October 2, 2013 started like a normal day but quickly became abnormal.
A dozen red roses were sent to me at school by Alex to celebrate our sixth month anniversary. The flowers arrived with a beautiful card asking to take me out for a surprise dinner that night. I felt very loved and the flowers were beautiful!
Soon the students began to come in to the classroom and started handing me gifts and cards. I received a bracelet, a pink rose, and many cards! It was two weeks before my last day and the students had no idea it was my anniversary but I felt very loved from all the gifts!
These are the flowers and the gifts I received October 2nd.
The school day progressed as usual besides the fact the students continued to ask about the flowers. I had this conversation dozens of times! "The flowers were from my boyfriend, Mr. Deeter who is student teaching at Harding. It is our sixth month anniversary today so he sent me flowers." I think they liked the story, so they continued to ask randomly about them. As a side note: the students who didn't give me gifts were making cards all throughout the day so my desk began to pile up!
Toward the end of the school day I was working with a few students on spelling. They got side tracked and asked about the flowers. As I began to share my story again, Mr. Deeter walked in the room. He asked if we could talk for a bit. I had assumed outside of the classroom so I was going to ask my Cooperating teacher if I could leave when Alex got down on one knee and pulled out a big beautiful Batman ring!
Alex realized he pulled out the wrong ring so he quickly threw it (to an eager student) and reached in his pocket for the correct ring which turned out to be another batman ring! That was given to another eager student. Alex then got the correct ring and asked me to marry him.
My cooperating teacher was in on the surprise (although the students were not-it is still a mystery why I received all those gifts!) I have posted some of the pictures she was able to take.
Alex proposing with the correct ring :)
I love the facial expressions of some of my students!
Our first picture after the proposal.
The students quickly began to flock and gander. Some of the girls were even crying...although they were quick to tell me "These are happy tears Miss. Sampson!"
So of course when people flock, it is a perfect opportunity for a picture! But we became more official and moved to the front of the room to take a legit picture.
This is a picture of my whole class with Alex & I.
(I have bunny ears in all the group pictures...leave it to a fourth grader!)
Here are the two proud owners of the batman rings!
A picture of Alex and I after the students left.
And finally a picture of the gifts that continued pouring in. I received a huge stack of cards and lots of flowers! (Real & Fake)
The students loved the excitement and I was thankful to share the experience with them. I could not have hand picked a better way to be proposed to!
Alex with the flowers he gave me and a peak at my engagement ring...beautiful!
So Alex and I are engaged! We set the wedding date for December 31, 2013. A great way to end the year and begin another!
