Gary and I are....ENGAGED!

For those of you who have watched and waited for this for what seems like years (oh wait...it has been years), it finally happened...Gary proposed to me! He pulled off a great surprise, which really surprised me!

On Friday, October 10th, 2008 at 4 AM (yep...as in 4 in the morning) Gary snuggles up to me and this is how it goes:
Gary: I'm not going to work today
Me: Are you sick?
Gary: No, I want to go to Portland this weekend.
Me: What? (said quietly) I can't go, I have stuff to get done. (My head starts to run over all the things I had put off and had to get done that day).
Gary: But I want to go to Portland with my Fiancee!
Me: What!!!???? (said with pure confusion)
Gary turns on the light and as I turn to look at him he pulls out a black box.
Me: Are you serious??????!!!
Gary opens it, and says "Will you marry me?" (He might have said "Will you be my wife?" but neither of us can really remember.)
Me: YES-kiss-YES-kiss-YES-kiss-YES!
Gary: Can I put the ring on you now?
Me: YES!!!

Gary: You have one hour to pack before we have to leave for the airport.

Oh yeah, we really spent the weekend in Portland and it was beautiful. We stayed one night right on the beach where they filmed parts of Goonies (only my favorite movie). We spent the next night in downtown Portland where we ate seafood, Gary ate a whole crab and he was very excited about it! When we almost got bumped from our flight the next day we decided to stay another night spent that day hiking the Multnomah Falls, which were beautiful! Lastly, we hunkered down at a SKETCHY hotel and left Monday morning at 5 AM to come back to Phoenix.

It was wonderful!

Here is a link to some photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2320068&l=07842&id=10110065

I am very happy (as is Gary) and we can't wait to make it officially official:)

Kisses to everyone!!