A "Wicked" birthday!

Kevin's birthday was looming and I so much wanted to make it special. Not only because he had put so much effort into my birthday but because he really had been my hero...my knight in shining armour since then. I knew I couldn't have got through the past weeks without him. When I wrote before that there had to be drastic action but it had to be the right time, I mean I had to find an inner strength to get away and I only found that once I had met Kevin. It was the thought of him and a life together of happiness that spurred me on to leave. I never would have had the strength if his love had not been there waiting for me.

Anyway during our numerous chats in the early hours, we discovered we both had a love of the West End. There is something about it I loved...again it probably came to pretending to be someone else...but being in the theatre was so uplifting...a real buzz! I was so pleased when he said he loved it too, I could see years of theatre trips ahead of us! He had mentioned quite a few times that he had always wanted to see "Wicked", for years he had wanted to! So I bought us tickets for his birthday! I was too excited to keep the secret and ended up telling him as soon as he got home...I will always remember the look on his face :)

We decided to have a weekend away and stayed in Greenwich. This was amazing for me, I showed Kev all my old haunts I had gone to with Nanny....memories came flooding back as I knew my way around Greenwich Park even though I hadn't been for maybe 15 years! I even remembered the band stand and the little cafe she used to take us to for cream cakes and 'Orangina' :) He laughed as I told him about 3 year old Ange running around chasing pigeons and feeding squirrels right where we were standing!

That night we went to a little Mexican restaurant and Kevin asked me to marry him!!! We had spoken about getting married already and even though people said it was too quick, we were the only two who really and truly understood what the last few months had been like. We had already been through so much together and when you start a relationship by being together 24 hours a day for 2 months, things move quickly. Yes we did everything backwards but no one could deny the intense love we felt for each other. The stress we had been through had made an unbreakable bond!

It was romantic and quite funny how Kevin proposed. I had a feeling it was to be that weekend. We had already been out and chosen a ring together...I wanted 2 colours so I could wear gold and silver jewellery and so that it would always match my Nanny's wedding ring I had been wearing since the day she died...and still do. Anyway, Kevin has to take Creon tablets when he eats to help his digestion (CF) and I carry around a small handbag pot with me. As our food was served, he asked the normal question "can I have my Creon please" and as I pulled the pot from my handbag, there was my ring! Of course I said yes and over came the champagne! I cant even explain how unbelievably happy I was at that moment...what had I done in such a small space of time to make Kevin want to spend the rest of his life with me?! He had made me promise not to tell the waiters about it being his birthday as he didn't want to be embarrassed so instead I told them we had just got engaged....and the waiter announced it! Talk about blushing! LOL. I remember asking why Kev had chosen his birthday to propose and he simply replied "what better present could I ask for than you saying yes?!" Now that made me cry...I was beaming from ear to ear! What a lucky girl I am!!  We got engaged on 15th May 2009, just 5 weeks after I moved in! :D

Minutes after the proposal!

The next night we saw 'Wicked' and it was brilliant!! We were both moved to tears at "Defying Gravity"...Kev because the performance was so powerful and me, because well the lyrics were just how I was feeling....I was defying gravity and learning how to fly! The lyrics are below so you can see what I mean! :) What a wicked weekend that was for us both! We went home to start planning our wedding!