped on my way home at Marie’s and had her come out to the truck. I had the roses sitting in the front seat and asked her to take them. She was somewhat hesitant until she didn’t see a ring with them. I was actually testing the waters for what I had planned to do later. She loved the roses and we talked for a short while and then I went on home. We later got together that night with her family and Marsha to go Christmas caroling. We had a lot of fun and Ann had a couple of friends there as well that went with us. Well when we got back I asked Marie to stay outside with me for a few minutes and then tried like heck to get Marsha to go into the house and see the new pool table that their family had gotten for Christmas. (I don’t remember if this was Christmas eve or not but it seems like it was.)  Anyway I then held Marie with her hands behind her back and slid the ring on her finger, the wrong one but hey I couldn’t see what I was doing and it was with her hands behind her back. Well I asked her to marry me and with a few seconds pause she then replied Yes and we went into show her family. That was pretty much it and Marsha was really excited to find out why I wanted her to go inside so badly.

So with that being around Dec 25^th and our anniversary being June 20^th you can do the math and see that we were engaged for just shy of 6 months during which we were pretty much separated by 135 miles of lonely road.  I went back to Snow just after the first of the year and she stayed in Duchesne to work until we got married.