As soon as I flew in from Portland yesterday I headed straight for College Station, 4 hours away, to ask Cori's parents for their blessing. In talking to my friends up north and them trying to get me ready to talk to her parents I was set up to face the worst. However, when I got to College Station, her parents already basically knew what was coming but we sat down and i gave them my shpeel and the said i had their blessing. It was so much easier and not as stressful as I had expected. I expected a lot. They gave me a Dr. Pepper and I hit the road for another 4 hours.

Tonight we went to The Cheesecake Factory for dinner had a great meal and some killer cheese cake. She asked what else I had planned but I really didn't let her know. We went to downtown Ft. Worth to a parking garage that I always used to visit her on her lunches where we always parked for dates and one for one date that gave us hope when we hit a bump in our relationship and I thought it would make for a good setting for the picture. It was extremely cold but we took our jackets off for the pictures. I took a few with the timer and played around till I got it around where I wanted it. For this picture, I had the ring already in my back pocket, I waited for the timer light to get to the last 2 seconds I said "oh wait" and looked at the camera to distract her. knelt down and asked her as the flash went off. She was so surprised and she said yes.

I know early early on in this relationship that this was the girl that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I thank God for putting such a beautiful, strong, loving, Godly woman in my life. I'm blessed more than any man on this world and cant wait for the wedding. Thanks to everyone who has supported and loved us through these past wonderful 3 years.