Sarah's Getting Married!

While I was on vacation something pretty fantastic happened. Rob asked me to marry him. I said yes. :) This is the reason there has been great delay in my blog entry. We wanted to inform as many people as we could before they read it here. Since that was really the next thing to get blogged about, well, we needed to wait. :)

We went camping at Pettigrew State Park in North Carolina near Lake Phelps. We did this last year and found it worked out great to get out to the Outer Banks early on Saturday and enjoy ourselves fully instead of driving all day. This year we learned to bring firewood and food to cook. We enjoyed the unwinding after being in the car for 9 hours and started to relax. We got up the next morning to rain and overcast skies. We packed it up and headed towards Manteo to get some breakfast and coffee. Yum!

We got into town, parked, and I went towards the coffee house and he went towards the lighthouse. I said, "What are you doing? I am hungry and want breakfast!" Keep in mind it's still kind of icky out. He said, "I'm going to the lighthouse." I realized he was just going and so I said, "you are being a poop" and followed him out there.

Once inside the lighthouse, he handed me a present and said, "I thought beach week should start with a gift." So I opened it and found a small brass kaleidescope. He explained, "This is the first thing I remember buying with my allowance and technically that would make it one of the first gifts I ever bought because I am giving it to you now. This is one of those gifts you only give once and I don't want to loose it, so..." I had been looking out the window through it and things started clicking in my head and I turned around to find him on one knee, "Sarah Alice Behling, will you marry me?" I managed a yes before I started with the tears of happiness and hugs and all that goodness. Needless to say, that set the tone for a very enjoyable vacation. He made me a very happy woman. :)

There will be a lot of changes over the coming months, but I think they will be some good ones and I am sure you'll be able to follow along here as I see no need to delay in postings again. :)