This is a very special weekend for me. This weekend, Sandy and I will be dating for one year. I can’t believe it has been a year since the first day we decided to become a couple. So to celebrate this momentous occasion, we have decided to do exactly what we did one year ago this weekend – leave the world behind and get away from it all. So we are heading upstate to Monte’s – my family’s 27-acre home tucked away in the Catskill Mountains with just myself, Sandy – and our love.

In this past year, I have grown so much in my life both professionally and personally – and Sandy has been there every step of the way. From the first day I asked her to be mine, our lives have changed so much. In the past year, we both acquired new jobs, made new friends, and lived new experiences – but we have done it all together. I have to say that I have never felt more content with my life as I do now. I feel as if my life’s hopes, dreams and goals are finally set in place now and I can move forward ready for the future because what I wanted to accomplish has been fulfilled – and I feel as if that has happened now in my life because of in a large part to Sandy’s help, love – and the constant support she has always given me – even before we were together.

A year ago this weekend, Ring Fever was brand new and getting ready to launch its first episode and I was two weeks away from starting my tenure as the Moderator of the South Park Booster Club. Sandy, who is as much of a wrestling fan as she is a South Park fan, was so happy for me that she took me away for one of the most romantic weekends I have ever been to – and we were not even dating.

She took me to the Glasbern, a converted farm that is now a hotel. Besides the fact that the hotel itself was romantic – with a duplex room containing a fireplace and Jacuzzi, she surprised me with a hot air balloon ride. After a weekend like that – how could I not ask her to be mine?

And now, here we are one year later. Our two lives entwined into one that grows more each day. Although we have only been together for one year – I feel as though she has been by my side all of the days of my life. There are times when I think of a time in my life before I met her and forget that she was not there. But although she may have missed the beginning of my life – I know for sure that she will be there until the end of my life.

So Sandy, Happy Anniversary my love – and thank you. Thank you for deciding to travel down the road of life with me. Thank you for giving me your life – and thank you for the past year.

I love you.