In May of 2021, Phil took me on a beautiful sunset walk by the water, said the sweetest speech and got down on one knee and before he could ask a word… I pushed him to the ground and told him to get away from me. Anyone who knows him knows he is the biggest jokester and has been teasing me non stop about proposing so in all honestly I thought he was teasing me. I didn’t want to fall for his tricks. He wasn’t joking. So he decided to make me wait and the jokes continued! He poked the bear enough that I decided to break tradition and ask him. I enlisted his friend Tiffany’s help, picked out a nice watch, picked the location ( East Rock where his parents had their first date) and day (6/19/21 my parents 50th anniversary). She asked him if we wanted to meet her for a hike with the kids. Well apparently he thought it was just fate setting up a great location and day and told her that he wanted pop the question himself. She did an amazing job keeping both our secrets. Safe to say we both surprised each other!