My brother Jeff and his fiance' Katie
This blog is typically all about Selena and I, but I wanted to take a minute to express how excited I am for my brother Jeff, who over the holidays finally popped the question to his long-time girlfriend, Katie.
Now making it about me again.
I don’t know that Jeff and Katie know how often I get asked “When are they going to get married?â€, and for the longest time I’ve been able to point out an event or goal in the future that they are focusing on first, such as:
- They want to wait until Katie graduates from school / finds a job / finds a different job
- They didn’t want to pull focus from Selena and my engagement / wedding / announcing of the baby
- They want to get settled into their new careers/ new house
- They want to wait until after Ben comes back form NZ / Katie comes back from LA / hell freezes over.
And then right when I was starting to run out of milestones to prioritize on their behalf first, Jeff goes ahead and asks Katie to marry him.
We couldn’t be happier for their engagement and to have Katie officially become a member of the family.
Thanks, Greg!! I like how you (probably quite seriously) could offer that we wanted to wait until after hell freezes over. It’s funny, because after all these years and all this waiting- now Jeff is the one feeling, and also putting on, the pressure (yeah, he should’ve been feeling it before, but I don’t think he cared : ) to actually make it official and legal before we will have known each other for… 15 YEARS! I pointed out to him last year at some point that this would be in the fall of 2012. Perhaps something I said finally had some influence, haha!
I am very excited, too : ) I am very much looking forward to not having to say such convoluted things as, “Jeff’s sister-in-law” or “my boyfriend’s cousin’s wife’s…” etc! And, am extremely thrilled to soon be able to call your little girl my niece also : ) Thankfully (for your parents anyway) this is at least one step closer to her also having some cousins of her own who might be remotely close in age.
BUT NONE OF THOSE QUESTIONS YET!! Haha- that’s all you’re getting out of me for now : )