One of many awesome days

Day rating: 90/100. 10 point deduction for dropping and cracking my phone.

We are booked! After months of heckling venues, we have put our first deposit for the Park Savoy.

September 7, 2013 - Save the date!

Thai for Brian's birthday celebration and homemade cheesecake by Priscilla's bakery. Add king crab legs - it was a super fabulous day.

I love

Being loved by you. I love you too.

Whoops

Okay, so it didn't work out like I had planned. The weekends have been pretty hectic and we haven't had a moment to sit down and browse on methods to edit the video. I did however figure out that our best bet would be iMovie which may require us to obtain an Apple. We're pc people but we don't knock on the iPhone or iPad (currently in use to type this.) The last few weekends as well as the upcoming ones are busy. This weekend was quite nice, nothing crazy planned, looked at houses, hung out with Jon's family, played taboo, and apples to apples. We found out there ara couple of words that Jon's family cant pronounce correctly. Walrus, pier, and museum -Jon, Priscilla, Brian - guess who's word is whos! Oh, as I mentioned, house hunting has officially kicked off again! We even got to see a home that we really liked but it was already in contract any the time we set up our appointments on Saturday. Apparently the buyers and sellers contracts were contingent upon them selling their homes - it was a multi-way fail. We arent sure if that home is for us, but it honestly has everything we want. The thing holding us back now is the foyer which is small for the front door. It takes up too much room - can we live with it? Guess we'll have to wait and see. Jon's birthday is almost here :) Love you.

The Proposal..

It was so much more than I could have ever imagined.  On our first date, we went to eat at a local pulled noodles "lai mein" restaurant in Chinatown and saw UP the movie. 

And Jon re-created it all for the proposal.   

I really wanted to write out a detailed post on how it all went down and even have drafts, but it really didn't do it justice with all the thought, care, and creatively that Jon put into it.  I am going to devote the next few weekends to help him put it together so we can share it with everyone.  




 Stay tuned!

Yes.

Hello everyone!  I'm Cindy :)

My recap of how the proposal went down is extremely long so I thought I would say hello first and wrap up the recap later this weekend. 

I will say - the day was extremely special and it was the sweetest and most thoughtful proposal I ever would have thought possible and the work and preparation for it was immeasurable.   Jon re-created our first date at home, sent me on a scavenger hunt, and had me break a code - that doesn't even do it justice.

How did it all go down? Stay tuned! :)

I love you, Jon. 

Welcome CINDY!!!!!!!

WhoooOOoooohoooo~

It was the greatest feeling in the world when she said yes.  Even though I thought she would most likely say yes, it was great hearing it.  So great that I made her confirm at least 2 more times.  After "popping the question" and going from anxious > being relieved everything worked out > having it hit me that we're finally engaged, there was like 30 minutes of confusion.  We didn't really know what to do with ourselves physically and emotionally.  Just kissing and hugging and more kissing and saying I love you's for a good half hour, with some phone calls to family and friends in between.  Cindy kept kissing me and saying "Thank you" the whole time, but little does she know, I WIN!

Everything worked out, she loved the ring, loved the scrapbook, loved the ipad of course (thank you apple) and the blog site that was displayed on it when she turned it on.  I know this is a pretty complex proposal, and I seriously have no freaking clue how we're going to retell the process, but this is all about Cindy anyways and everything that she loves, so I think it went well. 

ANYWAYS~

Welcome to the blog Cindy! 

I've added her to the site and hopefully I'll be able to edit the videos of the actual event so that we can always have this.  I will never ever forget the emotions that went down that night and how she squeezed my hand when the video cut out, how she was trying to laugh away the emotional tears throughout the entire process leading up to the proposal.  I'll also never forget the promise I made and how everything felt just right when you said yes.  Everything is going to be alright.  

She said YESSSS!!!!@!!@!#!!!!!!!!!

Everything was perfect.

It was a bit crazy at first.  Cindy got out of her GS ISS early so she came home and had to log into work for a bit.  At that point I really had no idea what to do with myself to keep busy until dinner time, so I went outside to play with the dogs. The first curveball came when my sister came home with her fiance and a friend of hers.  I asked her "are you planning on having dinner here tonight?"  She replied, "yea, we're eating at home."  I asked her "can you not?" and smiled.....she knew what was going down and suggested they go out for dinner.  I think my brother also suggested they go out for dinner too to make sure she got it... everything was under control.

After she was done with work, I suggested we go out to pick up a bottle of wine and some ice cream.  Basically anything to get her out of her PJ's and into street clothes.   When we went to the liquor store, she said she wanted a prosecco, something we rarely ever drink.  I kept thinking to myself, "is this her way of telling me she knows, without saying it straight out?"

We went home and had a great dinner of hand-pulled noodles.  Even though it "wasn't as good" as the place on Doyer Street (Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodle), she thought it wasn't bad.  I told her we didn't have enough pictures together so I was even able to persuade her to take some pictures at dinner.

After dinner I suggested we watched the movie "Up" since we haven't seen it in a while.  I'm not really sure if she was suspicious by now, since our first date included a modest dinner of hand-pulled noodles in c-town and then the movies.  To throw her off a bit I said, lets start the movie early so we're done by 10:30, I think Brian (my brother) wants to watch the Laker game tonight.  Either she played along or the plan worked..

So I came upstairs to grab the hard drive with the movie and turn on the cameras.  I have a video of me setting this up.  By now I was extremely nervous, I can still feel it now, thinking about it.  I kept repeating, movie, cam, cam, RING, movie, cam, cam, RING.  To make sure I didn't forget anything.  So just like practice, I came up, turned on the 2 video cameras, got the ring and hard drive.  Once I got downstairs, as I was setting up the movie, I activated the 3rd camera.  To keep her from sitting around and noticing the camera I asked her to get me a beer, as you'll see in the video to come.  I also had the cameras in place the day before so if she were to notice them, they would've been off and just "accidentally" placed there.

So enough reading, blogs with so many words are boring as hell....

This is the video we watched.  If you live under a rock somewhere and have never seen this movie, its a great watch, but unfortunately this uploaded copy is not the full version.

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