Wednesday, 18 February 2009

• Engaged!!

  Just in case you missed it, Ellen and I are engaged...
  
  ...and as promised here is the story of the most amazing Valentine's Day of my life....
  
  It begins like so...
  
  She thought I was going to be in the mountains with my family for Valentine's Day weekend but her Dad and I had different ideas. (I had flowers delivered on Friday to throw her off and a note saying how I really wished I could be with her but... hehehe) Anyway, I had to get up at 3:30am the morning of Feb 14th to get to the airport, but it was worth it of course. I arrived in FL at 10:30am on Valentine's Day and her Dad picked me up while doing "errands." He and I then went to "Perry's", a resort on the ocean that their family has gone to since before Ellen was even a twinkle in her Daddy's eye. When we arrived we got the front desk ladies in on our scheme and I gave them a teddy bear...
   
  ...with a note for Ellen. Then Mr. Joe called Ellen and the rest of the fam on the phone to meet him there to "see the renovations" they had done at the resort and then go out to lunch as a family, still of course not letting on that I was there with him. I went down to the beach and set up a CD player on a towel and drew a heart in the sand near by, and he stayed out front to meet the fam. When they got there and came into the lobby the front desk lady was like "hey do you guys know someone named Ellen Gibilisco? This little teddy bear just walked in a little before you and said he had a very important message for her.” The message told her to run on down to the beach for something special.
  
  So then she and the fam walked down to the pool by the beach and then when she saw me down by the ocean she ran on down to me while the fam stayed back by the pool. For a while all we could do was hold each other and cry...then after our tearful embrace I hit play on the CD player and our favorite song "Better Together" started. Then I got down on one knee....
  
  ...held her hand and asked her to marry me to which she responded with an emphatic and tearful YES! I then handed her the ring in its little box...
  
  ...we opened it together and then I slipped it on her pretty little finger. Then of course there was more hugging as our song finished playing and then we headed back up to see the family so Ellen could show off her new ring.
  
  After hugs and a couple pix with the family....
  
  
  
  ....Ellen and I headed out just the two of us for lunch at "Aunt Catfish", a favorite restaurant of theirs where we had a very yummy happy lunch together. 
  
  
  Sooooo, that is basically the story. I feel soooo blessed and fortunate. God is really far too good to me... I have the most gorgeous, wonderful, beautiful fiancee in the world!!!
  
  
  
  
  
  I wuv you Ellen!!!!
  
  
  
  Ellen is an amazing singer btw. Enjoy this video of her singing at her church the day after we were engaged.
  
  Grace and peace,
  
  ~James
  

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