Our Engagement Story :)

Talk about being slack the past few months! Shortly afte rmy last blog, was Christmas Eve/Christmas, .. you know "THE CHRISTMAS SEASON!"... I never would have imagined for Christmas getting the second greatest gift of all ( the first being Christ :)).. and that gift was the man I plan to spend the rest of my life with ( Lord willing ) :).  I never would have thought in a million years that after dating over the course of 10 years that it would come down to my family ( aunt, uncle, cousins) to invite their Youth pastor over to our family function! Neither one of us saw it coming, which was how I alwasy heard it was suppose to be :).  People woudl always tell me, when you're seeking Christ with all of your heart and the last thing you're thinking about is finding Mr. Right or for guy's sake's, Ms. Right, it will happen. . Jeremy and I both still laugh at how God orchestrated it all :).   To keep this blog from being three months too long, I will just cut right down to the chase .... The engagement story :)....

April 8th marked our three month anniversary. Jeremy and I both knew VERY EARLY on that we were going to get married. Neither of us knew what people meant when they'd reply, " When you know, you know", but now we do. :) He's the most amazing man of God! He loves me so much and that just makes me love him even more!



We had decided a week or so ago that the weekend of April 8-9, we would have a surprise filled weekend for one another; I would surprise him Friday and he would surprise me Saturday with various things to do.
Friday night was my night to surprise him with our date night so I first took him to the airport in Charlotte overlooking the airplanes as they took off and landed... we ate dinner (picnic) on a blanket :) Afterwards, we went to a place in Huntersville, where you can paint your own pottery. We both had a lot of fun. I made him a tumbler cup for him to drink out of decorated in his favorite verses Psalm 119: 9-12 and he made us a "change bowl" for our new house when we marry to put our change, keys and cellphones in.
Saturday night, he took me on a surprise night out.. we first went to Outback Steakhouse, then for dessert had "Fresh Berry Frozen Yogurt.( this by the way, I later found out was a "stall" due to inclement weather). After we ate our yogurt, he had me blindfold myself to our next destination... I didn't have a clue where he was taking me. When we arrived, I thought he had me out in the woods somewhere.. when I took the blindfold off, he had taken me to his bestfriend's grandparent's lake house (no one was there) with a blanket covering the swing, candles lit everywhere lining the walkway and picnic table where I then found a bottle of sparkling grapejuice :), our favorite candies ( hershey's chocolate and sour patch kids), red roses/rose petals and an additional dozen roses in my favorite color, yellow with orange tips, BEAUTIFUL.. we sat on the swing and read our book we've been reading (100 questions to ask before you say "I Do")- we went through the remaining questions, ... and he then asked me to read the last two pages (there was only one page to my surprise), the "last page" was the back part of the book and on the inside read, " Question 101: Will you marry me?" He got down on one knee with the ring box opened, I said yes without thinking, since I already read it.. lol.. his reply was, " I haven't asked you yet!", I then said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead, hahah" He then said, " I can't live my life without you, will you marry me?" He had tears of joy in his eyes, ... precious.. :) He slipped the ring on my finger after I told him, YES!! ( for the second time) and we hugged telling each other we loved one another... it was really romantic :)

The End :)

 We haven't set a date yet, .. but planning for a fall wedding ( this year).