A Dream Come True

Everyone wants to hear the story, and we really want to be able to share it with everyone! So here goes our two versions put together with tons of actual proposal pictures to see the story progress!

On Monday at work, I was told that I had a meeting to go to at 4:00 the next day. I was pretty upset because Loren and I had plans to go to the Braves game with my sister and her husband. But I tried to work around the scheduling with Loren to make sure it would all work out. Little to my knowledge, Loren had actually talked my boss, Steve, into making up that “meeting” so that I would be ready to go when he showed up on Tuesday afternoon. About 3:30 on Tuesday, Loren walked into work with Steve. I was obviously very shocked and pretty confused as to why he was there. Steve said that Loren just wanted to steal me for a couple minutes but I need to be right back for our meeting. All that Loren said to me was, “Let’s go. Come on.” So we got in the car, and eventually he told me we were going to the park. When we got there, I started to complain about how I couldn’t walk around the park in heels. He said, “I got it covered,” as he pulled a pair of my flip-flops from a bag he had packed. How thoughtful! We started walking down the trail, and I asked him what he had in the bag. I didn’t believe him when he said it was towels… but he wasn’t lying! We walked to the first bench where he sat me down and pulled out two small towels and a bottle of water. He then explained to me that he was going to wash my feet. As he was washing my feet, he told me how much he loves me and how much he wants to serve me forever. Of course, the crying started. When he finished, he handed me a letter, turned me to face the water, and asked me to read it out loud. I read it aloud through the last two words which said, “Turn around.” When I turned around he was on one knee with the ring and asked, “Will you be my wife?” At this point in our story, Loren says that I just started crying without answering, and he didn’t know if that was a yes or no. So just to clarify he asked, “That means yes, right?” I said, “Yes! Of course!” Then he put the ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS ring on my finger and kissed me! As we stood there hugging, he asked if I would sing with him (something we love to do together). When he let go, he magically was holding his guitar! Loren had set it up earlier with my friend, Hunter, for him to walk by at just the perfect time to hand it to him. So we sat down and worshiped together for the first time as engaged-to-be-married. We sang (I tried through the tears) Revelation Song and Lead Me to the Cross. After this he told me to turn around and wave to my sister whom he had set up earlier to take pictures the whole time. She came out and continued taking pictures as I walked to hug her. I couldn’t stop crying. Everything was so perfect. Then Hunter came back to talk with us as well. I just kept looking at my handsome fiancé in disbelief with tears streaming down my face. Once I got a hold of myself, I started to make tons of phone calls. Loren told me that he has arranged for his family to come in town so they could celebrate with us and my family. I was so excited to see everyone! We made many many more phone calls and got home to hug our families and all spend time together. Everything was so wonderful, and I could not have asked for anything better! We are blessed beyond belief by everyone’s support, and we could not be more excited for our future together!

God is so good! He has given me the man of my dreams, and in our relationship we have found that the Lord has done “immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine.” To Him be the glory!