The Proposal, Part 3

And now...would you like to know exactly HOW he managed to pull this off? (AKA the series of lies told to me that resulted in me becoming engaged?)

Well you haven't seen this part yet, because I had to skip the dating stories for the time being in order to deliver the proposal story, but a while back, you might remember that I went to a Selah concert. Ryan was actually my date to that concert. We sat with my co-worker Amy and her son, Seth, that night, and Ryan got to meet and talk to both of them.

He knew he wanted to propose to me on the air, so one morning, he called the station while my show was on the air, knowing I'd be busy, and asked for Amy. He told her his plan and she gave him Lynne's phone number so the two of them could figure out all the details.

After ring shopping with me the first time, he knew the ring I wanted did not exist in a case, so he had one designed for me.

When we went to Lynne's house after the 10K, I had no idea that although she was truly just meeting him for the first time, they'd been texting, emailing, and talking on the phone planning this entire proposal. She said she nearly gave it away as we left, because she almost said to him, "See you Thursday!!!!"

When I talked to him on the phone Thursday morning remember how I said I wondered why I hadn't heard the phone switch over to the hands free set? That's because he wasn't in his car going to work. When I said "Are you on the road yet?" he said yes...because he was STANDING in the street outside his house.

So technical.

Sheryl knew about the proposal because he clued her in when he met her at the race. That's why she looked horrified when she saw my lack of makeup that day. She knew there would be a million pictures and if I had no face....

Lynne thought I'd figured it out when I was polishing my nails at my desk. Not true. Just didn't want to have naked nails!

Sheryl had to pick up the frappes because I wasn't allowed to leave the building - because they thought I might run into Ryan in the parking lot!

He hid his car behind the station vans in the parking lot...and they brought him in through a back door I didn't even know existed in the building. They hid him in a back office until I was safely on the air, and then he did an army crawl through the hallway, because the studio where I sit has a large picture window on every wall, so I can see most everything that goes on around me. He hid in the morning guys' office while I prattled on and on (and on and on and on and on) about National Frappe Day.

And those phone issues we were having??? WERE ENTIRELY FAKE. Craig came in to work early and crawled around in two studios PRETENDING to fix phones to keep it authentic for me.

The segment about memorable moments was contrived just to set up the proposal.

And that's how it happened that he PROPOSED TO ME!!! LIVE! ON THE AIR!!

After the proposal, we pulled up a chair for him and Lynne interviewed us both about what we loved about each other....and about our love story.

Then Ron graciously offered to take over my engineering job, so Ryan and I could go down to Lynne's regular studio with her to finish out the show. We did...and I told about the race and that whole process with Ryan...and then we got some sweet phone calls on the air. My best friend, Lynnette, called in, and so did my sister Julie. The last phone call of the day was my Mom...and what a beautiful way to end our show!