It was Friday, April 10, 2009, and we were going to move the next day. Our apartment was a mess, we still had a whole lot of cleaning and packing to do, but around 4:00 Chris called me at work to let me know that he wanted to take me out to dinner when I got home. He lured me away from the packing and cleaning with a promise that our friends, Frank and Jodie, would be coming over afterwards to help us finish up. So I get home and Chris is getting ready to go, taking a shower, wearing a button up shirt and I was so tired from the day at work and getting ready to move that I didn't even try to make myself look better. I just wanted to eat and come back so that we could finish what we had to do before the U-Haul showed up the next morning. We went to Jupiter, a place I really like pretty close to wear we lived at the time. We got a great table upstairs next to the window, I got to watch Critical Mass gather and start, and someone was playing a saxophone outside the BART station. The food was great, the atmosphere was awesome. All in all it was a great dining experience.
Dinner is wrapping up and Chris convinces me to put off the packing and cleaning a little longer so we can go check out our new house we had just gotten the keys to. As we're driving over Chris says that he thinks we should go in through the back door that way tomorrow when we move in its like starting new, crossing the threshold of this next chapter. That kind of surprised me but I'm a romantic so I bought it and thought it was really sweet. We park in the drive way and walk around to the back of the house. It was my responsibility to get PG&E turned on so when we walked in the back door and I saw light coming from the living room I said "Sweet! The power is on!". Chris just says "Oh, yeah?" and closes the door behind him. Once the street noise is closed out I hear music coming from the living room as well. My first thought was that Frank and Jodie, our new house mates, had the same idea to come checkout the house and we were... interrupting. But Chris urges me to continue into the living room. He grabbed my hand just as I say "I hear music" and he says encouragingly "Well lets go check it out then!" and we start to walk over.
As I get closer I can see candles on the floor, then the whole fireplace comes into view and I see the set up in its entirety. There are candles, as well as flowers and rose petals, all over the mantel and the floor below. My eyes find a bottle of Perrier Jouet champagne on ice and two champagne glasses resting on the floor and then my brain registers the music playing. It's a song by Calexico called "Yours and Mine" (hellooo blog title!). Its one for those songs that Chris has put on mixed types for me and he knows I love it, definitely a good choice. All I can say is "Did you do all of this?!" and his huge smile that I love starts to spread across his face and he said "Frank and Jodie set it up while we were at dinner". At this point it still hasn't hit me that he's going to propose. I just thought that this was a part of this "new chapter" that involved us not walking through the front door. Ha! We started dancing in the living room and I'm still trying to take everything in and then he stops and tells me to close my eyes. I follow directions and start to think that maybe he was actually going to do it. He stepped away for a second and when he came back he put his arms around me and I felt a foreign object brush my arm. He says I can open my eyes and then he drops to one knee and says "Stacy, I love you so so much, you are my heart, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?" (I THINK that's what he said, I totally couldn't remember and had to ask him later. But I think that's normal!) And the only thing that came out was "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" he laughs and said yes and then I said yes.
We busted into the champagne and danced a little more. After that it was all questions. When?, How?, Did you ask my Dad?, all that stuff. Then phones were out and calling began. That was about 5 months ago now and we're steadily making our way through planning a wedding. As far as proposals go I think that one was just right and I wouldn't have wanted it any other way. I'll leave you with a few photos of the set up. It was seriously dreamy. I've also added the song "Yours and Mine" by Calexico.
And then one of me afterwards :)
Until next time friends!
