"She makes so much sense when she says, 'Don't throw this away'"

What a weekend!

The best way to describe what has been going on in Bergland is to read these lyrics if you care...http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/208009/Ben_Jelen/Falling_Down If you don't care than just imagine what my weekend was like. -
- or follow the timeline -
6 p.m. Friday - Buca De Bepos with family and close friends paid for by Aunt and Uncle as a wedding gift
10p.m. Friday - Cheap Thrills - too funny, esp. Nate's laughing when the rest of the auditorium was quiet
12a.m. Saturday - heading to Skate Night where Berg was "uninhibited" in the words of Shannon Sharp...in other words I had a hecka good time dancing on skates with my friends. If you've never seen Berg break it down on roller skates, you're missing out
3a.m. Saturday - IHOP with my SIFE friends, and Jon Ross, who has yet to convince me that he's not a spy from SAFE
5a.m. Saturday - head to Rogers with Valentine's flower to take my Saturday morning nap - go to sleep
11a.m. Saturday - wake up, watch Arrested Development, then shop with Rogers
4:30p.m. Saturday - head back to Rogers now dressed nicely for a Valentine's Date
4:30p.m. - 12:00a.m. Saturday - have a crappy meal and then watch more Arrested Development and Scrubs. Then leave to go to bed, drained.
12:30a.m. Sunday - head back to Rogers to deal with some issues that I have going on (see lyrics)
12:30a.m. - 3:00a.m. - deal with issues - then fall asleep
9:00a.m. Sunday - wake up decide not to go to church, go back to sleep
11:00a.m. Sunday - work on appropriately titled Saving Your Marraige Before It Starts workbook. Helpful stuff.
And on it went.
In summary, we had a rough weekend - very rough where we talked through a lot of stuff - lots of stuff. Wait until you get 120 days away from marraige. It's kind of scary.

One year to the day that I gave Lisa her engagement ring, she gave it back.

Twelve hours later--after a lot of tears and a lot of talking--I gave it back again.

In the end it came down to the simple facts:

• I love Lisa Ann Rogers very very much
• She loves me very very much
• I believe that she is the one for me
• We are supposed to get married
• Imagining life without her is not fun, not fun
• I needed a moment to be unstable - that moment has passed
• We will have a beautiful life together, like we've imagined and continue to imagine

So this isn't the end of the story. Hopefully, it's more towards the beginning 1/10 (since we've already been dating 7 years --- 63 to go). If you're reading this, thanks for being a friend. Thanks for being supportive. A special shoutout to Shannon. I love you guys, and I really believe that this will be a good life--for me & Lisa--for all of us--and I'm glad I have you all to go through it with.