NicNac

  We met in the fall of our senior year of high school. We had both always done track and field and had many mutual friends but had never gotten to know each other.  That changed during the winter  track season; we became became fast friends and right before graduating in May 2008 we started dating.   We got engaged October 22, 2010.  On that day we had gone to visit my family and cook dinner for them.  After dinner, Jake and I went for a walk, it was on this walk that Jake intended to propose.  Jake's hands were in his jacket pockets and so I put my hand in his jacket pocket so we could hold hands, pushing the ring box out of my way as I did it (I didn't think anything of it at the time, boys always have junk in their pockets). At that moment I randomly decided to visit a family that I used to babysit for as one of the boys had just been in the hospital and I wanted to see how they were all doing.  Jake interpreted this as me trying to keep from being alone and avoiding the proposal.  After my visit with the family we continued on the walk, however, Jake was extremely sullen the rest of the night.  When we finally decided to go home it started as an awkward drive and I started to get annoyed at Jake because I didn't know why he was so upset.  Finally he broke the awkward silence and said "So you know why we came up here, what was in that box?"  I gave him a confused look and said "What are you talking about, what box??"  Jake immediately swerved to the side of Interstate 70 and asked me right there on the side of the road.  I said yes of course. : )