525,600 Minutes

That is how long Scott and I have been dating. So you don't have to do the math that would be a year. We celebrated a year of laughing, sharing, celebrating, and learning about one another.
When I first moved to Austin I was so glad to be meeting people my age, having fun, learning the city, and going back to school. I never imagined that this would be my life a year and a half later. I first met Scott in August of 2007 on an outing to Fiesta Texas in San Antonio with a group of Young Professionals from Westover Hills Church of Christ. This was my first event with the group and I was so nervous spending the day with a bunch of strangers. I noticed this guy in the group who reminded me a lot of my cousin. He was so nice and funny and totally friendly. We ended up riding most of the rides together laughing and talking. We got really close to each other that day...I ended up accidentally sitting on his lap during one ride...it was one of those whirly-gig style rides that due to the centripetal force sent me flying across the bench and slammed me, despite all of my efforts, into him repeatedly. We were laughing so hard.
Skip ahead about 7 months and this nice guy and I had become friends. He called me a week before and sweetly asked me to dinner on March 24, 2008. It wasn't until I was off the phone and talking to a friend that I realized that he had actually asked me out on a date. He picked me up that night and we went to Matt's El Rancho, a yummy Mexican food joint here in Austin. We were never at a loss for anything to talk or laugh about, trading stories and trying our best not to let our nervousness show through. We had a great first date and as they say, the rest is history. Even in this year we have had some really great highs and some really painful lows, but through it all this sweet man has held my hand.

Scott, thank you so much for such a wonderful year together.
I love you.