Time Well Spent

Tomorrow, it will be eleven years ago that Ben & I got engaged. I was a freshman in college and he was a junior. Babies! That's what I think now...at the time, I knew I was just really mature for my age, HA :) We had started dating when I was a freshman in high school...I saw him on the football field during State Football Playoffs, and the rest is history. I've been trying to remember the details of how he proposed...and it turns out, I really should have written stuff down back then, everything is sorta all blurred together. So, here's my fuzzy recollection. I remember that I had wanted him to drive me home from college for the weekend, but he kept giving me all these reasons that he couldn't. He said he'd meet me at home on Saturday instead. I was very annoyed. My roommate, Shell, and I were from the same town, and she graciously let me ride home with her. She drove, her boyfriend rode in the front seat, and I sat in the back, pouting and listening over and over to, I'm so annoyed with my boyfriend kinda music, I can't even remember what the song was!

Ben and I ended up going on a date that Saturday night...he picked me up and handed me invitation cards to where we would be going that night (at this point, I'm still pouting a little...so mature.) Our first stop was a state park that we had gone to a lot to grill out and walk on trails. I thought it was a little weird, because it was March, and not exactly the ideal time to go for a stroll. A ways down the path, he stopped and got on his knee and opened a little white leather box. Shock. I think I shouted something like "are you kidding me!?!" The timing was completely unexpected...and I saw the past few days flash before my eyes, and then I felt like an IDIOT! He couldn't take me home for the weekend, because he was ring shopping! Needless to say, on Sunday, before heading back to school, I remember feeling pretty sheepish when I showed Shell my engagement ring :)

In June, we will celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. Each year I am more amazed by the man that he is. He is my best friend. His selflessness and love embody who he is. I have yet to meet someone he couldn't get along with! Which probably explains his ability to love me :) Ben, I hope you know how much I adore you...and I (and our future daughter-in-laws) will be so blessed if each of our boys grow up to be just like you. Thank you for always striving to be more like Christ, I know He's the reason you are who you are.

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