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Sat, 09-25-2004 - 8:50am
SO proposed last weekend and we're engaged to be married. We went for a romantic walk at Land's End (views of Marin headlands, GG Bridge and the Bay and sounds of seagulls and foghorns) and he proposed. It was really beautiful. The rest of the weekend I dragged him around to tons of jewelry shops and then finally told him to pick for me. We sat on it all weekend because we thought we should tell the kids first and their reaction was very funny, nonchalant. DD wanted to know if she could be the flower girl and DS said he maybe he could give me away...DF had been thinking he could ask DS to be his best man. I told the kids that they could call him stepdaddy now (joking) and DD said she wanted to call him, 'twinkie'.

So we're thinking next summer/spring break, bare feet on a beach in Kauai, only immediate family and then a party when we get home.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: downbythebay
Mon, 09-27-2004 - 5:20pm
Congrats! I'm absolutely thrilled for you all!
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In reply to: downbythebay
Wed, 09-29-2004 - 2:56am
Oh my gosh SWEETIE!! THAT IS SOOOOOOOOO TERRIFIC! I am so VERY HAPPY for you! You truely deserve it! I think the wedding plans sound fantastic and I am so thrilled that the kids are taking it so nonchalant. I wish I was their to give you a huge hug, but I know you can imagine that I am jumping up and down over here and singing HURRAY!!!!!!!!!!

- Catherine

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Registered: 03-28-2003
In reply to: downbythebay
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 2:51pm
Wow! Congratulations! I'm very happy for you. :))))
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Registered: 12-19-2002
In reply to: downbythebay
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 4:27pm

Congratulations, Bay!!!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: downbythebay
Wed, 10-06-2004 - 11:35pm
He took me for a walk before dinner at Land's End (a trail connecting the Sutro Baths and The Legion of Honor) and we stopped to admire the GG Bridge/twilight and he said that it was beautiful and that I was beautiful and that he wanted to share that with me forever, he dropped on one knee and proposed. It was really, really...nerveracking!! I was panicked and then even more panicked when he pulled out a jewelry box. He had a heart engraved with a proposal on it. I said yes. The proposal and jewelry were exciting, but setting the date is even MORE exciting.

That weekend I dragged him around Union Square, the malls and some specialty stores and finally just told him to pick for me...and he picked a princess cut diamond set in platinum...set between three channel diamonds on each side.

We will live in my house...in my fantasy life we will add a new floor to the house, but I think instead that the remodel will consist of a master room with a bath in the garage, getting rid of the chimney (too much leakage/dry rot problems), nice stairs downstairs...and a remodeled kitchen. Having an illegal in law downstairs is very popular in SF...but I do want to have it done right. Some of these things look and feel a part of the garage, but some people do it nicely and it looks like a part of the house.

What was the name of the workbooks you and Chris looked over?
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Registered: 12-19-2002
In reply to: downbythebay
Thu, 10-07-2004 - 11:55am
What was the name of the workbooks you and Chris looked over?

We got two copies of the book "Saving Your Second Marriage Before it Starts", and one each of the corresponding workbooks, for "him and her".

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