Is it Sept. 15th yet?

Those words have been coming out my mouth (and Brian's) almost everyday. We have done a lot of planning and there is still so much more to do. I will be moving out of my apartment and into my parents at the end of April. I am working on packing and getting rid of a lot of stuff. I'll miss my little apartment but moving also means I am quitting my second job!!! I am looking forward to normal weekends again. Brian and I have decided to live at his condo (he owns it). I am ready to start making it home for us. My inner Martha Stewart is ready to come out. I have also been watching a lot of HGTV. We will see, we both have to move past the college apartment look.
Once I am moved in with my parents and only working one job I will try to blog more often. Love ya'll!

February 1, 2007

February 1, 2007 was Brian and my 6 month anniversary. I was all excited because I had gotten Brian the DVD of Invincible. That was the first movie we ever went and saw together. There was also a chance of a snow day that day and I thought it would be cool to be able to spend the day together. The night before we went to the Gathering at church and then went back to my place and watched the end of the State basketball game. After that the news came on and I fell asleep. Shortly after midnight Brian woke me up and told me happy anniversary. He told me he had something for me and he reached into his pocket and my first thought was, he got me a ring! Then he just pulled out a piece of paper. In our premarital class we had to write why we loved each other and that what he had. He read it to me and I cried. Then he said he had something else for me. He walked over to his coat and pulled out a little black box. My heart started racing as he walked over to me and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!!! I love Brian so much. When we are together everything feels right. I can be having a terrible day and the moment his arms go around me everything is ok. And now you might want to know when the big day is,,,we are getting married at our church here in Raleigh on September 15, 2007.

I'm so confused...

Ok, so I have posted a picture taken on Sunday and then one taken today. On Sunday I was driving around with the convertible top down and now today we have snow. The weather has been like this all winter (ok, so this was the first snow). We have gone from the 70's to the 40's all in the span of 48 hours almost every week. I have really enjoyed the warm weather, although today going into work late was great. I haven't had anything off (even part of a day) due to the weather since college.

I do enjoy snow. I have this one memory from living in MI that will always stick with me. It was early spring and I woke up one Sunday morning to go for a run and it had snowed overnight. By early spring you are just ready for the snow to go away so I was kinda sad to see more. You see, when it first snows it is pretty, but after a few hours and the snowplow has come by the snow is dirty and ugly. While out running I saw that all the ugly snow had been covered I was reminded how in Isaiah 1:18 is says: "Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." That is something I always remember when the snow is fresh.

2007

I think 2007 is going to be a great year, actually, I know it's going to be a great year. It will be a busy year with hopefully some big a wonderful changes.

Back in like August of 2005 I went to a Durham Bulls game with a group from my LifeClass at church. There I met Brian Simmons and totally thought he was cute and I wanted to get to know him better. Fast forward to April 1, 2006 and we are both at a Final Four party with church and I sit myself down next to him for the whole time and we talked. He is also in the same Bible Study I am in so we are slowly getting to know each other. In June (I think) we start unwilling each other and getting to know each other better. We both like the Carolina Hurricanes and after we won the Stanley Cup we were talking and he had the final game on tape. Being the sneaking person I am I ask him if he will make a copy of it for me. The game came out on DVD, which I got for my birthday, but I keep asking Brian to tape the game. Finally, we set a time for me to drop off my VCR and a tape. While I am getting everything together I get a call and have to run to the office for a few minutes. I call Brian to let him know I will be late and he askes if I would like to go out to dinner that night. So we had our first date on August 1, 2006 at Chili's (his favorite).

Things are serious and we are going to a LifeClass at church called 'Before You Say "I Do" which is to help you get ready for marriage. Now all I have to do is wait for him to talk to my parents and then ask me to marry him!!!!