It's TEN MONTH TUESDAY!

Mr. Blueberry Pancakes and I have been dating for ten months as of today!

Here's a little timeline:

- First date - met through Rocky Mountain Tri Club, so of course he asks me to go ride 25 miles of hills. I say yes, we go and the ride is followed by an hour conversation in the sun (during which I fried half my face) and then followed by tasty breakfast. Many thanks to Dr. Drew for loaning us the road bike Tricky used on our first date!!

- Labor Day - JazzFest in Aspen - Went to visit friends and go to jazzfest in Aspen. Did not make it to ONE show due to weather. Miss Grits showed up for the fun from the ATL. We all played kitchen ping-pong. (Tricky thinks of this weekend as when we'd first started dating, but we'd been dating three weeks by then!) This is also when I first let him drive my car, on the way back, over Independence Pass. Which is one of America's Scariest Drives.

- Livestrong Ride October 2008 in Austin, TX - 37 hours together in the car (just the 2 of us), got lost on the way there AND on the way back, and had a great time all weekend!

- Thanksgiving - Tricky came to Italy to meet my family. Well, my family lives here in the US. We were going to Italy for vacation, he bought a plane ticket and joined us. (That was about the time I thought *maybe* this guy really liked me!!) He picked out my awesome italian leather boots! We went to see the Pope with my grandma, who believes we will "make a Catholic out of him yet!"

- Christmas - I met his mom and Dad, who are super nice, and live a mere 2.5 hours south of my mom and brother. NICE!

- January - now we're in love. We'd better be, because he is about to take me on some ski trails that I will not be too fond of... but since Tricky is *the* most patient guy in the world, it all goes smoothly! :)

- February - what the heck did we do in February? No idea. I think it involved a lot of skiing, and a particularly awesome day at Vail during which we grilled Omaha Steaks Hotdogs atop Blue Sky Basin.

- March - went to Steamboat together to visit some good friends of my family. The friends love Tricky. LOVE HIM - maybe more than they love ME!!

- April - went to my brother's wedding back in FL. This was our first air trip together where we actually flew on the same plane. Had an unplanned overnighter in Chicago and went to an impromptu dinner party with his friends. Wedding in FL was really fun, Tricky's parents even came up for it as Mrs. Slugbrother invited them! Super fun.

- May - two very awesome adventures. The first was a trip to Southern California to meet Tricky's brother and his family. Had a great time with his brother and nieces, went to Disneyland one day with them. Might have been the perfect day, as it was Disney followed by a late-night Inn-N-Out Burger run. Tricky also got to meet my good friend from college and her family, it was awesome!

The second adventure was a trip to Moab (um, 80 miles south of Moab) for Memorial Day weekend. I continued my Memorial Day Weekend tradition of camping in the middle of absolutely nowhere in the desert with people I really like. Tricky was one of those people. We broke in the tent (for real, not in the living room) and it rained on us every night (in the desert, for Pete's sake!!). Had a scary adventure hike, made smores and sang songs around the campfire (when it wasn't raining) and used the percolator I got from Rockette. We had a generally awesome time together, as we always do.

And today marks 10 months into The Adventures of Tricky and Liz. NICE! And ten months later, I still thank God every day for having him in my life. :)