Thursday, September 27th, 2007
happy freakin birthday to me
happy freakin birthday to me
happy freakin birth…day….tooooo..eeeww…. meee eeee
happy freakin brithday to me
i’m sick, missed work today. mandy got me a gun i’ve been wanting for my birthday, and i broke the ejector pin on it last weekend so i had to ship it back to the factory yesterday for repair. my friends where not available for diner tonight cuz of school and work and stuff so we’ll spend the evening at the after hours clinic because my doctor was booked today.
happy freakin birthday to me.
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
last week was so crazy. i managed to get away from work for a bit to get a ring mandy and i had looked at ordered. she had no clue. thursday rolled around and i worked from 2am to 9am for a video conference in our over seas offices. i went home, then got cleaned up and went to pick up the ring thursday around lunch time.
i had planned to go to the gun range with the guys and mandy’s dad saturday morning. i emailed him early last week to setup breakfast with just the two of us. i figured he was on to me when he agreed right away.
friday i was so sick and i ended up staying home from work. it worked out so that i could take the ring by my mom’s so she could see it and i could tell her of my plans. my family was out of town all weekend so i wanted to catch her before they left for the holiday trip to arkansas. she was excited when i left and when mandy and i got together for lunch with her and stephanie and i could tell stephanie was on to my idea.
saturday morning rolled around and breakfast did not go as planned. i had already told the guys that the gun range would be only mandy’s dad and i, so they could make other plans. whenever we got in to the car from breakfast, i let him know of my plans and we spent the rest of the morning in the car and at the range talking. it was a great experience.
so the rest of the weekend rolled by. i have been telling mandy that i wanted to go to the lake to take pictures of her and i with the tripod just to goof around and see what we could do. i managed to get her up to the north shore where we shared our first kiss and decided we would work on making a relationship out of things.
at the lake, the road to the north shore point where i wanted to take mandy was closed because the water levels have been so high. mandy and i decided to walk down to the shore line to see what things looked like. when there, i setup the camera and convinced mandy we should take a few pictures and see how easy everything worked. having a remote to the camera, i setup the tripod and positioned mandy in the distance. i walked over to her and gave her a hug, then a kiss, and she thought i was just practicing for the real thing some day soon. just when she relaxed and let her guard down, i reached in my pocket and pulled out the ring and asked her to marry me. taking pictures the entire time, this is what was captured…
so tonight we made our rounds to our family’s to show off the ring and get all the congrats and what not. i’m so excited that mandy and i are officially beginning the process to spend forever together. i love her, she really is mine.
you can read mandy’s take it on it all over at her blog too.
