God Blessed the Broken Road

For those who know me at all, it's been a rocky road that lead to my prince charming so needless to say I am beyond thankful that I am finally here. I was just reading back through the first email communication that Eric and I had in March of this year. It's really hard to believe that we've come this far in less that a year but I believe it has been due to divine intervention. Some of you know that I was really, really sick this summer for like 2 weeks. I couldn't do anything besides lay on the couch feeling like my head was going to explode. The more medication they gave me to make it better, the worse I felt. I thought I was going to die. They never specifically identified the cause for this. Now, I don't believe that God would cause me to be sick but I definitely believed that He used this time to show me the value of the growing friendship I had with Eric because just shortly after that, we started spending more time together and began our "more-than-friend's" relationship. And now, here we are, engaged! Now that I've had my rambling, here's the story I've been asked for numerous times:

Thursday, December 23rd

I had to work until three that day. When I first got off work, I was doubting Eric and I's decision to go out because I really just wasn't feeling it, but thankfully, I changed my mind. We got ready, Eric wearing his new Christmas shirt that "we" picked out at Kohls last week (possibly a random detail but im covering everything i deem memorable). He never told me we had reservations but at some point we went from eating at 6 to eating AT 7 so I kinda figured out that we had reservations, but he wouldn't tell me where we were going. We ended up at Savor, a really nice restaurant. it ended up being really cute that he reservations because there really wasn't anyone there. we had a really nice dinner. i had mushroom risotto...super yummy! once we finished, we went to the fayetteville square to see the lights. we walked around a couple times, drank some hot chocolate, took some pictures, then we got bought tickets and got in line for a carriage ride. we waited for a while (and about froze) then it was finally our turn. we went around once and as we started our second go around, he kinda got fidgety, said some really sweet things, pulled out a ring, asked me to marry him, and I said yes!!!! (side note: i added that i would definitely be crying if i was a crying person, and he added that he was planning to get on one knee, until that carriage started moving..dont blame him on that one). it was super sweet and super special. I'm the luckiest girl alive.

We've done a fair amount of planning in the last five days. Our time will be limited being apart from each other. we bought a wedding planning organizer that we've already made plenty of notes in and plan to have with me at all times. we unofficially have a date, it is very close to being official. this will be my update location of all things official, so keep reading :D

Thx 4 readin

~The future Mrs. Eric Morgan :D