Engagement pictures!

We got engagement pictures done last week and got them back Yesterday. I'll be posting some later.:)

Christmas Vacation--I'm engaged!

I was so excited to go home for Christmas and see my family. Since moving out of the house a


Tavis Bennett flew to Texas to spend New Years Eve with me and my family. On New Year's Eve we traveled to Allen to attend the Reception of Theresa Reeves Mathews. It was so fun I was able to see Amanda Vermilyea and Andrea Mangum Uribe and some other people. Then on the way back Tavis said there was a game that he had for me to play, but first we had to pick something up. So we went to the store and the first one didn't have what he wanted, so we went to another one and he picked up a bag of cracker jacks. Then we went to Fairview Park, in Sherman, Texas.

He brought out his laptop bag and he picked one thing out at a time and told me I was supposed to guess what the item is from, with things that we have done while dating. So as he brought them out I guessed and required a hint or so. They were programs from plays we had been to, movie tickets, glow bracelets from dances, etc. Then he brought out a letter I had written him from when I invited him to be my date to Bree Parish's wedding, which I was a bride's maid for. While he read the letter I just started crying and there's where the tear works started. After that he brought out a cracker jack box. At that point, he suggested to have us walk and sit on a bench near by and I could open the box. So we went over to the bench and he sat on my left side, and I opened the box and in the prize paper there was a ring.

I asked him how he got the ring in there, he said just a minute I have some stuff to say first. Then he went on to say how it was great to have me as a friend, and wonderful to have me as a girlfriend, but would be an honor to have me as an eternal companion. He got up and moved down in front of me to my right side and knelt down and asked "will you marry me?" Of course I said YES! While I was crying I believe. :) That's me...tear works!

Then we went to my parents house and announced the good news.