And we're gonna get marrrrrried... HA!!! so exciting. For those of you who read or dont read the blog!! Graham and I got engaged about a week and a half ago!! SOO excited!! SO i'm guess you're dying to hear how it happened or to see what the ring looks like. Well, most of you are on facebook and have seen it already.. but no worries. Pictures are present!!!
Well, I will start off by saying, Graham mentioned on a monday night that the church college group was going to have a game night. Normally I would be excited, but in this instant I was not. I had to work wed, thursday night. I got off work on friday morning, and went home to sleep for a little bit. I only got a couple of hours sleep. Off i went to do the daily grind. Get stuff for the house. Run around and do errands. Well, I went to my house and was working on stuff with my parents. They took off that afternoon to help out. We were working in the house and got caught up. Game night was at 7, but everyone was responsible for their own dinner. SOoo I like any other young person jumped at the offer for my parents to buy me some dinner. WE couldn't decide where in smyrna to go that wouldn't take very long. Well. We decided Good ole Red Robin would do for us. We headed over there, mind you it is now six o clock. I figured I could eat in thirty minutes then get to the thing a few minutes late. We ate dinner and had the usual conversation with the usual "Lindsey why dont you look reeeeally cute tonight.. Wear your black boots. I think that'd be cute!!". Of course I pushed away and laughed at the fact of wearing black boots to game night...
Little did I know, I would regret that decision. Food took forever. I ended up leaving at 630 and got home around 640... Wow crunch time. Still wasn't in the mood to go to the game night. Tired as all get out and i was disgusting. But oooo how that HOT shower felt wonderful. I stayed in the shower for probably a good ten-fifteen minutes. FOr anyone who knows me.. my showers are five minutes max on a slow day. SO yes I took my time in the shower.. and YES i enjoyed every minute of it. ANyways, by the time i got out of the shower, my clock screamed to me that it was 7:07. oops :) I rushed and grabbed clothes out of my closet. and threw a tiny bit of makeup on. I did straighten my hair. Left the house at 7:21 and was at Mallory's house at about 7:30. Not bad.
We played lots of games. It turned out to be a good night other than the fact that if we paused for any moment in time my head did a little head nodding action (ahem.. lauren west LOL).. I was about to fall asleep when good ole josh says "hey guys lets do a scavenger hunt.. i already have it set up." So we decided guys against girls would be best.. Mallory, Nikki, and I started to head out the door.. Of course competitive me (thinking this was a real scavenger hunt) tried to close the door on the boys and hold them back. ha. Well our first clue was something about the light shining on the place HE calls home or something to that extent. We immediately knew that the church was the first clue. We went to church and found the clue behind a light pole. I thought it was strange that the guys hadn't made it yet and we already had the second clue just about figured out, but nikki slyly made the comment "he probably started us out on different clues so we wouldn't run into each other". Ha good one girl. Fooled me. Our next clue was something like I shine light upon the athens of the south. PARTHENON! We were immediately in the car and on our way to Centennial park to get this next clue. We get there and are searching. meanwhile i'm thinking really josh???? the parthenon?? how big is it and how little is a white envelope.. WEll i didn't know this at the time, but Mallory knew where all of the clues were hidden. I think its kind of funny that she let me go around the whole stinking thing before saying "OOOO we found it lets goo.." . Yea no kidding you knew where it was and i raced all the way around the whole thing. Thanks!!!! Just kidding
Our next clue led us to the walking bridge. Just to fill you in on a little funny ironic tidbit, on the way over to the walking bridge, Nikki, Mal and I got into the topic of getting engaged. I know they were laughing inside when i mentioned the fact that graham and I had already talked about getting married and had narrowed it down to may/june. I kept on about how its making me nervous that i can't get started planning because we hadn't gotten engaged yet and that was only like 7 months to plan. Later on i was told they were about to die laughing. oops.
.... We get to the walking bridge, and are walking up the bridge. We all notice that the guys had already made it. Josh camera in hand. Funny me still had no idea what was going on and even made the comment of "o look guys.. josh brought his camera.. probably did this scavenger hunt so he could take pictures down here.. and here i look disgusting".. Still nothing from the peanut gallery. As we reached the top, we were a little out of breath (kind of embarrassing to admit but hey we are real people right?).. We all kind of chit chat for a few minutes. then walk over to the edge of the bridge and i start to walk away and here comes the man of the night and leans over the bridge with me. Meanwhile onlookers (mallory, nikki, falcon, and adam) scatter. Josh starts snapping pictures (which i did not notice).. Graham tells me some really sweet things. He's always so sweet that I didn't really think anything of it. and YES everyone I didnt realize what was going on until he turned, got down on one knee and said "WILL YOU MARRY ME???"..
I was shocked. My eyes started tearing up and all i could do was put my hands over my mouth in shock and whimper out a "yes". He got up and slid the ring on my finger and gave me a huge hug. WOW.. it was so amazing and perfect!!!!! Josh got some really good pictures so now we'll be able to share this moment forever and remember by awesome photos.
I was shocked. My eyes started tearing up and all i could do was put my hands over my mouth in shock and whimper out a "yes". He got up and slid the ring on my finger and gave me a huge hug. WOW.. it was so amazing and perfect!!!!! Josh got some really good pictures so now we'll be able to share this moment forever and remember by awesome photos. After i stopped shaking from being in such shock, I decided i would call my mom. one problem. NO PHONE!! i had left it at mallory's house. WEll.. i tried and tried for like thirty seconds but couldn't recollect my mother's phone number. The one i have probably dialed about a thousand times before. FINALLY i remembered it and got it dialed after three times of messing up dialing it ha. Told her. Which she knew and she told me my sweet fiance had asked for their permission wed night before while i was at work. She said she saw his car pull up in the drive and was like huh?? Larry, does he know that she is at work tonight?? Well they said yes.. then i called my dad on the road.. and i had to call many others and tell them. I was so excited. We went and saw his parents.. my sweet future in-laws and talked about how excited we were and everything and how perfect the ring was!! I mean perfect.. Never seen such a fitting ring for my personality and finger.. Loved it and he picked it out himself.
Graham actually told me that he bought the ring on OCt 22 or 23.. can't remember right now. HE went with Gant, his cousin. Gant proposed to niki, his girlfriend a week or two later. They came up for the weekend a week or two ago and i was able to look at the pictures from her engagment and through bridal magazines. Everyone thought that she had spilled the beans.. but no still no idea. Graham usually cannot keep a secret from me. He is not able to do that for some strange reason haha. Well he said he had been planning on proposing every weekend since he had gotten the ring but hadn't been able to .. Needless to say i am so very excited..
We have set the date for July 30 and will keep everybody posted on details. Let's get planning!!! I will say I cannot wait to add Graham to my family and to be added to his. His family are all such sweet and special people. I can't wait. Agghh i'm getting married. This is so strange. But I promise this is almost over.. I will quit babbling. But... if anyone has any ideas... please let me know
