It's Official!!!

So it's been a wild weekend-- I know that there is no excuse for it taking so long for me to finally post this-- other than I've been on cloud 9. . . trying to soak this all in!

Friday night, Fuzz had asked me out on a date. . .

He took me to Texas Roadhouse-- one of our favorite restaurants, that we hadn't been to together yet since I'd moved to Texas. We had an awesome dinner, and then left and headed to the mall. . .

We went ring shopping for a while. . . and had found some beautiful rings. . . really beautiful. . . but neither of us were totally feelin' it with any of them.

After that he took me to play with puppies at the mall-- and they were so cute! (We went back again yesterday-- because puppies are just so much fun-- even more so when you just get to play with them and not clean up after them!)

Next, we went and played miniature golf together at a place close by where I live- Fuzz put's Tiger to shame-- he's so awesome at golf! And even cooler than that-- he's so patient with me because I am clueless when it comes to golf-- regardless, we had a blast!

After that, we came back to my place for a second, and went on a walk around my neighborhood. It was so dark it made me nervous-- I would never have been on streets that dark, that quiet, that late, in New York-- but here with Fuzz, I totally felt fine. We walked for a while and then finally found this lit grassy hill where we could just sit and talk. But Fuzz wasn't saying anything. I was pretty sure he was going to ask me, but he even made me check his pockets before we left to make sure that he wasn't. ;( I was still nervous though. So nervous that my tummy was all tied up in knots. And he still wasn't talking. Finally, I said-- "Hey, ya wanna tell me a story?" He liked that idea ;) . . . he started to tell me this story about Morgan, this kid-- that really liked this girl named Channing . . . he went on to essentially tell our entire 4 1/2 year dating adventure in 3rd person. . . for about 30 to 45 min. This was a good, long story. . . and I was starting to wonder if he was just trying to get my hopes up trying to be funny. . . and then he got to the end of the story, where he began speaking first person. . . said lots of cute things. . . got down on one knee as he pulled his dog tag chain out from around his neck. . . and there, dangling on the bottom of it. . . was the most beautiful ring!

He asked me. . . and the second he did. . . all of those knots went away and I felt a flood of excitement, rush right through me. It felt so good and so right for me to say "YES!" and then I started bawling, a happy cry though ;) he gave me a piggy-back ride back to my place- and that was it;) Best date of my life!

So now I'M ENGAGED!!! I still get so excited saying that! Fuzz and I were asked to speak on Sunday with our buddy Webb, and we were so excited to hear bishop announce our engagement at the pulpit. We couldn't stop smiling. . . we still can't! We had kind of an engagement party dinner with some of his buddies after church-- we made a big home cooked meal with yummy dessert-- which was a fun treat for all of us. We've been crazily wedding planning and just enjoying being ENGAGED! I still get excited when I look down and catch that sparkle out of the corner of my eye. . . not just because that sparkle is coming from a ring-- that's gorgeous-- but so much more, because it signifies that I'm getting married to the neatest guy in the whole world-- I can't believe I'm so lucky!
Wow-- I guess this is the one kind of blog post that I'm allowed to get a little giddishly carried away on. We've set the date of June 19th, 2010. Hope to see you all there!