The big news of the weekend is...

...I'm getting another daughter!

Thomas proposed to Kay on Friday night.  Their evening started with dinner on the covered bridge at camp.  Fellow counselors prepared and served the meal, one read a poem he had written about Thomas and Kay, another stood at the easel and drew a (very funny) picture of them, and others sang for them.

I'm pretty impressed with how those guys transformed the little covered bridge into a romantic dinner spot for the evening!  I also love the pickle jar cooler!

After the meal, they walked to the boat dock and got into a candlelit rowboat.  Here's Thomas's version of what happened next:

"In the rowboat was a small cooler with two cups of ice cream in it. Brandon and Drew rowed us out into the lake over near our outdoor chapel while we ate our ice cream. Stationed at the outdoor chapel were Ben Starnes and Calvin Lindsey who played guitar and sang Come Fly with Me by Frank Sinatra. About this time Kay got near the end of her ice cream cup and decided she didn't want the rest so she handed it to me. Well this left me in a little bit of a predicament because when we first started going out over three and a half years, Kay had told me she had always wanted to find her engagement ring at the bottom of an ice cream cone. So, I dug my fingers through the remaining ice cream and pulled out the ring, got to my knees, managing to kneel directly on top of the ice cream cup I had dropped ... and asked Kay to marry me. As I asked her to marry me my "twin brother" Brad Vaughn began setting off fireworks from the pier. SHE SAID YES!!! I carefully placed the sticky, beautiful, ice cream covered ring on her finger."

Isn't that a wonderful proposal story!  Thomas pulled off such a thoughtful, romantic, sweet, memorable proposal...with the help of his buddies at camp.  What great friends he has!  I'll get to see them when I take Joel to camp this morning and thank them for making it such a special evening for T and K.

Isn't it funny...July seems to be the month for proposals around here!  Remember last year?  Jonathan's proposal to Kandyce in India and their engagement party?  And now, Thomas's covered-bridge-at-camp proposal to Kay. I think we're going to have another May wedding, too, though no definite date is set yet. Stay tuned!