Wedding Bells Are Ringing

OK, so not yet. But, on Saturday, August 28th, Daniel popped to question!! You have no freaking idea how happy I am!!!! Here's how it happened:

We had got done moving the stuff into my dorm, and we went to the mall in Aberdeen. Sometimes he will ask me to go look in a jewelry store and point out some rings I like, because when he gets one, he wants it to be one I will like, and he has no idea what I like. SO anyway, we looked, and I fell in love with this diamond solitaire. Well the lady asked if I wanted to see it out of the case, and I said no, and we left. A while later, when we passed to store again, he asked if I was sure that I didn't wanna look at it closer. I said that doing that would just make me want it. He looked at me all serious and said "what makes you think I wont buy it for you" I just kinda acted like I didn't get what he meant, and wandered into a different store. He brought me back into the jewelry store, and told me to ask the lady to let me see it. She started showing us all kinds of rings, ones with matching wedding bands, ones without, yellow gold, silver gold, 1/4 caret, 1/8 caret, grade f, grade e, all this stuff. And I was like WHOA BUDDY. In the end, I still preferred the one I had my eye on from the beginning, but it was like $625, so I thought that there was no way I was getting it, at least not any time soon. After all, Daniel had already told me that he would not ask me until he knew how being 2 hours apart was going to affect our relationship. But, he did buy it. He wouldn't let me wear it yet, though, or even hold it. He said that he was not going to give it to me yet. I was glad I had not allowed myself to get my hopes up. But that night, as we were going to bed, he looked in my eyes and said "I have always wanted to show you how much I love you, but I didn't know how, but now I do. Darci, will you marry me?" I told myself I wasn't gonna cry, but I did.

It's so odd, I was so worked up about going to college that I would practically throw up, and suddenly, it was OK. Scary, new, but OK. Because I knew that Daniel would be there for me when I came back.