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engaged and new baby Artboy and I went to TN to visit my Grandmother for vacation this last week. We left last Sat, and came back yesterday. The family came over on Sunday for dinner, so Artboy got to meet my two great aunts & uncles, and a couple cousins. After they left that night, he wanted to go for a walk. We headed for the apple orchard, and he said that he needed to use the bathroom, so we walked back to the house and I waited outside in my favorite chair for him. When he came back out, we walked back to the orchard. On the way out, he asked if he told me that he loved me enough, and I told him that he told me all the time. When we got to the trees, he was talking about his love for me, and my heart started to beat a little faster. I dismissed my thoughts, thinking there was no way that what I was thinking could be happening. We walked to the end of the orchard, and he was saying some other things, but I can't remember what was being said. He stopped and said he had a question for me. And as he started to get down on his knee, I started crying. I don't know what exactly he said...I only remember him giving me a ring box, and me holding onto it tightly, and him asking if I would marry him...and me saying yes. That night after dinner, my family had been talking about the apple orchard, and how my grandfather had insisted on planting that orchard. He remembered his grandfather's apple orchard and had such fond memories of it..he wanted one as well. He planted too many trees out there..too close together. But he loved it. And Artboy decided that would be the place he'd ask me to marry me. When they found out that he'd asked me under the apple trees, they all said that my Grandfather must have known...and that he was looking down on us. The family loved him. I heard it over and over again from everyone. I'm glad that he was able to meet my Grandmother--wish he could have met my Grandfather. We left TN yesterday, and I received a text message from my brother just before I got on the plane to come home. They were at the hospital--the new baby was on his way. I landed and tried to find out if the baby had come yet, but didn't receive word until after I'd gotten home and discovered my tire was flat. Hayden hadn't arrived yet, but it was getting close. I told them I needed to get my tire fixed and then I'd be there. I argued with myself on whether I would just fill it with air and go to the hospital and get the tires fixed on Monday...or just get it taken care of. Artboy strongly suggested that I go get it fixed, so in the end, I went to Discount Tire. I figured I would need to get new tires, as mine were looking pretty bad, and I was right. $500 lighter and 1.5 hours later, I was on my way. Hayden had already been born--he arrived about 5 min after I arrived at Discount Tire. He is beautiful and I'm so glad I got to see and hold him. He is a big baby--9 lb, 4 oz and 21 1/2 inches long. It's been an eventful week in my family. My cousin got engaged, I got engaged, and my nephew was born. :)
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