♥ Engagement Flashback ♥

It’s that time again…engagement time.  It happens at Christmas and Spring Break.  It happened last year and is happening again this year.  The second class guys propose.  Most do it over Christmas Leave or Spring Break.  Which makes sense because they get to come home or go somewhere and spend time with their significant others.

Over Christmas, my News Feed was exploding with engagement annoucements.  And it’s starting again. Spring break just ended and I know of eight USNA couples that got engaged. Nick even asked me how many girls I thought would get engaged over spring break.  Over Christmas, there were a TON!  But I’m not so sure about this leave.  I bet there’s more that I missed since I wasn’t on Facebook a lot while Nick was home.

Seeing this all makes me happy for them.  It reminds me of our engagement.

October 10, 2009 has, thus far, been the best day of my life.  When I need a smile, I can just think back to that day.  And that entire weekend.  Nick went to the extremes to make sure our engagement and his proposal were unique, special, and personal.  I honestly could never imagine a better proposal story or a more amazing weekend. 

As I sit here and remember that day, I can still remember my thoughts throughout the scavenger hunt.  I can still remember my thoughts opening the hotel room door.  I can still remember my thoughts as he grabbed my hand, spoke the sweetest words ever, and asked me to marry him.  I can still recall all the excitement I felt.  In fact, I can still remember it so vividly that I am STILL filled with butterflies when I think about it.  It still puts such a HUGE smile on my face.

About a three months after we were engaged, I was still incredibly giddy.  Still got butterflies when I thought about that day and that weekend.  I wondered, “When will this overly excited, head over heels, butterflies in my stomach feeling start to fade?” 

I’m happy to report that after 17.5 months, it hasn’t faded :) 

More importantly than that day still giving my butterflies is the fact that Nicholas himself still gives me butterflies.  More and more each day.  When he looks at me.  When he smiles at me.  When he unexpectedly touches me.  When I hear his ring tone going off.  He still gives me that feeling.  This is just one of the many reasons I am so confident in our commitment to spend the rest of our lives together.  I cannot wait for June 11, 2011 to get here so that I can marry my best friend and finally “officially” begin our new chapter in life together.

For anyone who is interested or hasn’t read or heard our story, click here to check out Our Proposal and Engagement Weekend.