Fast forward
This is the story of how he proposed.
On Friday, November 23rd, 2012 we headed off to my hometown of Canadian, TX. A very close friend of our family had passed away and her funeral was to be held in Canadian on Saturday morning. This had been quite the eventful week. Danny had just returned from the east coast on November 17th. He'd been there for 20 days working Hurricane Sandy. We bought a new pick-up on Monday, my Mom had to have emergency eye surgery and we had Thanksgiving! Whew!
We got the news of Leila Ross's passing before Thanksgiving and I decided we needed to attend her funeral. She was a dear friend of our family and the best friend of my Nana!
So on Friday, we loaded up in our shiny new Chevrolet and headed off for Texas! My Aunt Lisa and Uncle Bill have recently built a beautiful new house in Briscoe, TX. My Aunt Cathy sent us with a piece of furniture to drop off on our way. I was excited because we'd hadn't gotten to see the new digs yet! They live on 160 acres of land my Nana and Papa owned. It is the land of my childhood and I actually lived there for a good many years and attended school in Briscoe. I have so many wonderful memories of life on Gageby Creek and I always love going back there.
We got to Briscoe and took the grand tour of the new house. Danny had mentioned several times that he wanted to take a four-wheeler ride around the old home place. I thought since it was getting close to sundown he would give up on the idea but he didn't. I had brought my new pistol with me to show my Aunt and Uncle and we decided we could drive down to the creek and fire off a few rounds into the bank.
So, I put my pistol in the front pocket of my Thunder hoodie, hopped on the four-wheeler behind Danny and off we went for the creek! We drove down to a spot on the creek behind where my Nana's house used to stand. We got off the four-wheeler and started to scope out a good place in the bank to fire the gun into. Before I knew it Danny was on one knee in front of me! I said, "what are you doing??" I was taken a little by surprise! He said "would you be my wife?" I'm no dummy so of course, through teary eyes, I said YES!
I didn't know it at the time, but Bill, Lisa, Russell and Shyanne were back at the house watching us through binoculars and taking pictures! We hugged and kissed for a long time there on the creek bank and then I realized I still had my pistol in the front of my hoodie and I'd been holding my ear protection in my hand the whole time! Oh, and we did fire off a couple of rounds into the creek bank for good measure!!
Here is the moment! I'm so glad Aunt Lisa was taking pictures from the house! He said he had four lines he planned on saying but all he could get out was "will you be my wife!" I've never heard five sweeter words in my life!
We came back to the house and Aunt Lisa whipped up a batch of Wine-A-Ritas and we celebrated with a drink and a toast! If you haven't had a Wine-A-Rita try one!!! They are fabulous!!!!!
We drove on into Canadian after our mini-celebration and had a very nice steak dinner at the Cattle Exchange (don't be mad Aunt Carla!). We ended the night by seeing "Twilight Breaking Dawn Part II" at The Palace Theater on Main Street.
I always told Danny I'd like to be proposed to in New York City or Chicago. He tried to make that happen but the timing just wasn't right on our previous trips. I honestly couldn't have asked for a better setting. That land and that creek mean more to me than New York or Chicago ever will. Some of the best times of my life were spend there and now whenever we go back we can re-visit our little spot on Gageby Creek where the man of my dreams asked me to marry him and I said yes.
Cheers!
Shayla
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