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Isabelle Richmond wasn't expecting to be proposed to. That's why she was so surprised when Jacob got down on one knee. "What are you doing, Jacob?" the shocked woman asked.

"I'm proposing, Belle. Marry me, please," Jacob replied. He didn't want to go for a traditional proposal. That was boring and cliché.

Isabelle was struggling not cry. She really hadn't been expecting a proposal this early. "Okay," she agreed happily.

Jacob smiled and slipped the engagement ring on her finger. "I love you, Isabelle Richmond."

The crying Isabelle struggled to get the words out. It was hard to talk when you were trying not to cry. "I love you too, Johnston Jacob Green III."

Jacob and Isabelle quickly bolted to their bedroom. They had been in the middle of dinner when Jacob had decided to just propose right there and then. The original plan was to wait until after dinner.

Their lives were about to get better.

The next day, Isabelle and Jacob happily began to announce the news of their engagements. Both were excited about the fact that they were going to get married.

"I'm happy for you," Darcy Hawkins told them. She had been visiting with Jake and Heather when Isabelle had bolted through the door to tell the two.

"Thanks," Isabelle replied. She really liked Darcy. Darcy was really nice to her and Jacob.

"I'm so glad you're going to be my daughter-in-law," Jake said to Isabelle. Isabelle was the perfect person for Jacob.

"I love that you're going to be my stepdaughter-in-law," Heather informed Isabelle. She got up from her chair and hugged each one for a few minutes.

"I don't want a big wedding," Isabelle explained. She loved Rowan and David's plan to elope, but Isabelle was pretty sure that her parents would be angry if she eloped too.

"I think it's a big wedding with just your family members," Jacob pointed out. He had a feeling that all of Isabelle's sisters would end up being bridesmaids. Maybe his sisters would too. Wow, they both had big families.

"You're right about that," Isabelle conceded. She really couldn't have a small wedding. Jacob would probably want a short engagement.

"When do you think we should have the wedding?" Jacob questioned. He didn't want to be in engagement limbo.

"It's too early to be thinking about this," Heather told them. They had just gotten engaged the night before.

"When should we start planning?" Jacob asked. He didn't know how to plan a wedding. Besides being a guy, he had been young when his father had married Heather and his mother had married Donovan.

Isabelle shrugged. "We could go talk to my mom. I know she'll be excited. Let's go!" She had been a little bit enthusiastic since getting engaged, and everyone saw the change in her.

"Let's go," Jacob agreed. He shot Darcy, Jake, and Heather a desperate look, but they just laughed. Jacob followed his new fiancé (How cool was it to say that?) out the door.

They arrived at Stanley and Mimi's farm only a little while later. Isabelle was just bursting to announce the news. "I'm engaged!" she cried to her parents.

Mimi squealed. "This is the best news since Ally was born!" she cried excitedly. A lot of good things had been occurring for the Richmonds lately.

"I'm going to be Mrs. Isabelle Richmond-Green! Or Mrs. Isabelle Green! I don't know yet!" Isabelle cried. She began jumping up and down. Jacob shot a panicked look towards Stanley, but Stanley was busy trying to hug his daughter.

"You need to treat her the right way," Stanley warned Jacob. He had known Jacob all of his life, but he still needed to say it. Stanley had also forgotten to say that to David, so he had to make up for it somehow.

"I will," Jacob promised. He would spend the rest of his life making Isabelle happy. Jacob just loved her so much. He always had.

"We need to go see your mom and Donovan now," Isabelle reminded her fiancée. That was so fun to say. She couldn't wait to call Jacob her husband.

"We should get going," Jacob told his future in-laws. This time, Isabelle followed him out the door. The only bad things about having parents that weren't together was that you had to tell so many people about important events in life.

"Bye," Isabelle called to her parents as she bolted out the door. She beat Jacob to the car, however. Isabelle had run because she was so excited.

They got to Emily and Donovan's house about ten minutes later. "I figured you would say yes," a happy Emily said to Isabelle when she and Jacob walked through the door.

"How could I not say no? Jacob and I have been together for a long time," Isabelle explained to her future mother-in-law.

"How many stops have you made today?" Donovan asked his stepson and Isabelle. He knew that they probably had to tell a lot of people, especially since there were so many Richmonds.

"Two already," Jacob replied. He didn't know how many more stops they would have to do today. They had a lot of friends. And siblings, too. Between Jacob's seven half-siblings and Isabelle's nine sisters, that was a lot of people to cover.

"I do not envy telling your siblings," Donovan commented. There would be a whole lot of screaming going on with that. Except for Dylan. Dylan still did boy stuff, despite being surrounded by women.

"This is going to take forever," Jacob whined. The Richmond girls were spread out today, considering it was the weekend, and his siblings were at their friends' house or in town.

"Deal with it," Isabelle told him. She couldn't wait to tell her sisters. Telling Jacob's siblings would be fun too.

The two headed for Gracie's Market a few minutes later. They knew that Rhiannon would be there since she worked part-time as a cashier.

Today was going to be a long day.

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Three weeks later, Isabelle and Jacob were knee deep in wedding plans. They had decided to go for a short engagement, planning for the wedding to occur in a few months.

"I can't believe my son's this close to get married," Jake mused to his wife. He was getting old. How had time passed so quickly?

"He's growing up," Heather replied. She still remembered the day that Jake and Emily had brought the little boy home from the hospital. Jacob had been so tiny then. Why was she getting so nostalgic? The wedding hadn't happened yet.

"I still remember those sleepless nights right after he was born." Jake remembered bringing Jacob home clearly. He had stayed with Emily for a few days just to get used to his son. Heather had been living in her apartment at that time.

"He cried a lot," Heather answered. In the first few months of Jacob's life, he had suffered from colic. Afterwards, he had been a fussy baby. After he hit eleven months, his attitude had suddenly changed.

"I think I remember Emily distinctly handing the baby over to you and taking a ten hour nap." That had been the first day that Heather had been alone with the baby. Jake had to work that day, and couldn't take off. He had asked Heather to help with the baby. Gail had been sick with the flu, and had been unable to care for Jacob. That had been a crash course in parenting for Heather, who had been pregnant with Abigail at the time. She hadn't known at that point about her pregnancy yet.

"You took good care of him then," Jake told her. He remembered coming home to find Heather and Jacob napping together. He had taken a picture.

"It was good practice," Heather agreed. She hadn't been freaked out about taking care of Abigail because of helping out with Jacob.

"Time has passed so fast." Jake couldn't believe that his baby boy was growing up. He missed his son being so young. It had been so much fun to take care of babies and little kids.

Jake and Heather decided to dive into their home movies again, to remember the good times. They loved taking out the home movies. It was fun to see what they had been like back then.

The Greens and Richmonds were about to be connected for good in a few months.

TBC