Brian and I had been dating for seven months and I had some idea/clue that he would propose soon. The whole time up until he proposed, I just expected he would propose on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning. It just seemed like that would be "the perfect time".

Well on my birthday, November 14, 1995...more than a month away from the proposal time (or so I thought)...we did the "normal". We went to my mom's to do "the birthday thing", and then we went over to his mom's as well. After that we went out to dinner at Bellini's and to a movie.

This is where he surprised me. I thought we were going home, but he decided to go out of the way and drive us to