She said, "YES"!
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Yes, it's true, she said, "YES!"
On Friday, February 22nd, we set out for our cabin in Potter County with Robin & Dave at 5:30 after work, through the snow, sleet & freezing rain for a seven hour trip that normally takes four and a half hours, arriving at 12:30 a.m., but nothing was going to stop me from getting everyone to the cabin safe and sound for this special weekend.
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We got up Saturday morning and went for breakfast to fill ourbellies for the horse back ride where I would propose during our ride. I picked the place and event for three important reasons. First, Rachel grew up loving horses and rode them often as a little girl. She had her very own horse named Bridget that she took care of and looked after. She took me for the first time on a horse back ride during February of 2007 when she surprised me for my 38th birthday with the Pocono surprise getaway. Since then, we have horse back rode together a few times, something we both really enjoy. Secondly we love getting away to our cabin in Potter County, whether it’s us alone, with friends or with all the kids. We enjoy the outdoors, going fishing together, relaxing away from it all, you name it. Thirdly and lastly, our future plans and dreams are when the kids are older, to combine the two, to move to the mountains, buy some land, build a house and get Rachel some horses, all of which we’ll enjoy as we grow old together.
On the way, Rachel asked me if I brought the digital camera like we always do and I said, “No.” Little did she know, I gave our camera to Robin earlier to capture the moment. I brought two additional disposable cameras, one of which I gave to Dave ahead of time. I wanted to be thoroughly prepared to capture it all and also to have a backup incase something went wrong with the other cameras. Luckily I did, because the batteries went dead in the digital camera fairly early.
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Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.-James C. Dobson |
We arrived for our ride at Tioga Trail Rides, a family owned and run business by the husband and wife duo, Don & Kim. Don & Kim are down to earth people and we enjoyed them the very first time we met them on a dinner ride and since having been return customers. They were very willing to help me out as we communicated via phone & email ahead of time to set it all up.
When we got there, I purposely left my gloves and beanie in the truck. When we went in to pay, I asked Rachel to please get my gloves & beanie that I had forgotten in the truck, which gave me a chance to slip Don the other disposable camera and cover a few last minute details. When Rachel returned and before we setout, I informed Don that I had been having belly problems all weekend, which I did and that we may need to stop, so that we’d have a reason to stop during the trail ride. Don then informed us he was bringing along a camera to take pictures for their website and asked if we minded. Of course, Rachel thought that was great, cause we could get pictures off the website since dumbo here “forgot” the camera, PERFECT. J
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.-Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 |
It was an incredible day, the mountains and trails covered in a beautiful snow. After about a half hour of riding, it was time, we stopped at the location where they do for the dinner rides to “goto the bathroom.” We got off our horses and I went straight to the port-o-potty setup there. Inside, I was going over the lines for the special proposal poem I had written for this moment. I came out to see Dave, Robin, Rachel and Don gathered talking, but I went back in to make a last second revision to the poem, all the while, Rachel feeling bad for my intestinal fortitude. J
When I came back out, it was time. As I approached them, Rachel was magically standing up on a set of steps ready for my poem proposal. Later they told me Dave had cleared the snow off the steps and Rachel instinctually thought it would be a good place to get her feet up out of the snow, how perfect. I had been so, so calm until this very moment I was before her. I told her I had written a special poem for her and as I pulled it out, I began to get tears in my eyes, which of course, Rachel followed with her own as she told me later, she then knew what I was doing.
Here is the text of that poem.
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From our very first hour together, as I sat down and talked with YOU, I could feel it inside me, something so incredibly TRUE.
It was your beauty first, that caught my EYE, and as you revealed your heart, then you I couldn’t DENY.
I have found everything in you, my girl, my lover, my best FRIEND, I want to look over you, protect you, every day of my life with you I want to SPEND.
We’ve experienced allot together already, but ahead lies so much MORE, I look forward to our future, far reaches we’ll EXPLORE.
We’ll travel to other countries, to the far reaches of more than one SHORE, but the best feeling in all the world, is when we both come home through our front DOOR.
I could think of no better place to ask you, than this that is our FUTURE, beautiful horses & majestic mountains, a love that bonds us tighter than a surgeon’s SUTURE.
So up here in front of friends, up here in front of god himself to SEE, it’s time for me to ask you a question, as I take to this earthly ground on one KNEE.
You are everything I need all in one person, together with you I want to share our LIFE, so allow me to take care and protect you forever, will you please become my WIFE?
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As I took to one knee for the final verse, her hands began trembling and she said, “Yes, Yes, you don’t have to finish, it’s yes”, as I completed reading the last verse and she reached down to pull me up for me for a hug and kiss. We spent time there talking about it all and getting some pictures, before we made our way back onto the horses for the second half of the ride.
When we got back to the barn, I went to the truck to get the champagne and glasses we had snuck to the truck that morning and toasted inside the barn around the wood stove.
Later that night, we went out to the ‘Ole Tannery, a dive we love that is a mere sixty seconds down the road from our cabin, to celebrate. It was a very nice time.
August 23rd, 2008 is our chosen wedding date. Rachel began preparations the next morning. I love you with all my heart & soul baby.
Yours Forever,
Buhr Anam Cara
Brian
August 23rd, 2008
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