Comments on: How Did You Get Engaged? http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:19:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-6025 Mary Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:05:02 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-6025 Yes we are! I often thank God for sending my dh to me while I was still young so we could truly spend as much of our lives together as possible...but in this day and age, how scary to get married that young, unless you know it's of God. So much easier to go wrong than right. I was such a baby but thank God it all turned out just fine! Thanks for the congratulations! Yes we are! I often thank God for sending my dh to me while I was still young so we could truly spend as much of our lives together as possible…but in this day and age, how scary to get married that young, unless you know it’s of God. So much easier to go wrong than right.

I was such a baby but thank God it all turned out just fine!

Thanks for the congratulations!

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5970 Geri Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:14:15 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5970 And still going strong too! And still going strong too!

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5969 Geri Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:13:39 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5969 Silver and blue...congratulations! 15 years is a milestone to most people nowadays. I am so happy for you guys! That is amazing! It's so sad how marriage nowadays is taken for granted. There's so few "troopers" left who actually respect the Sanctity and importance of a marriage vow. I am so happy to hear when a couple is together for so long! Silver and blue…congratulations! 15 years is a milestone to most people nowadays. I am so happy for you guys! That is amazing! It’s so sad how marriage nowadays is taken for granted. There’s so few “troopers” left who actually respect the Sanctity and importance of a marriage vow. I am so happy to hear when a couple is together for so long!

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5964 Mary Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:39:22 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5964 For me, when our anniversary rolls around, I'm astounded at how long we've been married. I don't feel as old as I thought people were who had been married 15 years! (we'll be fifteen next July!) I know when we got married, my older sister had already been married 5 years, and that sounded like a lifetime to a young 18 year old! Time flies, that's for sure. Sometimes I look forward to having the mortgage paid off but then I stop and think, no! That means our oldest will be 15 already! She's growing up too fast! (Unless by miracle we got the mortgage paid off before its time was up! Now that would be FINE with me!) Yes, December 18, 1992, I'll never forget that special night! I bet you had a beautiful Christmas wedding! What were your colors? For me, when our anniversary rolls around, I’m astounded at how long we’ve been married. I don’t feel as old as I thought people were who had been married 15 years! (we’ll be fifteen next July!) I know when we got married, my older sister had already been married 5 years, and that sounded like a lifetime to a young 18 year old! Time flies, that’s for sure. Sometimes I look forward to having the mortgage paid off but then I stop and think, no! That means our oldest will be 15 already! She’s growing up too fast! (Unless by miracle we got the mortgage paid off before its time was up! Now that would be FINE with me!)

Yes, December 18, 1992, I’ll never forget that special night! I bet you had a beautiful Christmas wedding! What were your colors?

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5949 Geri Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:11:58 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5949 Yeah...it's funny because it feels like ALOT longer! When you said 2 yrs I was like "no...isn't it 3?"...but then I counted and wow! And now time will really fly by having a child! That's neat that the day you got engaged was the day after our wedding (different years though). Yeah…it’s funny because it feels like ALOT longer! When you said 2 yrs I was like “no…isn’t it 3?”…but then I counted and wow! And now time will really fly by having a child!

That’s neat that the day you got engaged was the day after our wedding (different years though).

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5934 Mary Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:33:44 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5934 Woo-hoo, 4 months! Flash-romance! How exciting...it's wonderful that you both knew it was the real thing. So you're almost 2 years old together! Woo-hoo, 4 months! Flash-romance! How exciting…it’s wonderful that you both knew it was the real thing. So you’re almost 2 years old together!

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5918 Geri Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:31:14 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5918 We met on August 1, 2005 and were married on December 17, 2005...so not very long at all! But I knew he was the one and my family loved him so that helped alot! We met on August 1, 2005 and were married on December 17, 2005…so not very long at all! But I knew he was the one and my family loved him so that helped alot!

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5906 Mary Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:07:27 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5906 What a great story! I can just picture it all, your way with words painted it perfectly! I'm so glad you held out, Geri, what a wonderful happy ending! So how long did you guys date before marriage? What a great story! I can just picture it all, your way with words painted it perfectly! I’m so glad you held out, Geri, what a wonderful happy ending! So how long did you guys date before marriage?

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5899 Geri Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:06:06 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5899 Ok...: One of the first dates DH and I went on was to this public attraction near where we lived at the time, these Hot Springs. They were packed but we had a nice dinner and went to the Hot Springs afterwards. We always thought of it as "our spot" because we went there several times during our dating months, sometimes bringing my siblings along. Then one time on our way to his parents home after we had gone there he started to tell me how if he wanted to get into his electrical apprenticing then he would have to move, possibly way up North, but that he still wanted to continue our relationship and we'd be able to visit every so often. A year before I had just finished a very bad long distance relationship and there was no way I was going to ever do one again, no matter how much I wanted to...and I usually am not a crier but I couldn't stop crying. So then he asked me to move up North with him. I am Catholic so I told him no; not only for my own sake but for my parents...Dad woulda had his head on a platter! (J/K). Anyhow, that kinda ruined that trip. By the end of the next week every time he came to visit me he had this huge grin plastered on his face and it was really starting to annoy me...I kept asking "are you ok??" "what's wrong with you??". I said something sarcastically at work even about how "I doubt he's going to pop the question over this"...Sure enough the next Saturday we went to "our spot", had dinner, and then went down to the Hot Springs. They were packed that day. The cool thing about these Hot Springs is they have caves going into the rock mountainside adjoining the hot pools. So we were sitting on a ledge in the cave with all these kids and parents milling around when he got down on one knee and proposed! The funny thing was that since the caves are SO hot and it's hard to breathe anyways...I was having extra problems breathing then. It was amazing though! Sorry it's so long! Ok…:

One of the first dates DH and I went on was to this public attraction near where we lived at the time, these Hot Springs. They were packed but we had a nice dinner and went to the Hot Springs afterwards. We always thought of it as “our spot” because we went there several times during our dating months, sometimes bringing my siblings along. Then one time on our way to his parents home after we had gone there he started to tell me how if he wanted to get into his electrical apprenticing then he would have to move, possibly way up North, but that he still wanted to continue our relationship and we’d be able to visit every so often. A year before I had just finished a very bad long distance relationship and there was no way I was going to ever do one again, no matter how much I wanted to…and I usually am not a crier but I couldn’t stop crying. So then he asked me to move up North with him. I am Catholic so I told him no; not only for my own sake but for my parents…Dad woulda had his head on a platter! (J/K). Anyhow, that kinda ruined that trip.
By the end of the next week every time he came to visit me he had this huge grin plastered on his face and it was really starting to annoy me…I kept asking “are you ok??” “what’s wrong with you??”. I said something sarcastically at work even about how “I doubt he’s going to pop the question over this”…Sure enough the next Saturday we went to “our spot”, had dinner, and then went down to the Hot Springs. They were packed that day. The cool thing about these Hot Springs is they have caves going into the rock mountainside adjoining the hot pools. So we were sitting on a ledge in the cave with all these kids and parents milling around when he got down on one knee and proposed! The funny thing was that since the caves are SO hot and it’s hard to breathe anyways…I was having extra problems breathing then. It was amazing though!

Sorry it’s so long!

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5881 Mary Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:00:03 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2007/09/01/how-did-you-get-engaged/#comment-5881 I'd love to hear yours, Geri! I’d love to hear yours, Geri!

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