Late in the day on Wednesday, March 15, 2006, while we were having dinner at the On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina in Lewisville, Texas, Mark gave me an early birthday present - a Canon PowerShot ELPH SD450 digital camera. This little camera, in its fabric zippered case, was small enough to fit in my purse, and I used it regularly for the next nine-plus years, until we bought a new digital single lens reflex Canon EOS Rebel T5 camera in November 2015. I kept it in my purse and still used it when I didn't have the bigger camera, until I finally got my first smartphone in December 2017.
Immediately after getting the camera, I started using it (of course without reading the user manual) and the photo above of Mark was the fourth picture I took that night (images #1 through #3 must have been so bad that I didn't keep them). Too blurry, but I love the smile on his face and the love in his eyes.
Back at my cousin's home in Grapevine, later that night - actually at 1am the next day, Thursday, March 16, 2006 - I took what I think is the best selfie ever of me.
As for the rest of the day on March 16 - I think we went shopping. When I was in Fredericksburg visiting my parents the previous weekend, I picked up some Lands' End gift cards I'd ordered with my Discover Card cashback bonus - $275 worth, for which I only paid $220 in bonus. I'd suggested to Mark about a week earlier that we "go to the Sears in Lewisville and you can help me pick out some stuff." (Sears owned Lands' End at the time and carried a lot of their clothing.) We got a LOT of Lands' End short-sleeve cotton tops in a variety of colors with those gift cards - maybe some cardigan sweaters to go with some of them too (although I may have gotten those later - hey, librarians are supposed to wear cardigans!).
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