Quick! Before I Forget: An Announcement!

So....This happened!

Saturday morning Jeff proposed!! I'm excited beyond words. I knew we would eventually get married, but he definitely caught me off guard, since I didn't think he'd be proposing for quite some time.

We woke up kind of early on Saturday morning, which is especially unusual for me. Jeff had woke up and gone into the living room, but he accidentally dropped something...and with our bedroom wall being super thin, I was jolted awake at the loud noise. (come to find out, this was the ring box! haha, oops). 

I had planned on us going to the farmer's market that was opening for the season that morning. It started at 10 and I was hoping to leave right around then. Jeff hadn't been feeling well the night before, and he said he still wasn't feeling so hot, so could we wait a bit longer? Of course! I didn't want to make him go if he wasn't feel well...I even considered going by myself. Good thing I didn't! 

I was standing in the kitchen, and I had left my phone in the bedroom. Jeff had gone in there and when he came back he said I had a missed call and handed me my phone. It was from my sister, and she had also left me this text message:

 

I love talking to my nephew, so I of course called her right back. We got on the Skype and I honestly did not suspect a thing. It wasn't until we had been on Skype for a little while that Cam says, "Aunt Becky, I have artwork for you!", and he runs off camera. "You do?! I love Cam artwork!" I said. Moments later my sister is moving the Ipad to show him holding up this:

My jaw dropped. It's mostly a blur, but I was sitting on the couch and I remember that as soon as Cam told me he had artwork for me, that Jeff left the room. I think my thoughts turned to "he's not feeling well, he probably needed to get up for a minute", but then I saw the poster on the screen and started cracking up with nervous laughter and crying, and at the same time also thinking, "This can't be for real, they're joking with me, where's Jeff?"

My sister said, "Can you see it??", and when I said yes, Jeff came back into the room, holding the ring's black box, and walked towards me. As he got to the couch he got down on one knee and asked me the question himself. I was still laughing/crying and pretty speechless that I just hugged him and made him sit next to me on the couch, and he was just like, "well??", and I finally was able to say, "YES!"

It was perfect. I am so, so happy to have a man that knows how much my family means to me and chose to include them. He has been telling me that I would be the first to know, so I think that is why I was not at all expecting a proposal via Skype!.

Jeff tells me that he actually was feeling better, but that he had been texting with my sister all morning and needed to stall. She had said that my brother-in-law was out doing errands and wouldn't be back until 10ish, but that was when I wanted to go to the farmer's market! It's a good thing I didn't insist on going alone!