Story time!! "The Engagement"

Saturday, June 13, 2009.

7:52am, My phone rings (and wakes me up). It's Mitch. He is asking me to print out the email he sent me, and to look out my window when I'm finished. He is outside in my front yard with a goofy little grin and his guitar. He starts out my day with a Filipino love song called "Harana" which means "Serenade." The email was the English translation of the song he was playing and singing, so I would understand. And it was so cute.
Next, we went to Federal Hill in Baltimore where we went on our first real date 14 months ago.
We picked up food from Quizno's and drove around UMBC because it had been a long time since we had been there.
Then we went to the Washington National Cathedral where we ate our picnic lunch and then read "Tales of the Kingdom."
In the middle of our story, Mitch told me he wrote a song for me and wanted to play it now. Still oblivious of what is to come, I happily agreed to hear it.
He wrote the cutest, sweetest, "said everything I need to say", song and then set his guitar down, pulled a ring out of his pocket and got down on one knee. He told me he loved me (for the first time!) and asked me to be his wife. I said "Yes!"
Wow!! I still can't believe it actually happened. But here's the best part.. Lydia Hartnett captured the entire thing on camera.
You can see some of the pictures here.