Five minutes after I said “yes,” I couldn’t remember the sequence of events that ended with a ring on my finger.

“Did you…put the ring on my finger? Or did I take it from the little box?”

“I put in on your finger, remember? Right after you said yes?”

Saturday morning at 5:30 am I drove out to the airport with my team to pick up the students on the Cal Poly Spring Break trip. I was feeling a little bit sad, seeing all these friends and familiar faces, but knowing that Matt was spending his Spring Break in San Francisco.

I was actually feeling a little bit annoyed that Matt had forgotten his phone charger at home. Which meant I would only get to talk to him when he could make it to a coffee shop with an internet connection. I tried to remind myself that it was only a few days, and that I would be busy with the Spring Break trip.

I got home from the airport and sat on the couch to chat with Trevor, who hadn’t made it to the airport that morning because he wasn’t feeling well. Then I got a text message from Matt saying he was at a coffee shop with internet, and that we could talk on Skype.

I ran upstairs to my room, shouting, “Matt’s on Skype! I’ll be back later!” I heard Jenna explain to Trev that Matt had forgotten his phone charger, so I was eager to talk to him.

I ccalled Matt and spat out a stream of excited words, “Hi! How are you? I miss you because I just got back from the airport and saw everyone and it made me sad that you forgot your charger, but I’m happy to talk to you.”

“Hi, lemme go grab my webcam,” he answered, very much used to all my words.

And then he was walking in the door of my room, down on one knee, asking me to marry him.

“Will you marry me?”

“Oh…my…gosh…”

“Brenna, will you marry me?” He asked again. I could almost hear the “girl, snap out of it and give me an answer” tone in his voice.

“Yes.”

There was clapping from downstairs, my team waiting to hug me and tell me the rest of the story. Which is that they all knew that this was going down. The whole Spring Break trip knew–Matt had told them in the airport. Trevor and Kristen had known for two months, and were key in helping him pull it off.

Really, I’m shocked that I didn’t know. I would guess most people pride themselves in being hard to fool. But I really feel like I know my boyfriend (fiancé, weird), and I know his ability to lie right to my face. Except apparently not, because I had no idea.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Happy.

Editor’s Note: The flowers aren’t actually from Matt. Someone handed them to me as a prop to use with the ring shots. :)

The ring.

The ring belonged to my grandma who died last year. The stone is a ruby, which is my birthstone. There’s also that one verse about a wife of noble character being worth more than rubies…aw.

More happy.