Happy 31st, Blake!

Big Blake had his 31st birthday, so I had to throw a party... especially since he just got me such a great present for my finger!  : )

I knew it was going to be so hard to top last year's pub crawl (thanks for letting me steal your idea, Amy) so I thought we would keep it fun and low key this year.  I asked Blake's friend Grayson if we could borrow his home since it's bigger than my apartment (I am so ready to buy a house!!!) and started the planning.  We went with a beer theme this year and started the party right before the OU/ west virginia game- thank goodness we pulled it out and won at the end or it wouldn't have been a very exciting party!  Here's some decorations from the big day:

The boys played games outside (the weather was WARM for November which was perfect)!

For the food, I made the following:

Chili- I forgot to take a picture, but I just did a crockpot recipe so that I didn't have to stress out about cooking during the game.  I got all the stuff so they could make frito pies if their heart so desired.

Here's a quick picture of the food setup, pre-food:

 Tailgate Dip

Bacon Pops

Blue Moon Cupcakes- I was questioning these a bit, but they were actually AWESOME!

The food went over great and it was a successful party. Thank goodness for the "Mason Luck" (his friends think he always gets lucky so they made him hold the TV- nerds), we even pulled out another Sooner win!

.... and the win was followed by the "Mase Guitar"....

All in all, I would say it was a successful Beerday!  ; )

We're ENGAGED!!!

The weekend of November 9th will go down in history as one our best weekends EVER!

Blake's company headquarters in in Santa Barbara, CA so he gets to travel that way about once a quarter for meetings (tough life, I know).  Anyway, he invited me to meet him up there for the weekend to "celebrate his birthday" which is on November 12th.  Of course I said yes, with the hopes I might be getting a better present than he would... ha!  I might have even called my dad to see if Blake had asked him any certain question lately...

We started the day with an awesome breakfast, then headed out on a wine tour... it was BEAUTIFUL and so much fun!  Here are some fun pics from the day:

After our fun day of tasting wines, we headed back to the hotel where I had a minor case of the hiccups- ha!  Blake was in a hurry to make it back so we could go to the top of the hotel and see the sunset but wanted to get checked into the room first.  So, our room "wasn't quite ready" when we got back which I thought was a bit odd but didn't think too much about it.  We finally got checked in to the amazing SUITE because Blake "wanted to surprise me".  Of course by then, I was getting pretty hopeful that it was going to be a REALLY good weekend.

He wanted to go catch the sunset so we ran upstairs to the rooftop when I realized no one else was outside.  A quick look to my right and I saw the most beautiful sunset view, tons of rose petals, and a bottle of champagne and two flutes.  I knew what was about to happen and he told me he had a question to ask me, to which he got down on one knee, said the sweetest things ever and asked me to be his wife!!!  It truly was perfect... except I didn't bring my purse so I had to run and get it after the excitement to document the big event (excuse the cry face):

We drank champagne, cuddled and just enjoyed the moment for a while before we started making the phone calls to the family and friends.  We then went to an AMAZING dinner to keep the celebration going:

(Notice my hand is posed the exact same in all these pictures... probably will be seeing that from me for a while...)

I can't even begin to explain how happy I am to spend the rest of my life with this man.  He truly makes me the happiest girl in the world and I couldn't be luckier!!!  Loving him is the best feeling in the world.

P.S.  When I called my dad he said no and I knew Blake hadn't because my dad is an awful liar.  So, once Blake asked me the question, I thought he didn't ask permission from my dad.  He said he did.  So, I asked him when- pretty sure he waited until I was on the plane heading his way.  He might know me a bit better than I thought....

Let the wedding planning begin!!!!