Finding JOY in the JOURNEY...: Valentine's Dinner

February 19, 2008

Valentine's Dinner

21 Degrees is a very cozy, intimate restaraunt and they have two VIP tables. They are sofas sitting in a little nook of the restaraunt. It felt like we were snuggling on the couch in the living room, except we had two waiters and a top chef cooking our dinner:-) Regardless of all of the ambiance and formalities...I was so happy just to be sitting next tot he man I love! WE could have been at home on the couch and Iwould have been JUST as happy!

Valentine's is definitely for the WOMAN in the relationship and Lee is so good at catering to me on these days. It's hard to get him to sit down and eat in a restaruant for longer than an hour and we were at dinner that night for almost 2 hours!!!!

Aren't we a cute couple:-) You can see our little sofa against a window that looks over the ocean.

The view from our sofa!

We are so lucky to be able to go to such an amazing dinner together. 21Degrees is so romantic and it overlooks the ocean and everyone is so friendly and attentive. It's nice to be treated like the rich and famous even though we are far from it. The food was AMAZING and the company was even better.

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Once upon a time...

Mibi grew up in Laie and attended Kahuku High and Lee grew up in Haleiwa and Mililani and attended Mililani High. Mibi went to College at BYU-Hawaii and then served a mission in the Utah Ogden Mission before meeting the man of her dreams. After school, Lee jumped into the workforce looking for his career and eventually ended up working for Mibi's family flower shop at Turtle Bay while Mibi was serving her mission...and never thought that this job would lead him to his "Angel". We met in Septmeber of 2001 after I returned home from my mission. I came back to the flower shop to manage things for my Mom and Lee had left to pursue his education. Well a few months later, Lee's education path didn't take the direction he had hoped and instead life lead him back to Turtle Bay. The first thing he did was call Mom to get his job back and of course she said YES. So, I was Lee's boss and there was an instant friendship...it felt as if we had known each other our entire lives. We kept it strictly business for a few weeks and then one night I was gong to make a Wal-Mart run after work and called him to see if he wanted to come along. His phone was busy (the days before call waiting) and I almost gave up...but after a few more tries he picked up and from that night on we were inseperable. I think we told each other our life stories that night and we both knew then that our lives would never be the same! Over the next year, we formed a deep love and respect for each other which kept us connected through a few rough patches and across the ocean as Mibi moved back to Utah. Finally after a year of being best friends, we both realized that there is no one on earth we would rather be with than each other! We were a couple for about two years when Lee proposed to me and we tied the knot at the exact place we first met...the same hotel the flower shop was located when we worked there...TURTLE BAY. And to add to our JOY, we have a beautiful daughter Savannah (Lee's biological and Mibi's spiritual daughter ) who we just ADORE! She is so smart, funny, outgoing, a jabberbox like her Dad and just the cutest thing you have ever seen!!! We also are praying that we can give her a little brother or sister sometime in the next year or two!!! Until then we have a Doberman (Kayla) and a cat (Shadow) that we spoil rotten and of course all of our Nieces and Nephew's. It has been almost 8 years of wedded bliss and although we have had our ups and downs, each experience has made us grow more in love with each other and are still each others best friend!