we're getting married!!!

We worked together at a car dealership for a little over a month before he mustered up the courage to talk to me. Once he was prepared he invited me to a bar with a few of our co-workers, I said I would go and that was the last of the conversation. Turns out I found something more appealing to do that night and I wasn't able to make it. Unfortunately we failed to get each other's phone numbers so there wasn't any way for me to let him know that I wouldn't be there. The next day at work he came to find me and asked "How are you gonna ditch me like that?" I explained my situation and he told me I needed to make it up to him by going out with him and some friends that night. Of course I agreed, when I finally showed it was just him. "No one else showed" was his story and he's stickin' to it. We sat there and got to know each other talking, laughing and playing 20 questions. Our next day off we went on our first official date to the Dallas World Aquarium and the rest was history!

It was July 9th 2016. We had just gotten back from vacation in California (where I thought he was going to propose) and my birthday was the following weekend so I figured there was a good chance it could happen then as well. The whole day Saturday I'am thinking that we are just going to have dinner with our friends at this place that I really wanted to try (and still haven't been to). We are meeting in downtown Dallas right after all of the riots in the streets and the bomb threat at the police headquarters, we park right next to the Dallas World Aquarium which is right where all of those terrible things happened just a few days before. I'm telling you this so you know this whole day the only thing I'm thinking is "I hope we don't get injured in another incident". Once we park and I realize we are beside the aquarium I say "Hey! we had our first date there!" Jordan reply's "Yup, sure did" and I continue talking about the riots and nothing else. As we are walking past the aquarium Jordan starts to pull me closer and closer towards the entrance. By the time I ask "WHY ARE YOU PUSHING ME THIS WAY!?" he is down on one knee and saying the four words every girl dreams of hearing one day. The whole time this is happening our friends that we are supposed to be meeting for dinner are hiding in the bushes across the street taking pictures of the whole thing (as seen above). My best friend from Austin came down and hid behind us. My other two best friends came to surprise me at the celebration dinner afterwards. It was truly a dream and I can't wait to marry the man who did all of that for me and so much more!