Big Events!!!

Hello all!
It's been a very long time since my last post. Much has happened in the past school year. I was an RA in East Hall, and was so enormously blessed by all my girls. At the beginning of the ye
ar I came in questioning why God had brought me into this position because I didn't feel equipped or up to the task. At the end of the year I left the position wondering why God had chosen me for the position, because I had the opportunity to be so blessed by so many wonderful people and through difficult yet growing circumstances - I didn't deserve it at all. All in all, I am a very different person than I was at the beginning of the year, as I'm sure many of you who know me can attest to.

Another exciting event that occured this past year, was my engagement to a most wonderful, most amazing man that I am so blessed to have the love of and to be able to love: Jesse. For those of you who haven't heard the story:
Jesse and I decided to go for a picnic lunch one day at Children's Park. (For those of you who don't go to Dordt or aren't familiar with the area, Children's park is near the public grade school - I think it's called Kinsey Elementary.)
We had a picnic lunch of sandwiches, chips, juice, and something else - I don't remember what it was exactly. Those details are kind of fuzzy now. :D We ate and talked and joked around. After we finished eating our lunch, I had my heart set on going down the slide at the playground near the table where we were sitting. I told Jesse I would race him to the slide! We raced there, I got the bottom of the ladder, and he said he would catch me at the bottom of the slide. I said okay, and went quickly up the ladder. I slid down the slide (it was a twirly one), and Jesse was waiting for me at the bottom. He was waiting for me at the bottom down on one knee. He was waiting for me at the bottom down on one knee with a little black box in his hand. He was waiting for me at the bottom down on one knee with a little black box in his hand that had a white gold ring inside.

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!! XD

And then He asked me if I would marry him, and spend the rest of my life with him. I SAID YES, OF COURSE! :)
We walked back to Dordt, and stopped and prayed together to ask God's guidance, and blessing. Then we went and called everyone in our families, and found close friends, to tell them the good news. One day later it seemed as if ALL of Dordt had heard the news, and we received hundreds of congratulations and blessings. (I think my favourite reaction was a combined reaction of Faith and Lindsey/Megan and Elizabeth. They are a joy and a tie in my book. Priceless and memorable. Love you girls!)

If you'd like another story - you should sometime ask how Jesse plotted with one of our friends (Austin) to get my ring size - it's really quite the tale. :)