Nick ‘n’ Heather

We had a pretty good weekend this time around. Heather got in Friday evening with our new bikes. We met at the jewelry store we finally picked out her engagement ring. She was pretty excited and I’m sure she’s going to enjoy showing it to everyone. It sounded like everybody wanted to see it last week, but we didn’t have it yet. We’ve started to talk about the wedding a bit regarding date ranges and ideas. It’s all still exciting so far and she’s pretty pumped. People are flying questions at us and we have no answer for any of them yet, so that’s pretty stressful.

Friday night we took it easy at the apartment, Saturday Heather woke me up at like 8:45 am. I couldn’t get back to sleep. Saturday we took it easy and went grocery shopping. Then we took a spin on our new bikes before Tim and Dan stopped by and hung out for a little bit. It was pretty fun. We watched Borat for a bit before they had to take off. Saturday night Amanda got back from Iraq so we drove out to Woodbury and welcomed her back. She is around for a couple weeks before she has to ship back again. We ate supper with her and her family. It sounds like she’s done for good (hopefully) in July or August.

Sunday we got up and relaxed some more. Sunday afternoon we went to the Timberwolves game. I picked up a couple of awesome tickets from work. They were at half court and 15 rows up. When we picked them up we couldn’t help but notice that they were $125 a ticket. I’ve never really went into the arena and had to walk DOWN to my seat. They even had waitresses that came down row by row and would take your order for food and bring it back to you. Pretty sweet, but I can still get my own hot dogs and pretzels thank you very much. The Timberwolves even won. It was a close game throughout and I picked up some pretty sweet videos and pictures. I should have been a sports photographer. I’m running out of things to chat about for now. Here are the pics for your viewing pleasure.

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For those that didn’t quite get it with the intro splash screen, yes, Heather and I are now officially engaged. A lot of people have been asking for a long time now and I finally asked her shortly after midnight on my birthday. We were relaxing in my apartment watching some TV when midnight rolled around and I declared it was my birthday.

I got up on the pretense of getting something, and then told her she had to get up to give me a birthday hug. It took some coaxing to get her off her butt, but she did. When she gave me a hug, I pretended to spot the ring I had bought her a long time ago on my desk. She had left it there a few weeks ago and I grabbed it and said, “Oh hey…here’s your ring back. But you only get it on one condition.”

“What’s that?”, Heather asked.

I took her hand, went down to one knee and said, “Will you marry me?”.

Needless to say, there was much excitement and hysteria to follow.  She eventually caught her breath enough to say yes.  We’ll be going to pick out the official engagement ring this weekend.

Other than that nothing is set or planned.  We need to get past her graduation/move before we can really start thinking ahead.

We’re both pretty excited and Heather really appreciates all the attention she’s been getting.  As for me I’m pretty sure most people managed to forget it was my birthday in all the excitement.  It’s ok, I planned it so I live with it.

I’m sure there will be many more stories to follow, and more information here too.  Sorry to those who found out about coming to the site and not from Heather or I.  We went through as many phone and emails as we could, but I’m sure we missed someone.