By Popular Demand

Ok, so 2 people asked but I'll pretend it's interesting enough to command everyone's attention.

The story of how Roger proposed to me. Brace yourself ladies.

Roger and I met in our church's young adult group. I was leading one night and he showed up. I'm sure the rest of the group was annoyed with the lack of Bible study and the abundance of "where did you go to school? work? shop?! You look SO familiar" After much talk we discovered...nothing. We have never met. We were almost neighbors - but lived in neighboring houses in different years. We quickly began spending lots of time together. At this point his health was taking a nose dive and he wasn't working anymore. So we were together whenever I wasn't working. Because he couldn't really go anywhere it left a lot of time for us to talk. And talk we did! I don't know if there was a topic we left "un-talked!" We took 1 week (or was it 2?) to pray about our relationship. We didn't want to date for the sake of dating. We wanted to date with the purpose of getting married. So saying yes to dating was saying yes, we're going to get married. (woo-hoo!!!) It was HARD to wait the full week before "making any moves" We didn't want to hold hands or anything until we were sure we would be together. But after praying about it we were both so certain that this was a God thing that waiting a week was darn near impossible. (we survived)
So we had our first date for my birthday. We went to a fancy restaurant with my family... it was an official introduction of sorts. After a week I began pesting him about getting me a ring. :) Roger said it was too early. Let's wait at least until Valentine's day. I thought that sounded reasonable. 1 week isn't really that long to be dating a person! I planned a wedding in my head though.
Well... maybe a little more than in my head. We were hanging out in my parent's basement watching movies and I decided it was wedding planning time. I headed over to the computer and began looking at wedding cakes. The rest is a little blurry. I was however sitting in my parents basement, on a computer chair, looking at wedding cakes when he proposed. He surprised me! We were dating 3 weeks. He couldn't wait till February either. :) Dec 19th, which also happens to be the day Joseph was born - 2 years later. 1 month after we were married we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of when we first met.
No thrills n' chills in how he asked... but I got me a diamond and I got me one AMAZING man.