Over the weekend

Six years, nine months, and a day ago, Tony Denham asked me if I would like to go eat lunch with him after church. I replied shyly, "I'll have to ask my parents." ;)

That previous Wednesday, unbeknown to me, my dad had approached Tony and told him, "You have permission to date my daughter." That Thursday, dad invited Tony to our house for dinner and a round of SkipBo. And I didn't find this detail out until three years after the fact, but my dad actually gave Tony money that Sunday morning and said, "this is to take Shayna out to eat." {I love our story!!} My parents joyfully gave me permission. Tony picked me up in his little white pickup truck and we ate lunch at Ryan's. We talked a lot! And as we were leaving the restaurant we both said, "It feels like I've known you forever." And it really did!! That was the beginning of Tony & Shayna. I praise God bringing the two of us together! I love you, Tony!

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Chrissie has started coming over my house once a week for cooking lessons. It gives us time to catch up and talk about wedding details. Brittany joined us this past Friday and we made mexican lasagna with homemade tortillas and jasmine rice. :)

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Nine and a half hours of Saturday was designated to schoolwork. Our minds get soooo tired and ansy after soooo much studying. As we were sitting there at the dining room table, reviewing for a test, we hear the faint melody of an icecream truck. It gets closer and closer. We go (okay I ran) to the front door to see if any of the neighbor children were running out for icecream. It was raining outside as the truck slowly passed by our house. We sit back down at the table, start to study again, when we hear the melody getting closer again. The truck had turned around and was now driving by even slower. We debated briefly if we wanted icecream, did we really want get wet, how much is this going to be?? Oh, but it would be fun!! So I grabbed some cash, and we ran outside in the rain to meet the Icecream Man. I told him, "We're big kids!" To which he replied, "I serve all ages." :)

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Sunday afternoon, I made a big mess in the kitchen. We had invited my family over for dinner, so I stayed busy making monterey jack cheese & sweet potato soup (served with chips, made.by.mom salad and made.by.Brittany. green beans). I also made my very first Rum Cake. The recipe called for 16 eggs and made lots of cake batter and just as much frosting. I was picturing the cake to be really moist and fluffy with all those eggs, but it was actually pretty dense. It still tasted alright and everyone ate it, but I don't think I'll use that cake recipe again. The frosting, on the other hand, turned out excellent! And since there is so much of it leftover, I'm going to pick out a different cake recipe later this week and try again.