I LOVE YOU!! Part Dos

For those who know what the title of this blog is, you know what it means: CHRIS AND I ARE ENGAGED!! And we couldn't be happier!!! :)


So for those of you who care to read the lovely details, enjoy the following:


Chris and I, along with 6 other friends, were in Myrtle Beach from Thursday through Sunday of last week. We enjoyed the beach and I enjoyed my first vacation ever with some people that I love. On Saturday evening Chris and I walked along Ocean Boulevard with Britney and Andrew [my engaged friends who I'm very excited for as well] and eventually made our way back to the hotel. Because our vacation was almost over and this would be our last night at the beach, Chris suggested that we head to the beach for a walk and to take some pics of the waves and such. [He has an eye for that type of thing.] I was all about it because it meant 1.) more time with just him, 2.) we found really cool photo albums but didn't have pics to put in it, and 3.) who would want to pass up a walk on the beach at night! So we walked out the hotel and onto the beach and he begins taking pics as we walk along the shore. We got part way down the beach and Chris stopped to set up the tripod. So as he was capturing awesome pics like this lightening shot!!


While he was taking it, I began to draw in the sand. Since we've been together sometimes I would write 'RCM' standing for 'Rachel Clum/Chris Massie' so I drew just that in the sand with a heart and the date under it. About this time my brother and the Bens walked up headed back to the hotel and they noticed what I wrote in the sand. Immediately my brother read it and thought that Chris had already proposed![Everyone on the trip knew what was about to happen, I was the only clueless one! :-) ] Wisely before saying something, Zac and Ben made some hard looks at my hand and realized 'it' hadn't happened yet, so they went on their way. After taking more pics as we made our way to the pier and took a few more! Eventually Chris stopped taking pics for a bit and laid out a beach towel so we could sit and chat [and enjoy our surroundings]. As we sat there Chris asked me if I had enjoyed my first vacation, I said that I did and we still had a bit more to enjoy. Then I asked him if he enjoyed the vacation. He said that it was good, but only one thing would have made it better. 'Finding a message in the bottle would have made it better' he explained.


As a side story, for a couple days leading up to the trip and the first days of vacation, Chris continued to talk about how cool he thought it'd be to find a message in a bottle washed up on shore. So I was not surprised that he thought that the was the only one thing that could have made it better. I responded with a 'yeah, that would have made it better' but in the back of my mind I was thinking, 'but that only happens in movies so why be disappointed'. Chris surprised me by pulling a bottle with a scroll in it out of his bookbag and said that he brought one from home!


As I opened the bottle and began to read the scroll aloud, I excitedly said 'oh I love it when you do these little things for me!' [Still I am clueless about the engagement because Chris is wonderful and does little special things for me just because on a regular basis!] The letter on the scroll ended with the following:


'Hear my final words: I am in love with you, but you already know that. But you must also know this...' I turned to him as I turned the scrolling over looking for more and inquired if there was more. He shook his head no, but got the cutest [I mean 'rugged-est'], indescribable grin on his face and he said, 'I love you!' I gasped and showered him with a bunch of kisses because I knew what that meant!


A necessary back story is that from the beginning of our relationship Chris had said that he did not want to say 'I love you' until the next words out of his mouth were going to be 'Will you marry me?' So when he said I love you, I knew that he was proposing!!


So he said 'I love you' and after many *muahs* he got up off our beach towel and down on one knee and said 'Will you marry me?' as he pulled out the beautiful ring he chose for me!!


I of course said YES! and we were officially ENGAGED!!!!!


Hearing I love you, receiving a beautiful ring from my most favorite person in the world, and hearing him officially ask me to be his wife was all like a dream, but the greatest part is that it's all a reality!!

Ahh, I love him too. :-)