He took me to this place where you eat dinner on the beach - like, a few feet from the water... i knew we were going out - we had set tonight aside as a "date night" - but i had no clue where we were going.  we had our little table and then two beach chairs set up in front of it... right along the water.  there were maybe 8 other couples out there too...

we sat in the beach chairs first - as the sun set :) 

while the other couples were coming in and sitting down, our waiters were preparing our table behind us.  ( i didn't even know!)  at the perfect moment, one waiter came to us and asked if we wanted him to take our picture.  he kept taking more pictures and it seemed kinda strange.  then 3 or 4 waiters came to us and told us we could be seated. 

on the table there were these cocktails for us to enjoy before the meal.  on my drink, my ring!!  when i looked over, darin was on his knee!!!  (i was absolutely freaking out.) 

 he asked me to marry him.  i said "of course i will marry you!"  everyone around us was watching and began congratulating us... some were crying and talking about how they "got chills".. it was funny.  anyhow... to top it off, later we DANCED!  (freak out!!)  on the beach!  it was amazing!!!  anyway... that's the basic story!

WE ARE ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!