"Engagement Anniversary"

1 year ago today, I became engaged to my best friend in the whole, wide world.
It's a very funny story to him and I and I'm sure that people won't find it as funny as we do, but here it is.

I was flying back to Tulsa from spending a week with my family in Idaho. Aj had to stay home to take care of some buisness and work. It's almost 1 in the morning mind-you. I get off my plane, text Aj while I'm walking towards the baggage claim to let him know that I had landed safely and would be waiting for him at baggage claim #3.
I arrive at the baggage claim and no Aj in sight. I wander around for about 15 minutes and still no Aj. Now I'm getting upset and scared. It's almost 1:30 in the morning, it's a 2 hour drive to McAlester, there's construction everywhere!! As you all know..I'm a bit of a emotional person, I start crying. Sitting there at the baggage claim, by myself. I call his cell phone and it rings and rings. Now, I'm starting to freak myself out. "He's been in a wreck...He ALWAYS answers my calls"
2 am rolls around and out of the corner of my eye I see someone walking towards me and it's Aj, dozen red roses in tow. After many hugs and many kisses he told me that he had read my text messages as baggage claim #8. (He's not acting like himself at all, I did notice that he seemed to be nervous about something and kept looking around)

We headed out to the car to get a start on the travel home, he stops dead in his tracks when we get to our car. I'm not really sure what is wrong with him, so I start putting my luggage in the car..I want to go home and go to bed. He takes my hands and tells me to "stop" and looks me in the eyes and what do I say to him....."Aj, don't make a scene" SERIOUSLY MELISSA!!! I'll never forgive myself for that! He continues with his very rehursed speech and takes my ring finger and slips the sweetest little ring on my finger. He says to me " I promise to marry you someday" I don't remember anything after that...I took it as him giving me a promise ring, but really that was him proposing! A couple days later he asked me how it felt to be engaged and I looked at him with a shocked face!! So that is my engagment story and I couldn't ask for a better man to be spending the rest of my life with.

[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally