Amber

  Daniel and I met through a networking site in May of 2009. We had our first date on May 8, 2009 and we had a late date because my alternator went out so my uncle helped me replace it and then he had class that night. So our date was at 9 p.m. at Applebee’s in Auburn, CA. My aunt and I were concerned about me going on a date with a stranger I met online only a couple days prior, so her and my uncle, unknown to Daniel, chaperoned us at the restaurant. Well, we were at the restaurant until 2 am when they kicked us out; we talked about his career, my career, his beautiful daughter, and our plans for our lives, and our goals. We really talked about a lot. Then he and I parted ways at the end of the date. The next morning he texted me and we talked a little bit about our day thus far, and he asked if I had plans and I had said that I didn't have any definite plans but I was interested in going out and doing something. So he asked if I would be interested in company and we decided on bowling. We had a blast! Well that following Sunday he had invited me to six flags with him and a friend of his, but I had to work so I declined. He spent the whole time he was at Six Flags texting me. So we continued to text and talk back and forth. During our third date that Wednesday he kissed me the first time. It was perfect and unexpected and romantic, out by a small lake I used to go take pictures of. Then he accompanied me to a concert at my cousin’s high school. We moved in together July 26, 2009 in Citrus Heights, CA and then relocated to Charlotte, NC thanks to his work, and he proposed on December 31, 2009 at 11:58 pm it too was perfect and romantic and amazing but also funny. He had bought us tickets to see Jeff Dunham live, and apparently had my ring with him all day waiting for the perfect moment which didn’t seem like it was going to come and then after the show when we were home and alone in between bouts of him being sick he sat on the couch next to me and grabbed my hand, I asked if he was alright and he said yes are you alright? and I said yes. Then with my hand in his he said Amber I want to end this year in the right direction with us together, then he got down on one knee and said Amber will you marry me?? Then after I emphatically said yes and hugged and kissed him he ran back to the bathroom.