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He's asking my parents if he can have my hand!  No proposal tomorrow, that I know for sure.

It's a LDR, so there aren't as many opportunities to ask my folks in person.  I'm so glad he will be doing it before he heads back home on Tuesday. 

On Christmas Eve he told his parents (not at the same time) that he was going to be asking my parents this weekend.  He told me in the middle of church that night-he's not a church person, but he had come to hear me sing.  I think it was in the middle of a carol-I can't believe I don't remember the exact moment-he turned to me and whispered.  I started to tear up!  It's funny, I was actually wearing a white dress, not a wedding dress of course-it actually looks more like a Christmas angel dress if anything. 

On Christmas day I was helping with the dishes before dessert and his dad walked into the kitchen and made some comment about good teamwork, with that "knowing look" in his eye. 

I'm not sure how he's going to do it.  Or if I'll be allowed in the room at the time.  All I know is that it will be sometime after 8pm tomorrow. 

Hmm....I wonder if this new development will make waiting easier or harder. 

Such a sweet story! What a lovely Christmas, you can cherish that memory for a lifetime.

My FI kept everything a suprise. He asked my Dad for his permission without me ever even suspecting. He told my best fried and other family members. He even showed them the design for the ring he was having custom made and I had no idea! Needless to say whwn the proposal came a long I was floored!

It was the SWEETEST thing!  I had no idea what one typically says, and I wasn't sure what he was going to say to them. 

He and I had gotten back from running around (more on that later) and we got home and we were hanging out with the folks and the dog in the den.  I guess he figured it was time, and he kinda was asking if I was going to stay in the room or go in the next room/upstairs.  My dad pointed out with my 'bionic hearing' I'd have to go to the next block not to hear.  I said I'd go in the next room.  Well, I grabbed my video camera and was filming it from the next room.  Not the visuals, I couldn't see from where I was hiding, but I got the audio of it so I can listen to it years from now.  Anyway, it was so sweet, with him telling them how he loved me more than anything in the world...I mean, he'd told me that of course, but to hear him tell it to someone else....wow. 

So....it happened!  Now I just gotta wait on the proposal (I will write about that in another post). 

oh and thank you everybody for all your kind words!!!!! 

Awww that's so sweet! Congrats and good luck with the final waiting! :)

I think my dog actually gave a little woof at some point during the conversation...I think she was giving her approval.  It was kinda funny, she didn't jump all over Mr Banana or demand his attention or a proper hello when he first came in (although she had seen him earlier in the day).  She was pretty tired out from some company that was over earlier in the day.  He was joking about how the dog no longer gets all excited over him, and I think I was the one who said something about how now that he's family and not a guest/visitor, he's no longer a 'big deal' to her. .

I was going to write another post about the new 'timeline' and such, but I've been so scatterbrained that I haven't sat down to write it so I'll give the quick version now...

If things keep going as planned (with his career), then it should happen by Easter (and hopefully sooner than that).  He does need to buy a car and get a new apartment, and I asked if he was going to wait until after both of those things were taken care of, and he said probably just wait for one of them. 

One thing that will make the waiting hard is the whole long distance thing.  I only see him about once a month, so each trip has the potential for a proposal.  I told him maybe he should tell me up front before a trip if it's not happening then so I won't be focused on it, but that he should probably also tell me that even if it is happening on a trip so it would be a surprise. 

As he said, he's done all the preliminary steps, done everything that needs to happen before the proposal.  We looked at rings and he figured out what he likes, and I told him my concerns about certain settings that involve prongs.  We had seen some with potential at one of the five jewelry stores we went to before Christmas, but I wasn't thrilled with the tiffany style setting. 

Today we were at Tiffany's at the mall and glanced at the rings.  I had shown him some online, and he was a bit surprised at the prices.  But the two we saw that we both like today were under $2400.  More than I wanted him to spend, and they were platinum instead of white gold (which is fine of course, just more expensive).  We talked afterwards at dinner and I asked if he thought that he wanted to go with one of the two.  He said probably since he did kinda want to get something from Tiffany's.  Which is fine by me.  ;-)  of course a sterling silver ring with a diamond chip or a CZ is fine with me as well. 

I can't wait till we're married.  He said over the holidays a time or two about how I'm his wife (already), and I can't wait until I'm his wife not only in his heart (and head), but on paper as well. 

I had looked at blue nile, and at the time was looking strictly at bezel set, and really didn't find anything I was excited about. 

When he first asked me to marry him (unofficially) over a year ago, he said it would be Tiffany's and nothing less than a carrot (I know it's not spelled that way, of course, but my dog is sitting on the sofa and she has one of her carrots next to her, I just couldn't resist!).  Then last week he saw their prices online, and was rather surprised. But after looking in 5 stores last week and seeing nothing that the both of us liked, we went to Tiffany's and saw something we both liked. 

For our first anniversary, we went to Tiffany's in Beverly Hills (Rodeo Drive, very exciting) and he got me one of their sterling silver heart lock necklaces.  Afterwards when we were outside he said all sorts of sweet things, such as "you were born to wear Tiffany's".  So there is I guess a sentimental reason behind going with them.  I also don't think he'd want to go with anything he couldn't see in person. 

Here are the two rings that we both liked:

http://www.tiffany.com/Engagement/Item.aspx?GroupSKU=GRP10003&SelectedSKU=22558765

http://www.tiffany.com/Shopping/item.aspx?sku=GRP00458&cid=479592&search_params=s+5-p+1-c+479592-r+-x+-n+6-ri+-ni+1-t&selectedsku=21300608&mcat=0

I checked the blue nile website, and the closest setting would be the Cathedral Ring: 

http://www.bluenile.com/diamond-engagement-ring-setting-white-gold_4123

Congrats on your SO getting your parents' approval.  

I <3 Tiffany jewelry; however, I just can't see myself with a Tiffany e-ring.  I don't know why.  For someone who loves their jewlery soooo very much, you'd think I'd insist on a Tiffany e-ring.  I want something with color... not sure which one, but a friend's ideal e-ring has me jumping on the pink sapphire band wagon.  But... Mr. Snuggie doesn't know this. 

The two rings you have in mind are beautiful!!! 

@ Ms. Snuggie---awww thanks!  He and I both knew they'd say yes.  I mean, they invited him on family vacation this past year, and he's discussed his reception ideas with them.  But he was nervous anyway and it's a symbolic milestone.  It was great to hear my dad's response, not of saying 'yes', but of welcoming him to the family.