It's About to Get Lovey Dovey (and a Link Up)

A couple of days ago I was so stressed about how I was going to plan my wedding and how everything was going to look (which I think is common in any kind of big event planning) and just got so worked up. Update on that: we hired a wedding planner to help with the vision and they can even help negotiate better prices for everything we need! So problemo solved!! We are also doing a lot of DIY! 
But you know, through all of this (stress thus far) I realized I am super lucky to marry Babe. I love him so much and so happy that at the end of the day I get to be his wife. (Alright, I got mushy and gushy there, sorry (I'm not sorry)). 
Anyways searching through old school Facebook (no one uses that thing anymore, I am just learning that) I found stumbled upon Cosmo's list of 18 Signs You're With the Man You Should Marry. I had to read it and find out if Babe and I are meant to be. So let's review, shall we :) 

1. He brags about you. - I would like to say that he does, but I am not sure, because when he would brag I would not be around :) 
2. He makes sacrifices for you - and you're happy to do the same. - He makes sacrifices all the time for me, and gives me (within reason) anything I want. (He claims he never says no.) I try and do things for him and make sacrifices, but don't always tell them of such. 
3. He shares the same values as you. - This was a big thing when we started dating, because if we didn't share these, then we would not last.
4. Even after years together he still does little chivalrous things for you. - We haven't been together for years (about 10 months actually... but when you know, you know) but he still opens car doors for me :) (and I don't think that will stop) 
5. He doesn't try and change you. - He loves that I'm me and I love the he is himself around me (including all the gross stuff) 
6. When you think about marrying him, the best part isn't the wedding, it's the idea of spending your lives together. - That is what we kept reminding each other when we were stressing about the wedding. I can't wait to just be his wife. 
7. You survived a long distance relationship. - We have never been in a long distance relationship, but we are spending two weeks apart while he is training. And it's hard. 
8. "I miss you" isn't just a sweet thing to say. - I miss him when he is not around, doesn't matter how far away he is (could even be in the other room) 
9. You don't like having a roommate and love having your own space, but you'd still prefer to live with him. -  We always joke about this, because before we moved in together I said I always needed "my space". Now, if he gets up and walks to the kitchen I ask where he is going. 
10. He's your go-to person whenever you have a story to share, about work , about friends, about anything. - We talk all day, everyday and it's been like that since we started dating. 
11. You feel comfortable planning things six months -- or a year-- in the future - We have been like this since our first date (even though I got scared and backed away)
12. You can cry in front of him without feeling embarrassed. - I don't cry often, but when I do he tries to console me, even if he is the reason I'm crying. 
13. When your friends complain about their significant other or the guys they've gone out with, you get kind of quiet because you don't have much to contribute. - I mean we fight and I vent to my  friends, but typically my relationship is awesome and we talk everything out between us that we don't have an issues.
14. He's close with your family and he's make sure you've gotten to know his. - He met my mom after our first date (he wanted to) and I met his family a few times. I was even scared they didn't like me.   15. He cares about your friends. - He likes my friends and even wants to hang out with them most of the time, so he always says if you want to see a friend, go see a friend. 
16. He lets you vent. - Well this happens everyday. Something always ruffles my feathers and he doesn't mind listening (sometimes he minds when he wants to solve the problem and I don't like his solution though :))
17. He tells you, out of the blue, you look hot. - He does this on occasion when I least expect it (and I typically respond with "no I don't) 
18. You can do things like travel together without fighting all the time. - We made our first road trip (to Nashville) and I don't really remember fighting, like at all. 
So there you have it. He is the one I'm meant to be with and I love it. (By the way, this is how I plan on kissing him at the wedding) 

Well, totally off the topic of love... it's FRIDAY. So you know what that means, it's Whitney's awesome link-up #backthatazzup. Today's jam is a song I get stuck in my head on the regular! 

Week 1 of Many till the BIG Day

Happy Wednesday. 
So, I give this great news on Monday and then I am a no show to this party yesterday. I had one of those days where I didn't know what to talk about and didn't want to write yet another post with no substance or real content. So I decided to take a nap for the day, but I am BACK! 
Today is kind of exciting for me, as it's Wedding Wednesday and this is the first time I get to participate. I have made some progress without him (Babe, now is what I'll refer to him as) here (and very newly engaged). 

// We have made a potential guest list - which is super hard. If I had the option, I would invite everyone I ever met in my life to be there (because I want to share my happiness with the world) but lez-be honest, that can't happen. Plus it would be super duper expensive. Babe also has a large family, so that means stuff gets cut on my end. But good news, with it being the first draft no one gets the boot. 
// We came up with the basic type of wedding we want. Babe wants a semi-formal wedding (after 6pm, sit down dinner, the works...) so thats what we will have. I am not a formal person (like at all, ever) so we are compromising with the reception with a lot less formalities in it. 
// I picked a color scheme. What do you think? 

// I picked a "pretend date" because we all know the venue with help dictate when it will really be ("May 16, 2015" here we come) 
// We made a list of venues that we want to visit for the wedding, and priced them up for the amount of guests we will have. 
//  My Maid of Honor (MoH) called me and wanted to start planning (which is awesome) and we came up with a game plan. 
// We came up with a pretend budget, and figured out how much my family (since I'm the bride and they typically help pay) will help and how much we will pay. 
Now writing this and reading it, I am surprised at how much progress we made in 4 days. We are kind of in a holding pattern with everything until boyfriend is back in a couple weeks. But I say we have made some good progress.

BIG News!

I have some BIG news, I mean really huge news (and if you looked at my Facebook or Instagram then you already know it). Boyfriend asked me to marry him this weekend, I'm ENGAGED! Yay!! 
It happened in a very "us" way. He took me to Disney, which was our first date (and if you don't remember, here ya go) and renewed my Disney ticket. Long story short, Disney raised their prices (again) and we were not sure if we should renew my ticket, but we did (because he knew how much I love going there) :).  So we walked around the park and Boyfriend said he wanted to go to dinner to celebrate. I honestly thought it was because of his new job. He wanted to go to all these fancy restaurants, and I was like lets save money. But we ended up at a nice(r) Italian restaurant. He was trying to surprise me with the ring and have the restaurant present it to me, but it was very opened and squashed all his plans. We had dinner, and I kept complaining of a headache (typical me) and that we would just go home and rent a movie. He told me he was cold (and I should have suspected something since he is never cold in a restaurant) and he went to the car (apparently to grab the ring). He came back and we started talking about all the things we needed to do the next day (he was leaving late Sunday night for a business trip). And then he said "well, you might want to go get your nails done... Will you marry me?" My response "is that fake?!" Yes, that was my response, not you typical one or the right one, but when someone shows you a diamond, kind of all thought processes go out the window. But when I finally caught myself, I said YES!

I was in shock!  So we are leaving and Boyfriend told me he forgot something at work and that we needed to go back and get it for this trip. I still had my headache (no matter how shock I was, it didn't go away) and just wanted to go home. But, no we HAD to go to his office. So of course, I start calling everyone I know (my best friends, my mom, you know the usual) and they are were excited to hear my news (of course, they were). We make it to a gas station, and Boyfriend comes out and says he can just print it off his email, so we are now heading back to the apartment. We make it there, and I am off in lala-land. Make it upstairs to the apartment, and Boyfriend opens the day and standing there are all our friends and my parents. I was so surprised I screamed bloody murder (everyone said it was funny, but you know having like 15 people standing in your apartment when you aren't expecting them is scary or is that just me?) So my Boyfriend (his new name should be Fiancé, but I don't know about calling him Fiancé on here... however when we get married he will be renamed Husband) planned this whole surprise party. It was a lot of fun that everyone came out to celebrate with us (and thank you if any of you read this).  All and all it was an awesome weekend. And I can't believe it all happened, I am still sitting on cloud 9 (except for the fact Boyfriend is gone for 2 weeks, so major boo!)  But I am excited to share this new journey with everyone.

In Honor of Val-e-n-tines Day!

So I haven't fallen off the planet nor has my body been taken over by those body snatcher people. Work has been crazy busy and I have been trying to work on my design for my blog. It probably would have been easier to pay someone, but well I never do things the easier way (or the most time consuming way). But any-who, I am back and back to committing to blogging a lot more (and with my current track record that won't be hard). 
But lets get this thing going...
It's almost VALENTINE'S DAY!! The day in which we tell the ones we love only one day a year (okay, I tell Boyfriend multiple times a day how much I love him and Kylie (the dog)). 
So I decided to dedicate this post to my relationship. Boyfriend will make up a lot of my posts and well, no one really knows anything about him or us (and by us I mean our relationship).  So how did we meet? We met online, match.com to be exact. I was very hesitant to join. I actually joined as a joke. An old co worker of mine and I wanted to write a book about our online dating experiences. (Well, that didn't exactly happen because I only met one person.)  I also was not very proactive on the site because I didn't write anyone who didn't write me first. Okay, but back to Boyfriend. He wrote me after I was on the site for 2 weeks (I only signed up for a month). He wrote this long message, like he actually read my profile. I didn't read it, okay I read some of it to make sure he was intelligent but after about 4 lines I was thinking he is cute, so I'll write him back. We exchanged maybe 4 messages until I wrote and told him I hate waiting for responses and just gave him my number to text me. (Yup, I did it first!)  We texted back and forth all day long for probably about a week I would say.  Finally we had our first phone conversation, we always had something to talk about and stayed on the phone for over an hour (he stayed outside talking to me instead of going into a movie with his friends, it was cute (not crazy)).  I decided it was time to meet. Since I am such a huge Disney fan (and I needed to make sure he could handle that) I told him our first date should be there. He was down. I was nervous to spend all day with him and only bring one car (what if he was crazy and going to kill me behind some ride?) So I decided we needed to meet the day before for dinner (I called it "an out" with no strings attached, if we didn't hit it off, it was fine). I didn't feel good that night, so we decided to meet for breakfast the next day before the parks. I will admit, breakfast was a little awkward because I was sitting with someone I barely knew, but it was okay I decided he wasn't a serial killer and I would go to Disney with him. On our way, (he drove) he sang Mirrors by Justin Timberlake in the car. He didn't care if I was there or not, he felt comfortable enough to belt it out, and I love that. Well, our first date went great and I knew at that moment he was special and I wanted him around for a very long time (forever). 
But I got nervous, and I wasn't sure I was ready to be in a relationship (like everyone I have had my heart broken one to many times) and I basically pushed him so far away I thought he was going to call it quits. But he stuck in there and waited until I was ready. (I even made him sleep on the couch the first few times he slept over :)) He asked me out about a month after our first date and we have been together ever since.

Our First Date. 

  

We are now living together and I couldn't be happier (and I think he is super happy too:)) He is my everything and I am lucky that I found him.  Maybe online dating doesn't suck...  

Our first vacation to Nashville