Stacey & Justin

I got the BEST proposal. Justin popped the question on Christmas Eve 2011 when we went to visit my parents in Sanger, TX for the holiday (his first time). Little did I know, he and my best friend Katie had been plotting the proposal via email and Facebook while he was still deployed in Afghanistan. I was completely clueless that he was transporting the ring with us from California to Texas even when he told me to go to a different security line to "race" through (I didn't think anything of it because it sounded like something we would do). When we reached my hometown he asked if I could take him around the neighborhood and to the lake to just "mosy" around. That sounded great to me especially because it had stopped raining. It got dark by the time we drove the golfcart down to the lake and we pulled up to a lit up tree, decorated with ornaments and tealights illuminating a path to it. He asked if people usually decorate the trees and I said no, but that it's been about a year and a half since I'd been home so maybe some new neighbor had. He said let's go take a look at what's underneath it. There was a medium sized box on top of a bigger box wrapped like presents. He told me to open the medium sized box...I told him that I didn't want to open someone else's stuff. When he told me to open it again I FINALLY started to clue in on what was going on. When I opened the box it was a BEAUTIFUL, sparkling Solitaire diamond tied to a ribbon to the box and he was on one knee asking me to marry him. Through tears I said yes of course! I put that ring on my finger without even disconnecting the ribbon and box ;) In the bigger box, Katie and her family had put a miniature sized bottle of champagne and two glasses (which was a surprise to Justin as well). We celebrated just the two of us with our champagne and then drove back to celebrate with the rest of the family. Everyone knew, but my mom. Needless to say she went pretty catatonic staring at the ring on my finger. The rest of the holiday weekend was perfect. Even though the tree was barren from the winter (without the lights and ornaments) it'll always be my favorite tree <3