New "Adult" Step

So...guess what? Well, you (the reader) most likely already knows that I am ENGAGED to Benjamin Crabtree!!! So this post is the recounting of our engagement.

We went to the Outer Banks with his family (Sam, Donna, and Chris), the Tolberts (Randy and Kim), and the Gilsons (Ron, Erin, Ryan, and Cali). We had a huge beach house rented for the week with plans to fish, swim, layout, and do some site seeing.

I have never been to the OBX so I was excited to see (and possibly climb) some lighthouses. Which played into his hands well! We got there Saturday, Sunday was rainy, and Monday set out to be beautiful. He has since told me that he planned to take me out on the first nice day so we could spend the majority of vacation engaged. So Monday it was.

We left early and headed to Corona Island to see the Currituck Lighthouse. At one point during the ride I cut the back of my left heel on something sharp under the car seat (blood letting #1). We got stuck in traffic on the island and finally made it to the lighthouse. Looking back I should have known something was up because he wouldn't sit next to me at breakfast (ring box was in his cargo short pocket) and he "bartered" with me, "If you straighten your hair I'll shave my face." Hahahaha.

So we walked around the yard, went in the gift shop, and then he announces he needs to go to the bathroom. Weird in retrospect. As we are walking to the bathroom he accidentally steps on the back of my heel, tearing open my huge blister I got running on the beach the day before (blood letting #2). I am now bleeding out of both heels! He tells me later he went in the bathroom, got as far away from the toilet as possible, then pulled the box out to check the ring position.

We then proceed to pay and begin climbing to the top of Currituck. Once up we take pictures, look around, and enjoy the view/breeze. At one point I look away and turn around to see him getting on one knee. I proceed to say, "Stop playing around" (or something similar). He says, "Lauren Fuselier, will you marry me?" To which I reply, "Are you serious?....YES!!!!!" He then puts the ring on my finger (which I don't even remember him doing). And I CRIED. We then had to wait for someone else to climb up so we could take pictures and re-create the moment...so the pictures are staged but hysterical. We climb down and I ask if we get a prize for getting engaged up top, but the answer was no. But alot of cute old women congratulated us. We then went to the gift shop to buy a few Currituck mementos.

We drove back to the house to screaming and hugging family and a sweet happy engagement package from my mom that included wedding magazines, champagne, and champagne glasses.

And thus begins our engagement journey. No we don't have a date/time/season/color/etc picked out or planned. But I know I love him.