it's good to know there are still a few out there! i just noticed i went exactly one (very eventful) year between posts.

hey friends!!  on saturday, chris pratt asked me if i would marry him.  i said 'YES!' (very quickly, he would add :)).  then he gave me a beautiful ring.  i uploaded some pictures -- check them out!! :):)

the ring is just what i wanted!!  and the day was wonderful.  it rained really hard as we were walking out of the woods where he asked me... i told him it would just make the story more fun to tell!!

yesterday at church during worship i couldn't stop crying.  the lyrics were about the gospel and i felt overwhelmingly grateful to the Lord for everything he had already done for me, and also this new thing that is so much better than what i would've hoped for.  i really love chris, and he feels like such a gift to me.

Chris and I went to MGM last night and saw the Osborne Family Dancing Lights. They added the dancing part this year... last year it was just a bunch of lights on one of the city blocks (like a movie set) in the park; now about every 10 min they do a show with the lights dancing to music. I guess they patterned it after that clip the everyone was into on the internet last Christmas.

The Osbornes, the people who originally did this whole light thing in Little Rock, actually bought their neighbors' homes so they could decorate them with lights as well. Wow! It takes money to be that kind of a fanatic.

Eventually other neighbors complained cuz the lights display was causing traffic jams all the time. They shut the Osbornes down, but Disney bought the idea; and I think the Osbornes sold it to other people too. So now they are rolling in even more dough.

So on that note... Merry Christmas everyone!!