10 years

ten years ago, on this very day, i asked Lindsay to be my girlfriend. 10 uninterrupted years later, we celebrated.

i surprised her good around 4pm by revealing that i had reservations for dinner somewhere special. we met at the house at 6pm and drove into lexington. about 5 minutes away, i had her blindfold herself since we were getting close to the 'restaurant'. we pulled into the parking lot and pulled out my ipod (newly fixed by an ipod refurbishing place!!) and i started 'marry me' by ed cash (a great song from the college years). i told her she could pull the blindfold off and we were sitting at jared's jewelry :-D lindsay has really wanted this diamond anniversary band for a long time and i've always told her that she'd have to wait until our 10 year wedding anniversary. however, tonight was the night and the surprise drew tears! :-)

we killed some time while they re-sized the ring and went over to whole foods. i forgot how the whole store is filled with really good ingredients. it didn't help that we hadn't made it to dinner yet! we picked up some goodies and then got back to the jewelry store to pick up the ring. afterwards, we finally made it to dinner at the second suprise: the melting pot. there's a new one in lexington and we went to the one in knoxville the night we got engaged. dinner took 2 hours for our 4 course, was delicious, and had us bending over in pain on the way home. so much good food!

i love you sweetheart.