Parks & Rec

I was sitting in a coffee shop tonight, watching Christine and her new boyfriend cuddle and be totally adorable with each other. Josh would say, "Stop that!" In fact, when I walked in I said, "Knock that off!" to them.  ha   I have to channel him sometimes.  :)

When Josh and I first started dating we couldn't tell people because we worked together.  So we kind of snuck around.  In fact, I didn't even tell my sister at first.  We waiting about a month.  Part of the reason for that was because we wanted to keep it just between us; a kind of awesome secret of our blossoming love for each other that was just ours to keep.   It was adorable.  Of course I was 30 at the time and had no business being crazy like that, but hey, you have to have fun sometimes.   Another bonus to this is it kept us from moving too fast and let us get to know each other a bit more before getting very intimate.

We would go to Smith's Food & Drug (a local grocery store) during lunch and would go to the paper plate aisle.  No one from work would go there, right?  haha   We'd steal a few kisses.  That was our "aisle" ever more.  We'd always comment, "Hey honey, it's the paper plate aisle!"  haha

We also frequented parks after work.  We'd walk around for a couple of hours or just sit on the grass and talk or kiss.   There are many parks in West Valley, Magna, Salt Lake and Sandy that I know very well.  After a month of that we finally decided to tell my sister and let our secret out a bit.  I really wanted to tell her!!  Later on Josh would say, "we went to those parks for a year!!!"   It did seem like an eternity.  I'd have to remind him that it was only a month.  One of our favorite dates later on would be to visit the parks and walk around; especially Big Bear Park in Sandy.  I've driven by there a couple of times this last month and it will never be the same.