We had planned to go to breakfast for Jeremy’s birthday. A few days before he suggested we go to Phipps. I thought that was rather suspicious, but he insisted we had never been there during the day. He wasn’t wrong, we hadn’t. So I agreed, super pumped to go to my favorite place with my favorite person. It’s wednesday, Jerm’s birthday, I had a MELT DOWN. I hated my hair, and my outfits, and my coffee mug. Nothing was working the way I wanted it to and all I wanted was to look nice for our date. Jeremy reassured me I looked great, and offered to just stay home and relax. but. Absolutely not. I wasn’t ruining his birthday and I was for sure taking the offer to go with him to Phipps. I slapped on my big girl pants, got my shit together, and we were off. Breakfast was a disaster. We had concocted a plan to go to Waffels Incaffeinated in the South Side so we could slide right over to Oakland. We pulled up, got a spot RIGHT OUT FRONT, pay for parking.. and it’s closed! We regroup in the car and come up with another plan: Waffels Incaffeinated downtown. We make our way downtown only to circle for 20 mins. No parking. Garages ful. You could cut the air in the car with a knife. I’m getting hangry. He’s getting sweaty. The tension is building. We decide to just go to Pamela’s in Oakland, an oldie but a goodie. We ate breakfast and blissfully continued on with our day. We get to Phipps and it’s the beginning of the summer flower show. I, as a plant collector and someone who identifies as a tropical species, was blown away at the set up. *Chefs kiss* It’s was gorgeous. We made our way thru and I told Jerm which plants we have, which ones were really nice, and which ones i have killed. We are finally at the end looking at the last few exhibits. We were looking at these little bird eggs in a case and we decided to wrap it up. I turned and was about 5 steps ahead and i hear “Kelly. “ I stop dead in my tracks because he doesn’t call me by my name. Something must be wrong. I turned around. And there he was, like a bright eyed and bushy tailed squirrel holding up the most perfect acorn as an offering to the tree Gods. “I love you, will you make this the best birthday ever and say Yes?” 😊 *me frozen in shock* {math equations, the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs, the discovery of fire, all circle around my head} he looks and continues to smile at me 🙂 *me still frozen in shock trying to wrap my mind around how we got here* he shifts weight and raises his eye brows 🫠 *i tell myself I’d figure out how he got the ring to this spot in the car* The emotional happiness starts building and i have 45 seconds before full blown tears start pouring down my face. I go over, hug and kiss him, of course accept and say YES! and i whispered. “we need to go right now” We have never exited Phipps so fast. We busted out the front doors and the tears start POURING. I was so happy and so excited I could not contain it. I get to marry the man of my dreams. So, that’s how we got engaged. We’d like to thank Valley Honda for being the island of misfit toys, and adding us as part of its collection. We’d also like to give a special mention to the Sales Managers who laid me off the winter of 2020 which enticed Jeremy to message me on instagram and ask if I got anymore rocks in my brakes. We are enchanted to have you as our guest!