The big surprise

During Christmas break while we were at USU David would call me every day from his parents house in Salt Lake. He told me had a big surprise for me. We had been talking a little about getting married, so I started to think, what if he got me a ring? was that my big surprise. I really started to think that he had and so I had my step sister in law Tara do my nails before I went down to see David at his little brother Mike's wedding. Dave met me at the door to the restaurant where the wedding breakfast was and he gave me a big hug. Then he said, " well, what do you think?" I did not know what he was talking about. he stepped back and said, " I got a hair cut!" I quickly realized he had got a hair cut and then it dawned on me, was this my big surprise? I suddenly curled my long fake nails in and began feeling like an idiot and I think I started laughing almost uncontrollably and so I asked him if this was my surprise and he said yes. I did not tell him until a few years ago that I thought he was going to have a ring and propose. A few weeks later it was Christmas and I thought that maybe he would get me a ring. So one day he brought over my present. I opened it and it was a stuffed monkey. Again, I started laughing and of course did not tell him what I thought it was going to be. I ended up loving that little monkey and as you can see below he became part of the family and I would even dress him up. Here he is below, posing with our cop cookie jar and watching a little T.V. and getting some Z's.