She said YES!

So I told you yesterday that today is a very important anniversary for Joey and me.  A year ago today (and around this time) he got down on one knee in our apartment after driving up to Pennsylvania and back and asked me to be his wife.  Obviously I said YES!  From there we entered into a year of complete insanity.... our winter, spring, summer, and fall went ridiculously fast and here we are back on the brink of winter again.

I wanted to commemorate our engagement by sharing some photos that were taken right around that time.  We were by ourselves in our apartment when the engagement actually happened, but this is one of the first photos of the ring, taken at 8:21pm on November 29, 2009.  You can see the only witness to our engagement, Bandit, in the background.  The picture isn't great quality, but it commemorates the initial shock and excitement of our engagement!

Getting engaged is such an exciting time.  The first several months are so much fun, as you get to see friends and family, tell everyone the story over and over again, and celebrate with many glasses of champagne.  Below, is a photo of Joey and I in the back of a limousine sipping champagne and toasting our engagement about 5 days after the fact.

Some other fun things that happen right after you get engaged are:

1. Engagement Photos!
Our friend Amanda took some beautiful engagement photos of us in 2+ feet of snow in old town Occoquan.  We took these just a few weeks after our engagement so we'd always remember the time of year and  to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season!

2. Have an engagement party! 
We were lucky enough to have friends that wanted to host this event for us.  All we had to do was show up!

From there, it was full ahead full into wedding planning! 

Thanks for joining me on a quick trip down memory lane of the days following my and Joey's engagement!

Love,
SG