Oh ma goodness!!! I'm engaged!!!

I’M ENGAGED! I’M ENGAGED, and I don’t care who knows it!!! AHH…It feels so weird to say that, but I LOVE it!

My whole childhood revolved around watching Disney movies, so my expectations of love have always been pretty high. Luckily, Justin exceeded my expectations. J

When I first met Justin I had NO idea we would end up engaged. Actually, I had no idea we were even going to really date. Justin is in the Marines so I never thought we would ever work out with him being away all the time. Once I got to know him, I couldn’t help but fall in love with him!

Saturday September, 1st started off really great. Justin and I spent most of the day at the beach. Between catching the waves and soaking up the Florida sunshine, we had so much fun. Later that night we went out to Ocean Walk in Daytona Beach to eat at our favorite restaurant, Bubba Gumps. We had no idea there was such a HUGE party going on at Ocean Walk for Labor Day. There was good music, great food, and amazing entertainment.

 

 

After dinner, we went for a walk on the beach. The night was perfect! The weather was great, the moon was shining brightly, and I had the one I love by my side. We found this spot on the beach away from the crowd and the noise, and put a blanket down to sit and enjoy the moment. So many stars were out! I felt so perfectly content lying next to Justin trying to look for a shooting star. Fortunately, we needed no such star!

 

Justin had been telling me he had gifts for me, and it was FINALLY time for me to have them. He said the gifts represented the past, present, and future. Note to self: Never underestimate someone's creativity with a quirky sense of humor.

The first gift was a book that told a story of us over the past year through pictures. Each picture had a witty caption that made me die of laughter. Some of the sweetest things were written in there. I couldn’t stop smiling.

 

Next was probably my favorite (besides my ring of course). Recently, when I was watching the Bachelorette, I saw this crazy thing that one of the guys did for Emily. The guy had bought her a bobble head of the two of them. I thought it was the funniest thing! I told Justin it would be awesome if we made bobble heads of ourselves. To my surprise, when I opened the second gift, I saw none other than a bobble head of Justin. Wearing a white tuxedo and holding a gun, it looks just like him.

What happened next was amazing! All of the sudden fireworks started going off like the Fourth of July! With Justin’s arm around me, we watched as each firework burst into colorful explosions. It was incredible!

At that moment I wasn’t sure how life could get any better, but it did. Life got a million times better in a matter of seconds! Once the fireworks died down (and I wasn’t distracted) Justin got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!! My exact words were: “OF COURSE I WILL!!! YES! YES! YES!”

 

 

I’ve never been so happy! All my life I’ve dreamed of something like this, but I never thought it would happen to me. I love Justin SO SO much! We have such a fun relationship that consists of A LOT of laughing, and that’s the way I’ve always wanted it to be. As long as we are laughing and joking about things, nothing else matters.

I hope you enjoyed reading my blog as much as I enjoyed writing it! I'm super excited to start planning our wedding. It's going to be so fun! I'm going to be busy, busy, busy, planning a wedding and juggling school. I plan to blog through it all though, so stay tuned.

This is only the beginning of our story. J