Do you think we enjoyed Oshkosh

Fun week ahead

Well the coming week will is going to be really fun. How you may ask? Well that is why you are here reading this. Kasi is coming to Kansas City this week to hang out with me. Starting Saturday we begin the official process of planning a wedding. First stop is the reception location. Then on Monday we are looking a church. All the while we are looking for everything else that is involved with a wedding. That takes place while she is here. Thursday I begin the process of introducing her to my little addiction called airplanes. To do that I am taking her to the Experimental Aircraft Association Convention called Airventure or better know as Oshkosh. We will be spending Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the show which will be barely enough time to do everything. As an added bonus Saturday night we will get to see Jeff Dunham. After that it is back to the grid as my nearly two months off will be over as I return to flying. No worries as I have been getting paid all this time.

We're Engaged!

Kevin and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary on Friday and we can hardly believe how quickly that year flew by! To celebrate, I drove down to KC for the weekend to spend it with Kevin and his family.
We had a great weekend planned of dinners and visiting with friends and family, including a fun morning at a Photo Safari. This was a group of photographers going about KC capturing creative shots to submit at the end of the Safari for voting. Little did I know, this Safari would literally change my life! :)
Kevin, his sister Janelle and I started out on our Safari going to several locations around downtown KC. Our last stop was to Antioch Park. As we had been doing, we got out and all went our separate ways to capture the park on film. After short time, I caught back up with Kevin who was out on a rock path across the pond and Janelle was over on a bridge. Kevin called me over requesting I photograph something in the water. When I looked, I saw nothing and turned to ask him what. Upon turning back, Kevin had dropped to one knee and was holding a box with the most amazing ring gleaming back at me. TOTAL SHOCK! I couldn't believe it and just like a girl, tears began rolling down my face. (I couldn't help it!) :)
Kevin asked me to be his wife and after several minutes of me crying from joy and just plain being speechless and in shock, I finally answered with a YES!
The whole event was captured on camera by Janelle, which is so perfect! I've always been the one photographing or helping set up, engagements, and now, it was my turn.

Looking back over the past year and just before meeting Kevin, it's completely amazing to see how my life and our lives together have changed. God is so amazing!
Looking ahead, we have a new chapter to begin. Lots of time will be spent on wedding planning (can't wait to register!!!!) and building a future together. Oh, and one tiny little detail, working on getting back to KC. Everything will work out in the right timing, but it sure would be great to do all this preparing and planning together in the same state.

Kevin,
You have completely changed my life and I'm so thankful for the day you came into my world. Every talk we have, every moment we share together, I fall deeper and deeper in love with you. I can't wait to spend my life with you.
I love you. xoxox to infinity and beyond!

So I am waiting in the hotel for the rental car company to bring us a new car. My boss and I went out to the car this morning and the back right tire was flat. So I am sitting here for the next two hours waiting for a new car to get here. Well I am back in Florida this time with my new job and I have money. A situation that I am not use to. I am on my second rotation and just finished my first six days off in a row and it was wonderful. I spent the entire time in Chicago with Kasi and we got to spend much needed time together. With her being able to work out of her apartment we got to spend many hours together alone which is something that has not happended in a while. Yes we enjoy hanging out with family and friends but it is nice to be together without having to be anywhere. The two of us got to do some traditional dating like going to the movies and dinner something else that we have been lacking in. This past weekend we went over and visited Kasi's friends Maria and Tim. They were very gracious in letting us stay with them and provided good company to be around.

Busy as always

I am finally out of Florida. Kasi came down to Florida the last week in March and helped me move the remaining stuff back home. However, we decieded to do some tourist stuff while we where there. We went over to Walt Disney's Hollywood studios and hung out there for the day. The best part was waiting in line for the Toy Story Midway Mania which is a 3D interactive game. The wait was well worth it. The following day we went to the beach and both got a sunburn which helped me get rid of the farmers tan I had. The last thing that we did was go over to the Kennedy Space Center and toured that. All I can say is the Apollo rockets are huge. After that we packed up the trailer and moved out. After I dropped off some stuff at Kasi's apartment I headed back to Kansas City. Well last weekend Kasi came to Kansas City to visit me only a week after we were in a car for two whole days. I guess she really really loves me.