Saturday, December 13, 2008
It’s 1 am and I’m still shaking. I think I’m still in shock. Today was the best day of my entire life. The man of my dreams asked me to marry him! I never could have dreamt up a more amazing man to be in my life. I never could have dreamt up a better story for God to write us. I never could have dreamt up a better way for him to ask me to be his wife. I never could have dreamt up a more beautiful ring.
This morning I slept in, watched Saved By the Bell with Christie and Jackie and enjoyed my morning. I had a good devotional and felt like the Lord was really working in my heart. Then, I called my friend Sheena (who had called me the night before, and decided to go with her to Laguna beach. It was her idea, and my favorite beach…and it worked out perfectly. I invited Christie and we went to Chino to meet up with Sheena. We stopped at Golden Spoon and had some amazing frozen yogert. Sheena had previously thought it would be fun to try Geo Chaching (basically a scavenger hunt hobby where you try to find a treasure by using the coordinates). The World Racer in me thought it was a fun/adventurous idea and we had discussed wanting to try it before…so we went for it! We followed the directions to the coordinates…we stopped at a weirdly expensive toll booth and as Sheena handed to toll man the dollar bills, the bills went flying in the wind and Christie and Sheena got out of the car and chased them down. We were cracking up, but the toll man was not amused. The combination of our histarical laughter and his stone cold face made us laugh harder! We continued on.
We parked at Laguna beach and did the rest on foot. We followed the directions and had to trespass through a construction zone, hop fences, and climb down to the beach…
We were looking for a cove. We walked across the sand onto the rocks. I looked at the sky and yelled “MOM!!” There were these beautiful rays coming out of the clouds (which is always a sign to me that my mom is with me)…usually it’s one ray, but this was like 500. Sheena took a picture of me hugging my mom… 🙂
Then, we went around the corner, and then another corner looking for the cove. All of the sudden we saw a blanket with all kinds of things on it…a laptop playing music, chocolate, Swedish fish scattered everywhere, hot chocolate, a journal….at first I said “lets walk around” thinking we should give people their privacy. Then I realized there was no one there, and I said “who would leave their lap top out here?” As we walked closer…I realized, it was Danny’s pillow. Danny’s journal. All my favorite things. I started shaking. “Where’s Danny?! ” I yelled, so excited to see him!
Sheena told me to sit down and read his journal…I was shaking and so excited to see Danny…the wind was blowing all the pages so I didn’t know which one to read…I said, “should I really read his journal…last time I did that I had to confess to him that I read a page!” Sheena laughed and said “he left it there for you to read.” I looked across the beach and I saw Danny walking out on a big rock ledge…smiling. He looked so handsome. So calm. I was so excited to see him. He walked closer to me, gave me a hug, and told me to read the journal entry from a year ago today. So I did. I was so nervous/excited that it took me a while to read the whole page…it was all about how much he loved me, and how he knew he was going to marry me one day.
I turned around to look at him and he was down on one knee smiling, holding out a gorgeous ring. I smiled at him in shock…and he said “Will you marry me?” And I said, “of course I will!” Then came the tears!
He sat me down, took off my shoes and socks, and washed my feet. As he washed my feet he told me how much he loves me. That he would die for me. That he is commited to me and would do anything for me. He said he loves who I am, the way I look at him, the way I love him, the way I love God, and the way I love others….(he said other things but I was too in shock to remember them all!). As he was saying all this…our song with very much significance was playing
(“Nothing Else I need” by Jeremy Camp).
(“Nothing Else I need” by Jeremy Camp).
He put my socks and shoes back on, we hugged and talked. Sheena took our picture around the beach. We went back to the blanket and he made hot chocolate. We headed back up and Sheena gave me a dress, shoes and coat to wear…because of more surprises.
As we walked to what I thought was going to be Danny’s car…we ended up at a Vespa (moto) he rented (to recreate an afternoon in the Philippines)! He took me to a coffee shop. We sat and enjoyed ourselves and called our parents. Then, we headed to Target to get some gloves (the moto ride was chilly)…and what’s a night without Target J! Then we headed to Villa Nova…the best Italian restaurant in Orange County. It overlooked a lake and Balboa Island. It was beautiful…live music, Christmas lights, amazing food. We had a wonderful meal, prayed together, cried together, danced a little. It was amazing. After dinner we took a chilly moto ride back to the rental place. And he drove me home. And here I am in my PJ’s, still shaking with excitement and staring at my beautiful ring. I love him..I am so excited to be his wife.
