She said Yes

Acute Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Bone marrow transplant, Self improvement, Personal Growth, Daily Inspiration, ph all, philadelphia chromosome,Acute Leukemia, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Bone marrow transplant, Self improvement, Personal Growth, Daily Inspiration, ph all, philadelphia chromosome

This past weekend Amy and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary.  Our celebration was a couple days after our anniversary but we wanted to do it this weekend for a couple reasons.

- First, it was the last weekend of my chemo cycle, so my counts would be at their highest and I would be least susceptible to getting sick.
- Second, this was the final weekend of my final intensification cycles. This coming week I will begin my maintenance cycles
- Third, we just found out earlier this week that I have two different 10/10 unrelated matches for my bone marrow transplant.

With all of these reasons coming together in one week, this was the perfect weekend for us to have a celebration.

Little did Amy know but I had a few more surprises up my sleeve for our celebrations.  We decided that the best place to celebrate our anniversary was in Niagara Falls.  Our relationship has a lot of  history there, so it was a perfect place to celebrate.

I booked us a room at the Sheraton Fallsview, but kept the location a secret from Amy.  The big surprise with the hotel was I got us a Two Storey Loft Suite that overlooked the falls.  It was the nicest hotel room I have ever stayed in, and had an absolutely breathtaking view of the falls.  To make it even more beautiful, when we arrived in Niagara there was a rainbow over top of the falls. 

I managed to keep the room a surprise from Amy right up until we walked through the front door.  Her reaction to the room was priceless.  I think her jaw almost hit the floor. 

Once we settled a little I gave Amy her first present, which was a picture book from Picaboo.  I selected photos of us over the past three years and set it too the First Corithians verse of Love Is.

When she was done reading the book I explained to her why I wanted to celebrate on this particular weekend, the reasons I stated earlier.  I then gave her her final gift, which was a diamond ring, and asked her to marry me.  She said yes, so we are officially engaged. 

Later that evening we went for a beautiful dinner at The Keg overllooking the falls.  I had a delicious 16oz rib eye.  It wasn't quite the 70oz from my Bucket List, but I am in training ;)  From there we went to the casino to spend the rest of our night.  We had a perfect evening.  It almost got even better because just as we were leaving the casino I tried on last slot machine and was a half inch of a spin away from winning us $10,000.  That would have just been the icing on the cake. :)  Nonetheless, we had a wonderful weekend of celebration and have added yet another Niagara Falls memory to our Relationship.

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