An Engagementversary

This weekend we celebrated our eighth engagementversary. One of our tenants was totally fascinated by that word and our choice to celebrate, but I told her it was such a sweet day for us that I always want to give it a place of honor in our lives.

We were on duty Sunday, so we couldn't go too far or be gone too long, but I think we made a good celebration out of the day!

It started with this delivery brought to me while I was in hair and makeup before church:

Isn't he the sweetest??

He wanted my picture with it, even though I didn't have a face on yet:

It was so good!!! (White chocolate caramel latte.)

We did get a good picture before we left for church. It was a cold and rainy day, so I told him I didn't think the hair would make it. We needed to document early.

After church (and running one of our tenants on an errand) we had lunch in our apartment and then headed out for our treat: an ice cream sundae at DeBrand! I've blogged about DeBrand before - and those of you who are from around here need no explanation or introduction. But if you're not from around here, you should know it's an AMAZING chocolate company based here in Fort Wayne.

Here are a few times I've talked about it before:

1. We went there as part of our adventure on our third anniversary outing/Allen County tour. Fun fact: we also had coffee at Mocha Lounge and got our Christmas tree at the St. Joe Christmas Tree farm. There is now a second location of Mocha Lounge just down the road from us and we live not far from that very tree farm! Who knew that in just five years...

2. One year for Valentine's Day, we had an at-home date, but I got a box of DeBrand truffles to have for dessert after our fondue dinner. Delish! That was a fun date in the middle of our chaotic commuting days!

3. The year before that on Valentine's Day, we went for a special date and ordered the Ultimate Float. We shared it, and it was DELICIOUS! (And the picture of us sharing it is still one of my favorite pictures of us.)

And now we have one more date to add to it!

I love this picture of the building...if only it hadn't been raining, right?

We got there right after they opened, and other than a couple of people coming in to purchase things from the case of chocolates, we had the place to ourselves! We shared a sundae and some coffee, and it was so very good!

Before I show you that, though, here's another view of those delicious truffles!

The sundaes look different now than they used to, but they're still just as good. We shared one with caramel and peanut butter sauce - and nuts. So delicious!

I'm drooling just looking at it!

We licked the platter clean and proceeded to take silly pictures of each other:

And then the date was over! We went back to WillowBridge and resumed our work - while reminiscing about the fun day had the day we got engaged.