Friday, February 6, 2009

"Stepping it Up": A Tribute to Amazing People


Step up to the plate and be a man. God knows how old this saying is, but whoever came up with it knew a little about life...

Lately, I have this urge to step up to the plate, step up to the challenges that life brings, to be a better friend, a better daughter, a better business woman, and live a better life than I lived just a moment ago. Sometimes, in life we are lucky enough to have a certain someone make us feel this urge... Jelly and her man have this special kind of relationship. Last weekend Jelly's man proposed! Yes, ladies... she finally found the cure to LMS. No more LMS for Sexy Jelly - Jelly is officially engaged!

From the very beginning their relationship represented the exact feeling I described above. Jelly had an urge to become a better person because of him... as they grew together, their love grew, and you could say they both grew from guy & girl to man & woman, soon to be husband & wife. Jelly made a man out of her man. He sure stepped up to the plate -- proposing without a bit of the common pressure girls put on their guys; deciding for himself that Jelly is the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Jelly, the delightful woman she has become over the past 2 years, was honored and this engagement has been so special: a true representation of how wonderful life could be with someone who knows how to step up to the plate, who knows how to recognize amazingness in their significant other, who knows how to be an amazing person. Don't ever undervalue this kind of quality in anyone... people who can step up to the plate are the people who make a difference in people's lives, a little difference in the world and make life better for themselves and for those around them.

I am so proud of Jelly and her fiance for the wonderful people that they are and for the wonderful life they are going to have together. I am so excited to share it with them as they change the world, if not just a little, with their amazingness together. I heart you Jelly!


Congrats on your engagement... all my love, Peanut.