She said yes!

Today I will be blogging about recent events in my life!
In December I had began thinking about proposing to the woman I love whom I have been dating since July of 2009. We were heading to Ft Worth for the NCHA cutting horse Futurity. The night before we left her mother approached me and offered me her mother's Nicole's grandmothers wedding ring, it was a beautiful ring unfortunatly I hadn't yet received permission from her father to ask her. So I put the idea into the back of my head and immediatly began thinking of ideas of how to ask her. But first I still had to ask her father's permission. So we went to lunch one Saturday afternoon and after we finished eating I asked him he said yes on one condition, I had to take the sheep with me when i took her away from home (there is a whole other story there)! Finally I had permission, but how to ask her that was a whole other problem all together. While I thought about it i made up a story about being scared to ask her father because I was "affraid he would ask me how I would take care of his daughter without a job". And I managed to maintain that story up until the moment I proposed to her! So after many ideas one finally stuck with me. The Friday before Valentines day I had sent flowers to Nicole at work which I had told her I wouldn't do because we had already purchased a antique refrigerator as a V-day present to each other. When the flowers arrived she was called to the front of the building to get them, before she left her desk she sent me a G-talk message telling me I was in trouble. By the time that day had come everyone at Leggett and Platt had heard that it was going to happen. While she was headed up to the front one of her co-workers snuck me in to her cubicle. Another one of her co-workers stood in the hallway and announced very loudly that her flowers were very beautiful so that I would know she was coming. Finally the moment was upon me she walked around the corner to find me down on one knee waiting for her. I asked and she just stared at me... and finally it dawned on her duhh speak!! She squeaked out a little yes and the rest as they say is history!!!