post it note proposal

* do me a favor and click on this video above so you'll have

fun music to listen to while you share in my excitement!

 

 



i'm a momma on cloud nine today!

 

our daughter is engaged!!!

 



 

I know a lot of these phone photos are grainy, but they are photos

of the lovebirds

adria and her "fiancé" chris.

 

they are photos of some of the fun times

these two have shared in the last two and a half years

having fun- and falling in love.



 

 

 

 

 

 

like all parents 

my sweetie and I have been dreaming of this day since our

girl was little. we hoped and prayed for a good man for her.

 

chris is a great guy and he could not fit in better with our family.

these two love adventure and enjoy so many of the same things. they hunt, they fish,

 they travel, 

they cook. they play cards and snuggle with their pup. they garden and

hang out with friends, and are content home alone.

the way they admire and

respect each other is a joy to us.

  it's been a blast watching them fall in love.

 

chris and adria write love notes to each on post it notes.

it's been a huge part of their love story.

they hide them in suitcases when one of them travels. they are stuck to the

front of the dryer and hidden in drawers.

there are some at our cabin in their room.

they are found in her purse and in his car.

 

i told her a few months ago that if this boy ever

proposes, i hope she is saving a lot of them, cause she'll

treasure them someday.

 

last Friday night, while opening their Christmas

gifts for each other, he handed her a gift and then

got down on one knee and while she was opening it- he pulled out

a ring box and told her the many

 reasons that he loves her. then he gave her the ring.

(the beautiful ring).

 

the gift was a frame, full of post it love notes~~and in the middle

it said~

"Adria, will you marry me?"

Dec. 20th, 2013.

 

 

*lars and I knew for 3 days last week that chris was going to propose

and I felt like I had this HUGE, precious, bubble of joy inside me that

made me about burst!!!!

 

 

 

 chris, we think you're going to marry a

pretty terrific girl- and we think she is very blessed

to have captured your heart.

 

 

 

p.s. OUR DAUGHTER IS ENGAGED!!!!   EEEEEEEKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

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Merry Christmas y'all!

 

today is also my youngest's golden birthday.

25 years ago today our family

was completed, with the most anticipated,

long awaited,

longed for child. our Cole.

 

call me biased, but i think there is something extra magical about

a baby born on Christmas Day.

He was sent home in a Christmas stocking

and our world was forever changed for the

better.

 

Mucho love to our Christmas child,

 

 

 

 

 

 

hark the herald angels sing,

GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING 

 

XO, beth