the story...

brace yourselves, people...this is a long post...

okay, heidi, here’s the story...

jeff & jennifer isaacs are friends of mine from college. jeff & kyle grew up together at riverlawn and also went to school together. jennifer is the one who had the idea of us meeting (to my misgivings cuz blind date/meetings never work for terri) and so we all hung out at jeff & jen’s one night, had pizza and played cards. knowing that kyle was divorced and had kids kinda freaked me out a bit but we continued to talk and go out every once in a while and he really started to grow on me. i officially decided i liked him on december 11 which was the night of my office christmas party. on christmas eve, we had “the talk” and decided to be an official “couple” and from then on spent as much time together as possible. i totally fell in love with him and his girls and am very excited! :)

so...the proposal...

okay, so i had bought my grandma’s house and was going to begin “fixing” it up. once kyle and i started dating, he began to do his version of “fixing” it up which involved much more than i had planned. so he has been working very hard on replacing, removing, re-wiring, reviving, re-working just about everything in the house. (he’s amazing...he can do anything!) one thursday evening (april 6) we had planned on going out on a date (not unusual). he was to meet me at the parentals house. i got home from work and he was already there (still not unusual). i went into the house, chatted with the mom for a moment, realized kyle was not in their house so i proceeded on over to my house cuz i figured he was just doing something in there while he was waiting for me to get home (again, still not unusual). i walked in the door and he came out of the kitchen, we said “hi” and then before anything else was said i sniffed and was like “why does it smell like paint in here?” (thinking maybe someone has stopped by to do some work on the house that day...still not unusual). at that point i turned to my right and there on the wall in red spray paint was “WILL YOU MARRY ME?”


...to which i gasped and turned back around and he got on his knee, pulled out the ring, and proposed. it was precious and so incredibly perfect! cuz now we’ll always know those words will be under the paint. how cool is that? plus it was totally unexpected cuz he had been throwing me off acting like we wouldn’t be getting engaged anytime real soon. he’s so sneaky. afterward, he took me to eat at this really nice restaurant and we had so much fun. then, of course, we stopped by jeff & jen’s to give them the news...jennifer hasn’t stopped giggling.

phew! there it all is in a brief nutshell. i love that kyle, he’s pretty great and totally wonderful to me. he's kind, thoughtful, he totally makes me laugh, he treats me so so good and i could probably just go on and on about how fabulous he is. i think i’ll keep him :)