Been almost a month

So it's been almost a month since I have written a blog and people have been asking me about it (actually, they haven't and I just thought I would say that so people would feel bad for not asking me about it... consider yourselves forgiven :))

Life has been going on pretty well recently, I'll get to all the exciting things momentarily, but life has been good. I am currently sitting at my parents house in Hickory after enjoying an awesome Thanksgiving meal prepared by my mother (and the good people at Target) and I am stuffed. I love the holidays around this time of year not only because I get to eat a lot and can feel great about it, but I get to see most of my family.

Jekyll and Hyde went on pretty well without a hitch and as I type this I kind of have to laugh. It was a really good show with a really great cast, but when we got to the shows it was like something went wrong each night. The first night, the light board decided it was tired after the first 5 or 6 scenes and froze, then we had to reboot the entire thing. The second night as we were moving a set piece it apparently got knocked over and then when they went to fix it, the top of it was to heavy and broke (keep in mind this was all while I was singing my solo and I thought I was going to die). Then the last two shows ended up getting canceled due to the fact that the lead got this really nasty stomach bug and could barely even move.

Now to the exciting part that I know all of you are waiting for. For the past 20 (almost 21) months, I have been dating a really awesome girl named Amanda Munger. She has stood next to me in the good times and bad times of Youth Ministry and marching band season and I have grown so much in the past few months just because of her. So I finally decided to man up and ask her dad if I could marry her. So I asked him back in June and went and found the perfect ring, and I do mean perfect ring. Placed a down payment on it and started the journey into paying for it here and there. Well this is all the boring part, let's get to the fun stuff.

I love having a lot of friends who would help me out in a number of ways with different things and the best part of that is when my friends are her friends they are even more enthusiastic in helping. Well I had been planning on asking her to marry me tonight when Chonda Pierce came back to the SMCPA, but due to unforeseen circumstances it wasn't meant to be and she couldn't come so I had to go to plan B. To be honest with you I didn't really even have a plan B or even a Plan A to be exact but this is where awesome friends come into play. Scotty Corbin and his wife Nikki are two really great and awesome people who have done a lot to help out with everything. I talked to him about letting me do it during a J&H dress rehearsal and he said that would be cool, he would even get a cake and help us celebrate, but afterwards because we aren't allowed to eat in costume. The more we talked about it the earlier the date got moved and we finally decided to do it during just a rehearsal on November 2nd (election day will  now have a brand new meaning to her. I voted for her and she said yes).


To Be Continued... i'm tried of typing for right now, but will get it done before Thanksgiving I promise.