Happy

So... Paris was a little more eventful than I let on, so here's a bit of an amendment to that post! McGee proposed while we were on a bench looking at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. We're engaged!!  I wanted to tell my family in-person before I did a post about it. We're planning on getting married in a private ceremony at Yosemite in June, and then we'll have a West Coast party and an East Coast party to celebrate with friends and family. So, I hope you can all make it to one or both of our parties!! We'd love to celebrate with you.    

Here was our view from our bench! I took this before he proposed, so I had no idea at this point!!  We were just sitting there, enjoying some time to ourselves (there was nobody around!), and watching the INSANE traffic circle around the Arc! 

Then he proposed :)  He was super nervous (he said he didn't want to mess it up), but it was absolutely perfect. We had to sit for awhile longer so we could both calm down!

And here's a close-up of my ring! I love it :)  

We're very happy and excited!! 

Getting ready for Christmas!!

We had a really busy week last week!! The week seemed to take forever... And then this weekend was SO busy. We were both so exhausted by last night! Yesterday we went and saw 5 houses with our real estate agent... We liked one, but by last night it was already sold... so... that was fast. There's one other one we're considering, but it has a few issues that are making us hesitate. We're thinking on it though...

We did decorate for Christmas right after we got back from Belgium though! I took a few pictures of some of our decorations, so I'll post those for you:

Here's our Vincent Van Gogh ornament that we got in Amsterdam, and then our Bumble tree topper. It's a little unconventional... Haha :)  

And here's our ornament with Guinness's puppy picture! He's so darn cute. 

Here's a small sampling of our ornaments! We have a santa riding an alligator (from Florida), a Yosemite ornament, one of the ornaments we got in Hawaii... 

There's our Maine lobster ornament, and down at the bottom is our Eiffel Tower ornament (with Santa climbing it of course!), and then my new Charlie Brown ornament that Lindsey made me!! :)  

Here's my octopus ornament that my parents got me last year! And our Guinness ornament!

Here are our stockings! Mine is the Christmas tree one. 

We decorated our front door with some window clings that my parents sent us!! 

I don't know how well you can see it, but that's our Charlie Brown and Snoopy decoration in our front window! My parents got that for me years ago, and technically it's supposed to be for the yard I think, but I like it in our front window. 

I hope you're all doing really well, and I'll talk to you all really soon (and SEE some of you really soon!!). Love you!!