Genevieve

How We Met... Sean and I initially met Easter weekend of 2009.  I came to Dallas to visit my cousin Adenna. We ended up hanging out with Sean and Teco a couple of times that weekend.  Nothing much came of that visit other than Sean texting Adenna how fine he thought I was after I was headed back to Houston :).  The next time we saw each other was later that year during Adenna’s birthday weekend.  After he saw me in my freakum dress that weekend we started conversing via email. We saw each other again two weeks later at his house party (yes I was taking A LOT of trips to the DFW). Then again a couple of weeks later during the Thanksgiving holiday.  That was when we actually had our first date!! We had a great time and clicked instantly.  We became "official" the day after Christmas that year.  I told my friends and family that the way things were going with us, I expect that Sean would propose by my 30th birthday.  I was off by less than 2 months (smile).  And the rest, as they say, is history... The Day He Put a Ring on It... It was the perfect proposal! Everyone knows how much I love games. So Sean and Adenna decided to incorporate the proposal into a game. The funny thing is I knew they had been talking about it all day that day. I just didn’t know they were planning it for THAT day. I was completely caught  off guard.    So, we were hanging out at Sean & Teco’s place that afternoon and Adenna says, “Let’s play a game!”.  We decided to play our version of ‘Celebrity’.  Typically, we would each write the name of someone famous on a piece of paper, pass the paper left and then put it on our foreheads. The goal is for each person to guess who their respective celebrity is. We go around and each person asks a yes or no question in an attempt to figure out who they are. Adenna decides this time we are going to change the way we play. She says, “Let’s do phrases!” I respond, “That won’t work and it will take too long. Let’s just do it the regular way”. After about a minute of back and forth, she convinces me to do it her way. I still insist, “this will never work”.   After what seemed like an hour into the game with no one getting anywhere, Adenna decides we should give clues instead of asking questions. Again, I had to put my two cents in, “I told you this wasn’t going to work. That is not how the game is played. We are not supposed to give clues!!”… So we start giving clues and after a few rounds I know what my phrase is, “Will you marry me?” When my turn comes around again, I proudly blurt out my answer (still having no clue what is going on) and proceed to give Sean his clue for his phrase. Slightly annoyed that he wasn’t really paying attention to my clue, I realized that he had gotten down on one knee with the ring in his hand.    Completely floored, I look at Adenna and out of nowhere she produces a bouquet of roses. At that point I completely lost it! Short of “I want to spend the rest of my life with you”, I didn’t hear much else Sean was saying because I was super shocked and super happy. I clearly said yes, well I didn’t really SAY anything because I was completely in tears at that point, but I did nod an emphatic YES!