ANNEMARIE GETS ENGAGED:

As we were packing up, I noticed the back of the tag on the last rose, and it said .COM. I was like "What?" I had figured out that the back of the tags were spelling out our names, but I didn't put it together that Brett was spelling out a website address. He bought "brett-and-annemarie.com" and had it setup for us already. I looked it up on my phone right away to see what it was that he'd done. So adorable!! Love that I'm marrying someone that thinks of something like that. Yes, this is one of the many reasons why we are definitely meant to be with one another. I didn't figure it out....but he had up another home page just in case I had during the day of "Too Smart" (Clickable). Yes, he's so funny. I love him for that.

We drove off to our plans for dinner....he had reservations for us at San Ysidro Ranch at Stonehouse. I'd heard about this place and was excited to be celebrating together at such a pretty and wonderful place with my fiancee. Heehee!!

On the way to dinner, Brett turned to me and said "We're going to get married. We're going to be a family. We're going to have kids!", and that was when it hit me. I mean, I knew that this was going to be part of our future, but we hadn't ever talked about it anymore than that. I wanted all of this to be a surprise when it happened, and so we never spoke about dates, timelines, possibilities, etc. We lived our relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend as just that and it was perfect. When the morning started, I knew that was what the day was going to end like, and it happened so fast, that I really didn't have too much time to react. But then when Brett said that to me, with the biggest smile on his face, it hit me. I'm going to marry this man, spend the rest of my life with him, and have children with him....that made me so warm inside and that was when I realized what it all meant. I couldn't have been happier.

We had a perfect dinner. We recounted every minute of both of our days to each other....and I gave myself a headache from smiling so much. We had the yummy dessert on which the chef congratulated us on our engagement. One last picture in front of the pretty Christmas tree at the restaurant before we headed back to my house.

SATURDAY 10 JULY 2010