Ashley's enagaged!!!!

The moment that everyone has been waiting for is now official...Ashley and Scott are engaged!!! Yes everyone, I actually was able to keep it a secret to the one who is now my fiance'!! I want to thank all of you for keeping it a secret. You made everything perfect.

To tell you what happened, I had a couple of concerts on the Cape in Massachusetts. Ashley and I had talked about her going for a month or so, I was planning on her coming because this was where I wanted to propose! The pastor of the church we (Called Out Quartet) were singing at, Doug Scalise of Brewster Baptist Church, was a huge help in finding the perfect place, for the perfect moment.

So I have had to keep this secret all weekend...you know how hard that is for me? When Sunday night came along, I was ready to do this. The plan was to go get ice cream at this one place on the Cape in Brewster. It has the best ice cream. I told Ash on the flight up here that I wanted to get a picture of us on the beach at sunset...so that kind of covered me and made her think that I was just wanting a good picture of us. And Doug had told me that this beach is romantic and beautiful, so I knew that was where I wanted to have mine and Ashley's special moment. So this beach is beautiful...pics are posted throughout this blog.

So we got to the beach and were looking for the best spot to take the picture. I kept asking her, where do you think, is here good, is here good. Finally we found a good place and I was so anxious I couldn't stand it. Von, who is with the Quartet I sing with, was with us to take the picture (Thank you VON!!), and he did a wonderful job catching the whole thing in pictures.

Ashley was so surprised that she could not stand it. I will let her tell her side of the story to you in person later. I am the happiest man on earth right now and anxious to start our life together. I am glad everything went off without a hitch and that Ashley was surprised. She did not want to know anything about it and be very surprised, and I think she was.

Ashley and I want to thank everyone who has prayed for us and encouraged us and gave us advice about life and love. We appreciate all of your love and support. We are very blessed with many friends who pray for us and show us how to live through their example. We will post more later.