Here's the pic just a few minutes after he proposed. It was about 8am on Christmas morning.

I keep telling the proposal story over & over, so maybe if I put it here people can come and check it out.

Christmas morning Chad got up really early, around 6am. I thought it was kind of weird that he didn't come back to bed, thought he had just gone to the bathroom. He came back in a little while later but left in a few seconds. I went back to sleep, but couldn't sleep anymore after 7:30am. If any of you know Chad, you know that this isn't like him at all. He LOVES to sleep. Of the 14 years he has been doing Christmas morning at his dad's house his sister Courtney has woken him up every year. This was the first and maybe only year that he got the chance to wake her up.

Anyhow...we were opening presents in a T-shirt and he was cold and went to get a sweatshirt, nothing unusual about that. Then it was taking him a while and the only present I had left to open was his, so I waited until he got back. When he came up he had his hair done (I did notice that) and had shaved (I didn't notice this). I had 3 objects to open that looked like a long cone and I had to open them in order. I was expecting pearl earrings and so I thought maybe he had wrapped each one individually and then also gotten me a pendant. Still had no clue. I started opening the 1st one and it was a fire & ice rose with a note attached to it. Still not completely clued in. When I read the note I thought OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG. The gist of the note was that the rose symbolized his love for me in the past. The 2nd rose had a note symbolizing the present and the 3rd for the future. I was so SURPRISED, but totally nervous/shaking at this point. He got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I thought for sure that when he did propose I would just bawl my eyes out, but I didn't. I was just so surprised by it. Of course I said yes! I spent the next hour jumping around the house - it was Christmas morning and Santa gave me the coolest present ever!!!

Debbie has video of the proposal, so if this blog lets me upload it, I'll probably do it in a week or so.

The ring is a little big, so we have to get a smaller band. Tonight while we are out and about I'm going to try and get sized in a jewelry shop.