Road trip!!! and an ENGAGEMENT!!

So Eva and I both love basketball and Gunnar lives in College Station which happens to be the home of a pretty decent school with pretty decent basketball teams ;) so we decided to plan a road trip and go to a basketball game. Before we went Gunnar told me to bring my shotgun because we might get to shoot skeet. Well I was super excited because I haven't done that in a long time but I thought Eva wouldn't even want to try and we would have to make her try. Turns out I was dead wrong, I think she was more excited about it than I was!!! haha

Gunnar taught her how to hold the gun, how to load it, where and what the safety was and all that. He was a really good teacher and it was fun watching them try it out.

They put a clay pigeon in the brush first and she shot it. After that she wanted to try shooting a flying one and actually hit one her second round! YAY!! She did so good!
After shooting the 20 gauge she wanted to try her hand at a 12 gauge so Gunnar let her try that. She hit a flying clay pigeon with that one too. She said she was sore later and we think it was because she had such a death grip on the gun haha

Gunnar and I both had our fun shooting too! I'm so glad we got the chance to do that! Dad had given me a huge box of shells for Christmas so I was really happy that I got to use some of them!

The sharp shooter herself!

Yeah we're that cool!

After shooting we were planning on going to the A&M vs UT hockey game but apparently no one had anything to do Saturday night and they sold out right as we got there. We went home and hung out instead. Gunnar helped me make monkey bread and it was SOOO good! I always cook for Gunnar and his roommates when I visit so this time I made chili. It turned out really yummy and I secretly think that's the only reason his roommates like me! Not really! They're all great guys and are really fun to hang out with.

We ended the night with a feisty game of Settlers. I still don't think Gunnar has forgiven Eva for blocking his building scheme!

Sunday we went to a great church service and then headed to the game. Gunnar's cousin Emily also goes to A&M and some of her family was in town and had extra tickets so we sat with them. They are a lot of fun and the game was so good. Well except that we lost. The Baylor girls are No 1 and A&M is no. 6 and we lost by 3 points. ahhh so close. It was a record crowd for a girls game and really was enjoyable and exciting! Gunnar isn't really that into basketball so I'm trying to convert him and teach him to love it! haha

The "kids" after the game.

Eva, Me, Gunnar, Shea, Emily and Joe Todd

And I know some of you might not be interested in this but man it is so hard to leave. I just want to stay forever and it's so hard to leave not knowing when I'm going to see him again. I'm so glad that I am so blessed in so many ways and that there is so many good things to focus on!! But it's still hard. I just keep wanting just one more hug, one more goodbye , a few more minutes, and on and on...

But my sadness soon got pushed aside as right as I'm leaving Gunnar's house I get a text from my mom telling me that WYATT WAS PROPOSING!!! Yeah I called her right away to find out more! She told me she needed to call me back on the house phone as her cell phone doesn't get very good service at their house so in the minute it took her to do that I called Gunnar and just said, "Wyatt's proposing!! ok mom's calling me back I'll call you when I know more" and hung up! haha So I'm driving and trying to navigate traffic and talking on the phone and getting really excited and talking to my mom then calling Gunnar back and then finally I get a phone call from Sara. She was gushing and I'm not going to write her story here as I'm sure she'll want that pleasure but she didn't know I already knew and said "well I was going to send you something but my phone won't let me, so I'm just going to tell you..... I"M ENGAGED!!!" I was the first person she told because she knew I was out of town and wouldn't be at the house when they got there. That really meant a lot to me! As she told me the story I started tearing up which really surprised me. I'm so happy for them and am so honored to be part of it. I got to see the ring today and I must say that it is perfect. She was absolutely glowing today! I'm so excited and ready to help plan a wedding! Time to crack that maid of honor whip! haha

So overall it was an absolutely wonderful weekend! Yay for life!