Stop and Smell the Stargazer Lilies....

Ok, so everyone who knows me knows that I am not a "girly girl."  I don't love to put on make-up and straighten my hair everyday, my favorite outfit is not a super cute sundress, I don't cry at sad movies, and I'm more happy watching a baseball game than any show on television.  However, I do love what all girls love - surprises from their significant other!  Matt and surprises - are two things that don't normally go together.  But, this time he got me!  On Monday, a beautiful arrangement of stargazer lilies (my favorite flowers) was delivered to the law firm I am clerking for this summer.  The card was even more amazing than the flowers.  So thoughtful and so unexpected! I loved them and I love him. Unfortunately, I haven't had a free moment to take a picture of them, so this is a picture of the flowers Matt sent me last December to wish me luck on my finals.  Gorgeous aren't they?  I will update with a picture of those sent Monday later today.  They are just as beautiful and so many more as it is an arrangement of only stargazer lilies! 

Now, I bet you are wondering - wowzers, flowers on a Monday, just because it was Monday? How does that work?  Well it's even better than that.  The flowers were actually delivered a day early, as Matt had requested them to be delivered Tuesday.  Tuesday was a special day - It was one year ago on Tuesday that I fell in love with Matt.  I won't tell you why or how because I think that is something special to Matt and I, but it's so touching that he remembered and celebrated it with me by sending the flowers.

Matt and I had been dating for a while by this time last year, and I fell in love with him on July 22, 2007, but I wasn't quite ready to say those three words.  However, Matt was.  He said them shortly after the day I fell in love with him (by shortly I mean 2 days later, so today a year ago), but I was mum for another week and a half (even after he said it).  That time was probably awkward for Matt, but I take those words so seriously I didn't want to rush anything, I wanted to be sure.  However after a week and 1/2 that included....moving apartments, making a home cooked meal (home-made mac and cheese and Mexican Thursday), taking down curtains (aka me falling - almost cracking my spine - and an embarassing moment Matt won't let me live down), a day spent painting (literally a WHOLE day - who knew?), heatstrokes (new apartment had no central a/c - and old old old window unit), crazy/random allergic reaction (freaked both Matt and I out - called my father, Matt literally ran to corner gas station to get medicine - so freaky), BBQ and poker with friends, a USA v. China baseball game, and SONICCCC later...I didn't hesitate to let him know that I loved him too.  

So here we are, a year later, still madly in love, happily engaged, and daily uttering those three words with out any hesitation.