I AM ENGAGED!

As my last post stated, I spent the past few days in San Antonio with Eli. I knew (because I just know stuff sometimes) that this little sabbatical would change everything in this relationship - in a good way. And well...it did.

He proposed on Friday. We'd had what I guess you could call an informal engagement up to that point. We knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, and we were even looking at rings, but we'd yet to make it official. Well, at Rivercenter Mall in San Antonio, TX, I fell in love with the gem you see to your left, so we bought it. Keep in mind this ring is a mere prototype. I fell in love with the design, but we intend to take it to a jeweler to customize it a bit. I want a pear shaped center stone and I'd like the accents to go all the way around, but the same size stone, the same mounting, the same everything else.

I have gone from being a single woman to being engaged in three months time...and I could not be happier about it. I adore this man, and I know he adores me too. He is so good to me I can't even begin to explain. This is so right. It's one of those things you just know, deep down within you. We don't have a date set. We don't have any real plans, except I will wear red and wear a huge red hat like the one Lucy wore when she married Alan on GH. We just figure when the time is right, it will happen. But this much is certain: I will be Mrs. Aaron one day...and I could not be happier about it.