** UPDATE** (aka engagement)

hmm wow it has been a long time since i last posted. *pondering* well as of the last post i've been engaged and has been a little over 2 months (was asked to marry Feb. Friday 13th) and lovin every minute of it, decided that Mizzou has gotten to be too much for me so I'm downsizing to a community college for a BS in Business and will be starting hopefully in June '09, learned some things that I didn't know about my family untill just recently, learned that couples can have their own secrets and DON'T need to tell everyone everything ;P, and well I've fallen head over heals for the most amazing man who cares for me like nothing before. He's my one and only my true love and I wouldn't want anything else. He's loved me when I feel I'm at my worst (and look that way too or so i think so). Did i mention he's amazing or the fact that he just keeps surprising me as the days go by?

Kay so i think that is summed up, for now. Alright the engagement details now.So I drove home for the Valentine weekend because i finally had someone special to actually spend it with. I decided to stop by his place before heading out to see my mother dearest at her job. I missed him terribly and i really wanted to see him. Well i though nothing of his antics and just placed them as that he just missed me terribly, too, which he usually tends to do, lol. Well i had worked it out with my mom that i wanted some Beans and Cornbread (that's navy beans and ham all lumped together in a yummyful soulful meal aka comfort food). Well i was to go over to my parents' place to pick up the ingredients to put it together (this is a super easy recipe btw), any who so he thought that we (his mom, him, and me) to go watch the movie Push which just came out in theaters. I was up for it bc i have been wanting to watch it. My parents were planing on heading out to a restaurant for their date night so we had to go to my place to pick up the goodies. Earlier that week was my dad's birthday so i also had his "belated" birthday gifts since i was up in CoMo for the week.

Any ways... on ward on the story. I didn't realize that my then soon to be fiance as well as my parents and his mom had it all planed that he was going to propose to me that weekend.Well he was going to propose on the 14th but his mom told him that it would be best to do it on the 13th that way it will always be memorable PLUS he couldn't wait any longer to propose. So long story short i didn't see the camera just sitting on the dinning table and well other signs as my parents were just chilling... usually they would give me the things and be on their marry way for their dinner date. No here they were just chillin and my honey was sitting on the couch opposite of both our moms on the other couch. so i go sit by him and a few minutes pass and he asked,

"Rachel i have a question for you."

He stands up with one hand holding my hand and he reaches with his other hand into a pants pocket to pull out a ring box. At this point i was shocked as many things were running through my head like "this can't be what i think it is?", "what's going on here?", and "is this a fairytale or a dream?" or "this can't be for real HE can't be serious." Then the unbelieveable happened.

"Rachel, will you marry me?," he asked. No more then a NY minute i had my answer.

"YES!"

Tears were streaming down my face and we even had the ring put on the wrong finger, lol. So all in all i'm EXCITED!! and going to go watch Push with the newly made Fiance with my soon-to-be mom. Well from here i can't remember if we ate dinner first or went to the movie then eat but either way it was good... i couldn't stop looking at my ring and smiling (this is different from the everyday smile i have this was HUGE and GLEAMING). So that's the story of the ENGAGEMENT. Everything from there has just been great or well just good. There have been some roller coaster up and downs but we've gotten through it. He's the one and i'm his one and only. He makes everything better and there are always rainbows and silver linings when i'm with him ^_^