Our Engagement!

As I'm sure alot of you have already figured out, Matthew and I are finally engaged! Not that most of you couldn't already see this coming anyways.

We got engaged on Friday, April 3rd. And boy was it an interesting day. Friday turned out to be one hectic sort of day. I woke up at 8:30 thinking that I was going to miss my class at 9am. (I don't have a class at 9am on Friday) I was getting my morning confused with my Monday, Wednesday mornings in which I have piano at 9 am. The funny thing is that I knew I didn't have my piano class but for some reason I thought my 10 am class started at 9 am. So I rush out the camper and zoomed to campus.

My zooming was promptly crushed by a portly old fellow on a Police Motorcycle. Where upon, he asked me if there was an emergency? I replied no, but that I was trying to get to my class on time. He said, ok, and took my driver's license. Within 5 minutes I was pulling away with a ticket for $190 and a suggestion to take defensive driving. It didn't hit me until I pulled into the church parking lot that I was an entire hour early for my 10 o'clock class. (Did I feel stupid?...YES!)

Now most of you might not know it but Friday night was supposed to be a "Girls Night," with Jessica, Katie, Carolyn and me. I was under the impression that we were having out usual girls night out, dressing up, going to eat, and maybe bowling. But no...Matthew called Jessica because of course my phone doesn't work (go figure) and tells her he sprained his ankle again! We need to go pick him up and he is at memorial circle.

Kasey's Reaction: "WHAT?! I bet he was doing something stupid again like trying to kick a door closed! Geez, I'm really sorry guys that this is ruining our girls night.

So we get in the car in short dresses and heels and rush over to Memorial Circle on campus to rescue my somewhat "clumsy" boyfriend. Or so I thought...

Upon arriving at Memorial Circle I can somewhat see Matthew as we walk up the sidewalk and my first thing to say is "he sure doesn't look very hurt!" The closer we get I realize that he is all dressed up. It then starts dawning on me that "Oh my goodness he might propose!" When we finally get to the entrance of the circle Matthew cues Thomas who was crouching behind the wall and our first song to ever dance to came on, "When the Stars Go Blue."

Matthew and I are standing in the middle of the circle now, where he tells me he loves me, and proceeds to get down on his knee. I immediately start tearing up and can barely see him by the time he asks me to marry him, where upon I answer yes by nodding my head due to the fact that I could barely speak for fear of bawling. We then kissed and had lots of pictures taken!

It was a wonderful and magical night! My ring is beautiful thanks to my fiancee who knows me well and I can't wait until I can post my pictures up on here! I won't be able to until probably next week due to the fact that I have the flu right now and also that I'm heading to Winnsboro today.

I love you all and I just wanted to thank my girlfriends, Jess, Katie, and Caroyln for making that such a special night for me! Thomas thanks for helping Matthew out and being there for him, you truly are a wondeful friend to the both of us. You 4 are the best friends we could ever ask for!

Love,
Kasey