The Story of Us
How We Met
Jason and I met, all in thanks to his parents. They were Sunday regulars at the restaurant where I am employed, The Country Corner Cafe. And in September of 2007 they brought Jason in to eat for the first time. Immediately, my coworker and I noticed how cute Jason was. He was shy at first so his dad finally stepped up and right before Christmas decided to find out if I had a boyfriend. He slyly asked, "So, what is your boyfriend getting you for Christmas?" Therefore, I had to answer "Well, I don't have a boyfriend." That got the ball rolling. But, it still took Jason a month to ask me out. He did, on January 22nd and we have been together ever since!
The Engagement
Jason and I went on vacation with my family over Labor Day weekend 2007. It happened to fall over our 7 month anniversary, so we made plans to go to dinner alone on Saturday night. All day long Jason kept hinting about how he wanted to go on a walk alone on the beach that night. We hung out on the beach all day, then came in to get ready to go to dinner. The first restaurant, and the one we really wanted to go to, had an hour and a half wait. Our second choice only had about a 15 minute wait, but while we were waiting my parents and sister showed up! We ate separate from them but made plans to meet up at the boardwalk later. So after spending a few hours exploring by ourselves we met up with them. We watched fireworks off the pier and decided to head back to our hotel for the evening. Instead of going to our room we went for a walk on the beach. After strolling away from the hotel for a ways, we turned to come back. Jason slowed down until he was walking behind me. I turned around to see what he was doing and found him down on one knee. He asked me to marry him and after a few minutes of speechlessness and repeating his name I finally got out a YES! I then rushed back to the hotel to tell everyone the news!
