It’s been a good time though - raised some money for charity, gave some cool stuff away and ranted and raved about all sorts of stupid crap. Here’s to another four years of filling the internet with my useless ramblings

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Our next door neighbor has his house lit up a la Griswold, which is nice, I figure I’ll just hope some of the light beaming from his house will light mine up a little. He even offered to hang my lights for me, which was a nice gesture but not gonna happen because A.) I don’t own outdoor lights. and B.) I honestly don’t feel like it.

It’s been a rough year and I just don’t feel even a little “in the spirit”. I hope next year I’ll be back to my maniac Martha Stewart-esq Christmas-y self. But for this year I think it’ll be a low key Xmas for me.

He gathered everyone on our back porch and thanked them for coming to see him, he then called me over to stand with him. He began reminiscing about the start of our relationship and how he asked me to move in with him by “proposing we try ‘playing house’ for awhile and see how it goes”. And how everything has gone so splendidly that he had one more proposal for me (see where this is going?)

The moment he whipped out the ring box everyone around us went crazy and the ladies in the crowd all yelled out “WAIT WE NEED OUR CAMERAS!” and they all stampeded back into the house *chuckle* The Hotness just kind of looked at me and asked “What do I do?” and I shrugged and said “Wait I guess.” So there we stood, him clutching a ring box and me giggling at the fact that in my family nothing will ever go according to plan.

Finally, everyone came flying back out of the house cameras in hand and he hit the ground on one knee and asked me to marry him After a yes from me the time after turned into a whirlwind of hugs, laughter, and tons of pictures from everyone…for me I couldn’t have been happier to have my family and friends share in the moment and it was a picture perfect proposal in my book. The actual pictures from the whole thing are rather shaky as our photographer (Maria) was jumping around hootin’ n’ hollerin’ with everyone else (view more photos here):

So with all that said I’m now a spoken for woman (HA!) and the crazy process of wedding planning will begin in earnest when The Hotness returns in a few months. For now I’m just enjoying wearing the ring and playing the part of the blushing fiancee

Our winner is: Shannah from Domestic Illusions!

I’ve got lots more juicy gossip a la Buggie to share with y’all but for now I must do some behind the scenes upgrades to this ol’ blog so stay tuned for more and watch for the next Win It!