YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!! I am sooo excited!!
We got engaged on Valentine's Day. K-bear with me..this is quite lengthy! Chris really took it to a whole new level of getting engaged :) I woke up Saturday morning and Taylor decided to make me breakfast in bed for Valentine's Day (eggos cut into hearts) with a little love note..it was so cute! Then she said she was hungry and ended up eating it herself!
Chris told me I needed to be ready by 9:20 am to go. I didn't ask any questions because I figured whatever we were doing was for V Day. So 9:20 rolls around, my mom comes and picks up Taylor and Gavin goes to his mom's house. We drive up to Xcel Energy Center (where the MN Wild hockey team plays, for those of you who don't know) and Chris pulls out our hockey sticks and bag. In the past on V Day we always like to go skating, so I figured we were going skating at some park. (Little did I know?!?) He tells me we are going to watch the Wild practice and then afterwards going out on the ice at Xcel by ourselves to skate around! How cool!! I think only season ticket holders are allowed to watch them practice and I don't think just any one is allowed to go out there by themselves and skate around, so this was really special that he set this all up..it's a 'once in a lifetime' thing! So we get on the ice at about 12:30p and have the ice time til about 1:15..so 1p rolls around and Chris tells me to go out on center ice to take some pics. He goes and gets the camera, we take a couple of pics and then after, he pulls (out of his sleeve) the ring box!!!!! I was in utter shock! I had absolutely NO IDEA this was happening! What I thought was watching the Wild practice and us skating turned into this!!!! So then he skates over to the bench and comes back with two Wild jerseys he had embroidered, his said on the back "Marry Me" with the numbers 09 and mine said "I said yes" with the numbers 09...how creative!! I should mention that there was a local hockey team of 13 year olds that were going to practice after us that were in the stands along with their parents and after they realized what just happened, they were cheering and yelling "Yea he scored"! Then one of the operation guys sounded the air horn that goes off when the Wild get a goal (which by the way is extremely loud!) and all around the Xcel the LED lights went off that say "Goal"! It was unbelievable!
So yea I was just overwhelmed and just so happy and excited! I couldn't believe it had finally happened! I have been waiting for this for quite sometime :)
Afterwards, we headed to dinner around 4, dinner was great! Chris then surprised me with tickets to the Wild game that night! AND told me that some our friends, his dad Dennis and his dad's gf Wendy and Wendy's daughter, Grace, my mom and Taylor were all coming to the game! How fun! I couldn't wait!
So we are driving to what I thought was Xcel for the hockey game (as if there wasn't enough surprises already :) ) Chris decides to pull off at the Embassy Suites..we ended up meeting everyone there AND having a room there for the night! So we go to leave for the game and what I thought we were going to do was figure out who was driving, etc...no a LIMO is sitting there to take all of us to the game!!!!! (Like I said earlier Chris really took it to a whole new level!!)
So we go to the game and have a great time! At the game, we ended up being on the Jumbotron and the camera man got the back of our jerseys and then we turned around and kissed. I think we got a louder cheer from the crowd then the Wild did that night!!! All night everywhere we went at Xcel people recognized us and were saying "There's the Marry Me guy" and about hundred people said to Chris "Where's the I said no jersey"!! It was funny!!
After the game, we went to a couple of bars in the limo before heading back to the hotel for the night. The day could not have been any better! I wish I could rewind and do it all over again, I had so much fun. We got up to our room and Chris' dad and Wendy had decorated the room..it was so nice and thoughtful of them :) THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT SHARED THIS SPECIAL DAY WITH US AND EVERYTHING EVERYONE DID FOR US!! THANK YOU TO KIM AND CHAD FOR TAKING GAVIN AND TO MOM FOR TAKING TAYLOR!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
We got engaged on Valentine's Day. K-bear with me..this is quite lengthy! Chris really took it to a whole new level of getting engaged :) I woke up Saturday morning and Taylor decided to make me breakfast in bed for Valentine's Day (eggos cut into hearts) with a little love note..it was so cute! Then she said she was hungry and ended up eating it herself!
Chris told me I needed to be ready by 9:20 am to go. I didn't ask any questions because I figured whatever we were doing was for V Day. So 9:20 rolls around, my mom comes and picks up Taylor and Gavin goes to his mom's house. We drive up to Xcel Energy Center (where the MN Wild hockey team plays, for those of you who don't know) and Chris pulls out our hockey sticks and bag. In the past on V Day we always like to go skating, so I figured we were going skating at some park. (Little did I know?!?) He tells me we are going to watch the Wild practice and then afterwards going out on the ice at Xcel by ourselves to skate around! How cool!! I think only season ticket holders are allowed to watch them practice and I don't think just any one is allowed to go out there by themselves and skate around, so this was really special that he set this all up..it's a 'once in a lifetime' thing! So we get on the ice at about 12:30p and have the ice time til about 1:15..so 1p rolls around and Chris tells me to go out on center ice to take some pics. He goes and gets the camera, we take a couple of pics and then after, he pulls (out of his sleeve) the ring box!!!!! I was in utter shock! I had absolutely NO IDEA this was happening! What I thought was watching the Wild practice and us skating turned into this!!!! So then he skates over to the bench and comes back with two Wild jerseys he had embroidered, his said on the back "Marry Me" with the numbers 09 and mine said "I said yes" with the numbers 09...how creative!! I should mention that there was a local hockey team of 13 year olds that were going to practice after us that were in the stands along with their parents and after they realized what just happened, they were cheering and yelling "Yea he scored"! Then one of the operation guys sounded the air horn that goes off when the Wild get a goal (which by the way is extremely loud!) and all around the Xcel the LED lights went off that say "Goal"! It was unbelievable!
So yea I was just overwhelmed and just so happy and excited! I couldn't believe it had finally happened! I have been waiting for this for quite sometime :)
Afterwards, we headed to dinner around 4, dinner was great! Chris then surprised me with tickets to the Wild game that night! AND told me that some our friends, his dad Dennis and his dad's gf Wendy and Wendy's daughter, Grace, my mom and Taylor were all coming to the game! How fun! I couldn't wait!
So we are driving to what I thought was Xcel for the hockey game (as if there wasn't enough surprises already :) ) Chris decides to pull off at the Embassy Suites..we ended up meeting everyone there AND having a room there for the night! So we go to leave for the game and what I thought we were going to do was figure out who was driving, etc...no a LIMO is sitting there to take all of us to the game!!!!! (Like I said earlier Chris really took it to a whole new level!!)
So we go to the game and have a great time! At the game, we ended up being on the Jumbotron and the camera man got the back of our jerseys and then we turned around and kissed. I think we got a louder cheer from the crowd then the Wild did that night!!! All night everywhere we went at Xcel people recognized us and were saying "There's the Marry Me guy" and about hundred people said to Chris "Where's the I said no jersey"!! It was funny!!
After the game, we went to a couple of bars in the limo before heading back to the hotel for the night. The day could not have been any better! I wish I could rewind and do it all over again, I had so much fun. We got up to our room and Chris' dad and Wendy had decorated the room..it was so nice and thoughtful of them :) THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT SHARED THIS SPECIAL DAY WITH US AND EVERYTHING EVERYONE DID FOR US!! THANK YOU TO KIM AND CHAD FOR TAKING GAVIN AND TO MOM FOR TAKING TAYLOR!!! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
