were engaged!!!

 Yep, quite the exciting weekend:)
There's not exactly a typical romantic proposal story to share tho I'm afraid

Anyone who knows Benny and I well will probably know that were as bad as each other at keeping secrets. Seriously terrible! I don't think we've ever got to a birthday or Christmas without having exchanged gifts far too early because we just couldn't wait to see the other open it.

About two years ago, a few days after our (3rd I think) anniversary he informed me that he had thought about proposing to me but chickened out in case I didn't say yes. I of course replied 'Why did you tell me that?Of course id say yes, it's supposed to be a surprise and now it wont be!!!'  so he waited.

And then one friend got engaged so he waited for a bit thinking it wouldn't be as special if we followed straight afterwards. And then another did so he waited a bit longer. And then another did....

Anyway, on Saturday he took me to choose a ring. I already knew he wanted to marry me and he already knew I wanted to marry him. Now its 'official' and we've shared it with everyone else. Oh and I got a pretty ring:)

It was probably quite funny for the jeweler to help me choose a ring. Benny told her we wanted to choose an engagement ring and she got quite excited. She started asking me all sorts of questions about styles and sorts. I'm not really a jewelry person so I looked at her quite blankly and informed her I had no idea what any of that was. My only request was that I didn't want anything too chunky or big.
She pulled out two small rings from the first section. I looked at them and tried them on. They were both around about what I had thought id wanted but as soon as I put them on I didn't feel very drawn to them. Benny mentioned a ring that he'd spotted and I tried it on. It fitted perfectly and I immediately knew that it was the one. We bought it then and there, ring number three.
The jeweler seemed shocked to have made such a quick sale, we didn't get to any of the other shops that Benny had intended to take me and quite frankly I'm still shocked at myself for making such a quick decision on most likely the most expensive piece of jewelry I will ever own.
Did I mention that compared to the ones she had shown me its rather big and somewhat chunky?! See what I mean, the Jeweler lady relay did have quite a bit to giggle about on her tea break with the other Jeweler ladies.

After that we went and shared the news with both our parents and being that we had already planned to have tea with my parents they took us out to have tea at the beach and celebrate.
Benny casually updated his face book with his phone to say that he was engaged. And then he wanted to update mine too. You know, in case anyone thought we'd broken up and he'd got engaged to someone else as a re-bounder because my face book profile (which has little on it because I never use it!) didn't say we were engaged (yes he was joking. I think:) Neither of  us really use face book so we presumed it would just add it to his profile page but it actually comes up on every ones wall page. So there you go family, that's why face book knew before any of you. Did I mention I hate face book?!

Oh and in other exciting news, my lace scarf is finished and blocking (is that what I would say when its pinned and still drying?) Although compared to the getting engaged news, the finished scarf news probably isn't quite as exciting is it. It sure is pretty tho!