Carl definitely surprised me the day he proposed. It was his birthday and the Jaguars had won. If you know anything about football you know that we don't have the best football record so any win is a great achievement. After the game, Carl wanted to go on a walk around the neighborhood to check out the new houses being built. At this point I was devasted because I had just tried to put on my favorite jeans and I couldn't even button it. So I come down in a huff ready to burn some calories and see Carl standing at the bottom of the steps kind of fidgety. I think nothing of it and we head off on our journey. The whole time on our walk I notice Carl is more talkative then normal but just write it off to the Jaguar win. We get home and I give him his gifts which are Honda emblems to put on his car (I still don't know what they are really called).  At this point Carl is really acting excited giving me a lot of hugs and explaining to me how much he absolutely loves his gift. I'm thinking to myself "wow I didn't realize how much he wanted these. It's kind of odd how excited he is but I'm just happy he really likes it." Next thing I know he looks at me and says that there is just one more thing he wants for his birthday. I look and he's holding an engagement ring up to me and then he pops the question!!! And of course I said yes!

Last September Ashley bought us tickets to a Jaguars game in Jacksonville as a surprise and I truly was surprised and happy for her too considering she had never been to an NFL game before, also because I had originally planned on proposing to her during halftime!  So I contacted the lady in charge of scoreboard announcements and I was told the only guarantee was that it would show up sometime during halftime and the duration of the message was undetermined because of other announcements and sponsor obligations, so I decided to hold off in favor of a more “controlled” scenario.  At the end of this same trip we were in Savannah, Georgia for two days so I then figured that maybe this would be the right time I just had to find a time and place…  Well, it didn’t quite work out that easily mainly because we were so invested in exploring a new place and experiencing local flavors that yet again it still just wasn’t the right time.  Now this whole time I had the ring on me or in my bag which was incredibly unnerving for me for fear of losing it.  Eventually some weeks later I came to the sound conclusion that I wanted to share this moment in a place we both love and on a day that is special to both of us.  So after I opened the last gift she had given me she asked if all my birthday wishes had come true, I said all but one, and proposed to her!  So FINALLY on my 29^th birthday, December 01 2013, I decided to use my birthday wish in hopes for a YES which is exactly what happened.  I was still pretty anxiously, happily-nervous to propose because I love her so much.  The proposal is now another fun anniversary to celebrate in our love story and we could not be happier.  After proposing, she admittedly expressed some interest in my recent nervous and fumbling demeanor.  I definitely don’t think she was expecting all this at that moment but now is still the single-best memory that we have!