I'm ENGAGED!!

Boy do I have some big news for the blog...are you ready? I'm engaged!!! I was so shocked when it happened. Casey completely caught me off guard. He proposed on Saturday, December 13th. We had just gone out to get ice cream at our favorite place and then to drive around and look at Christmas lights. When we got back to my apartment, he started acting weird. I walked into my room and he was kneeling by my bed like a kid prays by the bedside. I sat on the bed while he kneeled and we talked for a while. I finally asked what he wanted to do that night and he told me to go put a movie in. So I did and got all cozied up on the couch. Well, then he realizes that he wants me to be standing when he proposes so he tries to get me to stand up. In my mind, he had just told me we were going to watch a movie and I was snuggled up so there was no reason to get up from my warm spot. He kept trying to get me to stand up so I decided to make him work for it (not knowing of course that he was trying to propose). I have this stuffed dog that I have had since I was a kid that Casey is not a huge fan of so I told him that if Dog asked me to get up, I would. So Casey went into my room and got Dog and held him up to his face and did this "dog-voice" and asked me to stand up and give him a hug. Well, I was so entertained by this that I wanted to keep it going so I then said I would get up if he danced with Dog, which he did so I stood up and gave him a hug. Turns out this isn't what Casey needed me to do either because since I was facing him, he couldn't discreetly get the ring out of his pocket. So he asked me to go into my room to get me to walk in front of him. When I turned around, he was awkwardly leaning against my door and I kept giving him a hard time because he was just acting so bizarre. All of a sudden, he's down on one knee and says, "Well...I want to know if you will marry me?" Tears instantly start pouring out of my eyes and all I can say is "Are you serious?" over and over again. This is the part of the story where Casey likes to add "I was down on one knee holding a diamond ring, I'm pretty serious!" So I finally said yes and we were engaged!

Side note: I was wearing sweatpants, an old T-Shirt, and had no make-up on when he proposed so the only picture taken that night was of my ring. The picture below is the first photo we took post-engagement.