How it all started...
I don't think I shared how we met & how Rickey proposed to me:
How we met:
On a cool Saturday evening in September of 2004, Angel Teems (Rickey's sister) decided to celebrate her 26th birthday at the Grand Lux Café in Los Angeles...Beverly Center. Me & Rickey had actually exchanged greetings the year prior at Angel's 25th birthday, but cupid must have taken the night off then. This time around, however, fate turned in a new direction. While sitting next to each other, the two engaged in conversation throughout the night, with Rickey (then a Psychology major) promising to help me pass her CSET tests which were mandatory for her teaching career path. After a couple of weeks, communication between the two escalated from dealing with test anxiety to a first date at Poncho's in Manhattan Beach, and soon we were spending countless hours together. When it was all said and done, I had not only overcome the CSET passing obstacle, but had also overcome the challenge of finding Mr. Right!
The day of the proposal...2/22/08
I am a 7th grade science teacher in Los Angeles and I was reading to my students while they were working on a science poster and my principal and my mentor (who is like a second mother to me) come in through the back door (I have 3 doors - 2 in the front & 1 in the back) and I was surprised because the principal doesn't come to my room that often. She tells me that they are going to do a backpack search because there may be a weapon in my classroom...I was like oh heck no!...and I look at my mentor and she nods her head like just go.
So I go with her and she tells me that she pulled me out because it is very hard to see one of your students getting arrested...blahblahblah. So we were outside for 7 minutes and then the assistant principal (who was my 7th grade teacher and high school counselor) comes outside all upset telling me that they need me to come inside because the students aren't cooperating...now my students know that I don't play when it comes to respecting adults and to hear that they weren't cooperating I was getting ready to GO OFF on them.
So I go into my classroom and it's all quiet and I see Mr. Green (he works in the title 1 office and is the bomb!!!) with a camera...i'm like "hey greenie green" but confused because why is he here with the camera? is he here to take pictures of the weapon?...i was like whatever let me set my students straight because they WERE NOT going to embarrass me!!! Mrs. Miller says "bring him in!!!"...and here comes Rickey!!! & all my students say "SURPRISE!!!" and they are all holding 1 rose.
So already I am super surprised!!! then Rickey comes over to me and gives me 1 rose...i'm just cheesing away!!! So all of a sudden he says how he loves me and how he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me and THEN gets down on one knee...the look in his eyes said that he loves me soooo much...and asks me to be his wife!!! I say "YES!!" and give him the biggest hug ever!!!
So all of my students give me their rose and a hug then say "Congrats Ms. H." I felt sooo special!!! I couldn't breathe!!!
Rickey is in the front of the room with plastic champagne glasses and sparkling cider and preparing for a toast. I was soooo happy!!! I couldn't stay still and I had the biggest smile on my face!!!
He says his toast, everyone was happy...my principal, assistant principal, and mentor were crying...and that's my proposal.
check out www.mywedding.com/chineyeandrickey to see the actual pictures from my proposal
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