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Teresa Moosman and Patrick Jackson

(From the grooms' perspective)

It was March 29, 2005. The weather was beautiful, and the snow was starting to melt. I know that today was the day I had to propose. So I went out to her parent's place in Century Estates, where they were building their house. I told them I'd be working in the field behind their place, digging into the snow in huge 20-feet letters in the snow. The message read, "Teresa, will you marry me?"

This took close to two hours of sweet, hard, backbreaking work to put into the snow, but I knew she was worth it. When I had finished it, I went back to her parent's place to grab some lunch and change my clothes. Then, at 4 pm I went to where Teresa was working and picked her up. She asked, "where are we going?" and I said "a date, a real one." So form Stony Plain we went to the City Center Airport, where I rented a plane (I'm a commercial pilot) from the Edmonton Flying Club.

I checked the plane over, and then when I was ready, I brought her out to the plane with her camera. We took off from the City Center Airport at about 5:50 pm and flew towards Stony Plain. We found her sister's place and then took some pictures of her house, and then we flew towards where her parent's old farm used to be (north of Stony Plain). Then we gave up looking for it. At this point I said, "let's fly over your parent's new house." She said sure, and I got the plane to enter a descent and flew east towards Century Estates.

I then looked for the field with the important message in it; I spotted it and banked the plane to the right so that she could see it. There it read, "Teresa, will you marry me?" in the snow. However, under the word "marry" was her family in the snow, which drew a heart in the snow as well. She gasped, then I reaching into my pocket and pulled out the ring. I put it on here finger and of course, she said "YES!" While I was getting out the ring, I was flying the plane with my knees and making adjustments so that we could turn the plane around. We went back for a second pass so she could read it again and of course, take a picture of it. This time I flew lower and way faster. As I passed the second time, we flew by her family in the snow and did a steep, climbing turn to the right to indicate that she had said yes. We then flew back to City Center Airport and landed, then headed back and had a party with her family. We indulged in lots of wine and bubbly, and shared stories about the day!

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