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I have come to expect winter rain in DC, but it hurts EXTRA when the rain is coming ON Christmas and Christmas Eve. It would have been SNOW!!! I digress. Trying to focus on the positives here: wrapping up work, getting some time off, all our gifts are wrapped!!, cookies baked, and just have some perogies to make. We also opted again to do take-out for Christmas Dinner (from St. Anselm this time — cannot waittttt). So as always, trying to focus on the positives!
Here’s a lovely engagement session for you!
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Ryan was waiting tables at the Lightwell, a restaurant in Orange, when Morgan walked in to meet a friend. Morgan caught his eye, and they hit it off! They chatted whenever he had the chance and at the end, he wrote her a note and his phone number on her receipt! She thought he was kind, so she reached out and they’ve been talking ever since.
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One of our first dates was at Lewis Ginter, so when we made the plan to go there on a Sunday afternoon in March, Ryan knew the time was right. We wandered the gardens and found a cute little gazebo that we’d never noticed before (even though we’d been multiple times), so we took a few minutes to sit and relax. We sat for a few minutes in silence before Ryan asked how happy I was on a scale of 1-10. I told him I was about an 8, and he asked if I was ready to spend forever with him. I answered in a very happy sigh, close to tears with, “yeah”. He asked again how happy I was, and I said I was at an 11!