Marie Callenders'

Well just so I can keep everything straight we are at April 1. We had our first "walk date" on March 12, 1994. We had been on several walks by now. We had never been on a "spend money" kind of date. Not that I cared one twit. Well on April 1 he called me and left a message. I called him back at work. The number was 801-532-5279. This isn't important to the story. But the idea that I wrote the number down in my journal affirms the fact that I was a much better journal keeper then, than now. He invited me for errands AND ice cream!! This was a very big deal. "A date without exercise" is what I put in my journal. Of course we ended up not doing errands or getting ice cream, but we did go to Marie Callenders'. We ran into someone he knew from a long time ago. They talked for about 15 minutes. We had pie and talked. We did SO much talking. We visited in the drive way for a while. We had a slight hug. You have to understand that I am such a geek through all of this. I took him a note after this date to thank him and invite him to Sunday dinner. By this time he was calling me every other day or so. We walked Saturday, and he said that he was going to come to dinner on Sunday. He always asked if he could bring anything. SO thoughtful! I didn't write this down, but I remember wondering if we were EVER going to have a first kiss. I still wasn't sure where all of this was going. Maybe we were going to just be "BFF". I also remember thinking that maybe the purpose of the pie was "kissing rights". Well, yeah, I was right. The first walk after the pie, came the kiss. He was all spiffed up when I got there. If I am not mistaken he had on his great yellow Ruff Hewn polo and I had on my light blue oxford Polo shirt. I cannot believe that I didn't write this down, but I remember it SO WELL. We were looking at pictures or something at the bar. All of a sudden he just leaned over and planted one on. YEP, still remember it. Can still feel it. WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL. So casual. He left to use the bathroom before we left for our walk. I can vividly recall walking over to the window, looking out, and thinking that this was very real, and it was going somewhere, and I liked it. Sunday was Conference weekend. We had a great dinner. He brought me flowers and carnations for the girls. "What a guy. I'm gone" was the prophetic journal entry. We all did the tramp again and ended up in the house learning magic tricks. My Guy is "world class famous" for his magic tricks. He also told us scary stories in the dark in Liz's room. Holding hands for the first time with all of your kids in the room. Very interesting. More kisses at the door that night before he left. I was going to need a lot of practice......