We got ENGAGED!

So I have some news to share on blog world...

I know, we are super nerds, and I hope my fiance does not mind that I just posted his face all over my blog... but yes! This lady is engaged!

He proposed Saturday, around 10:30 pm. We were hanging out all day, doing our thing, when we decided to head to my house for the rest of the evening. I got home around 8pm expecting to see him shortly, when he called saying "I need to go buy new wing shield wipers, so I am heading to Meijer. Do you need anything?"

I remember thinking Yeah, your windshield wipers are REAL bad and then realizing I am craving some spin dip...


So I spent the next while with my little sister Christy, portioning out the cat's food into bags (I love my sister, and she is going to school to be a vet tech, but I have never experienced such a mathematically proportioned cat food transition in my life. I even have a calendar taped next to their food dishes, explaining their feeding schedule...)

50 min later, no boyfriend. He says he's still at Meijer.

30 min later (Dani is trying not to be a little irritated by now. I mean, how long does it take to buy wind shield wipers and some spin dip?!), I get a text saying "I got pulled over by a cop"

20 min later another text "My car broke down by the park on the way to your house... please come pick me up"

So by this point I'm thinking "Ok, is he just having the worse night of his life or what?"

I drive to the park, and notice his car is neatly parked in a parking spot. I get this phone call with him saying "I am on the bridge, walk to your right around the pond" In the freezing snowy cold, mind you


As I was walking around the pond, along the path he set up these candle lit bag-lanterns with carved out letters, that said "Will you marry me?"

I managed to run into a tree branch along the way, but I found my boyfriend in the dark, on the bridge (same spot where we decided to officially date each other), freezing his little butt off on bended knee, asking for this crazy chica to be his wife.

I will become a Mrs. Hamlet on July 14, 2012,

 172 short days away.

Now I am just waiting for my ring to get resized, collecting a guest list, trying to figure out how to build your own dance floor (it IS possible!), and setting wedding dress dates (with my whole clan of sisters and friends and mother... it will be crazy), and convinced I do not need a tent for an outdoor wedding in July.

In other words, I am incredibly blessed.