It actually happened and is actually happening! We're engaged and we're gonna get married! I'm so happy, excited, and lucky!!!
It was probably the cutest possible proposal for us that he could've thought of. To make a long story short (and trust me, I want to retell the whole thing moment-by-moment a hundred times and am excited to do so!), he took me to a spot in the country outside of Peoria that we had randomly visited when we first started dating eight years ago. It's an old quarry and has a big cliff with a lake down below and is just really pretty countryside. We climbed up the hill, he said some very sweet things to me, offered me marriage and this gorgeous ring and I, of course, said yes. It was so surreal and special! We probably could've hugged all night up there, but we had a reservation at 309 in Peoria and so we had to go. We were also trespassing, so we didn't want to get caught! :P
All night at dinner we just kept laughing and smiling and saying how we couldn't believe it was real. For a couple of hours we were the only ones who knew, but he had arranged for his sister and grandma to be at his parents' house when we got back and so his entire family was there (and not really understanding what was going on!) when we came in and told them! It was so cute and fun! We had a little bonfire on Friday night with everyone; Philip had even gotten a bottle of champagne! Then yesterday we told my dad, brother, aunt and uncle, and closest friends, and then we made it facebook official.
His mom took a few pictures on Friday night, so I just need to get those from her so that I can post them on here and facebook. We've been asked a lot already about when we're going to have a wedding, so we're doing the first discussions of when and where we want to do it.
So fun and exciting! More blog updates to come, of course!
It was probably the cutest possible proposal for us that he could've thought of. To make a long story short (and trust me, I want to retell the whole thing moment-by-moment a hundred times and am excited to do so!), he took me to a spot in the country outside of Peoria that we had randomly visited when we first started dating eight years ago. It's an old quarry and has a big cliff with a lake down below and is just really pretty countryside. We climbed up the hill, he said some very sweet things to me, offered me marriage and this gorgeous ring and I, of course, said yes. It was so surreal and special! We probably could've hugged all night up there, but we had a reservation at 309 in Peoria and so we had to go. We were also trespassing, so we didn't want to get caught! :P
All night at dinner we just kept laughing and smiling and saying how we couldn't believe it was real. For a couple of hours we were the only ones who knew, but he had arranged for his sister and grandma to be at his parents' house when we got back and so his entire family was there (and not really understanding what was going on!) when we came in and told them! It was so cute and fun! We had a little bonfire on Friday night with everyone; Philip had even gotten a bottle of champagne! Then yesterday we told my dad, brother, aunt and uncle, and closest friends, and then we made it facebook official.
His mom took a few pictures on Friday night, so I just need to get those from her so that I can post them on here and facebook. We've been asked a lot already about when we're going to have a wedding, so we're doing the first discussions of when and where we want to do it.
So fun and exciting! More blog updates to come, of course!
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