Monday, April 02, 2007

Wanna go on an adventure?

So for those of you I have not talked to in awhile or email in awhile; I am sorry that I have not talked/emailed sooner but I gotta post this! :) So I have some exciting news......




Joel and I are getting married! Heeheeheee! :)

So it all happened on Friday, March 30th, 2007 and it was a totalsuprise. So Joel and I had plans (so I thought) to go eat at this amazing irish pub on capital square. So when he showed up on Friday decked out in his rain gear (it was treatening rain) I was pretty confused.

"Ready to go on an adventure?"

How could I resist; so after throwing on some rain gear we proceeded outside and low and behold........ there was a canoe in the yard! So we walked it over to Lake Wingra (right accross from my house) and put 'er in. After being the only ones to be paddling around we eventually paddled up a creek to an overlook in the arboretum. After carefully getting out of the canoe (I am glad that I'm a Boundary Waters girl; there was some tricky footings!) we went up to a stone bench and sat down.

And then began the romance, Joel started out by telling me how much he loved me and how he loves to choose to love me each day. Then before I knewn it, there he was, on his knees and saying the words

"I want to choose to love you everyday for the rest of our lives. Will
you marry me?"

My response.......


"Of course, of course, of course! Yes I will marry you!"

And with that Joel slipped the ring (a very beautiful ring!) on my finger. The best part about the ring...he had the word "choose" engraved in the band; because we have talking alot lately about how you have to choose to love someone. It takes work and commitment and you have to make the choice to love someone everyday; in good and bad.


After I was able to stop giggling for about 30 seconds, Joel took me to Quivey's Grove (an amazing restaurant) and he had reserved a private room for just the two of us to enjoy. After an amazing dinner we went to Cub foods to get some chocolate and then rode the dump truck ride for $0.50. Now that's a way to celebrate! :)

We wanted to share with all of you our news and we hope that you are all doing well; all over the world (we've realized, we have a good amount of international friends)! Thanks in advance for your support!