More about the Engagement and Party!

Ah, yes, the engagement party - it was just wonderful... it was just precious ... Son did a great job of keeping every detail a secret. What a great surprise it was to Molly!!

It all started when Son bought the ring ... what a beautiful ring. He prayed about it, gave it to the Lord to provide, he spent his inheritance on it. Molly will be proud to wear it. Then when son realized that he wanted his parents there, we started with a plan. About two weeks ago, Molly's mom and I started working on the party. We found the place, talked about the food, she ordered some surprises for the couple, sent out the invites, talked with her friends and we both prayed for no rain. Son took care of what he wanted to do, ordered some flowers, did laundry, and prayed for no rain. He had a plan; we were to tell her that we were to leave a day early (Friday am) due to his father's health and that would open the conversations for him to ask her out on a date since they had no plans. It didn't happen quite like that - while playing cards with them on Thursday pm, we told her we were leaving early, I called her Mom and explained it to her, and then it was up to Shawn. When Shawn ask her on the date, she said no - that she had rather go home to see her Dad, that he was not going to be in town for Easter, and that she wanted to see him. Shawn tried to talk her out of it, but she would not hear of it, so about half way thru the game he went to the bathroom and called her Mom, that things were not going so well and they needed to find a new plan. Molly's mom came up with a plan to kept Molly in town - her Dad may have to go back to the rig because of a problem, and that her sister and friend was coming to town and they could have dinner in the French quarter. Later the sister told Molly that they were running late and to go ahead and go out with Shawn and they would met up later. And the party begins ... so many lies ... but we do confess and get forgiveness later.

It was a big surprise for Molly - Son picked her up and took her to City Park - he already had a friend and her sister hiding, ready for picture taking and filming - he got her some beautiful flowers and a special note was tucked inside, he got down on his knee and asked her, they hugged and walked off into the sunset ... what a beautiful picture it was. He took her blindfolded to Cary Hall on campus where we had the party set up. He marched her in and we, along with about 20 friends waited, and as he took off the scarf we called out surprise!! and she was, so surprised ... and delighted ... it was a great time had by all. We talked, ate, and talked, ate until about 9:30 or so, then we gathered everything up and we went to the hotel and they, along with a number of their friends, went out to talk some more ... we found the hotel with very little help, (yea!) and was in bed by about 11 pm. Husband was so tired, he was out like a light and was asleep in no time.

Some of our thoughts: Molly's sister had to go thru 3 tornadoes to get to the party ... she barely had time to change clothes before the party. Shawn had to use plan B to ask Molly to marry him, it was too windy for plan A. Angie and Haley got here in time for the party... Haley got here the night before (11 pm) and Angie got here Friday at noon - it made the party so fun with a few people we knew. Husband and I got the chance to spend the morning doing a few things we wanted to do. Stayed a few nights at the Guest House ... very nice ... ate breakfast at the Soul Food ... interesting place ... was around the cornor from our hotel. I made the spinach dip; it was great. Molly's mom was great - so well planned ... just wished she would allowed me to do more.