I am so excited to announce that Brandon and I got engaged on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012, and it was a wonderful day!! Here is what we did that day...
Brandon and I decided to go to Atlanta (one of our favorite cities) to spend the day having fun. He took me to the Georgia Aquarium, which was awesome!
We saw piranas....
(I know it looks innocent, but this is a DEADLY fish!! Razor sharp teeth!)
We saw GINORMOUS crabs!
(Look how big this crab is...compared to the kid in the pic. Yikes)
We got to walk under a tunnel of water, with fish and manta rays and sharks swimming over top of us! Cool.
(We kept referencing Finding Nemo for things we saw there... like that Manta Ray...that was what they rode to school on.)
Another shot of the manta ray overhead. it was huge!
A big, ugly Grouper.
(Brandon likes to eat Grouper...after seeing how big and ugly they are, I told him that would gross me out to see him eat that! haha)
THIS was the HUGE whale shark. There were three of them. It was cool to see them.
Then there was this big wall that was a view of under the ocean. There were all kinds of fish and whale sharks and things and it was very neat to watch.
Brandon got to touch a hammer head shark! SCARY! He thought it was cool.
We got to get really close to the penguins.
LOTS of fish...everywhere!
THEN....we changed into our fancy dinner clothes, and Brandon took me on a walk through Centennial Olympic park (we have walked through that park before), and it was a beautiful walk. The weather was perfect, the sun was just setting. We sat down on a park bench, and Brandon gave me a gift. It was a book he had made for me, with all kinds of pictures of our relationship, and he had written lots of reasons he loves me. It was very sweet (I cried!).
Then I got to the last page of the book, and I saw this....
And when I looked up, Brandon was in front of me, down on one knee. He told me he loved me and asked if I would marry him, and I was sooooo happy! It was such a perfect moment!
Then we walked through the park, called our families and friends.
In Centennial Olympic park, right after we got engaged.
THEN we announced it to our friends on Twitter. And this was Brandon's sweet idea for how we could announce it...
(Twitter played a fun role in the beginning of our relationship, as we Tweeted each other when we were just friends, so it was appropriate)
Here are some pictures of the ring...which I just love and I think it is PERFECT!
Then we had a Super Bowl party at Brandon's house (on Sunday) and got to see the Giants win! We had lots of friends over and had tons of really good food! It is fun to see the guys go all out with their "man food" like these yummy Buffalo Chicken Bites we made.
And this amazing bread bowl dip Brandon made. MMmmmmMMM
This was a fun, wonderful weekend. BUT now I am so excited that I get to marry the man of my dreams and spend the rest of my life with him. I am so lucky, and so thankful for God to bless me with Brandon!
-Lynne
