The proposal was so perfectly us.  Before I can explain the proposal I need to give some background informaiton.

When i was a kid I followed my dad around everywhere "helping" him.  Whenever he had to go into the attic I wanted ot go.  Our attic was the typical attic, dirty, filled with stuff, insulatation everyewhere, and just generally not a place you want a kid.  So my dad would let me into the attic with him but I had to stay on the second to top step.  When I moved in with Josh I realized the attic was off the master bedroom.  i told Josh about my facination with the attic as a kid and immediatly went into the attic.  I then proceded to follow Josh into the attic every time he had to go into it.  Once I knew Josh was going to propose I began following him into the attic and shaking boxes asking, "Which one did you hide my ring in?"

The day Josh proposed was a Tuesday.  I was very tired and not feeling great.  It was around 8:30pm and I just wanted to get ready for bed. At this point Josh insists I help him bring a box into the attic.  I am immediatly annoyed and make sure he knows it.  As I walk by he says, "Can I get a hug?"  I am so mad I say, "No!  Let's just get this done." and then I procede to stomp up the attic stairs.  I get into the attic and as I turn around to get the box from Josh, something pink catches my eye.  I do a double take and sitting there is a stuffed animal.  It was not just any stuffed animal either.  It was a stuffed animal that was the same as the stufed animal I took everywhere with me for YEARS.  I loved this thing to death.  My mom spent countless hours patching, sewing, stuffing, and cleaning this stuffed animal.  It eventually just became rags but I still took it everywhere.  She says she still has it somewhere but I doubt there is anything left.  Josh found a collector online and purchased the same stuffed animal.  Sitting in this stuffed animal is an engagement ring.  The rest is pretty typical, I cried, he got down on one knee and proposed, etc.  Now the stuffed animal named, Puff 2, sits in our bedroom.  I will try not to love this one to death.....Josh gets that privlidge now :)  Oh and, I appologized for being a jerk about putting stuff away in the attic.

Trying to keep secrets from Audrey is tough. She reads me like a book so I don't have much time to think about secretive surprises for Audrey. Audrey also likes to ask a lot of questions, which I love. One day in November we get a package in the mail and it was Puff. She asked what it was and I said it a gift and quickly hid Puff in a drawer somewhere. I was going to originally propose to Audrey at the same location where we talked and talked until 3 AM at the Goodnight then have dinner at Bartlett's next door. Of course Audrey blurted out, so that is when you are going to propose to me? My proposal goose was cooked.

After recovering from Audrey pinpointing me and our proposal, I began thinking about the attic and Audrey's experience with her dad growing up. The next thing was allowing it to occur naturally, but most important, the entire proposal being a surprise. As Audrey explained, the proposal was a perfect surprise and so meaningful.