Wow!! So much has happened in the last couple months! The last couple months with Andrea home have been extremely awesome and I couldn’t have asked for a better girlfriend. Not only girlfriend, but my best friend. She is just plain AMAZING. But, there’s something wrong with my statement…She’s not just my girlfriend anymore. SHE’S MY FIANCÈ!!!
For those who don’t know (and by now you have seen the awesome news), I got engaged Friday night. It was absolutely one of the most awesome things to happen in my entire life. I am going to marry the love of my life, my best friend Andrea Pangburn! A lot of people have asked how we met. We knew each other in high school. She was a year behind me. We were really good friends at one point, then just stopped talking. Last April, she sent me a Facebook message. She asked me about our church and we started catching up from there. It was really awesome. In June, we started walking La Fortune Park here in Tulsa. I was having a blast with her. I never smiled or laughed that much in a week in a long time. When Camp Destin time came around in July, I knew something was starting to change inside me. You see, I started walking with this beautiful girl and never once saw the feelings I was starting to have for her come along. I always thought that a guy like me could never get blessed enough to be with a beautiful girl like her. I mean, from the first day we started walking I knew how beautiful she was. During camp week, it hit me that I was missing her, despite the fact we weren’t dating. The next week I was in Albuquerque and we started texting and Facebook messaging each other.
Before this, our text messages were growing in frequency. We found ourselves not just checking to see if we were walking that night, but we were talking about other things too. I was having an awesome time talking to her, even if it was just through text message. The week after I came back from New Mexico I asked her out (via Facebook haha!) on our first date: Savastano’s Pizza and bowling at Andy B’s. It was a fun night! I remember how beautiful she looked! We walked after that and I got the nerve up to ask her out again in person, this time to Cheddar’s and the Broken Arrow skating rink. Only I didn’t make this one clear that it was a date. She left for England for three months. Before then we both found out how we felt about the other. Things started from there. October 11, 2010 was when it became official that we were boyfriend and girlfriend. That was one of the best days of my life. Despite the distance and the time difference, we talked and worked hard to make our relationship the best we could while we were apart. And that made our bond a lot stronger after she came home. We spend as much time as possible with each other. It’s an amazing feeling.
Now, four months, and two weeks later, I proposed to her, with the answer being the big YES!!!!!! I was so excited! I still am! I thank God every day for the blessing He’s given me. It’s an amazing feeling! I’ll give updates about the wedding as we make our plans more concrete, but so far:
December wedding, small, family and some close friends only. Afterward, a bigger reception. No concrete decisions on where the honeymoon will be, or when the reception will be either. I will keep you posted! Thank you for all the congratulations we have gotten! They mean so much to us! We are both really really excited!!
Just thought I’d update you guys.
As always, be blessed!
Chris
