The Engagement...

I thought the best way to share the news with you would be to walk you all through the sweet, creative and thoughtful way Danial proposed to me!


Monday was my birthday and Danial asked me several weeks ago where I wanted to go to dinner. I told him Bahama Breeze! I know I work there, but I never get to enjoy it since I do work there, so I thought it would be nice to spend my birthday at one of my favorite restaurants.

I was told to be ready at 6:00 pm and of course I was cutting it close, like always! Danial calls me around 5 til and tells that there's something at my front door for me! I ran down stairs and found a yellow envelop that said Clue 1 on it!



Here are my envelopes that I found throughout the night!


















The answer to this clue was Starbucks




















The envelope contained typed out instructions along with my first clue to the scavenger hunt that he was going to be sending me on for the night! Keep in mind, at this point I had no idea, i just thought he was being very creative for my birthday b/c the whole time he has told me that he hopes I've never been to where he is taking me for my birthday!!!

I finished fixing my hair and then head out to the first place of the scavenger hunt, Starbucks(where we first sat down and had coffee and got to know each other)!

At Starbucks, I found clue 2 and the clues followed like this......





The answer to this one was Taco mac (where we went to eat after the youth retreat we both worked, which was where everything started between us)























The answer to this one was Shogun (the japanese stk house that we actually went to was in cartersville and the part about 'a good sense of direction' is an inside joke)
























The answer to this one was my house















Once I got to my house Danial was standing there waiting on me and like any girl, my first thought was, "where's my gift?" hahahaha... He told me that he had another clue in his car and so when he opened the door for me to get in I found clue 5.







We went to Bahama Breeze for dinner and it was delicious! I had steak and chicken kabobs and Danial had the shrimp and lobster pasta, YUM YUM!













What was so funny about dinner was the booth that our greeter, Bianca, sat us at's light was burnt out and so my friend Dennis went outside and got a candle from the patio and made us a 'candle lit dinner'. It was so cute! ANYWAYS.... once dinner was over I had my last clue in the car waiting on me that said....






















So....Danial blind folded me so that I wouldn't have a hint as to where he was taking me (little did I know, he was really just driving up and down Barrett Parkway several times so that I wouldn't know we were headed straight back to our campus!






This was where it all went down. This is where Wesley met every Wednesday in the spring, which is where we met for the first time!













Once we got to where he was taking me he continued to keep me blind folded and walked me to where I was going to get my birthday present! We walked for what seemed like a mile, but was really only about 200 feet. He sat me down and told me that he was going to place my present on my lap. He put a box that was wrapped on my lap and when he took the blind fold off he was down on one knee and immediately tears streamed down my face! I was so overwhelmed that I didn't really hear half of the things he told me, luckily he typed out what he said for me to read later, ha!

Once I gave him a hug and said yes(not even caring that there was a ring involved) my family and his family all popped out from hiding!!! It was a great end to a perfect night! We then went back to Danial's house where he had a lot of my friends waiting for us to celebrate with us!













































I couldn't have asked for a more perfect proposal and a better fiance :)! I hope you all enjoyed my story and I look forward to sharing this journey with you! Danial and I are so excited, YAY!

***If you go back to the first four clues that I shared with you, each of them have several letters that are white and they spell out individual words that are hidden within the riddles! The first clue contains WILL, the second clue contains YOU, third MARRY and fourth ME! he was very creative with everything :)

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So all semester I have been dissecting things in my Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy class! This has been, by far, the hardest class I've ever taken. Throughout the semester I've written 5 essays and after each of those essays I've had to grade 3 of my peer's papers, we've taken 2 lecture test and I'm about to take the 3rd test in lab.

Lab has been my favorite part of the class, lecture is another story!!! Our first animal that we dissected was a dogfish shark(I named mine Harvey)! We then dissected a mudpuppy and I can't remember what I named her :(.

Our last assignment for lab has been to dissect a cat. My cat is HUGE, I think one of the parents was a tiger,ha!!! I named my cat Mr. Whiskers!

I also have met a really good friend in this class (we've had other classes together before) and her name is Jana. She's such a sweet girl and we work so well together!!!

I thought I'd share a few pictures of what lab is like everyday!





This is Jana :)

















Meet Mr. Whiskers
















This is Jana's cat completely revealed!
(Mine wasn't so pretty)

Our family dog is missing...

Sunday night my parents let our family dog(fergison) out to go potty before bed. It was around 9:00 pm and after several minutes, my mom went to call him back in b/c he had not come to the door and he wasn't anywhere in sight! My family looked for him until about 11:30 and then called it a night!

My family is really upset and has called anyone and everyone, the vet, pound, friends and family, radio stations and my mom is putting an article in the paper today! They put fliers out Monday afternoon and a lady called saying she had seen him that morning, but it was a really weird story that didn't make much sense!

Needless to say, our family still doesn't have fergison and we're not sure what's happened to him. At first we thought maybe a coyote had gotten him, but we haven't found any signs of that.

We're praying that an honest person has picked him up and will hopefully return him sooner than later! It breaks my heart, one bc my family loves him and even though he's just a dog, he's a part of the family! My dad is taking it really hard and that makes things worse! I also hope that if he's not dead somewhere that he's not too sad, although I know he has to be b/c he's with someone strange!

I'll keep you guys posted and I hope fergison comes home!

November 6, 2008

This date marked Danial and I's 6 months! I know, I know... we've got a long way to go :) It's weird that in some ways it seems like we've been together forever, but in some ways it seems like we haven't been together long at all!



Thursday, Danial and I celebrated by going to dinner at P.F. Changs! It's become one of our favorites and we still had a gift card that we needed to use, so we figured why not enjoy a great dinner at a reasonable price!



I thought I'd get him something, not expecting anything in return of course, b/c it was only our 6 mos. anyways, right! I went to steinmart a

few days earlier and picked him out a really cute outfit b/c he's been in need of some jeans and I figured I'd get him a button up to match ;) He loved it!



Danial actually got me something, which he usually always does and it was a really thoughtful, but different gift! He got me a coffee mug (for hot chocolate), a movie for us to watch that night after dinner (sleepless in Seatle) and some pjs b/c I LOVE PJ'S! so.....why so weird....well... b/c the pj's are a full length, footed, ONSIE!!!!!! hahahahahahaha..... they're the most amazing thing I've ever owned and have worn them almost every night since he got them for me :) I love them and they'll probably be one of my favorite gifts that he'll ever get me!



I figured I'd share a picture with you :)

Weekend in Knoxville

Danial and I went to Knoxville this past weekend! His Dad's family all live there and his Cousin, Spencer, plays for Maryville College. We went up to watch his game (senior night) and spend the weekend with the family. We drove up early Saturday morning b/c we had to work Friday night! We followed his sister and brother-in law up there and stopped at Waffle House on the way!


The beautiful drive up to Knoxville

Danial's Sister Staci, husband David and their son, Jackson



Danial's dad, mom and a few of their friends



Danial's Grandmother, Ann


Spencer, Danial's cousin

We went to the game, which they won and then ate at TGI Fridays after it was over! That night we stayed at his Grandmother's house! We then went to church with her in the morning, helped her get her Christmas tree down from the Attic and had a yummy breakfast before we headed home!

We had such a great time and hope to visit more often! The weather was perfect and the trees were so beautiful, I love fall!

Pumpkin Carving....I know, a little behind :)

Danial and I carved our first pumpkin together!!!We looked on the internet for awhile, trying to decide what to carve and we found a Lady and the Tramp picture and loved it!!! Here is our huge, awesome pumpkin....





The finished product!

We were proud

Danial did a lot of the hard work :)

Our pretty pumpkin with the dog's pumpkins

Lilly got her own pumpkin

Mojo's pumpkin (doesn't it look just like him)

Picture update

Here are some pictures from the night Danial and I had dinner with Mere and Craig! Sorry it took so long :)

The Four of us!

I love Mere and Craig

PF Changs is one of my favorite restuarants and I love getting to go there :) Danial had never been there before he met me and now he loves it as much as I do!