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My now husband use to live down stairs, and me and my family lived upstairs, I was 13 at the time and he was 16, there was no school that day, and I was bored. I sat by the window and was picking at paint chips around the window, and just dropping them below. I heard a voice ask me "Are you having fun?" He stepped outside and told me "You’re dropping paint chips on my window!!" I started to laugh, and as I sat outside my window, we talked for hours and got to know each other. We married years later and on our 10th wedding anniversary, we went out to dinner, as we sat by a candle light dinner, he takes out a box and being a woman thought Whoo whoo! Jewelry!\
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He held the little box and carefully opened it, and in the box were paint chips, I looked at him and smiled and said “You remember,” he said. "These paint chips brought us together 15 years ago, and with these paint chips I promise you another 15 years." Of course I cried, and thought how lucky I am to have someone who remembered something so simple and yet knew that it meant so much to me, is there anything more romantic then that?\
\ My husband has done a few romantic things in our 19 years of marriage. The most romantic thing that has done happened when our oldest child was about 4 months old. We were living in the San Francisco Bay area at the time, and I and the baby had just come back from visiting my family and my in-laws, who live in southern California. We had been gone two weeks, and I really missed my husband. When we got back I found out how much he missed me. I had been home about an hour and had put the baby down for a nap. My husband called me into the living room saying he had something to show me. I sat down on a chair and he picked up his guitar and proceeded to play and sing, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." He had been practicing the song, the whole two weeks that I was gone. I hadn\'t been feeling very attractive for quite a while, but him singing those words made me feel beautiful and very much loved.\
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Jane and I knew each other in high school but never dated. We would see each other every day at school, talk, hang out and share a class or two together. I had a crush on her which never materialized and she would later say never knew about. Our last involvement would have been June of 1971. \
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Fast forward 37 years, June 2008. After many years had separated us, and both divorced, we turned to classmates.com to find out what happened to the old class of 1971 at Bountiful High School. Initially, I\'m sure, it was a thought in both our minds to just reconnect and see how others our age had weathered the storm of life. I ran across Jane as a new member and was immediately hit with a flood of "blast from the past" memories. I sent her a quick note and later followed with an e-mail. I didn\'t hear from her for about 2 months and thought she had either forgotten me or wasn\'t interested in reconnecting. That soon changed. Once she responded back we started an amazing flood of e-mail, text and phone conversations. Jane was living in Boise, Idaho and I was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We were both in relationships (after our respective divorces) but still communicated as friends just catching up after many years apart.\
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During our catching up we found ourselves single again and we found ourselves looking at each other differently. Each e-mail, phone call or text would shed a little light on who we were, what we wanted, what we had been through and what we each wanted our future to look like. We had begun to fall in love with each other although neither of us spoke the words. We talked about everything and nothing, never at a loss for words. We found out that we were each others right and left hands, we finished each others sentences and strangely felt as though we had never been apart.\
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Jane decided to transfer with her company and move to Albuquerque so we could be closer and get to know each other better. Jane\'s family still lived in the same town we went to school in so it was decided she would leave Boise and visit her family before she came to Albuquerque. I flew up to Salt Lake City to pick her up and she met me at the airport. What a rush! My heart was racing as I walked up to her. I gave her the biggest hug I have ever given anybody. We stood there in "hug" mode for a long time. When I looked her in the eyes and took her hand, I said "I\'m not ever letting go of you". I knew in my heart we were going to be together forever. We have since spent our time finding out just how compatible we are, sharing stories of our lives during our 37 years apart, having "remember when" conversations, but mostly, falling in love with each other.\
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I have asked Jane to marry me and we are now planning that wonderful day. We are even considering moving it up to Valentines Day.\
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Thank-you Classmates for providing such a wonderful way for us all to reconnect and giving some of us the gift of a lifetime.\
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We had planned a trip to go camping in Yosemite in June (2006). I kept telling him not to forget his telescope, and he assured me he wouldn\'t. At the last minute, I decided that a bottle of champagne would be nice to share under the stars. We get to the park at 9 am, and set up camp. During the day we walked around and took in the sights. That night we were going to stargaze, but after dinner I was really tired and having just done the dishes and it being dark, I thought bed sounded really good. \
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The next day we went hiking all over the sycamore grove. It took longer than we had thought, and it tuckered us out that night. As I was mentioning going to bed, he said we were going to stargaze -- no matter what, apparently. So we found a secluded yet open vista and set everything up. We had the Yosemite Valley at our feet, Half Dome in front of us, a sky littered with stars, and a full moon which went down quickly. I got to see things I had never seen before. When I asked if there was anything else he wanted me to see, he said there was one more thing. I had my back turned to him as I was looking up into the sky. He said he was ready and let me look into the scope. I noticed right away a bright red light coming from the eye piece, and when I looked in, I saw a heart made of tiny red stars. I thought how wonderful of him to rearrange the stars for me (he remembered my favorite Futurama episode where Fry rearranged the stars for Leela to make her fall in love with him)!\
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Then I noticed some blue circling the heart. I had to focus my eyes to read what it said. "WILL YOU MARRY ME" I had to read it twice to make sure of what I was seeing. I turned around to ask him "What?!" and there he was, down on one knee with a ring in a box in one hand and a light shining on it with the other. He proceeded to tell me how much he loved me and wanted to be with me forever. I held his face in my hands and kissed him, then said "In case you\'re wondering, this means yes." He jumped up and hugged me and swung me around. There was a deer nearby and he yelled at the deer that we were getting married!\
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It turns out he had planned this for weeks even before we decided to go camping. There was no way he was going to forget the telescope, and it was perfect that I had wanted champagne on the trip. He had been wondering how he could distract me while he slipped the special eye piece in, when he noticed my back was turned and I was looking up into the sky. The next morning we went to the store in the village and bought champagne glasses that said Yosemite on them. We not only used those glasses to celebrate our new engagement, but we used them as toasting glasses at our wedding. My husband is in the Navy, and we had put off talking about what will happen when he transfers the following spring. The engagement took care of that. He told me he wanted me to come with him, but not without a commitment (he didn\'t want to do that to me). We have been married now for a year and a half, and are expecting our first baby. We are very happy, and I cannot imagine my life without him. When I tell people that story, all the girls sigh and envy the perfect scenario to a perfect engagement. There was no need for him to show up in my life with a white horse, just a telescope.\
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Chance encounter and a little courage can be 20 years in the making.\
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It didn\'t seem like I had been out of high school 20 years but it was coming up very fast; June 2008. I searched Classmates.com for the first time March 2008 and wanted to scan the website to see if anyone had announced our Talawanda High School 20 year reunion. To my disappointment, there was nothing planned. However, it gave me a chance to glance through all of my classmates which brought back great memories.\
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Boy, it certainly didn\'t seem like it had been 20 years. There was one name that stuck out to me, as I had a crush on him when I was a sophomore but I never told him. I was too afraid of rejection. I didn\'t have the courage to tell him back then. Only my best friend knew I liked him.\
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Do I take a chance and sign his guest book now? What could it hurt? I had been divorced for 2 years and thought he too was no longer married. I immediately had this burst of courage to see if he was out there and wondered if he would be looking at Classmates too. So I did it. I signed his guest book and then waited. Within a day I had received an email from him asking how I was doing and commenting how great the kids and I looked, as he had been looking over photos I had posted.\
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I couldn\'t believe it. This guy I was too nervous to talk to in high school was emailing me and asking me how I was doing. We had so much in common. We both had a daughter and a son, each in the same grade. Our kids were participating in almost the same sports and going through the same teen challenges. What was even more shocking was that he was moving from Harrison, Ohio back to our hometown, Oxford, Ohio, that next weekend. So we went back and forth with a few more emails updating each other on what we had been up to and learned we were both divorced and single. I took a chance and asked him if he would want to go see a movie with me sometime. He agreed and we went out on 4/4/08 and from that moment on, we have been inseparable. Within the first few months of dating we decided to plan an informal 20 year class reunion and posted a message on Classmates. Our reunion was scheduled July 26, 2008 and we had a very nice turnout.\
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So here we are approaching the one year anniversary of our first date and we are closer than ever and reminiscing a lot about how we first met. Who would have known? Fate played a role by bringing us and our families together 20 years later to make it complete.\
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Check out videos of proposals on Live! Congratulations to all the happy couples!
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