The Sweetest Butterflies

Finally 16, and i can start to date!! I've waited for this for what seems like FOREVER!! I have found that special someone and every minute of every day i can only think about being with him. I get butterflies in my stomach just thinking about the next time i'll hear his voice or even better see him, everything he does gives me butterflies!

Almost 12 years have went by! And so many stomach butterfly memories have passed. It sometimes saddens me to know that the littlest thing could make me so crazy, so happy, so in love. But then the sweetest thing happened and gave me the stomach butterflies that I miss. . . .Gio can remember where we had our first kiss!! I didn't even remember, and sadly I really didn't think he would care, nor did I think he even knew! But he did, and he could tell me as if it had happened yesterday. Our first kiss was at Bixler Lake in Kendallville the summer of 2000 (: <3

It melts my whole heart to know that he (a man) would remember such a thing. It brings the biggest smile to my face. It reminds me how much he really does care and love me!

I realize that Love is not measured by the amount of stomach butterflies that he can give, and I realize that I don't need stomach butterflies everyday to Love him, but after 12 years the stomach butterflies that I do get are so much more than what they used to be, and I cherish them. . . .I cherish them so so much! And you know what else?. . . .I am not sadden by the fact that stomach butterflies are so few, I actually look forward to that feeling, that feeling that I forget about, which makes those stomach butterflies the sweetest butterflies.

Change is Good

Last night Gio & I had our first date night! We actually shared it with Tim, someone Gio works with. It was a fun night at the Pacers game (they won) and then drinks and cigars at Nicky Blaines. While there Gio & I got the most awsome compliment I feel like a couple could get! As we all sat in Nicky Blaines Tim told us how much of a great couple we are, how we seem truly happy, and that we are so laid back, so much the same, but so different, how he thought we were just perfect for each other!! Honestly, it put the biggest smile on my face for the rest of the evening :) He also told me how highly Gio speaks of me at work, how he never says anything negative about me! Made my heart melt. It made feel so special to know that the person I chose to spend the rest of my life with, he really is the most amazing man on the planet!

As Gio & I drove home last night, we began talking about how great of a compliment we got, and how much of a good time we had at the night club. Which moved to the conversation of how much we've changed, how are preferences of fun have changed, how we've grown into being adults. We talked about how instead of going to the bar to get wasted or partying at the house to get smashed, having a hangover the next morning, and how we didn't care what we put in our bodies or how we took care of it. Now instead of going bar hoping, we like to go to the night club and have only one or two drinks, and enjoy our beverage, our time, the surrounding, and the memories :) Now instead of fast food, and eating on the "fly" we plan out our healthy meals, and like to go to the gym. We discussed other topics of our changing and when it came down to it, we both feel pleased about how we've grown, both individually and as a couple. We decided our early 20's life is passed and that necessarily the changes weren't a bad thing. We understand that it was fun while it lasted but all people need to grow up at some point in their lives, but still need to have fun just in different ways :) We also realize and understand that we are going to continue to grow and change, and it's just fine, it just shows how much we've matured :)

boy, what a sweet compliment was given and the deep conversation it brought! lol

There is nothing wrong with change,

If it is in the right direction.

~Winston Churchill