I SAID YES!!!

Where do I even begin?! Adam proposed and I said yes. We're engaged!!!!! I am so very blessed and so very happy. God is so faithful and He has answered my prayers for a husband. Adam is so much more than I ever could have dreamed and I am in awe that God saw it fit to bring us together. :) I think that Adam is so much better at telling our proposal story than I am, so I asked him to write it out. Here is his version of our engagement night!

"About two weeks before we got engaged, Rebecca said something about how one of her friends was getting married in the summer (like we had talked about), and was having problems finding a place because the places they wanted to get married were already reserved. And so we were talking about reserving a place in advance, even though we hadn't gotten engaged yet, and whether or not that would be weird. I told Rebecca I'd ask my mom (which, in my defense, I never had any intention of doing).

Well, this week, on Monday, she texts me and she's like, "Have you talked to your mom yet?" And I say, "no." And that flusters her. Now it seems like I don't care about getting married, or where we get married, or when we get married. And that's funny, because I'm already making preparations to go to Little Rock that afternoon, to pick up this ring.

As I'm driving to Little Rock, calling the jeweler, calling our parents, etc., Rebecca texts me, because she's confused and frustrated and wants to talk about it. This is unlikely, because I'm half way to Little Rock. And so I'm stalling her, not texting her back, because I don't know how to say, "Yeah, I totally wanna meet, but let's not meet for a couple of hours." Finally we decide to meet Tuesday for lunch and talk. Which, for all intents and purposes, is when I wanted to propose.

But then, change of plans. Rebecca texts me again, her friend has given me my much needed Old Testament Theology notes, that I need to study for a quiz I have 8:30 Tuesday morning. And I realize, rightly, that I'm not going to have this conversation with Rebecca Tuesday at lunch, because I need those notes. And this isn't going to be one of those "I came-I got the notes-I left" meetings, because she's frustrated about this thing.

Sho nuff, we end up having the conversation right there. So we walk around the Gosser parking lot (where Rebecca lives) and talk. This was the most fun I've ever had in a conversation. I think irony is hilarious anyway, but this was on a whole different level entirely. The entire dialogue could be summed up in her saying, "I just don't know if we're on the same page," and my saying. "I understand how you could see it that way." Which is funny, because we actually aren't on the same page, but not in the same way she thought we were not.

We get in the car for a couple of reasons: (1) it's warm; (2) it's sort of our private place. I asked her to date me in a car, we had our first kiss in a car, we have our private conversations in the car. So... we get in the car. And after the conversation settles I tell her, "hey... I lied to you this afternoon." And she says, "*huff* ... how?" And I say, "this afternoon I said I was studying... but I was really buying this...""

At this point he asked me to marry him and, through many tears, I said yes! Needless to say, I forgave him for lying to me just this once ;)