Our Story.

How love took wing....

Rob and I met at a mutual friend's house (Johnny Caputo) over Christmas break of our first year of college (December 2009, for those of you who are like me and crave sweet-tasting details).  After discovering we went to the same college, we began "hanging out" once we were back to school.  Nothing more than friendship existed for awhile, until about March when we both took cuts and came home to PA together. I then realized I had fallen in love with my best friend....

We waited until the end of our freshman year to become "official".  So May 22, 2010 marks the day Rob asked me to be his girlfriend while chilling in one of my favorite high school spots, a gazebo nestled within a pretty local park. 
 

For those of you who really know us, this is the VERY condensed version of our story.

 

Love Birds <3

Indiana. July 26, 2012.

Rob and I traveled to Indiana with his family to visit his grandparents who own a beautiful property on a lake. The five days were spent water skiing (I got up!), tubing, fishing, swimming, night boat rides, long walks, fattening foods, slightly-competitive rounds of Hand and Foot, watching summer Olympics and chilling on the dock catching some rays. 

 

Day 2. Rob and I were sitting on the porch swing and he asked me if I wanted to go on an evening canoe ride with him. He said he had brought a nice shirt and was going to shower before leaving. This made me feel guilty and pressured I was still in my gym shorts, smelled like lake and had little intention of changing any time soon. But, I could tell he wanted to make this ride special, especially since we had little alone time since arriving in Indiana, so I showered and decided to make myself look half-decent. 

Rob's grandpa scolded him for bringing his ipone on the canoe and warned us to "not get silly" together on the canoe! Ha. This made me laugh; he was beginning to know us quite well. Grandma reminded us to wear life jackets and we almost escaped without having to put them on, but she spied on us from the deck and yelled at us to "put your jackets on!" <---just a few fun memories. 

Rob and I rowed towards the middle, not a boat in site. I moved to the middle of the canoe so we could take pictures and so I could face him. While looking at the pictures, I remember him saying "I love nights like this with you", I'm pretty sure I ignored that comment, as I never know how to respond to such sweet comments. I kept scrolling through the pictures and looked up, only to see him on ONE KNEE IN THE CANOE, holding a SPARKLY RING and saying, "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" 

....after a delay due to being totally shocked and completely caught of guard, I said "YES." 

 










Good he had the iphone, for distractions and for catching this surreal moment. Grandpa wasn't aware of what was coming ;) Lose the ring or the iphone in the water? Hmmm. Rob, you were so smart to get ring insurance. Thankfully, we made it to shore without tipping the boat or losing anything valuable.

Imagine calm waters, a nearby willow tree, a sinking sun, a diamond ring, best friends, a keen awareness of love in the air... and a moment when you are the only two people on earth who know what just happened.... beautiful.

 Daisies I found on the dock when we got back. Such happy little flowers.

 







              
                               And now, we are getting ready to be married!

Our (coming) Wedding Day! <3

And so our story, the story of two love birds, is just beginning... I can't wait to say "we do" on JUNE 1, 2013.