Ok, so for those of you that know Courtney and I this proposal story should be quite entertaining, but for the ones that don’t know us let me see if I can explain this to you in as much detail as I can. Courtney is the type of girl that has to have everything planned. Now when I say she has to have everything planned I’m not kidding…this girl has to have when she is going to go pee planned, and anything that is thrown at her without having a plan she gets very skittish and freaks out, it’s quite entertaining actually.
Me on the other hand, I’m a very fly by the moment kind of guy…just when you think you have me figured out or you think you know what I would be doing or what I would do, I will do just the opposite. I love to surprise Courtney and make anything I do for her as special as I can. So you can say I kind of screwed myself with the proposal trying to top other things that I have done.
It’s funny; I have known I wanted to marry Courtney for a long time and we have always talked about it and said we would get married after she graduated. Well I was slowly starting to run out of time to propose, but also do it so she was not expecting it! I have been trying to be as discrete and sneaky as possible. Once I had finally picked out a ring I was quick to the drawing board to think of a creative way to propose. Something that I thought would be so simple to do became the hardest thing in the world. I had all these ideas and everyone was trying to give me ideas and I finally just got so overwhelmed that I shut it all out and decided to just keep it as casual as I could and do nothing out of the ordinary so she would not suspect anything (because those of us that know Courtney, every time I would take her do something apparently she was over analyzing it and thinking I was always going to propose, no matter what we went to do). So I texted her one evening and asked her when she came home if we could do like a day date on Christmas Eve before church, something simple yet fun just the two of us so we could enjoy Christmas together before the madness of family and everything started. She said yes of course, but wanted to know what. I managed to play it off for about a month till Christmas Eve came, she every once in a while would ask what we were gonna do and I would just tell her she had to wait and see or make something up to throw her off. You could just tell in her eyes it was driving her crazy! You could tell that she knew I was up to something but she couldn’t piece it all together and it was probably driving her crazy! Finally about the night before Christmas Eve into D-day she had started asking me questions like what to wear, should she bring anything for the date, and I’m thinking to myself, I know exactly what this little brat is doing, she thinks she is so smart trying to get me to tell her to bring something so that she will know what we’re doing for our date by what I tell her to bring, no no I’m not that dumb little girl. So I would just make up the most random things like bring sandals and shoes, just something that would confuse her, and it worked, her responses started getting shorter and shorter which in Courtney world means she is getting more and more confused or irritated.
D-DAY FINAL HOURS:
So Courtney is heading to my casa with no clue on what is going on or what is going to happen. Mean while I’m at Jason’s getting the boat hooked up and all last minute things together, taking my time and not rushing too fast thinking she is gonna be a brat and drag her feet like normal. Oh no this girl shows up at the house at 10:30 on the dam dot and I’m not even home yet! So naturally she is calling me and wondering what is going on, when I get home I go in and get a few things and then we go outside and she claimed she had a feeling we were either going to go to the lake or go quading haha. Either way she seemed very excited and didn’t waste any time getting in the truck. After forgetting my wallet at home we finally were making our way to the lake, the whole time I was trying to keep my cool and not show any signs of being nervous, because after all I was trying to make this as casual as possible so she didn’t think I was up to anything. When we go to the lake I gave her a crash course on how to drive the truck with the trailer so she could park the truck and I would not have to do everything. Once were on the water my nerves are starting to get going. At this point I still have no idea how I was gonna do it but I knew I was gonna do it on the way home, and I also I knew I was gonna do a fake proposal with the ring pop I bought but didn’t know how or when. We headed to the back of the lake and went it a few coves and floated around for a little while, this whole time you could just tell she was confused and being a brat, I think I asked her 12 times if she wanted to drive the boat and she kept saying no. Come to think of it I think the only phrases she knew that day were no and I don’t care. As we were in a cove listening to music I figured it’s now or never, so I asked her to get me a soda, and she opens the cooler gets a soda and shuts the cooler. I’m thinking to myself at this point you have to be kidding you didn’t see that ring box?!?! I let some time go trying to regroup my thoughts since she just threw a curve ball at my plan and so I let her know she saw a present and then made her look for it, after she looked everywhere but the dam obvious cooler I kicked it over to her. Her response was OHHHH is it in here? At this point I knew she was being a brat on purpose. She grabs the box with the biggest smile on her face and opens it to find a big blue ring pop. SUCKER! The look on this girls face was indescribable, and she didn’t play it off very well probably because she was so irritated. My plan was working against her and she didn’t even know it this whole time I knew she would be expecting something and I have once again thrown her off and she is just that much more confused and probably safe to say pissed at this point. By now it’s about 1pm and so we headed to the marina to get some lunch, during lunch I kept leaving and taking my phone being all shady just to plant a seed in her head and I could tell it was working because by now she was not hungry anymore which in Courtney world meant I’m now even more pissed because you’re being a brat and I know something is up but I don’t know what and I’m getting my hopes up again. So we finish lunch get back on the boat and I take her all the way back to the back of the lake again and cruise around for a little bit and then it was time, I asked her are you ready to go, she shrugs her shoulders and said sure. Once we get the boat on the trailer I’m getting so much more nervous now, this is it, its gonna happen she at this point won’t talk to me, all I’m getting now is mmmmmhhhhhmmmm , yes, no, and ok. As were leaving the lake she was just staring out the window with her bottom lip hanging like I had a fishing weight tied to it. Me on the other hand I’m doing everything I can not to laugh but yet trying to figure out how I’m going to do this and also freaking out that it’s actually going to happen! I looked in the mirror and told her shit one of the straps to the boat are coming off, she was like oh ok, so I pulled over in a rest area and by this time my heart is racing and pounding out of my chest I’m so nervous. I go to the back of the truck and get the ring box and a wrench just in case she is looking in the mirror she doesn’t see because again she is in brat mode so anything is possible with her at the point, I go to the back of the boat and pull the ring out of my pocket and put it in the box I bend over to pretend I’m working on the boat and bang on the trailer, before I can even call her out to come help or get what I’m going to say she comes flying out of the truck and walks around the back of the boat. And I’m kneeled on one knee and I probably look like a deer struck by head lights because I was not ready for her and she is like what are you doing what did you find? Looking at my hand closer she sees a box. At this point she starts kinda breathing hard and I think I was shaking the whole time too. She takes a step back and I honestly don’t remember what all I said other than I love you and I want to spend the rest of my life with you…Courtney Danielle Burford will you marry me? I remember she grabbed her mouth and her eyes got a little watery and she said yes.
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