The Proposal

I am sure all of you are curious about how he popped the question. So here is it...

We were over in Santa Cruz visiting grandma Wilson and decided to take a day trip to Monterey. He had told me before we left to wear something cute because he wanted to take some picture before he left. I sort of had an idea that he was going to do it but he was so calm and cool and wasn't nervous at all so I didn't think he was going to do it. Plus, he had said other things to make it sound like he was going to do it at a later date. So it never crossed my mind as we were on our way to Monterey. We started by going to the warft and walking around there (again, he was calm and cool this whole time). I told Andrew that I wanted to go to this one small beach near Pacific Grove, but he had already planned to go there. We headed that way and arrived at the small beach. It has these rocks that when the tide is out you can walk all the way out and sit on them. But the tide looked like it was coming in so we decided not to chance it. (Little did I know that Andrew's original plan was now thrown out the window, he wanted to propose on the rocks). We walked around on the rocks for a while, took a few pictures. Finally, we sat down on a couple of rock and he told me that he wanted to read me something before he left. He had written down ten things that he loved about me. It was very sweet. I started to cry and was getting nervous because I thought this was it. But after he finished saying the ten things he just sat there and said, "I just wanted you to know that." I was thinking..."ok...now what??" (He had me going.) Then Andew thought it would be fun to have a hermit crab race. It was something he had done with his dad when he was younger and thought it would be fun. Of course, my competitive side came out and I just HAD to get the best hermit crab out there. I thought there was some special features of a really fast crab. I looked hi and low for the best and all I could find was hundreds of crabs just sitting there. Finally, Andrew said he found a good one over by him and that I should just use that one. So I decided I would just use the one he found and hope it was a good one. We got our crabs and knelt down by a flat rock. Anderw told me to put my crab down then he would put his down. I placed my hermit crab on the rock and when Andrew put his crab down he placed the ring on my hermit crab. I was shocked!!! I could not believe it! I think Andrew had to ask me two or three times before I finally replied. Not that I had to think about it, I was just in complete shock. It was very original and so cute! I loved it!! So that's how the story goes...