Engagement bliss!

I thought I could resurrect the blog for some….. WEDDING PLANNING!! That’s right, I’m engaged!

Kyle and I started dating 5 months ago. It’s been absolutely awesome to see how God brought us together. These past months have been pretty nuts for me and Kyle has constantly encouraged me and supported me! I graduated from college (with Kyle and his parents attending my graduation!), a friend of mine passed away and Kyle was there for me in such a huge way, I started a new job that involves supervising 5 interns and Kyle has been a great resource for me with all of his management experience, I found myself getting very overwhelmed between working full-time and trying to continue with several side-projects and Kyle encouraged me (in such a positive, not pushy way) to evaluate my time/priorities and understand that it’s OK to say no…. I hope that I’ve been able to be a help and a blessing to him the way he has been to me!

So, how did Kyle propose? Here’s the story!

Kyle took 2 of my girlfriends and I out to Fort Wayne to have a belated birthday celebration for my friend Toni. We didn’t get back to Warsaw until really late, and I was exhausted! After we dropped them both off I was being horrible and whiny saying how tired I was and that I just wanted to go home, and I got annoyed when he didn’t make the turn onto Kings Highway and instead drove into the Village. When he parked by the lake and I said once again that I just wanted to go home he said he just needed 10 minutes! Then he said he wanted me to read the e-mail he had written my parents and he handed me an 8-page printout. I knew that he had begun corresponding with my parents 2 weeks ago, but he had downplayed it and I thought they had only emailed back and forth a few times and were just beginning to get to know each other. Well, the email he handed me, which was the first email he had ever sent them, was asking for their blessing to ask for my hand in marriage! So, I read it, was so touched and honored, but still didn’t know that he was asking me, after all, I never guessed that my parents would have given their blessing already! So I said, “It might take them awhile to say yes!” and he said, “Well, they already did say yes, so I would like to know if you would take my hand in marriage?” and I said, “YES!” Then he gave me the ring, which is so pretty and exactly what I wanted! Then I quizzed him for a few minutes because I didn’t believe my parents has said yes, so he showed me the email on his phone where they had J Right after getting their permission he had ordered the ring, and he had just picked it up that night, and was going to ask me Saturday evening, but was worried that with his family knowing and several of his condo neighbors knowing that someone would let the cat out of the bag.

That was it, sweet and quiet and perfect!

Here’s a few pictures of the ring, and then it’s time for me to sign off for the night.