Celebrating Six Years

Today is my six year anniversary with Ryan. I cannot believe we’ve been together for six years!

6 Years!

In honor of our six years of loooove, I figured I would share six facts about our relationship with you:

• We met at our university’s gym during my freshman year of college. (Our “how we met” story can be found here, if you’re interested. It’s the last question at the bottom of the page.)

UCF Gym

• Our first date was dinner at The Cheesecake Factory. The restaurant was more than 20 minutes away and I remember being so worried that we wouldn’t have enough to talk about on the way there and back… ha!

The Cheesecake Factory

• Our first kiss was on our second date at Ryan’s apartment. We watched a movie, ate mint chocolate chip ice cream out of the container and played mancala.

Mancala

• Ryan first told me he loved me four months after we first started dating. I went on a trip to Bermuda with my family and he said my absence made him realize how much he missed me and wanted me in his life. 🙂
• We’ve never broken up once during our six years of dating… Slow and steady wins the race. 😉
• Ryan proposed on Oct. 3, 2009, two days before his 26th birthday. He planned an elaborate scavenger hunt, that ended in a proposal. He arranged for our families to surprise me at dinner at one of our favorite restaurants afterward. It was perfect!

Anniversary Plans

In keeping with tradition, tonight Ryan and I are heading out to dinner at The Cheesecake Factory, the location of our first date. We’ve gone there every year since our first date.

Though the date is always wonderful, I have a bad track record with our anniversary dinner. Two of the last five times I’ve woken up in the middle of the night puking! Not fun. Now when we go there I try to order “safer” dishes since I’ve had two icky experiences that I can only attribute to my dinner.

If you’re in a relationship, what do you do to celebrate your anniversary?

I’m excited for a hot anniversary date with my fiancé!

Workout + Breakfast

Ryan and I hit the gym nice and early this morning. I went to BodyPump while he did his own he-man workout. 🙂 The new BodyPump release is growing on me a bit. I was a hater last week, but I think a couple days away from the class made me enjoy it more this morning.

After BodyPump, I did 25 minutes of cardio, divided between the elliptical and the treadmill.

Breakfast was a filling bowl of cocoa cupcake batter hot cereal.

Cupcake Cocoa Oats

My breakfast bowl contained:

• Chocolate cream Flax-Z-Snax hot cereal
• All the Whey cupcake batter protein powder
• Cocoa powder

I think I prefer total chocolate indulgence and like the chocolate peanut butter cup protein powder better in this mix than the cupcake batter, but it was still yummy and I ate it up quickly.

Monday's Breakfast

I enjoyed it with a hot mug of sugar cookie tea.

Hope your week is off to a good start!