An Engaging Easter Weekend

We knew it was going to happen at some point. We knew plans were in the works. We knew the time was drawing closer. And then it happened! On Easter weekend.

Ben and Haley are officially engaged!!!

Ben was eagerly awaiting the moment when the jeweler told him the ring was finished and he could pick it up. When he got the word, he put his plan into action.

He planned to bring Haley up to spend the Easter weekend. As soon as they got here, we went to eat at Texas Roadhouse. Then, to get her away from the house, they went to the grocery story to buy some ingredients for homemade ice cream. This is certainly something they have consistently done the last half dozen to a dozen times they have come up here. They are obsessed with homemade ice cream.

As soon as they were gone, Glen and I quickly jumped into action.

Glen got busy hiding the Easter eggs Ben had filled with love notes and candy. Ben had instructed us to hide them mostly in the front yard with a few on the side of the house. There were a dozen of them. I was working on the 13th egg--a large one--which was the culmination of the Easter egg hunt.

Originally Ben had wanted the last egg presentation--complete with red rose petals and a bouquet of red roses--set up on the grass in the back yard.

Glen and I had worked hard all morning out in the yard cutting down unwanted trees, pulling all the dead trees up out of the scrub oak trees and weeding all around. The yard was looking very nice...UNTIL the guy came to aerate our lawn. Looked like the grass was covered with dog poop! Very unromantic.

Plan B was for me to set up the last egg on the deck hidden by the grill so she wouldn't immediately see it when they came around from the side of the house.

When they got home from the grocery store, there was an Easter basket sitting on the steps and the Easter egg hunt began.

When Haley got to the last egg, the big one sitting there next to the roses, she was a little disappointed when she opened it to not find a ring inside. At that point Ben pulled the ring out of his pocket, went down on one knee and proposed to her.

The date has been set for August 23rd. This New York girl is choosing to be married here. Let's just say that will be a lot easier on our family to not have a destination wedding. (I guess for Jacob and Abe's families it is a destination wedding for them...)

So the plans are being made and we'll find out all the exciting details as time goes on.

The sisters wanted to be in on everything, so they were eager to come up for Sunday dinner. Happy Easter!!!

Congratulations Ben and Haley on your engagement!!!