You know, time that I can't spend with her or even being in her presence feels like
wasted time.
But he really is one in a million.
I think it's absolutely adorable when you get mad.
He's one of the most caring, sacrificial, affectionate, honest men I've ever met.
He's an amazing woman who has her head on her shoulders.
The one main thing that I would like Brock McHanele to know is really just that I'm proud
of him.
It's amazing.
It was Friday night and I had gotten the ring earlier that week and I guess I decided
that I was going to do it the next day so I still hadn't asked her dad yet.
Well I was at work all day, it was a Saturday and I had a full shift at work and the plan
was that we were going to go to a friend's party that night when I got home to work.
That was probably the scariest thing in my life.
So after he dragged it out, I can probably tell you a little bit about that, he dragged
it out forever and he had back in notebook and he had all these questions for me.
He didn't even care what my answer was.
He worked it later.
He said that I wasn't answering logically anyways and I was just too nervous to say
anything correctly.
So I'm driving home from work and I fold the driveway and I glance up at my bedroom window
and the first thing I notice is that the lights are on in my room and my first thought is
well that's weird, why are the lights on in there?
And then my second thought is annoyance because I'm like right, one of my little siblings
is playing in my room messing around, whatever.
I got all the tea candles and all the rose petals put them lining up all the way to
the stairs to a room.
I start making my way up the stairs and all along the stairs with the candles and rose
petals there's also written these notes to me every few steps just saying sweet things
to me or remember that time just memories from our relationship.
So I finally get to the top of the stairs and hanging on one of the doors is this red
dress that bought me for Christmas last year and it has a note that says please put this
on before entering your room.
So I'm sitting up there just like shaking at this point I can't even contain myself
it's so scary and weird.
So I go into this other room and I put the dress on and I'm shaking so badly at this
point that it's a bit of a challenge but I got the dress on and I go up to my bedroom
door and I'm like okay this is it I'm gonna open the door he's gonna be on the other
side of it and he's gonna propose to me I'm ready.
And the door slowly opens you know and it's like barely peeks open and I'm hiding behind
the door because I want her to walk down the trail of tea candles and you know the rose
petals leading up to this big lit table where there's a big note on it and no she turns
right around and peeks behind the door and like crying and sobbing and like reaching
for me and I was just going like that you know.
And so I walk up to the trunk and kneel down in front of it and on the trunk was a rose
and some candles and another note and the note just said sweet stuff to me, talked about
his love to me, things like that and then he ended the note with so with all of that
in mind you can consider bearing a lifetime with me in Durham and I'm sitting there and
I'm like okay was that him officially asking me am I supposed to say yes because I know
he's behind me right now so I kind of sat there for a minute not sure what to do.
Turns around and then I said another really long thing I still don't remember I was so
nervous and just came out and finally I asked her if she'd married me and took her about
15 seconds to respond to her stop crying enough to respond and she says yes.
And she said so Cassandra and I was like yes and in my head this moment felt so long because
I knew what my part was all I had to do was say yes when I finally asked but it felt really
drawn out so like in my head I'm screaming just say so he said Cassandra and I said yes
and he said will you marry me and be mine from this day on and now and forever more
because that's the words from our song and I said yes so we put the ring on me we hugged
and we were both kind of sobbing at this point.
We leave and walk down the stairs and open the door and there's all our family there clapping
and happy for us and they'll run up and give us hugs and so we went downstairs and both
of our families were there and had champagne toast and a little mini celebration.
