"Our Day"

How blessed am I?  I have the absolute best fiance in the entire world.  During my short 7 day break, he took me to look at houses, wedding venues, to buy my dress (he stayed in the car), and planned "our day."  He told me to block off the 11th, so of course, we both ended up having people ask us to do really cool things that day, i.e. free concert tickets, work for Lisa, etc.  But even with these other options, we stayed true to our word and kept the day open.  

To our dismay, the day's plans were changed a little bit when the sky decided to open up and pour a years worth of rain out.  So instead of going out to the beach, we drove down to Bradenton to look at a wedding site and buy my dress.  Like I said before, he was a great fiance and stayed in the car while I tried it on one more time.  After all was done in Bradenton, we went to Lakeland for another visit (I'll show pictures of all these in another post).  When we went back to Tampa, Tom told me to dress nice because we were going to dinner.  He had kept the location a surprise, which is very rare for us.  After a little tricking, we arrived at The Melting Pot.  Tom worked here in high school, but I, myself, was a fondue virgin.  When we got back to our table, I saw flowers and Tom informed me that he had them set out for me since he couldn't give me flowers on Valentine's Day.  I didn't realize that with fondue, you actually COOK the food yourself.  Silly me, I thought you just dipped food in cheese or chocolate.  Dinner left us full to the brim - what with the bread and cheese, salad, 5 meats, and chocolate!  All I wanted to do was sit around! But Tom said there were more surprises.  We started driving to were I thought might be the airport so we could watch the planes, but in fact, Tom had a huge surprise in a random location.  We pulled into a parking lot where I questioned what we were doing.  We sat there for about a minute when Tom told me to look up.  Then I saw - 

This was such a sweet, unique gesture that is only one of the special things Tom does for me. He is not one for doing the normal, so this fit right into our relationship. I had no idea how he would top a billboard, so I wasn't surprised when he said we were going back to his house. When we to got there, I was very surprised when he said he had one more surprise. On the night of our engagement, Tom played a mixed cd he had me make for him. Well, he decided to create a mixed tape for me. But instead of a CD, Tom played a live version of the songs on his guitar.  This was an especially great treat because Tom refuses to play the guitar anymore, so for him to learn these special songs and play them for me was such a great surprise. He is truly the man of my dreams who will do anything and everything to make me feel special. I am truly, truly blessed!!