{ I'm getting married! }

So it happened. I'm engaged!!! I'm Mrs. Ryther to be. Can you believe it? I can't even believe that it's happened. Seriously. Every time I look down at my finger I see this really shiny thing and it kinda stops my heart and all I can do is smile. Actually, I can't stop smiling. Haven't been able to since the day it happened. I wasn't expecting Cam to have the ring so soon so this was a HUGE surprise. Here's how it happened:

The night before the proposal, Cam suggested a picnic for Sunday dinner. I absolutely loved that idea and was so excited for this picnic. So Cam comes over to my house picks me up, we make the sandwiches, and head off to first dam. We ate dinner, fed ducks, drank our favorite drink: diet coke, and just enjoyed the most beautful day outside. Then our good friend Casey called to ask if we would want to join him and Lindsay to watch sunset on the bench above Center street. So Cam asks if I want to go and of course I say yes.

We head up the street and when we see the bench, I turn to find a banner, flowers, and a photographer (my sister who I didn't recognize). Cam sees that our siblings aren't done setting up and so he zooms around the corner and says, "Wait, maybe that's not the place. Let me call Casey." Me, thinking NOTHING of it, says, "Cam did you see that? It looks like someone is being proposed to! There's flowers and a photographer and everything." Meanwhile, he's on the phone talking to Casey, wondering where he's at, and tells him that we will just meet him there. He gets off the phone with Casey and tells me that Casey said the decorations were there from the other night. Of course I think nothing of it and just say ok. So Cam flips around and drives back to the spot. While driving I had reclined my seat down all the way because I didn't feel great. While driving to the bench, I see this blonde girl run from a house to a parked car but couldn't see a face because of my reclined chair. So I'm thinking in my mind that someone has to be getting proposed to because she's booking it from somewhere. Of course, I take myself out of the equation immediately because I had been fooled and Cameron told me that the ring wouldn't be done for another month. Cam parks the car and walks me up to the bench and the decorations. I see the banner that says "she said yes." So I turn to Cam and say, "Cam! Really, I don't think we should watch sunset here. Someone has to be getting engaged here. We need to go somewhere else." Then I hear these words come out of Cam's mouth, "What if this was all for you...will you marry me." And I turn around and he is on one knee with a diamond ring.

So that's it!

I was VERY surprised and VERY happy that it happened. I couldn't believe that all of it was for me. I'm pretty sure I asked him if he was serious a few times before I said yes, but eventually, it happened and I said yes. It was such a great day and Mari was there to document the whole thing. I'm smiling from ear to ear in every picture but I couldn't help it. I'm getting married to the cuttest guy. I am and have been the happiest girl on the earth!

May 20 was the best day of my life thus far. I'll never forget it!


So, everyone clear your calendars for August 18~ Cause that's the big day.