Presents?!

I'm at work, but I'm definitely not working.

Christmas came and went!! Can you believe it?? I had a wonderful holiday, though now that I look back it barely felt like Christmas. Probably because it was completely different than any other way I've celebrated. From the beginning...I had to work on Christmas Eve. Throughout that week prior Mike kept asking me for my moms number because he wanted to talk to her. This information is worthy of one eyebrow raise. Then Christmas Eve morning my ring goes missing before I go to work. A note worthy of two raised eyebrows. Mike drove me to work that morning, and on the way there he's going off how he can't believe I lost my ring and how he also can't believe its been a whole year since we gave each other our rings. At this point I'm thinking something is going on. Before I got out of the car I asked him to look for my ring while I'm at work. Anyway, works over and he picks me up around 3ish. We were spending Christmas with his entire family up at Port Macquarie on the Central Coast. I love it up there. Its gorgeous. So on the way there Mike tells me he left my gift back at the house. The drive up there wasn't too bad. I ate and sang along to the radio. Then around 6:50pm Mike starts to get quiet and aggitated that he can't find his cigarettes. So we pull over at the gas station to get some. We head out on the road for about another 10 minutes before he pulls over again to a random shoulder of the road. I'm thinking he's gotta pee or something. He tells me that he didn't forget my present and that its actually in the trunk. I'm thinking I don't want my present now, just wait a night!! Then he says to me, "Look what I found today..." and he pulls out a diamond earring. Oh nice, he got me ONE diamond earring... then he says "Look what else I found..." pulls out my ring and drops to one knee "...will you marry me?" Oh my word!! Even though I knew we were eventually going to get married and I had a feeling he was going to ask, it never compared with the real thing of him asking. The look in his eye when he asked was something so special. It was beautiful. He was more gorgeous to me then than ever before. I said yes. So, Merry Christmas to us, we're officially engaged. YAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We spent the next two days at Uncle Marty's in Port then spent the next 4 days after in Crescent Head at Aunt Jenny's. I looooooove Crescent Head. Mike and I are thinking of having the wedding ceremony up there on her front porch. Its so wild and beautiful and serene. I'll post pictures. While we were up there we went to the beach, tried to surf, tried to dirt bike ride, played tennis, but mostly sat around. It was the best. Mike's family loves to hear me sing so they made me sing a bunch of times. It was so hard to leave. I did get California home sick while I was there. I missed my family and friends. I missed singing christmas carols and such. All in all, I had a very lovely Christmas. I look forward to New Years tonight, and an interesting 2009.