David
and I do not have a fairy tale story. It's pretty obvious that when
you find out we met last June and then you meet our handsome 8 month old
son and then start subtracting gestational dates for a female and then
plus or minus a few days and add a full moon cycle...... You get the
picture lol.. But we have a happy, busy life where we are always kept
on our toes by our little guy Mason and our very playful Golden
Retriever Shock Top aka Shockey.
We met through mutual
roommates. His roommate was dating mine at the time and all four of
us were in the Navy. I'm the only one who is currently out of the Navy
actually. David and I had an instant connection that was almost ruined
by a falling beer but I'm sure he'd tell the story differently. We
didn't get too much time together as just an "us" couple before we
became the "pregnant" couple and then that pretty much sums up our
dating experience. You want to know if you can live with someone the
rest of your life? Survive a very hormonal pregnancy with them lol! I
knew he had to be the one if he could stand me by the end of it. That
or he was legally insane.
Having our son was
the big coming together moment for us. There's no question about that.
On Feb 20th, 2012 at midnight of all times my water broke. I knocked
Dave on the arm to tell him and he said, "that's nice." Men.... He was
quickly redirected and we started the labor process and 11 and a half
hours later my son was born all natural at Best Start Birth Center. It
was a tiring, grueling, mentally draining, beautiful, challening,
bonding, greatest thing I ever did experience!! And I had David right
there to stare at as they put Mason on my chest for the first time and
we both just cried like babies. Mason sealed the deal for us. We were
instantly a family and I knew then that I wanted to be with him for
forever. It was so cute watching Dave take Mason around the Birth
Center showing him off to everyone. There were
appointments going on downstairs and he was showing him off to all the
pregnant moms and staff.
The day Dave
proposed...... Gosh I'm still surprised that he got me. We went on our
first night out after having Mason to my favorite restaurant, The
Melting Pot. Mason was 6 weeks old at this point so it had been awhile
but I was still so nervous about leaving him with someone. I almost
ruined the proposal so many times and frankly I kind of did. The camera
ended up not being there because he was unable to sneak it into the car
because I decided to make us take pictures. I kept asking him why was
he rubbing his leg. He kept wanting to go to the bar to get another
drink when I told him to just wait for the waitor. I should have just
relaxed lol. Finally he told me he was going to the bathroom. When he
came back from the restroom he sat back in the booth across from me and
the waitor sat another drink in front of me. I started to say
something and then I noticed a bright shiny thing sitting on top of the
fruit of the drink. I was shocked at first that there was a ring but
then I realized that it was my dream ring. And then I started to
panic. How did he pull this off? I'm coming up with every scenario in
my head of how he paid for this and I just can't imagine how he
remembered this exact ring. I barely hear him say, "Will you marry
me?" The whole time I'm saying, "How did you do this? How did you
know?" lol. Again, I need to learn how to relax. The whole time our
waitor is videoing with his phone cause he couldn't sneak the camera. I
of course said yes and the rest is history.
Oh, P.S. he knew
which ring was my dream ring because he snuck into my phone one day
after I had shown him as a joke and he emailed it to himself. So he got
MAJOR brownie points for thats!
