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Happy Memorial Day!!!!

I hope your visit with Ellen and Ryan was great and no more tornado warnings. I need a full report on their visit. Any wedding bells ringing??
Well......since you ask...........Ryan will be proposing. That is no longer a secret. On the other hand it's not public knowledge either. Ryan is the champion of procrastinators. He and Ellen went out looking for rings a couple of weeks ago. Then she decided she did not want to be a part of the process. I have offered Ryan a solitaire that has some family history to it. I think he will be taking that and putting it into a setting. Ellen is working, putting in XX hours to get her certification for her job qualifications. She will have those hours sometime in July or August. While she is working, she is 1.5 hours away from Ryan and is living out there. She is anxious to move back in-it will have been one year. She wants to be engaged before she moves in with him-she does not want to sign a separate lease. This is almost June. Ryan and I went ring setting looking that trip a couple of weeks ago when I went to VA. It was after that trip that Ellen changed her mind about taking part in the process. What Ryan and I learned is that it takes 6-8 weeks to order a setting. Ellen has very tiny fingers.......her whole body is very tiny......so a ring would need to be ordered. Resizing a ring that is in stock is not an option. It would be taking it down too many sizes. Ryan has said he will not propose without the actual ring. Once Ellen told him she wanted not to participate-she wanted to be surprised-he just dropped the ball. Also-it is important to Ellen that Ryan ask her father for her hand. That has to happen before he proposes. He's put that off as well.

So everybody knows it's going to happen. Everybody is waiting for it to happen. It's just not happening. I told Ryan to let me know if there was anything I could do to help regarding the engagement or the wedding. Other than that, I'm hanging back. I have the solitaire so I figure he has to let me know sooner or later that he wants the stone. I'm not going to take the ring apart until he has something specific in mind.

As for the weekend...it was very pleasant and laid back. We just hung around the house, played some dominoes and went to the beach today. Ryan and Ellen actually went in the 58 degree water. Bob and I went in up to our calves, brave souls that we are. Ellen's Mom is the person who had the knee surgery recently and Ellen made up a double batch of chocolate chip cookies to send some out to her and to give us some and give Ryan some. Ellen is very easy to be around. We put up a hammock, which hasn't been up in a number of years and she really liked that. Bailey threw up all over Ryan. All in all it was a fun visit.
Hugs,
Sus