We’re getting married!

One word to describe us and our love story: unexpected. We didnt expect to end up dating, or to get engaged, especially not so soon. But if the Lord calls, then you answer. As we began dating, it became very apparent that the Lord had been working in our lives to make us perfect for each other. The summer was full of laughter and movie nights and deep conversations. Lake Murray Dam is one of our favorite places to go and chill. We’ve been there so many times and had these awesome late night conversations. Early in September, we headed out to the dam to destress and reconnect; however, Jonathan had set a plan involving Elijah and Camilla and a ring in motion that I had no idea about. When we got there, rather than walk along the dam as we are prone to do, Jonathan said we should walk along the water, because the moon was shining along it. Naturally, I agreed. When we got down to the water, Jonathan decided he wanted to skip a rock. I can’t skip rocks, period. I don’t know what type of rock you need to skip, so he subjected me to a ten-minute long lecture on what the perfect skipping rock looked like. At the end of it, I was so fed up with him waxing eloquent on the shape and size of the rock I was hunting around for the perfect rock myself to shut him up. Suddenly he asked, “Any rock will do, though, right?” I was so confused. I turned around and he had the ring. I stutter when I get excited, so he had to explain to me that yes, he was proposing, and yes, it was real and he meant it. Eventually we got the ring on and up popped Elijah and Camilla, who had been recording the entire thing. Jonathan dragged all of us over to a gazebo, where we had Pepsi and cupcakes (and poured one out for the homies, obviously). And we were engaged!