The Engagement

As all of my friends and family know, I am engaged! I couldn't be happier either! I told a little about the engagement, but here are all of the details.
For our 2 year anniversary Daniel and I decided to save money by making each other coupon books. In the coupon book I made for him there was a coupon for a picnic. About a week ago he asked if he could use that coupon. I said sure and thought nothing of it. He had originally wanted to have the picnic on Saturday, but our Saturday was quickly filled with other events so we decided Friday would be better.
Friday morning I got to Daniel’s and did some hard core cleaning. I wasn’t really feeling like cooking anything so we decided we would just get some food from Wal-Mart before we went on our picnic. So I knew I didn’t have to plan any fancy meal, but I tried to be romantic and attempted to make chocolate covered strawberries. Well I burnt all but a little of the chocolate so we used what chocolate we had and made a few chocolate strawberries. They were really good so we ate them before we ever made it to the picnic.
Once we got the food from Wal-Mart (classy, right?! Well, one thing we like to do as a couple is to save money) we headed to the park. The park we had our picnic at is the place where we first met back in 2006. Daniel and I played, and still play, on a co-ed volleyball team there. So the place is very significant to our relationship. However, we go there all the time and its right by his house so I still wasn’t picking up on what was happening.
We got to the open field area and began eating our meal. We got to watch a few guys attempt to play basketball and another group playing soccer. It was really relaxing just sitting there and enjoying the day. After sitting there for awhile, Daniel told me he had a gift for me. He pulled out a binder that said “Happy 25 Month Anniversary”. Inside the binder he listed 25 reasons why he loves me. On the next to last page he mentioned how I liked to keep things significant to me and how he hoped I would keep this binder forever to remember how much he loves me and… (I turned to the next page which said, “as a reminder of the night I asked you to marry me!”. I was shocked. Daniel then got on one knee and pulled out a box. I couldn’t believe it and actually hid my face! I didn’t know what to do! He then asked me to marry him as he held open the box with a beautiful ring inside it. My response to his question was, “Can I have that?!” And he laughed and said “You have to say ‘yes’ first!”. I said YES! It was the sweetest thing and so original! I looked at the ring for awhile and Daniel got up and asked a stranger to take our picture. We took several more pictures after that. It was so surreal.
When I got settled down as much as I could he asked if I was going to call everyone. I had told him I wanted to call my closest family and friends before we posted on Facebook. So I called my sister. No Answer. I called my mom’s house. My Pa picked up and I told him, but my mom wasn’t there. I called Ronnie and Kelly and they picked up! Hooray! Someone answered! After I talked to them I tried calling several more people. It was actually really frustrating because only my brother had answered. I wanted to tell the world and no one would answer. I guess that’s what happens on a Friday night. By the end of the night I had talked to almost everyone that I wanted to personally call. That night we posted it one Facebook, which made it officially official lol.
With all the excitement and shock I don’t think it really hit me until Sunday morning. We were at his parents house that morning and I was in my room. He came in there to talk to me before we started getting ready to leave. We were talking about telling people and everything. We sat there for a few minutes in silence just thinking about things. Then he said he had to get up because he needed to go pray. That’s the man I get to spend my life with! He is truly great and I am so fortunate to have a man in my life like that. After he left a song came to my mind and I thought of him and how blessed I was. I started weeping, but they were tears of complete joy. It’s funny you go through life searching for that one person you want to spend your life with, and out of nowhere God puts that person in your life. It is truly amazing, and at that point it hit me and I cried like a little baby.
Since Friday night I haven’t slept much thinking about things and taking it all in. It’s all very exciting! We’ve got SO much to plan, but I’m looking forward to it! I’ll keep you all up to date on plans as we make them!
Also, I want to say thank you to all the friends and family who have offered sweet words of congratulations to Daniel and I. We are very thankful for all of you all!