We're Engaged!

That's right! As of yesterday (Thursday, April 19, 2012) at about 6:45am!

I had an inkling that it was coming, but I didn't know when. Scotty had been trying to sneakily ask about my ring size and what not last weekend and early this week. Then yesterday morning, after my second of four alarms (it takes a lot for me to wake up in the morning) Scotty rolls over and snuggles up to spoon me.

He whispers, "Hey, are you awake?"
I sleepily opened my eyes a bit and croaked in my just-woke-up-why-are-you-trying-to-converse-with-me voice, "I'm coherent. Why?"
"I've got something for you."
I rolled my eyes. I could feel his morning boner pressed against my butt. Oh lord, we don't have time for all of that. I've got to get up for work and make lunches for us. I thought to myself, but out loud I said, "What is it?"
Scotty slides his hand down the length of my arm.
Seriously, we don't have time for this. I groaned internally.
When his hand reached mine, he fumbled for a tiny moment, (I found out afterwards he was counting my fingers in the dark, to make sure he got the right one) then slipped a ring on my finger. "Nicole, will you marry me?"
A HUGE smile spread across my face. "Yes!" I rolled over and kissed him madly.

We lay there talking for a moment, awake earlier than usual. So happy. Then in a fit of passion and love, we hastily undressed and had a quickie before getting up and dressed for work. I wore my current favorite outfit to compliment the most perfect ring ever. I was trying not to bring attention to it at the office, cause I wanted to tell my mom later that morning before telling everyone else, but that didn't happen. One person noticed and then there was a swarm of well wishers surrounding me. I'm not one to enjoy being the center of attention like that, so I was slightly uncomfortable all morning. The hype died down a bit by the afternoon.

The ring is perfect. Exactly what I wanted. Being a normal warm-blooded women on Pinterest, I've been Pinning my wedding ideas and such for months. And this ring, and variations of it have flooded my Wedding Idea's board. Scotty is on Pinterest too, and he follows me. So, I just assumed that he perused my wedding board to get inspiration, but when I mentioned it to him, he looked at me confused. So I pulled up my Pinterest and showed him. There were at least six on this exact style pinned. He was so pleased with himself for choosing the perfect ring that I wanted without help, and I was amazed and fell that much more in love with him for knowing me so well to be able to choose this ring all by his self.

Soon I was bombarded with excited, congratulatory text messages, tweets, and phone calls. Scotty's boss got him a cookie cake that said "Congratulations Scotty and Nicole!" on it. And I'm almost positive my office will do something for me at some point.

We are both so happy, as are our families and friends. And now to the fun bit of making wedding plans. I can't wait to start!