A diamond in the dirt

So...guess what was found the other day? 

Let me explain.

 About two years ago I lost my wedding ring. (yep, I'm awesome like that, and should win a "wife of the year award. Thanks)  Kyle says it has been even longer than that and I argue that "his time frame" is just to exaggerate the story.  Nonetheless, I misplaced it and I say "misplaced" because I was 99% sure I did not take it off outside of our house. I knew that it was in a funny/weird place and convinced that I would find it one day.  

Well months and months went by with no wedding ring found and we both just succumbed to the fact that it was gone forever and someday in the future we would get a new one. I got so use to not wearing a wedding ring but still looked in weird places as I was cleaning or organizing in hopes of finding it. Nothing. 

Then a couple Saturdays ago, the day before mother's day, Kyle was working in our backyard with this beautiful dirt hill in our yard. Isn't it lovely? 

We have been renovating our house and backyard ever since we moved in four years ago. This hill was covered in grass, but after putting in a sprinkler system and cement curb around our yard, and tearing other things apart, we decided to remove the grass and make this a lovely planting area with bushes and flowers etc... So now we've finally got around to the lovely dirt hill project. 

Kyle was getting the soil ready and sifting out all of the rocks because we have a million rocks in our backyard and soil. (If anyone wants an enormous pile of rocks for anything they are free for whoever comes and gets them. Put it on KSL....just thought I'd throw that in there) As he was sifting he heard a quiet "ding" and looked down and was shocked to see my ring. He said he was so ridiculously giddy about his find and I don't blame him for not wanting to spend a ton of money on another ring.  I was helping at a ward fundraiser so I wasn't around. He didn't tell me until the following day (Mother's day) and gave it to me with a mother's day gift, a spa certificate. 

Best. Mother's Day. Surprise. Ever!!!

Amazingly there were only a few fixable scratches on the band but the diamond was still in perfect shape. 

The fact that Kyle is 70% deaf in one ear, it is amazing that he heard that little "ding" and looked down in time to see the ring. What are the chances? I guess this marriage is meant to be and Kyle is a keeper, what can I say. He told me the next gift he gives me will be some sort of string that attaches to my ring and then to my body and or wrist. You know, kind of like those binkie holders for babies. Ha ha, very funny. I'm pretty sure I won't be posting another lost and found story like this again. Let's hope not anyway:)