The whole day was a surprise in itself. Tim picked me up at around 9 am on July 22, my birthday. The first thing we did was have breakfast at Frank's in Burbank which is where he gave me my birthday present. It was a year's membership to the L.A Zoo in both of our names (Awww!) I loved it and now we go to the zoo all the time. After we left the zoo at around 12, we headed towards Santa Barbara (which I didn't know at the time). We finally arrived at the Santa Barbara Inn at exactly 3:00 pm. It was so beautiful and peaceful (at night we could even hear the seals calling out). Tim had made dinner reservations for 7:00 pm. He took me to the same restaurant we had previously been to when looking at places to get married, the Beachside Restaurant on Goleta Beach. After dinner he suggested we take a walk on the beach. I was terribly cold so he gave me his jacket. We headed towards the bench we had sat on last time we went there :) While we were sitting down looking onto the ocean he asked me to get up so he could give me a hug. As we stood hugging I could feel him shiver, his heart was pounding rapidly and he had his hands tucked into his pockets; I was worried he was cold. Finally he hugged me again and started to say the sweetest things in my ear but I wasn't too shocked because he is always sweet. Once he started to get into detail about how much he loves me and how wonderful he thinks I am, I thought to myself, "Oh my god is this what I think it is!?" My mind just went blank and all I could see was him pulling something out of his pocket as he got on his knee. That is when he said the only words I remember, "You complete me, will you marry me?" I had the biggest smile on my face I've probably ever had and then, of course, I said "Yes!" So we hugged and kissed and I stared at the ring and we were happy! Yay! When we got back to the hotel he ordered champagne and we got a free congratulations dessert which I loved! It was the best birthday and day of my entire life. Well at least until our wedding day...