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 :)