Fernando and Eva are engaged!!!!!

Guillermo and I are so excited and so happy to announce that Fernando and Eva are engaged.  It was a BIG surprise for us, and we will never ever forget that video chat.

That Monday evening, December 6th, we contacted Fernando over chat, wanting to ask him yet again about possible places to stay in Costa Rica.  He answered back that they were cooking dinner and that maybe we could do a video chat later?  We said ok, but really, we should have known that something was up then, because when has Fernando ever ASKED for a video chat?!?  But we just thought that he was thinking it'd be easier to talk that way about places to stay in Costa Rica, since we've already been chatting about that quite a bit.

When they were ready for the video chat, Fernando let us know and we talked with Fernando for a few seconds when to our surprise we see Eva come into the picture, too.  Now, again, we should have thought something was up, but all we thought was, "How nice, Eva is going to chat with us, too!"  From the time Eva showed up on the screen to when she put her hand up to the camera to show us the ring - that is all a blur, but what stands out very vividly in our minds is Eva putting her hand up to the screen and our absolute surprise when we saw the ring on her finger!  We don't even remember what they said prior to that, they said something, we know, but we just don't remember what.

You just can't imagine how we felt when we saw that!  I actually got tears in my eyes, it was such an emotional moment.  We were overcome with the surprise of it all and with such happiness for what we were seeing.  Fortunately Guillermo had enough presence of mind to insist I take a picture!  Anyway, our minds were spinning after that.  We just couldn't believe it!  That was actually all the Christmas present we need right there.   Eva is very special to us and we love her like our own daughter, so we just couldn't be happier about this news.