Part 14

Sorry it has been a while.......

Our road trip back to California was full of scenery and lots of conversations.

Conversations about the future, about the present, about dreams and aspirations, and you know about the stupid driver driving to slow in the fast lane!!!lol

Then religion came up in conversation through the topic of Noah and the Ark. We were driving through good ole Texas.....

We started talking about the animals and such then we would start talking about something else and so on an so forth.

We both started to realize that our stories weren't matching. The difference was that i had the Bible to back me up and he didn't.

He was raised Lutheran and was taught a little different then I was.

He realized that he didn't understand a lot of what I was talking about and was really unsure of a lot things. He wanted answers and was completely open to hearing them from me.

I was able to tell him Bible verses that I knew that backed up everything I was saying.

It definitely was amazing what God was doing on our little road trip.

When we got back to Cali he decided that he wanted to talk to pastor and get some of his questions answered.

Sunday came and we talked to pastor....Tom's life was changed that day....He got the assurance of his salvation and decided he wanted to get baptized "again".
A few weeks later we was biblically baptized and his life hasn't been the same since.

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Once coming back home we started making it "normal" again.

I had taken a month off of school to be with him so it was time to go back, and he started back to work.

May and June went by and July was here. We went up to Big Bear, Ca. for the 4th of July with my family and stayed in an awesome cabin that a family friend let us borrow.

My mom and I thought that this would be the weekend that he would propose but it never happened.:(

We came back home and still nothing......

But....on July 9th, 2007 something was different.

When he came home from work that afternoon he had flowers for me(very out of the blue) and he told me I wasn't to make dinner or even help him in the kitchen(again very out of the blue)!!!!

He made steak, baked potatoes, and green beans and a salad. He served me and everything!!!!

We ate and talked about our days.. but something was off. He seemed really nervous, just not himself.

So me being the "talker" that I am I wouldn't shut up!!! Finally he caught me in between sentences and started telling me how much he loved me and wanted to be with me forever:) I know how romantic right?!

Then he got on one knee and put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a beautiful diamond ring. He took my hand and asked me to be his wife:) It was so exciting I was even shaking!

Of course right away we had to tell our parents so we got in the car and on our way to my parents house we called his mom to tell her the exciting news. She was thrilled for us and so excited.

We told my parents moments later and showed off my gorgeous ring:)

Everyone was so happy for us.

We immediately chose a date and started planning. We wanted to get married in Ohio and I wanted it in the winter, partly for the scenery and also because I didn't want a long engagement!!! They are so overrated!!!Lol

I can't tell how excited I was to start planning our big day!!!! I had been saving up and iI knew exactly what I wanted and I didn't care what I had to pay....well I kind of cared but I knew I could splurge a little bit:)


So a little under seven months is what I had to plan this amazing wedding............