Our engagement photos

A few photos from our engagement photo shoot in Downtown Grand Rapids.

We're Engaged!

On January 26, 2007 we got engaged!

Jason and I were aplanning on going to his house in Brighton for the weekend. I was running a little late, and was freaking out because Jason was right on time. After we packed up the car and were about ready to leave, Jason informed me that he needed to take a picture of a "peaceful place" for one of his classes before Monday. He said he had written his paragraph about Window on the Waterfront (a park in Holland). The park is a place that Jason and I visit frequently in the summer when we rollerblade, bike ride or take walks. He pulled into the parking lot and started getting out. I stayed seated in the car thinking all he had to do was take a quick picture. Jason then informed me that I needed to take a picture of him in the spot as he grabbed his backpack from the backseat, claiming "he needed to check the assignment." As he started to walk to a deck in the middle of the park I began asking if we could just take the picture from the parking lot, with the stuff behind him. He said no and started walking through the snow to the deck. I had on clogs and began complaining about walking through the snow. At one point I said, "Oh I should have grabbed my gloves" Jason asked if I wanted to go back and get them. I replied "No let’s get this over with." Jason was trying to be cute and asked me to hold his hand and I told him no, I was going to walk in his footprints so I didn’t get snowy feet. (As you can tell I wasn't being a good sport about this :) We finally get to the deck and I asked if he came here frequently without me, he said no, and I commented that this was the first place we had ever talked about getting engaged. Jason informed me that he had a confession to make, there was no picture or assignment, but that he had a surprise. He took a blanket out of his bag and set it on the bench. He then took out a book that he had created and had professionally printed and bound full of pictures. He told me to read the book out loud which he had written his own words to "Oh the Places We'll go" based off the Dr. Seuss book. I started reading and by about page five I was crying so hard I could no longer see the words. After he read some of the pages to me, I got to the end which read:

"So there comes a time for everyone,
To take that next big leap.
I have a pretty big question for you,
But I am afraid you might just weep.

As I read that page, Jason got down on one knee, took out the ring, and popped the BIG question. Of course I said yes instantly as he put the ring on my finger. We both have not stopped glowing since :)