Getting started

Well, considering my soon-to-be sisters-in-law Deb and Liz both have blogs (which, I'll admit, I read a bit obsessively), and everyone keeps telling me to keep them updated on Erich's and my life, I figured I'd start this thing. No promises on how often I'll update though.

Let's see. For those of you who don't know, Erich proposed to me on Thursday night, our eighteen-month anniversary. (10/07/10). It was amazing. I knew he was going ring shopping with my best friend Ariel that day, and we were going out to dinner that night to celebrate 18 months, so I was all sorts of nervous that day. In fact, I'd say neurotic is not an incorrect description. I was ridiculous. I met him for dinner at the Red Iguana on the West side of Salt Lake, and barely said a word out of nerves until he informed me that he had not purchased a ring. I have to admit, I almost cried. I was so disappointed. But it allowed me to calm down enough to enjoy dinner with him.
So, I drove home to Ogden. Erich beat me by literally 10 seconds, if that. We walked around to our back door, he opened it and let me walk in first. That's when I saw the whole house was dark, but the kitchen and living room were filled with probably 50 lit candles. I dropped everything I had been holding and turned around to look at him..but he was already on one knee, holding a little white box up.  He said something along the lines of,
" I had this whole speech planned out but I can't remember a word of it right now...ah, crap. Will you marry me?" His voice was so high-pitched and shaky, and he had tears in his eyes. I will never forget that moment. Or the moment of walking into my candle-filled house.
I of course said yes and started crying. Then (me being typical me), I asked him how long the candles had been lit, and mentioned it was really unsafe to leave lit candles unattended for any period of time. I am all about fire safety. Hah. He informed me that our friend Jesse had actually been in the house lighting the candles for Erich, which was a huge relief. Anyways. He put the ring on my finger (it is gorgeous), and I called my mom to tell her the happy news. I almost wish I hadn't now...she is furious, to the point where we aren't speaking and I'm looking into student loans to pay for school. Argh. My dad and stepmom are thrilled, and Erich's whole family seems to be pretty excited as well. All of our friends are in shock I think (we're the first people to get engaged out of all of our friends), but they all seem excited for us too.

Anyways, it is 9:15 pm and us old fogies who have to be up at 6 am need sleep. Going to bed now.

EDIT: I tried to post a picture of my ring, but apparently my camera has decided to go on the fritz. I think it feels neglected. Erich is messing with it now, hopefully I'll be able to post some soon. I can't get over how pretty it is :)
And because I am lazy, and 99% of the time I decide to get on this thing I'm at work and don't have a way of uploading pictures here, I'm the lame blogger with no pictures. Hopefully I'll remember while at home soon.