Engagement Story

Ok so Thanks everyone for all of their congratulations!! It means the world to me that people are making this sooo special. I want to stop time and want this moment last forever. It like birthdays and christmases wrapped up into one! Well I figure I should go through the day step by step.

For those who have been around me in the past few months, I have been very anxious about this moment and have soooo frustrated because I thought it would never come! Ben had me soo fooled. 

Katie, my lovely roommate, is in a photography class and asked if I could model for her at the beach on saturday for her class assignment. I had done that for her the previous weekend so I didnt think anything of it. She had also mentioned that she wanted to take me to get my nails done because I was helping her out... which I thought was a very generous thing, but not extremely out of the norm. 

Earlier that morning, Ben came to visit me and hang out for the day because we hadnt seen each other in a little bit. He took me to breakfast and then we went kayaking. It was soo beautiful and we had a really fun time.  During breakfast, I was in one of my outrageous moods and demanded answers! I was sooo frustrated, at this point, I had lost hope and was beginning to think it would never happend. Ben convinced me to "trust" him and that he just wasnt sure about the timing ( he constantly told me that!).

Ben said good bye to me around 2:00 because he had soo much homework to do... which is definitly not out of the norm! At this point I did not think anything was up.

Me and Katie headed off to our day and I was just excited to do something fun and different and so was Katie. She was acting a little weird though, but I thought she was just tired. She wasnt talking much! haha. I got a great manicure and was watching the Holiday. I called Ben even and he was completely calm and said he was at school doing homework. :(. Me and Katie got to the beach around 4:30 right before sunset, loaded the camera and started taking pictures up by the hotel in Laguna. I was really nervous! I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach. All this time I thought it could possible happen but I didnt want to psych myself up! BUT I was soo nervous. I was posing for all of these pictures, like a dork, and then Katie said that we should go down to the beach. We were walking down and I was enthralled with the hotel and looking at people and Katie was pacing and texting like a crazy person! haha. I didnt think much of it, but kinda wondering. We got down to the sand and then Katie told me to turn around and that the rose in the sand was for me. At this point, my heart was POUNDING, I felt like was going to throw up and scream for joy. I knew what was coming! There was a rose in the sand with a red construction paper heart with a poem, Ben's hand writing, that had a cute poem and told me to turn the corner. As I turned the corner, there were 46 rose with hearts around the roses with a bold word on each rose. The words spelled out a beautiful poem and on EACH heart there was a poem of its own with memories of our past (I still havent read them all). I was in a serious whirlwind. WHEW

I walked over to him after trying to quickly read the poem. He grabbed my hands nervously and started his speech, which I dont really remember much about... because my head was FREAKING out. I was looking around and saw Christian filming, my roomie Jamie taking pictures and weird people next to me taking pictures. 

He was finishing up his speech and got down on one knee and said you are my pearly in this sea, Kimberly Renee Verkaik, Will you Marry Me ( i kinda thought there would be a pearl inside). He pulled out the ring and I didnt even let him put it on me because I just hugged him. Then he put it on and I have been going crazy ever since. 

I am so emotionally exhausted. I never cried during the proposal, but after when I realized what was happening, I would start to cry. We took some pics, called people we loved!

The texts and calls rolled in. 

UGH! I never thought this would come! It was a complete success. 

We went to this Italian restaurant in Laguna and I dont even remember the food. We just talked and all of the secrets came out! I feel like Ben is a completely different person to me and that he was LYING to me for so long! ugh! I got played!

It was so hard for me to believe this because I honestly thought NOTHING was going on and even though we had talked about for sooo long and I was such a brat and was so curious, I knew nothing. 

My life has completely changed and I honestly feel like I am in a dream. It is so crazy. We came back from dinner and my friends had a little engagement party with cupcakes with diamond rings on them and slide show of the engagement...already! I cannot believe it! 

Everyone was so happy, which makes me happy and ends up making me cry! ALOT

I am sooo thankful for everyone in my life for making this day soo special and meaningful! I dont deserve any of this But ended up sooo lucky!

Let the wedding festivities BEGIN! 

Oh geez! :)

Middle of the Semester

So a few days ago, I received, in my school mailbox, a note saying to sign up for a Advisement appointment. BAsically, I figure out my schedule for the next semester, bring it in to an Advisor and they say GREAT, Sign up! This freaked me out a little!!! I cant believe that the semester is half way over and that I am planning for my last semester in college! College is FLYING by and I am staying super busy with school, work and trying to spend time with friends and of coarse Ben. Me and my roomies are trying to plan something for Halloween and for all of the holiday festivities coming up! My weekends are becoming more and more packed! So many people at Vanguard continue to get engaged and my summer is beginning to be filled with weddings to attend. It hasnt really hit me that I do not have much time left enjoying my college life and friends. I need to have a better attitude toward things and enjoy ever moment I have. ME and Ben just got back from visiting our friends in Michigan, which was so much fun and nice to see their friends and houses and life! It was pretty cold, or at least for me and the weekend went by too fast! My goal for the next few weeks:

Be a Better, Studious Student

Be a better friend and NOT so uptight!

Be a better girlfriend!

Enjoy life and take up new opportunities!

UP next: Birthdays, Wedding, Halloween! whoo hoo! I love the Holidays. 

We are trying to figure out a costume for all of us girls (6). Last year we were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and lets just say IT WAS AWESOME! so we need to top it! Any ideas?

Blogger Newbie

Ok. So I am 21 years old and I am officially beginning my blogging journey. I feel like, no offense most people who blog a. have really exciting lives or really exciting things happen to them daily b. have really cute children and want everyone to know what they ate, how long the slept or when they took their first steps c. are really excellent writers and want to show their "work" to the world or d. have some amazing skill, like cooking, and want to showcase it to the other faithful bloggers. I am probably not a, b, c, or d. One of the reasons why I am starting this blog is because it is August 11 and I have two more weeks until I start school again, my senior year in college! I just realized that life is flying by and I honestly cannot remember what my summer was all about. I know I did amazing things and had a ton of fun and obtained new life experiences, but they are slowly becoming a distant memory. I want to make the memories that I am having at the prime of my life to be remembered! Another one of the reasons why I am writing this blog is to get me to write and become better with reflecting back on my life, day, hour or memories. So enough reasons already, I am starting this blog and I dont care what any one thinks (even though I am terrified that people I know and dont know will be reading this).

A little about myself and what is exactly going on in my life.

Like I previously stated, I am going to be a senior at Vanguard University. I love it there and have worked really hard in school, almost too much. But I am hoping that it will all pay off in the end. I am a Liberal Studies major and want to become an Elementary School Teacher...hopefully I will be able to get a job... SOON!

I live in an apartment right across the street from VU with 5 other girls. Thats right... 6 total in a quaint 3 bedroom apartment. You must be thinking I am crazy, and well lets just say there is enough estrogen and drama to go around. BUT I wouldnt change ANYTHING. We have some really fun times.

I have a boyfriend of three and a half years. We have been dating since high school and have gone to the same school for about two years and now NOT. He is going to Cal Baptist in Riverside and so we do not get to see each other alot. One thing very interesting about him is that he is a total REDHEAD! Its pretty awesome and he gets some odd stares at times. And he's pretty buff... if I do say so myself. 

Anyways, I do not live an exciting happening life, but somehow, I seem to be very busy and at lately I have been noticing that the world is slowly passing me by. I will never be able to gain the time lost. So I am living it up now and using this visual aid to help me remember the finer details in life. 

My next adventure is that I am going to be staying overnight for 5 nights watching 4 kids. I will play Mom for a while. I am sure there will be some really fun times, some really "shoot me in the face" times and some really hilarious times. May God be with me!