At this moment 5 years ago...

...Blake was asking me to marry him after only dating for 6 months. We had talked for a while about getting married, and I knew he had already purchased my ring, but I was totally surprised the night he actually proposed! Here are a few photos from that day. (This was before we had a digital camera, so these were taken with a disposable camera and scanned into the computer - yuck!)

Re-enactment :) Boy were we skinny!

I have to explain the ridiculous outfit I was wearing: I was living with Blake's sister at the time, and her oldest son Will was about 4. I stopped at their house after work on my way to see Blake. It was raining when I left, so I borrowed Will's jacket... None of us realized I still had it on until AFTER we had taken all of these pictures! Haha.

Thanks to Channing for taking these for us!

Here are some of the professional engagement photos we had taken a few weeks later.

Can't believe it has been 5 years!

Haaaaave you met Swarley?

Remember Blake's flooded backseat from my previous post? Blake wasn't really happy with his car anyway so rather than dealing with getting it fixed, we got this on Friday:

(Photo from the dealership website)

A 2006 Equinox. Blake took my Malibu and I get the Equinox :) This is by far the brightest vehicle I have ever owned! Haha.

Blake decided we should name it Swarley because "It's a little bit classy and a little bit flashy."

(Any HIMYM fans out there?? I probably just butchered that quote.)

Today I...

-Made our ridiculously expensive car insurance payment. (Gotta love having 2 drivers that are under 25 and 2 wrecks in the past 2 1/2 years.)

-Stopped at a store that was going out of business and was disappointed that things were only 25% off.

-Visited my favorite little shop in downtown Georgetown - that recently opened an online store! - to spend a gift certificate I won. Got a certain sweet girl some presents for her 1st birthday which is approaching way too quickly. (Had to send a photo to her Mom for approval.)

-Made a return at Target

-Did a little shopping at Target and spent MUCH more than the amount I got back for making a return. But I got some really great stuff! :)

-Added my new Christmas wrapping supplies (from Target) to my already embarrassingly large stash

(In case you were wondering: I have over 30 rolls of Christmas wrapping paper. I have another 10-15 rolls of paper to use for non-Christmas gifts. Yikes.)

-Made a return at American Eagle and didn't buy anything else. Does that make up for my Target splurge?

-Met Blake at Olive Garden for dinner. We've been doing so good about cooking/eating at home!

-Came home

-Went in the garage to see Blake's flooded backseat (Well, just the floorboard)

-Wrapped my first 3 Christmas presents of the year :)