Araia had gotten into trouble at school (skipping class!) with her best friend, Jaciehney, and her mother and I brought the two girls back to Jacie's abuela's house for reprimanding from the WHOLE family. Jacie's uncle, Miguel, showed particular interest in stressing the importance of school to Araia while I stared in awe at this gorgeous, empathetic, Latino man while he disciplined my eldest child. A few days later I asked Jacie's mom about the "incredibly hot" uncle that I had met, Miguel. She told me he had asked if I was seeing anyone the day we met and she told him "No", And that she would tell me he was interested. So she gave me his number and I texted him and we set up our first date.

It was New Year's Eve and there was a party going on at Miguel's mom's house and he say down next to me in the kitchen and asked me to marry him. Obviously I said "Yes!" The next day we went to pick my ring and had to have it sized, which took about 3 weeks. When it came back from sizing, we broke out the video recorder and he got down on one knee, and proposed again, making me the happiest bride-to-be ever.