7 Years Ago....

Ean was nervously driving down I80 with a diamond ring in his pocket hoping he could get his girlfriend to go along with his plans to propose!

we left north English on Christmas Eve around 7 or 8 to head to Nebraska in hopes we would get there at midnight.
But Ean of course had a trailer hooked up with a car on it that he had sold to some guy in des moines and needed to drop it off.
I was NOT happy!!
so we drop the car off , I stay in the truck.
Ean comes back after an hour or so and says that the guy's brother has a car for sale just a few miles down the road and ean wants to go look at it.
I was PISSED. it was like 11pm and we were only to Des Moines. But Ean said well I have the trailer on I'm just gonna go in case I want it.
GRRRRRRR
We drive a few miles and Ean says
"I think we are right by the Holliwell bridge where we signed our names a few years ago. Do you want to stop and see if its still there?"

"ummm not really I just want to get to NE so we can sleep before Christmas morning"
He pleaded which I thought was weird so we stopped.

Ean: "well, do you want to get out?"
"I guess.... " (im in PJ's and slippers and its snowing and about 30, no I didnt want to get out!)

we walk up there and I find where we signed our names

This is what we wrote on the bridge a couple of years before.
I don't remember exactly what it says Abby + Ean.....

and I kinda look at him like okay now what LETS GO!!
and he points up and "finds" a note behind a 2 X 4 to Me and i read it ...still not knowing what was going on. I thought he cleverly pulled it out of his pocket and it was like an apology note for making me put up with his car selling business on Christmas. The note was about how much he loved me :)

Then Ean points to where he had written on the bridge .. But the real ? is --> Abby Will you marry me?

I see it and I was shocked and I turned to see Ean on one knee with the ring!
He asked and I said YES!!!
"Yes" you sneaky a-hole ;)

we didn't get to Nebraska until about 3 or 4 in the morning and got up at 7 for Santa!
Christmas morning everyone who knew was waiting to see the bling. I wasn't sure if I should emerge from the basement waving it around or what so I tried to hide it for a while which was awkward since half of everyone knew and was just waiting for me to say something lol

They all knew because Ean spent the 23rd of December hunting my mom down to ask for her permission. He ended up calling her at home, cell and finally at my Grandmas house so she of course couldn't hide why Ean was calling and some of my family knew!

So it was all a set up.
Ean went down to the bridge in des moines 2 weeks earlier and wrote all that stuff on the bridge and placed the note.
He even had the guy he sold the car to in on it.
There was no brother down the road with another car for sale but Ean asked the guy we actually sold the car to to say that in case I came up to the door with him but I just stayed in the truck.

Ean was so nervous he wouldn't be able to pull it all off that he didn't tell anyone but my mom!

A great Christmas Eve memory :)