We're Engaged!!

Casey and I are engaged! Casey finally popped the question Saturday at his Aunt and Uncle's house. Here are the details and some pictures! I posted a video on Facebook as well. We are so excited!

The Proposal Story:

So every year Casey’s Aunt Jackie and Uncle Greg have a Pumpkin Carving party at their house. Halloween is my favorite time of year and Casey’s Godparents were in town from New York to visit so we all went over to his Aunt and Uncle’s house that night. I had told Casey a few weeks before that I didn’t want to carve the design on the pumpkin but that I would help out by opening the pumpkin and getting all the guts out (my favorite part), so I decided I would go ahead and get that over with so I could hang out with his cousins and other family the rest of the night. I started opening the pumpkin and when I finally got the top off it was all white and fluffy inside and I was really upset because I thought that it was moldy and we had bought a bad pumpkin. I thought it was really weird because it was so thick and it really looked like cotton and as I was showing it to Casey and his family, Casey reached down into the pumpkin and pulled some of the “mold” out. I jumped back and was frankly, very grossed out that he touched the “mold”, until I realized that it was fake spider webs and that he had somehow emptied the pumpkin and filled it with spider webs. Once I realized this I was kind of annoyed because Casey always plays jokes like this on me and I was thinking that this joke was really kind of mean because I really do LOVE getting the guts out of the pumpkin. So I started taking the cottony spider webs out and threw some of them at him and then when I reached back inside the pumpkin I felt something big at the bottom. I pulled it out and it was a ring box. I was kind of confused still because I could totally see Casey putting candy in a ring box as a joke- I don’t think I’ve ever been more surprised in my entire life. I opened the box and was literally stunned when I saw the ring- it was huge! I immediately started crying and finally someone in Casey’s family said, “Well? What do you say??” and I said “He hasn’t asked me anything!”. That got a bunch of laughs and then Casey finally said the 4 words I thought I’d never hear come out of his mouth – “Will you marry me?” I of course said YES! We are hoping for an October 2010 wedding and are going to look at venues in Austin on November 7^th. Here is the video that Casey was taking while I was opening the pumpkin, his dad has another longer video that I will post when he sends it to me. Thank you to everyone for the congrats- we are so excited to be getting married!