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In the spring of 2001, we met through our best friends, that were dating at the time, Zack & Allison. Our first date was to the movies in Colchester (the only thing to do in town) with a group of friends. I was impressed that he had a car but the orange Skecher sneakers and the Adidas windbreaker weren’t doing it for me. Luckily, I was able to get past that.... After our first date, we talked on the phone almost every night (like all high school kids do and it was before unlimited texting and Facebook!) and eventually I invited him to my Spring Fling dance! We had such a great time! The next few years were filled with high school dances, movie dates, concerts and driving around with friends. In fall 2002, Ryan moved away to CCSU and I would drive up there in my sweet 1996 VW Jetta to visit him as often as I could! Now our time was spent going to parties, ordering fast food and enjoying the dorm life. In 2004, I moved to Newton, MA to attend Lasell College where we would again go to parties, take the T into Boston, and lots of just lounging around. The college life (the good life :) ) continued through Spring of 2008 when I graduated from UMass Amherst. Shortly after, it was welcome to the real world, well sort of. After college, we lived with my Mom and brothers (depending on which one was coming or going) in Colchester. We had grown up jobs and enjoyed spending every penny of it. After a few tax seasons, we realized that Uncle Sam was getting the better of us, so it was time to really grow up and buy a place! Late winter/early spring we begin our 2010 condo search! With the Obama $8000 special available, we were ready to explore our options! We looked at a bunch of condos even some that were homes to squatters! Finally, we settled on Crazy Susan’s antique green house in the Williams Soap Factory in Glastonbury! Thank goodness for the Obama special because we were able to gut the kitchen and the bathroom and make it our own (of course with many hours of hard labor, arguments (are you sure it should take that long?) and the help of family and friends – especially Bill Denny! Now we had made our condo our home. **THE LONG AWAITED PROPOSAL** After 10 years of dating and 3+ years of everyone asking us when we were going to get married, Ryan finally popped the question on June 3, 2011! While we were vacationing in Aruba, Ryan made reservations for dinner at Passions on the beach for Friday night. We enjoyed happy hour with Sheldon and Jeff before we were seated at our front row, ocean view table. In true Laura fashion, after a few minutes of enjoying our cocktails at our table, my Mom dropped by looking for Sheldon & Jeff. We pointed her in their direction and sent her on her way. :) As our dinner arrived, I asked our waitress to take our picture. Ryan stood up and asked if I wanted to stand for the picture, but I told him we should just quickly take the picture and enjoy our meal. At this point he was behind my chair, getting ready for the picture or so I thought….I turned around and he was on one knee. Ryan proposed saying something like, “You are the best thing that ever happened to me” (well maybe not quite that, but I’m sure it was along those lines :) ). After I said yes, everyone at the restaurant clapped! One couple even came over to see the ring and took the picture above. Another party bought us drinks! It was so romantic and I couldn’t have planned it better myself.
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