May 14th was Cody's Air Force commissioning ceremony. I saw him that morning and he was kinda quiet but I didn't think anything of it. I didn't see him again until his parents, brother and I got to the ceremony. At some point during the ceremony I noticed that Cody was sitting out of alphabetical order and would be last to go on stage. I thought he was probably helping with the technical aspects of the power point. After he took his oath and signed his orders his parents and I were to pin on his rank. As we went on stage the announcer said "and now Cody's parents and fiance will pin him on." umm ok, really? He can't go around calling me that when I'm not, we are going to have to chat about that after this is over. Since we were on stage though I just didn't think about it and focused on pinning his rank bar on his hat. He then pinned parent pins on his parents, and then turned to me and said "I have something for you too" bent down on one knee and asked me to marry him...although I don't actually remember him saying that, I think the ring distracted me! I know I said yes, and his mom told me I said it really quickly! Cody later told me he didn't plan much after that and ended up just sort of trying to hand me the box until I said "um no you actually have to put that on!" I think the audience clapped, and we went back to our seats and finished the ceremony.
Afterward we had so many people coming up to congratulate us, one lady was even tearing up! So sweet! Apparently the entire Air Force ROTC class and officials were in on the plan and were just as excited as we were. We celebrated by calling as many family as possible on the way to one of our favorite restaurants Favazza's and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard!
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| Cody's brother, Todd, was there to take all of our great photos! |



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