It's Official...WERE ENGAGED!!

After 2 years and 181 days since we met, we have made it official, and what an amazing evening it was. Yesterday started off the same as every other day, start the day, head off to work, and then head home...but my evening took a turn as I was leaving my work parking lot. Ginny called in a panic, she said "Babe, you need to pull over and check the trunk for some paperwork I need for Frontline" (her practicum employer), so I made my way to a church parking lot and got out to check the trunk. All I could find was a Walmart photo folder. I took that back into the car with me. I told Ginny that was the only papers that were in my trunk. She says "Well, did you open it", I was like geez ok...I open it to find a paper with a poem on it. Ginny asks me to read the poem outloud, and of course I can't cause I am reading it silently and crying. I make it through the poem and she says to me, "Your Christmas present is on" and hangs up the phone. I proceed with following the directions, and head for LaLuna, a mexican restaurant in West Jordan which he have dined quite a bit during our relationship. During the drive I had a million thoughts racing through my head, I was wondering what in the world we would be doing at LaLuna. After about a 40 minute drive to West Jordan I arrived at LaLuna. As I am walking up to the restaurant I can see Nathan, Adam and Ellie in the window. Right away I knew, Ginny was not going to be there. I opened the door, Ellie hands me another clue, and Adam says "Follow the clues, look for people you know". So I grumble, turn around and head for my next location. I realize that it is just across the strip mall at Iggy's. As I am reaching to open the door, out comes Ginny's brother Steve. I acknowledge him, "O hey Steve", and I think I complained about having to drive all over....He didn't say a word. Talk about awkward. My next clue was to head to Club 90. So of course on my way I am thinking what amazing peeps would be there to meet me. I arrive in the parking lot and I am scoping for familiar cars. I see nothing. So I head inside. I don't see anyone I know. I went back out to the car. Ginny texts me and says to wait a sec. A few minutes later, Shelby and Cambie made it over and gave me the next clue. Again, they didn't want to say much to me? They directed me to Memory Grove. On the way there I began thinking to myself that our special place in Memory Grove was up a dark trail. There was no way in hell that I was walking up the "our spot". When I arrived I recognized Stef's car. She was there with the next clue. Of course, she seemed a lil distant as well, but at least she took my picture LOL! From there she directed me to Tryangles. I was so excited that I only had to travel a short distance for this clue. As I approached I saw two people standing on the corner. It was Marge and Ken. The offered up some knucks and gave me the next clue. I headed toward the softball park which was our next stop. Again my clue giver was a minute or two late so I waited...Jackie made it with the next clue, Liberty Park! I finally felt like there was an end in sight!! As I was driving I had to text Ginny and tell her about this crazy horse that was in this trailer next to me. As I got closer I realized that it was no horse at all, but a camel. I was laughing to myself in my car. I made it to the park, found Gin's car and parked. I looked across the snow to see Ginny standing in of course another memorable spot for us. I made my way across the snowy grass, gaining speed as I got closer to her. Once I reached her, she grabbed me and hugged me. She handed me a dozen multi colored roses and began reading. She has 2 poems and some additional material she had added. She was crying and reading. She asked me why I wasn't crying. Hello, you just made me drive for 2 hours! No I was super excited! She proceeded with asking me to marry her and pulled a ring out of her jacket. That is the point when I lost it. She had bought her and I matching rings. It was the most amazing time! The look on her face was one that I will never forget! We made our way back to the cars. We headed out for a special dinner. Ginny took me to Spencer's downtown at the Hilton. Amazing food!! It was a super romantic dinner. We are going to make that a tradition!! We finished dinner and were going to do a carriage ride. It was so busy!! We just decided to head home. We followed each other and made it home safely. As we walked in the door, I noticed another dozen roses, red roses waiting for me on the table. What a perfect end to an amazing evening. Ok, so that wasn't the end, but that part in noneya! I feel so amazing today. I am so lucky to have the love of a woman as special as Ginny. She has made my life so complete and I can't wait for us to share the rest of our lives together. Thank you to everyone who participated in this special night for us. I was so excited to see all of you and have you be a part of everything. I love you Ginny, always and forver.