This week’s Tell Me Thursday is about yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday picture, that you can see here if you haven’t already.

First let me start by saying that my camera and that picture just don’t do the ring justice…not even close!

If there’s one thing I love it’s a surprise and another thing I love is that Jerry can’t ever keep a secret and give me gifts on the day they are intended for. It’s nice to know that he doesn’t trust himself! HA HA

Whether it’s Christmas or something else, I always get gifts early and this Valentine’s Day was no exception! The ring was my valentine this year and I got it on Tuesday evening. After a weekend and Monday and Tuesday of ups and downs (keep reading and you’ll see part of what I mean), it was definitely a rough couple of days and my man knows how to make it all better. And no, I don’t mean just because he gave me the ring…but it sure didn’t hurt!

It all started Saturday when we went to look at trucks for him. He’s only been wanting a truck since we got together 4 years ago and for whatever reason we just haven’t been able to swing it. As a matter of fact, he’s always getting me things that keep putting his dream of a truck on hold - my van for Valentine’s Day last year just for one example. Well this year I was bound and determined to get him his truck. So, Saturday we spent ALL day looking and we found a truck but the payments were a bit higher than we had originally planned for. After knowing how much he deserved it I just couldn’t let him go home empty handed so I arranged for a way to make up the difference and told him I would make his payments. Happy Valentine’s Day to him!

After we got home, he was having a bit (ok, a lot) of buyer’s remorse. Of course I had no idea why it was so bad at the time and I kept reassuring him that he needed to just enjoy his new toy and let me handle things. I assumed he was just being his normal worry wart self, but when it carried over to Monday I was getting concerned a bit, but still determined he was going to enjoy his truck because doggone it he DESERVED it.

Well onto Tuesday where something that should have taken an hour to do took the entire day. He was starting to calm down or at least not show his worry as much. I had picked up the boys Valentine’s gifts earlier Tuesday along with a card and a few other tiny things for Jerry. When I got home I put the boys gifts together and while sitting on the couch I asked him if he wanted his gift early (yeah he rubs off every now and again). He said sure and so I headed to the bedroom and started to put it together real quick. He followed me in there and I told him I wasn’t finished and he said he’d wait, but wouldn’t leave the room. As I was putting the bag together he walked up behind me and said “Will you marry me?”

Now, he’s asked me this before, but more in a “someday” sort of way. Normally I probably would have just said something along the lines of “Yep you know I will.” but for some reason I turned around to see him holding a red box with this gorgeous ring in it. I squealed like a little girl and immediately said “YES” and began bawling like a baby!

I later found out that he had planned to be more romantic about it, but was so nervous he just blurted it out without realizing it. But you know what I don’t care what he had planned…the way he did it was just perfect to me!

So, to make this extremely long blog post come to an end…after 4 years Jerry and I are getting hitched! Yeah I know many of you probably already thought we were didn’t you?