...even though he's the one who started the blog...hah!! I love his pieces...
Let me take you back to the day of November 20, 2007. ...or a few days before...
The week before the 20th our friend Fuji Jingle sent me a text message asking me to help him suprise fuji mingle by taking her up to the aquarium while she thinks he is out helping his dad and SUPRISE...HE'S AT THE AQUARIUM! This was a little strange to me for a FEW reasons...
Number one: Why would he want to suprise her at the aquarium? Yes we all know that she wants to go but he hates fish...so Why wouldn't he just give in and take her himself??
Number Two: I told Shawn about it and he seemed WAY too excited that I was going to the location of our first date without him. He would be here the day after but he had to photograph something so he couldn't come up the night before. Or so he says...
Number Three: When fujimingle and I decided to have a girls night the night of November 20th, I suggested the aquarium and she WAY too readily agreed to go to the aquarium without her hubbabubby.
So the night in question rolls around and I pick up the Fuji mingle. It is sooooooooooo cold so we stop by the gas station to get some hot chocolate...My hot chocolate of choice?? MINT hot chocolate (yum a dum dum). While at the gas station I start telling the Fuj that I was having a really hard time knowing that Shawn was proposing during Christmas Break. I wanted it to be a suprise!!! So she asks me if I think he will wait to do it then. But I told her,"No because he told me he has plans for it that he cannot break." Oh well...lets get going. As we are getting on the freeway I tell her that its a good thing Shawn wasn't here because there was no way he would give me a kiss with mint on my breath. The whole way there Fuj the Jingle is sending me text messages asking where we were and then the last text message he sent me when we were almost there was "This place is closed...come anyway".
So we get there and there is no Jingle in sight so Mingle and I still walked up to the building to see if we could find out why they were closed...so Fuji she says "Lets go in!!" And we get in but I'm feeling kind of weird that they've been closed for 45 minutes and the doors are still unlocked. we get in there and she see's Fuji he around the corner and goes 'what are you doing here?" and he goes "Suprise...I wanted to suprise you" Now, I know this kid better than that. He would have had flowers and he would have been dressed nicer. so I'm sitting there sippin my hot chocolate laughing to myself about how cute they are when none other than MY LOVE COMES AROUND THE CORNER!!! ...with flowers no less. I was so excited to see him I completely bypassed the flowers and wrapped my arms around him. I honestly thought he was just here early to suprise me. He hands me my flowers and puts his hands on my arms and says "Karey, I love you and you know i'd do anything for you." He then proceeds to get down on one knee and I IMMEDI
ATELY burst into tears. "Karey Elizabeth Haddock, will you marry me?" Some how I managed to choke out a Yes. He stood up and I wrapped my arms around him and laughed and cried and said I love you who knows HOW many times. He then looks at me and says," Do you want your ring now?" OH YEAH! I forgot there was a ring involved!! It is so beautiful!! So after a few more hugs, kisses and I love you's we left and thanked the staff for staying open (shawn had to BEG the aquarium to stay open so he could propose to me there). Halfway into the parking lot an employee came running after us and said,"The management wants to know if you guys want to come back inside for a dance." So they had us stand on the compass in the lobby and they played Crash Into Me by the Dave Matthews Band. I was so busy crying and hugging him I could barely move.
Once again we headed out and made our way to the Mayan where we had dinner on our first date. And the very amazing fuji's came with us because we love them and we were so excited that they were part of this special night. I love that Shawn Barlow Romney more than anything in this whole world. That was the best night ever. And he is the best man I have ever had in my life...and i get to keep him!!!
Let me take you back to the day of November 20, 2007. ...or a few days before...
The week before the 20th our friend Fuji Jingle sent me a text message asking me to help him suprise fuji mingle by taking her up to the aquarium while she thinks he is out helping his dad and SUPRISE...HE'S AT THE AQUARIUM! This was a little strange to me for a FEW reasons...
Number one: Why would he want to suprise her at the aquarium? Yes we all know that she wants to go but he hates fish...so Why wouldn't he just give in and take her himself??
Number Two: I told Shawn about it and he seemed WAY too excited that I was going to the location of our first date without him. He would be here the day after but he had to photograph something so he couldn't come up the night before. Or so he says...
Number Three: When fujimingle and I decided to have a girls night the night of November 20th, I suggested the aquarium and she WAY too readily agreed to go to the aquarium without her hubbabubby.
So the night in question rolls around and I pick up the Fuji mingle. It is sooooooooooo cold so we stop by the gas station to get some hot chocolate...My hot chocolate of choice?? MINT hot chocolate (yum a dum dum). While at the gas station I start telling the Fuj that I was having a really hard time knowing that Shawn was proposing during Christmas Break. I wanted it to be a suprise!!! So she asks me if I think he will wait to do it then. But I told her,"No because he told me he has plans for it that he cannot break." Oh well...lets get going. As we are getting on the freeway I tell her that its a good thing Shawn wasn't here because there was no way he would give me a kiss with mint on my breath. The whole way there Fuj the Jingle is sending me text messages asking where we were and then the last text message he sent me when we were almost there was "This place is closed...come anyway".
So we get there and there is no Jingle in sight so Mingle and I still walked up to the building to see if we could find out why they were closed...so Fuji she says "Lets go in!!" And we get in but I'm feeling kind of weird that they've been closed for 45 minutes and the doors are still unlocked. we get in there and she see's Fuji he around the corner and goes 'what are you doing here?" and he goes "Suprise...I wanted to suprise you" Now, I know this kid better than that. He would have had flowers and he would have been dressed nicer. so I'm sitting there sippin my hot chocolate laughing to myself about how cute they are when none other than MY LOVE COMES AROUND THE CORNER!!! ...with flowers no less. I was so excited to see him I completely bypassed the flowers and wrapped my arms around him. I honestly thought he was just here early to suprise me. He hands me my flowers and puts his hands on my arms and says "Karey, I love you and you know i'd do anything for you." He then proceeds to get down on one knee and I IMMEDI
ATELY burst into tears. "Karey Elizabeth Haddock, will you marry me?" Some how I managed to choke out a Yes. He stood up and I wrapped my arms around him and laughed and cried and said I love you who knows HOW many times. He then looks at me and says," Do you want your ring now?" OH YEAH! I forgot there was a ring involved!! It is so beautiful!! So after a few more hugs, kisses and I love you's we left and thanked the staff for staying open (shawn had to BEG the aquarium to stay open so he could propose to me there). Halfway into the parking lot an employee came running after us and said,"The management wants to know if you guys want to come back inside for a dance." So they had us stand on the compass in the lobby and they played Crash Into Me by the Dave Matthews Band. I was so busy crying and hugging him I could barely move.
Once again we headed out and made our way to the Mayan where we had dinner on our first date. And the very amazing fuji's came with us because we love them and we were so excited that they were part of this special night. I love that Shawn Barlow Romney more than anything in this whole world. That was the best night ever. And he is the best man I have ever had in my life...and i get to keep him!!!
