I'm Getting Married!

August 27th is nearly a month ago now. That was the fabulous, out of the blue, will you marry me? day! I haven't had (and still don't have) the time to write about it blog style. I do, however, have an e-mail version of the details that I can redact (no names, remember?) for the purposes of this little 'ol rather neglected blog.

"Hello, hello!

Ok, so please forgive my delinquency with these details. I have never seen the inside of a courtroom more than I have in the last two weeks, so life has been a bit crazy on top of my wonderful news. I have another hearing in the morning in fact, but it doesn't help my preparation that all I want to do right now is hunker down with my Real Simple Weddings (bought my first ever wedding mag but haven't had a chance to read it yet!), dream up guest lists, plan bands and meals and shnazzy save the dates, stare at my ring finger and snuggle up on the couch with TT - oh, and call and e-mail and shriek a bit with all of my friends!

Anyway, I can at least e-mail the proposal story before I get back to preparing to argue summary judgment. Here goes...:

I was supposed to get home from work last Thursday night and be preparing for a day off on Friday for party planning and sleep. TT knew that. In reality, I arrived home at 5:30 pm on Thursday having just learned that not only would I be in trial all day Friday, but I would be doing my first direct examination of witnesses in front of a jury (had been second chair for my Dad most of the week) AND that it would be a hurricane on Saturday when we had 50+ people a keg and a band arriving! So I toe tapped in my lawyer suit in the messy garage about how we had to feed the horses, get groceries, go to the store, and basically do a million things in no time at all. TT sweetly ventured "don't you want to go for a walk?" To which I replied "We don't have TIME for a WALK!" So...I changed into barn clothes and we both wandered out to feed the horses (by the way - it happened to be one of those stunning end of summer evenings - warm, clear, golden green).

I took one of the horses, Chippy, out from the barn down to his overnight turnout at the riding ring. As I shut the gate, TT yelled from the top of the hill by the barn "Hey Farm Girl!" "What?!" I replied. Then with an ear to ear grin and arms stretched wide he yelled out (from 20 yards away...) "WILL YOU MARRY ME?!" Baffled, I said "What?! Now? Of course. Really?" He called down "then put it on!" Since I was holding a horse halter I shouted back up to him "Put WHAT on?" "Look at the tractor" says TT as he starts approaching. Yes, the tractor - ha! I looked to my left and saw a bottle of champagne, two flutes, and an open ring box sitting on the old silver Ford tractor that has been sitting on the farm since I moved in because the old neighbor to whom it belongs forgot about it. TT came down, put it on, we giggled and drank and hugged and laughed...and then we finished feeding the horses on a perfect end of summer night! Simply perfect.

The rest of the evening involved the rest of the bottle of bubbles, what calls we could make, a trip to tell my parents in person followed by a celebratory dinner out, and then we came home and I read depositions in bed to prepare for 8am trial (and 5:30am horse feedign to get to trial by 8!). We managed somehow to plan our whole wild weekend party AND fully clean the garage to make room for a band in a hurricane on Friday night and Saturday morning. Our quick partnership and teamwork a definite good omen for bigger party plans to come:)

Tomorrow marks a week of being engaged (I still pinch myself) and on Friday morning we are finally taking off for 4 blissful days up north. 4 days of no horses and no law to do all of those things I've been wanting to do (that I mentioned before) - and I'll try to make phone calls, too!

Will share details as I have them - but looking like Sep 18th up north somewhere at this point!

Much love,
Farm Girl