Engagement

Christmas Eve Engagement

So FH unexpectedly proposed on Christmas Eve 2010 and it was a long time coming! He had been talking about buying an old Subaru to refurbish (he is a mechanic) and I was secretly getting upset thinking that he would buy a car before proposing to me! Much to my surprise, after a Christmas Eve lunch at my parents and before I had to take a nap and go to work that evening, he got down on one knee in the living room of our home and asked me to marry him : )

Our profile picture shows us when we were about 7 and 10, but we have known each other before that and our parents were friends before we were born. I was born in a small town outside of Toledo, Ohio. FH and his family happened to be neighbors and friends of my parents. We lived there until I was three when my dad's job moved us to Florida. Since all of our family was in Toledo, we would vacation in Ohio every year and visit the old neighborhood. Over the years our vacations up north continued, but for some reason or another we stopped visiting the old neighborhood.

It wasn't until my high school graduation party (which was held in Toledo) that we were reunited. At that point we probably hadn't seen or spoken to each other in about 7 or 8 years and when we saw each other we just sort of picked up where we left off. It was strange and exciting at the same time. Unfortunately I had to go back to Florida where I spend my freshman year of college at the University of Central Florida, before I transferred to the University of Toledo to go to school with my cousin (and to be with FH).

Three years later I graduated from college and moved back to Florida for a job. Unfortunately FH and I were separated for about 6 months until he could find a job in Florida. Since being in Florida together, we've bought a house that we're continuously renovating and now we're wedding planning!