A Fairy Tale Coming True

Sit back and grab a drink, this one is going to be a long one. I am going to take you on a journey from this last week and up to last night. It's a fairy tale coming true. Last weekend while I was down at Camp Pendleton with Sniper, he booked a flight to come up this week on Wednesday. He had a mission for me.....Set-up a dinner for our families for Saturday night (last night) for 20 people. Roger that. He flew in on Wednesday night and I picked him up from the airport. We picked up Drama Queen and then picked up Bubba and headed home, our home. We (the four of us) spent the remainder of the evening enjoying some family time (a few of the kids were MIA though). Sniper spent Thursday with Drama Queen while I was at work. I will tell you more in another post, later about this. Thursday night we stopped by my father's house for a little while. (I started to get the feeling something was up). Then we went out to dinner and then home. Friday he took me to work and he spent the day again with Bubba and Drama Queen. Friday evening, Lego Man, Drama Queen & I spent the evening together, while Bubba and Sniper visted his parent's. Later that night him and Bubba came home to us. Saturday morning, I knew something was up. We had to pick-up Wingman at the airport at 1200. WTF is going on........hmmmmmmm. All day Sniper was extremely nervous. Saturday evening we got ready to go out to dinner and had to be there by 1800. We arrive at the restaurant and Sniper was very nervous. I had knots in my stomach. I had a feeling I knew what was coming. Both of our families, three out of six of our children (I wished his children in Washington could have been there with us as well. I do know he talked to them before hand) and some friends, together we sat down at the table at 1830. Sniper stood up and started to talk....... "Thank you all for being here to share in this event with Dyz and I. I would like to take the next few moments to share with you what family means to me. Family is not an instution, but a foundation in which we judge many things in our lives. Many people use their family as a scale to qualify or quantify happiness, success, closeness, traditions, and realtionships. Family is a constant which bonds us together without question and regardless of the situation. The bond found in a family is unique in that you are born in to it. You as a person do not choose it, nor does it choose you. The only two choices that you have when it comes to family are: to chose to marry and to chose to have children. To marry is a choice made by two individuals to merge together in order to start a new family. Not leaving their own famliy, but starting their own branch on each other's family tree. Family is love, true love, in it's simplest form. It is not complicated nor mysterious. It is just true and pure love. There is no "why" or "how come" in family. And it can be counted on forever and for always. Family can be compaired to a string. At first glance it appears so simple and is often over looked for its significance, like a family. Like family, string is found everwhere. It holds together our clothes, like our families hold us together as a group. It is used to make rugs and carpets that travel on daily, like our famlies guide our lifes paths. It is used to cover our windows, like families hold our darkest secrets. It even mends our wounds, like families comfort us. Like string, family is started with a core (him and her) and with each added layer (children and other family members) the family grows stronger, just like string does. (put's string on my finger) Like this string, our lives and families will be intertwined together if only you accept this token of my love and devotion to you and our families. Dyz, will you marry me and be my partner for the rest of my life?" "Yes" During this whole time, this very busy, loud restuarnt became very quiet. All you could hear was the music playing in the background. Sniper didn't just speak to our families, he spoke to the whole restaurant. Bubba had some friends (including one of his best friends) there for there homecoming last night and made sure he let them all know. They sat right behind us and cheered just as loud our families. After I said "Yes," the whole restuarant broke out in applause. WOW!!!!! We had several people who didn't even know us, congratulate this very happy couple. There was lots of tears shed last night, before, during and after from the both of us. Tears of joy, pure happiness and love, true love. And yes, he is man enough to admit, he cried. It started after he said, "Thank you." Sniper had to put down the 3x5 cards he made with what he wanted to say. He couldn't see the writing on them. I was very suprised it happened this soon. We have talked for a long time of getting married, and knew in our hearts we are already married, we have even referred to the other as "my fiance" or "my wife" or "my husband, " but now it is official. We are engaged. Sniper and I have saved the cards and the string for our scrapbook. Sniper also saved all the rough drafts for me as well. That man knows me all too well. Later on last night him and Wingman told me the story of this last week and all the "planning" that went in to this. Sniper practiced on everyone, including drama queen, bubba and wingman. He didn't want the Ring to fall off of the string. See, the Ring slid down the string onto my finger. That man, my man, has always been a over the top romantic. He always amazes me and he did it again last night. Oh yah, he went to both my father and dad and asked them both for my hand in marriage. Oh my, I am the luckiest woman in the world to have such a wonderful, caring, compassionate man like Sniper. Sniper, I love you with all my heart. I am looking forward to spending the rest of our lives having a happy, fufilling, adventurous life together with you, all of our children and our family. I promise you I will be a great wife to you. My love will never falter. I will give you and our family the world through my love. I will post pics soon. Blogger, as usually, isn't playing nice. Dyzgoneby, soon to be Mrs. Sniper I will let you all in on the date as we decide together. We do have something in mind, but waiting to see how things play out soon. And NO, we are not getting married in Vegas this next week (Thursday we leave for our Vegas trip). Family is too important to the both of us and all of our children and our families will be there together. Each and every last one of them.