Ariyana's belly!
My beautiful engagement ring! I can't wait to be his bride!
OUR PROPOSAL STORY
Arfan had taken me ring shopping several times before, so when he took me ring shopping again, I hadn't thought much of it. That 'shopping' day, we found a beautiful ring. It was sooo perfect. I tried not to think about it too much though. After all, with the up and coming birth of our little one, we had other things to think about.
A few days later, thanks to my 'nesting' instincts, I was out in our backyard raking a ton of New Yorks fall leaves. Arfan came out and noted that I was not wearing a coat so he went back in and gave me one of his and joined me in raking. I continued to rake and Arfan suggested that my hands were cold. They really weren't but he was pretty insistent that they were so I put my hands in the jacket pocket. There was the box that held the ring that we had picked out together. It was gorgeous and THERE IT WAS. I was so excited and everything else seemed to be a blur. I'm certain he got on one knee and asked me to marry him, but aliens could have landed and I wouldn't have noticed, my mind raced so fast because I knew that I was going to be his bride and I could finally start planning our wedding! It wasn't an elaborate proposal, but it was just us, at home, and it was perfect in our own way.
Ariyana's first Halloween in my belly. Our little pumpkin
Our front porch. A pumpkin for all of us. Daddy, Mommy and Ariyana
Our furballs also have a pumpkin on the hay stacks.
