get engaged

We walked to the top of Multnomah Falls in Oregon and I asked her to marry me. She said yes. Yahooooooooooooooo

Yes, 43Thingers, I am an engaged woman.

You can read all about the proposal here.

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. :D

My partner and i have been together nearly 3 years, have recently purchased our first home and got our baby – our kitten Penny.
I would love for us to get engaged and be married.
its not that i need it to cement our relationship or because i need reliability.. because i feel i already have this with him.
It would be a nice show of affection and commitment to me, and definitly would be awesome to get a sparkler on my finger!!
Hopefully it’ll happen soon…

my boyfriend and i will be together for a year in october. i keep dreaming of the day that he will ask me, but honestly, i don’t think he has any plans for that. oh well, i guess i can just keep dreaming for a while.

was about the most exciting time in my life. I was still in college, and the power of dreaming held very strong! Nothing beats the feeling of people noticing your pretty diamond ring!

That’s it! I did it! We’re officially engaged. The picture is of the actual ring.

When asked for a blessing, my dad was quick to genuflect in our direction and my mom immediately shifted into wedding planner mode and started asking about dates, locations, gift registries, etc. (Boundaries will need to be set.)

We’re considering the issue of rings tonight, and we plan to share the good news with his family this weekend.

Not that I’m into the traditional ritual of it all, but it does feel a little strange and unreal, since there wasn’t any one big Hollywood moment at the top of the Eiffel Tower when he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. But the more we tell people and the more we move forward with plans, the more real it feels. And although it may be more work to forge ahead creating new models that are meaningful to us rather than following the traditional scripts, I trust that it will be worth it in the end.

we barely have time for each other right now, let alone money or gas. I keep feeling that being together is so far off, and it depresses me more than a little. In my book, it’s about 2 years away…in my dad’s probably more like 4 or more. The economy sucks, so I don’t know how well we’re going to do, especially b/c he doesn’t have a good job right now. All these little worries about the future….all I can do is pray and be thankful for what I have. “Someday” is pretty far off, but it’s getting closer all the time!

This morning he asked if he should get my dad’s permission. I was shocked to hear something so traditional coming out of his mouth! We are adults, haven’t been supported by our parents for two decades, and we don’t need anybody’s permission. But he was mostly thinking of my parents and what they would expect. In the end I think we’ll go together and meet with both of my parents and ask for their blessing and support.

_{now that I’m certain he will say yes}

Or perhaps he’ll ask me. And let me just say I am so glad we are a couple that can be laid back about this kind of thing.