Katie and Brian

Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 9:38 AM

On February 18, 2008, Brian came to Katie's second grade class to read a book, Bear's New Friend, to her students. Before reading he told her students that he had a couple of surprises for them. He gave them the first one, M&M’s, before reading. The second one, he explained, was one Ms. Spychalski didn't even know about.

After reading the book Brian began his proposal in front of Katie's class. He began telling her students that he has heard so much about each of them so he thought they should learn some more about him. Then Brian began sharing some of his favorite things in life; dogs, Carl's Ice Cream, The White Sox, Moonstruck Chocolate, looking at the stars, and going on vacation with Katie. He had a picture to go along with each little story that he passed around to the students (who were giggling like crazy).

Halfway through, one of Katie's students said, "He's going to mar..." and then covered his mouth. Katie thought about this for a second and decided Brian was being a huge nerd like he usually is and it was not going to happen right then.

Then Brian had Katie join him in the front and asked the kids what each of these things had in common...and being the 7-year-olds that they are, it took them a few minutes to excitedly figure it out: Brian and Katie were together in all of them. Brian took out his last picture, of their first date, and explained that since all of his favorite things in life included Ms. Spychalski that it only made sense that she was his favorite thing of all.

The next thing Katie knew, Brian was down on his knee asking her to marry him. All the students jumped up and were screaming. One leaned over Katie's shoulder and yelled, "HE WENT TO JARED!!!" An extremely shocked Katie jumped on Brian (while he was still partway down on his knee) and said yes!