an endless escapade: I'm a fiancée!

A few months ago, Christian's sister, Allie, texted me and asked if she could take pictures of Christian and I to get some practice of taking pictures of other people. I didn't think anything of it and was excited to have some nice pictures of the two of us, so of course I said yes! :)

When Christian and I got to the park that we planned to meet Allie at, she had already set up her camera on her tripod at the first place we would be taking pictures! Christian had told me that Allie got some sort of new light meter for her camera that she was hoping to test out, also. Allie gave us a quick run down of the places she had scoped out to take pictures, and then we got started right away! Christian and I walked in front of the camera and started posing when Allie started digging through her camera bag. She realized that she "forgot her light meter in the car" so she quickly ran to the car to go get it. I somehow didn't realize that she pushed the record button on her camera that was sitting on the tripod just in front of us. As soon as she left Christian grabbed my hands and started talking. I was so caught off guard and was confused by what was going on that my first two thoughts were:

1. Am I getting broken up with right now?

2. Is he about to pretend to propose to me?

I just couldn't believe it was actually happening! I heard probably the first ten words out of his mouth and don't remember anything else he said.

Here are some pictures that were screenshotted out of the video!

ANDDD, Thanks to Allie for all of these amazing pictures!!!

Christian MADE the ring box that he proposed with! It's so cute/pretty, and it even has the date on the bottom of it! :) He was pretty proud of it and wanted me to look at it right after he proposed, but as you can imagine, I was a little distracted with other things ;)

After we finished taking pictures, we went straight to get my nails done (Thanks to Mrs. Pollard for the gift!). After that, we went home to see my parents and Paige! There was a lot of screaming from Paige and my mom, and a very enthusiastic "wow" from my dad. :) After my house, we headed over to Christian's Grandparents' house where we saw both them and his parents!

Right after I got engaged, I called Haley first thing (obviously). I called her twice actually, and texted her twice. She was on her way to Nashville from Florida coming back from spring break with friends. At first she wasn't very happy because she thought something was wrong, but she was pretty happy once she found out my real reason for calling :) After the initial excitement set in, she wasn't very happy about the fact that she wasn't going to be home until Sunday, sooooo, SHE GOT ON A GREYHOUND FOR ME. That's right, folks. Haley took a Greyhound home from Nashville and Paige and I picked her up from Cincinnati at 2am! It was a rather exciting night. Here's some pictures of us being reunited.

Viewer Discretion is Advised: keep in mind this was 2am.