Well, look who's behind on her own times.

I think I've delayed posting for so long for several reasons. 1), my news should have been shared the weekend it happened, but I was...preoccupied...; 2), it was midterms week at school and I had five tests; 3), sometimes I miss David so much it's difficult to talk about him without getting choked up, and that's especially the case after we've had to say goodbye another time.

Fortunately, this is the second-to-last time we'll ever have to say goodbye. David proposed to me during my fall break visit. It was more perfect that I ever could have imagined, and I think that's because he took me completely by surprise. We both love being outside and going for walks (in fact, he asked me out after we had walked the entire bike trail here in Searcy), so we decided to go backpacking on the Laurel Ridge trail for 12 miles when I came up last weekend. After we had reached the half-point on our first day of hiking (which was almost completely uphill - I am not exaggerating), he set up the camera to take a few pictures of us. His hands were shaking really badly as he preset the camera, and I remember thinking That's odd...he hasn't had any caffeine today.... I saw him racing around behind me to get in the picture, and when I looked to my left, he was kneeling instead of standing. I totally didn't get it. I thought he had fallen and was slightly surprised that he had missed out on the picture. When he asked me to marry him, I immediately said "Yes," assuming he was Jim Halpert-ing me (informally proposing). I realized he was serious and amazingly did not cry (much). We took more pictures (which I would include, but it's late, and I'm lazy. They're on facebook) and the rest of the hike went swimmingly (hikingly?).

We've decided on a Pittsburgh wedding on March 7, 2010. That's about as far as we've got so far. I was never one of those girls who immaculately planned out her wedding, so it's rather ironic that I'm the first of any of my friends to be engaged. Now I'm all caught up in figuring out the budget and deciding whether or not to do this or that for the wedding and I'm still completely aware that this is the most blessed I've ever felt in my entire life, as well as completely taken aback that it happened to me at all. It's surreal and entirely real at the same time.

There's my version. You can read David's here, and pictures are here and here.

Update:
That's partially the reason why I started this blog. David and I knew within the month that we started dating that we wanted to get married someday. This has been a (relatively) long time coming. I wanted to start the blog to give updates on wedding plans, moving plans, honeymoon plans, etc., and also as a means to keep in touch with friends at Harding after I've moved to Pittsburgh.