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Soooooooooooo.......

I GOT ENGAGED!

This is my "I just got engaged face" real happy looking right?

I know, old news already right? But I figure it's not official until I blog about it. So if you don't know....now you know!...nigga. biggie smalls anyone? anyone??

FYI I am in love with my ring. It is gold like I've always wanted. It is thin, petite and lovely. It has the perfect amount of sparkle. It is just so me. I find myself admiring it at least a dozen times a day. I stare at it and start to think about my handsome, loving, perfect-for-me fiance and let the butterflies fill my tummy till I'm smiling like a doofus at my finger and it's newly acquired bling. 

So it's been almost exactly 2 weeks since "I" became a soon to be "we" and I've had to tell "The Story" so many times that I have all the little details still so fresh in my mind. That is also why I haven't been worried about blogging it out right away, but let's get to it now, shall we?

I went to Vegas with my family the weekend before Valentines, for the Rugby 7s tournament. AJ went down with his sisters and we met up Friday at the rugby games. All the fun side details of the trip I'll blog about later. 

So fast forward to Saturday morning. We all got ready, had family prayer, then headed down to the strip for some exploring and shopping. I honestly was kind of annoyed with AJ because I felt like he was just being a little off since we got to Vegas, like being too quiet, and I thought it was just because he wanted more one on one time, but we hadn't been able to really have any yet. But I was only annoyed because it's not like I could really do anything about it since I was only there for 3 days and wanted to try to spend as much time with my family while still fitting in time with his and trying to give him enough attention as well.....3 days with that many people to try to give time and attention to is not enough. Little did I know that it was actually his nerves making him act odd the whole time...but I was about to find out. 

-THE PROPOSAL-

The "empty" jar he grabbed off the shelf

We made our way to the M&M World where AJ told me his family would be meeting up with us. Right when we got there AJ told me he was going to the bathroom. We went to the 2nd floor and my mom started filling up a bag of different flavored M&Ms. Then AJ reappeared with his family. He told me it was his little cousins birthday the next day and wanted to go to the 3rd floor and make him personalized M&Ms. I didn't really want to go upstairs cuz everyone else was right there on the 2nd floor and I wanted to stay with everyone else. Plus I didn't like the idea of making an expensive bag of M&Ms that would just be eaten when we could just buy a regular bag of M&Ms for his little cousin. But then everyone started going to the 3rd floor so we went with them. 

Going up to the 3rd floor with Mr. Nervous

We walked over to where the wall for making the personalized M&Ms were and AJ grabbed a jar off a shelf and said he wanted to fill it up with M&Ms for his cousin. Then I saw a display in the middle of the room, it was a plastic display case that had like 4 different size clear plastic cups in it and each cup was filled up with M&Ms and under each cup it had a label of how much it would cost to personalize that size cups worth of M&Ms. I just remember seeing a number I didn't like and immediately decided it was too expensive. Not only that, but I noticed all the other people who were doing the personalized M&Ms were using the clear plastic cups that were shown in the display. So AJ's telling me to come with him to pick the colors to fill up the jar with and I wouldn't follow him because I was trying to tell him that he's doing it wrong. I just kept telling him that he's suppose to go get a plastic cup. He even said, "come on," and walked over to the line to fill the jar up and when he got in line he turned around and I was still standing where he left me and he waved me over and I shook my head no. So he came back to me and I just kept telling him he was doing it wrong and in my head I'm getting a little annoyed/angry and I'm thinking I don't want to look stupid cuz you're not suppose to just fill up a jar. (I'm kind of a stickler for rules because I don't like to look or feel stupid and I'm very self conscious) But at this point his sister, Fusi, grabbed a jar off the same shelf and came and stood behind us and said, "I'm gonna make one too," and then I told her, "Ok, but I think you're suppose to use the plastic cups," and she was just like, "oh." Then his cousin, Tia, grabbed a jar too and she said she was going to do it too. So I also informed her that she's suppose to use the plastic cups. So here I am acting like I work at M&M World and almost scolding them all for doing it wrong. Then his cousin opened her jar and asked me which size plastic cup I think would fill it up because she said hers was, "hella hollow" lol. Then she asked if mines was, "hella hollow," too. I said I didn't know and turned to AJ to open the jar. I opened it and -FROZE-

This is what I saw and why I froze. I still can see it perfectly in my head because I froze and was so shocked!

:) and holy gigantic purse.

Then he got down on one knee and I covered my face with my hands because I was so embarrassed! I was so shocked and genuinely surprised, I don't even know if he said anything, but I started to feel myself almost start to cry but I composed myself real quick and just felt happy. I reached into the jar and AJ thought I was going to pull the ring out, but I grabbed an M&M to read it lol it was so cute! Half the M&Ms said "will you marry me?" and the other half said "for eternity" I think he said, "I love you, will you marry me?" and I said "yes!" He put the ring on my finger, picked himself up, I kissed him, and we gave each other a giant happy hug!

LOVED this hug!

It's safe to say I felt like a complete jerk after all that. I had been getting so irritated with him and angry and then he asked me to marry him! hahaha I went from annoyed to elated in a matter of seconds. That may have added to my shock as well lol. The whole time he was trying to get me to go over to the wall of M&Ms and have me open it to fill it up but then see it was already full (of love lol), but I was being so difficult and stubborn he couldn't even get me to go with him, let alone open the dang jar! So that's why his sister and cousin were trying to prompt me to open the jar, but even then I was being so stupid and didn't get why they were all "doing it wrong" instead of listening to me haha...they just wanted me to open the figgin jar! LOL But it was so nice to have some of our families there to see it and share our engagement with. I was completely oblivious as to why we were all there, but everyone already knew what was going on...in fact they whole thing got recorded without me even noticing. So when we first got to the store when AJ went to the "bathroom" he was actually setting the jar up and meeting up with his family so they could make sure no one touched the jar before we got there. I forgot to get the pictures off everyone else's cameras and since mine was in my purse that I was wearing I don't have that many pictures from when he was actually proposing, what I do have...i stole from facebook lol. But we took a bunch of pictures with our families and each other. Everyone said their congratulations and the Blue M&M even showed up to take some pics with us. 

The M&Ms and the ring.

Then I really got a good look at the ring. I asked him who helped him choose it and he said no one. I told him he did such a good job especially for doing it by himself, because it really is the perfect ring for me. I just absolutely love it, and I don't know how he knew what to get since I could never tell him exactly what I wanted or liked in a wedding ring. So yes we obviously had talked about marriage before, but I honestly did not expect this from him right now. Reason being I seriously thought he did not have any money for a ring right now. So yes him popping the question in Vegas came as a total surprise and I don't know how he did it because he usually can't surprise me at all because I'm so curious and always ruin whenever he tries to surprise me. I'm so glad he got this one past me though because I loved it! Not only is the ring perfect, but he got my fathers approval before asking, and he asked me to marry him WITH CANDY. If you know me, you know I run on sugar and eat candy like it's actual life sustaining food, so does my man know me or what? I'd say, yes, HELL YES, and Yes again :)

Right after.

He did like beyonce said.

While we were taking pictures I was like, "is this my Valentines gift??" LOL and he said yes. I said, "I thought I was getting an iphone....but this is so much better!" And a couple hours later when we were talking I was asking if he actually had more to say when he asked me, because in the movies they make it like this big long speech...yes I am so curious..but he told me he did have more he wanted to say but that I was being so mean to him and he was so nervous that he just wanted to get it over with! hahahaha...yes I STILL feel like a jerk. but a happy jerk :)

My family.

BLUE.

His sisters and cousin.

No exact date set, but we are planning for the month of August. We are happily engaged, so excited and trying to prepare for wedding planning chaos, if you have any tips they would be greatly appreciated!

LOVE.