Becky is engaged to Kurt!

In what has to be one of the coolest things for an older brother, my sister became engaged last night.
While I was apprehensive when I heard that my sister was seeing this hooligan (a blind assumption on my part, erroneous for sure), I figured that it wouldn’t last after she moved to Denver.
Instead it fanned the flames of love (sorry for the sappy references here, but that seems like a literary way to put that).
So, last night Kurt proposed to Becky.

He’s So Fired

I don’t know if it was Kurt or Bonnie’s idea (Bonnie is Kurt’s older sister,
or at least one of them, he’s got an older sister Jenny I’ve known since
5th grade), but his method or proposing was romantic and ‘slicker than
snot in spandex’ [line borrowed from Five Iron Frenzy].
He so out-romanced me that he’s fired.
In fact, I think that he’s got more romance in one pinky than I do in all of
my body.
I suppose by now you’d like to know what he did to propose, so I’ll tell you.

Kurt, having an excess of money, flew he and Becky to the English Isles and proposed to Becky in a castle overlooking a dreamy sunset.
Becky was swept off her feet by his gesture, and then they promptly raced back to the airport where they had to fly back home.
They’re not married, so they couldn’t stay together in England.
OK, that was a lie.
I totally made that up to throw you for a loop.
You didn’t believe it anyway.

What really happened is that Kurt and Becky were putting the Benson kids to bed (Bonnie’s kids) and reading them stories.
Apparently the kids kept wanting one more story, but at the end of the time Kurt pulled out I Love You This Much.
That story is one of the cutest kids stories and it reflects how I feel about Abigail.
However, at the very end of the book, an extra page had been added.
In it Kurt said that he loved Becky to the moon and back, and that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.
A ring was neatly tied to the page.
I nearly cried listening to Becky tell me this morning.

I am so blessed to have such a cool future-brother-in-law.
Hopefully all of this will pass quickly for them since I know that engagement is like purgatory.
You wait and wait and wait and wait, each second lasts twice as long, each minute triples, just for effect and hours become like years.
However, while you’re in the company of your ‘sweetie’, it becomes only partially more bearable.
In the end I understand that they’ve chosen July 3rd as their wedding date, which is cool, because Kurt will never have to remember his anniversary date, he can think, “One day less than July 4th.”
Me, I have to remember that my anniversary is 8 days past my birthday 😉

Anyway, I should get back to work.
Hope this finds you well!

Resting in Him,

Randy “Super Stoked Brother” Peterman