Showing off....

[Gypsiyee]

My new bling!

Jonathan put together an awesome Christmas eve scavenger hunt that led to this homemade project of his:



...and then gave me this:



Pretty amazing Christmas eve. He put so much time and thought into every last detail. Couldn't have dreamed it better if I tried. Could've given me a twist tie and I would've been happy..that he spent so much time on ring design and putting everything together blew me away.

Merry Christmas everyone, I hope you all have a great holiday

[Spazz]

Congrats

[Arlos]

Hey, congrats!



-Arlos

[Blackdiam]

Congrats

[Jay]

All you guys are a bunch of copiers =P

Grats Ashley! I'm assuming you said yes =P

[leah]

so, so excited for you. :D congrats, lady!

[Narrock]

Awesome! Grats Gyps!

[Lyion]

Congratulations!

[Maeya]

Congratulations

[Tikker]

.

[Gypsiyee]

No shit right?! Ive seen like 3 other fb status updates with engagements too, its nuts

[leah]

thanks guys been a long time coming! i am over the moon. ^_^

[leah]

OH and cong u too, tikk!

[Jay]

Next step is we all have to have daughters at the same time then we have to name them Hailey Elizabeth

[Tikker]

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[Jay]

Oh I'd definitely rather have a son. I was just poking fun at how Ginz' kid has the same first and middle name as Darc and Gidan's kid.

[leah]

yeahhhhh we're not really the kid-having types... i'll leave all that to y'all.

i'm picking up the ring over lunch today--it's at the jeweler being sized! yay. i'll post pix later, although it's going to be kind of underwhelming after that giant sparkler up there! hehehe

[Gypsiyee]

oh, stop it! the ring isn't what's important. so happy for you Leah, took his ass long enough!

[Lyion]

wtf, no

aim for sons

with a son, you only have to watch out for 1 penis

with a daughter, you have to watch out for ALL of them

Truer words were never spoken.

I give you 5 years, Leah before.. tick, tick, tick....

[Tossica]

Congrats to all you future brides and grooms! Not sure I can take that step again but my girl is definitely marriage material.

[brinstar]

rings are stupid

[leah]

oh, stop it! the ring isn't what's important. so happy for you Leah, took his ass long enough!

hahahahaha i know, i was just teasing!! i love my ring wholly and completely and would not pick anything different. it's my mom's engagement ring and it's vintagey and simple and i just love it. i'm so excited to finally, finally get to wear the darn thing!

and yeah, it definitely took him a long time, BUT, i would rather he waited until he was fully ready, you know? i might've gotten frustrated from time to time, but i love him with my whole heart and was more than willing to wait as long as necessary. it's always been a question of when, not if.



ANYWAY. lyion, you are incorrect sir, but i guess we'll have to wait five years to see for sure. my IUD has a good 4.5 years left on it, after all. haha.

[Narrock]

rings are stupid

I would agree if you had said, "promise rings are stupid." lol

[Gypsiyee]

rings are stupid

don't grinch up our happy thread grinchy mcgrinchpants.

hahahahaha i know, i was just teasing!! i love my ring wholly and completely and would not pick anything different. it's my mom's engagement ring and it's vintagey and simple and i just love it. i'm so excited to finally, finally get to wear the darn thing!

I love that! I have a co-worker who just got married and her ring is really special too. They took the gold and stones from both of their grandmother's rings and got it re-designed from the remnants of them. kind of a fusion of the two families, really neat.

and yeah, it definitely took him a long time, BUT, i would rather he waited until he was fully ready, you know? i might've gotten frustrated from time to time, but i love him with my whole heart and was more than willing to wait as long as necessary. it's always been a question of when, not if.

totally agree with you there--rushing someone into something they're reluctant to do doesn't really do either party any good. other than the bananas, what's the backstory? were you expecting it? did you cry?! jay/tikk, how did yours go?

[leah]

here's the story i've been emailing people:

Here's the proposal scoop... First, I must tell you about one of our yellow lab Bo's bad habits: He really likes to pull bananas off the countertop and eat them whole. It's disgusting. So, yesterday afternoon as I'm driving home from work, Josh calls me and tells me that Bo got into the bananas again and made a HUGE mess, and that it was so bad he was going to leave it until I got home so I could see it. So of course I'm like "uh, OK. Great? Thanks?" hahaha. So, I pull into the driveway and Josh is there at the door and he says "Seriously, you gotta see this." So I'm expecting the worst, of course, and I walk in the door... and there's "MARRY ME?" spelled out in bananas on the floor!! I basically started crying and jumping up and down and hugged him so hard I knocked both of us over onto the floor. And my head's been in the clouds ever since!

yay. i didn't really have any idea necessarily--i was actually thinking he was going to do it at christmas and had spent a good 24-48 hours being sad-sacky that it didn't happen, haha. i did notice that he had been acting a little squirrelly, but i figured it was nothing and let it go, and now i can see that he had been acting squirrelly because he had a surprise up his sleeve! :D he also very sweetly called both of my parents to let them know ahead of time, which was super cute and i'm glad he did so.