A Day Beginning a New Life

I have been pretty much absent from the blog world this week except for a post I had written for last week that was hanging out waiting for me to hit publish, but we had an unexpected event that required a little attention.

Son2 and GF2 have been an item for a while now, and we absolutely adore her. In fact, I told Son2 if they ever decided to quit seeing each other, we would be heart broken and we sure would miss HIM.
Well last week  he decided to do a little shopping, and came home with a gorgeous ring. Now I need to go into a little back story here.

Son2 has been a volunteer at The Independence Place of Alabama  (a facility to meet the social and recreational essentials of special needs adults) for a while now, and one day  he met this lovely new employee. They enjoyed conversations each time he was out there and with a gentle nudge from the director of the facility (the director of the facility is a relative of ours and nudges about as gently as a wrecking ball hits a brick building) they wound up going out to dinner one evening. The rest is history and they have been together ever since.

Friday afternoon of last week Son2 told me how he planned to propose. Since they are both so connected to IP he thought it would be perfect to do the deed there, with the participants helping him with the proposal. He asked me if I would make some cupcakes for him to take with him so they could have a little party afterwards. I told him that was fine and I would be delighted to do it. Well, he talked to the director and she thought it was a great idea, and somehow the party went from a participants and staff only to an event.  She called me and asked what all I was doing  for the party and told me there would be 50-60 people. WTH!?! I thought I was making two dozen cupcakes!!!

Instead, I started getting into party mode and had from Saturday- Wednesday morning to put it together. And by Wednesday morning I had it all worked out and a party was put together for 2 of the most wonderful, deserving people I have ever known.

The day came and all of the participants who go on Wednesday were there to help. After many secrets, lies and diversions they had it set up to be a complete surprise. If you want to see the video you can watch it here. https://www.facebook.com/anneinkitchen/  Begin at the 2:33 mark  because there was some lag time waiting on them to get from the car to the facility's dining room.

He likes it so he put a ring on it...wedding to follow, shortly!