Running a little late today... but......

This one is one of my favorites.. Check out her adorable blog to link up! Today the topic is 2 random facts about me:

1) I HATE paper! - I know this sounds odd, but I really do hate paper. I know it's a necessary evil that I have had to learn to live with, but the thing that bugs me the most is the way paper feels. I hate to read the paper, or have paper in my lap, weird I know!

2) I just learned this today making faces at Stephen at the car dealership, but when I roll my eyes apparently I have the ability to roll one eye and not the other. Of course I'll never be able to see it for myself, but Stephen thought it was the coolest talent. LOL!

Happy Tuesday y'all!!

CALLING ALL MIL SPOUSES...

Let's Talk!

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and have been trying to decide the best way to go about this. I'm going to try this for now and see how it works. Let's face it, marrying(even dating) military isn't just a job. It's a lifestyle whether we want to admit it or not. For better or worse when we say "I do" we're saying "I do" to the military too.

I'm a public relations major at the University of West Florida, and I'll graduate this year. The scary thought is now I have to find a "real" job. Ideally, my dream would be to work on a military base doing PR for the MWR. It's a job that's close to my heart. Being an AF soon-to-be spouse, I know how important the family support on the base is to everyone. I want to be able to make a difference for other military families. So I want to know, what's missing?

Copy the questions and feel free to answer these questions however you want. Add anything else you can think of too, then link back up to this post and we'll all compare notes! :) I'm just curious to see what the rest of your experiences have been like...

1) What was your favorite base so far?
2) What did it have that others didn't?
3) Where are you currently stationed?
4) What are some of your favorite things about your current base?
5) What is lacking from your base?
6) Being away from your family is hard, what makes it easier on you?

If this goes well, I might try to ask a few questions of all you MIL spouses once a week. I can't wait to read everyone's responses! :)

Thursday Five

My Thursday will be a little crazy tomorrow with classes, internship, and actually working tomorrow night. Thanks to the wonderful Nicole at Flip Flops and Combat Boots, I got a jump start on my Thrusday post! Head over to her great blog and read/link up!

Peaceful

Loved

Awesome

Lucky

Smart

1) Yesterday was wonderful! I babysat for a friend, got my baby time in, and enjoyed a Peaceful quiet day around the house with my wonderful fiance!

2) I feel loved all day, everyday. My fiance and family are the best! Whether it's my sweet man taking the dog out so I can have a few more minutes to get ready, telling my I'm "beautiful", or just doing something he finds completely boring just because he knows I want his company. My mom calling to check on me, my dad inviting us for dinner, or friends just texting to say they "miss me" all made my week feel extra lovely!

3) This week we picked out Stephen's wedding bands which I think is completely Awesome!!! Also, thanks to my wonderful mom and sweet cousin, Mandy, all our wedding invitations are addressed and ready to be sent out!! Only 72 more days!! :)

4) I'm so Lucky to be almost done with school! Today is the last day of class and then I'm on Spring Break! After Spring Break just 5 more weeks til exams and 6 until graduation! Time to concentrate, get focused, and get ready to enter the real world!! Bring it on...

5) Next time that it rains all day and I go to take Natty out for the last time at night, I will be smart and wear tennis shoes instead of flip flops and pay closer attention so I don't end up sliding 5 feet in the mud and needing another shower!! Love my sweet boy, but he is too strong for me sometimes!

Have a wonderful Thursday everyone, and remember TGIF tomorrow!! :)

Our Perfect Engagement

I had posted this story before on a previous blog, that I never kept up with. For those of you who haven't heard our story I thought I would post it here too. This was almost a whole year ago! Now we're just a short 72 days from our wedding! :) I love hearing engagement stories, so any of you other bloggers that want to share your story feel free to comment with it!

Our Night

It was April 29th, 2010. Just an ordinary Thursday, or so I thought! I had to work until close, and Stephen wanted to "have dinner with his family in Pace" so he borrowed my car since his motorcycle died.

I was working with his sister, Brittany that night and finally our shift ended. I thought I was waiting for Stephen to come pick me up but to my surprise Brittany handed me my car keys and a note. I was confused of course and asked her what was going on. She said she couldn't say anything else and left in a hurry. So I opened my note.

"Sorry I didn't come pick you up, but I was planning this surprise. Look in the car for your next clue."

So I got in the car and on my drivers seat there was the next note.

"Drive out to your favorite place in the world(hint hint: the beach!) The next clue is in the glovebox, but DON'T open it until you get to the toll bridge."

It was killing me but I didn't open it and I just drove. After what seemed to take years I got to the bridge and opened my next clue.

"Go to the hotel we stayed at last time and go inside. Your next clue will be at the front desk"

So I kept driving out to the springhill suites on the beach. By the time I got there and parked I was getting really nervous and had all kinds of crazy butterflies in my stomach! I felt awkward but I asked the guy at the front desk if I maybe had a "clue" there. He tried very hard not to smile as he asked my name and handed over the next clue and a room key. He told me I would be in room 315 and to have a good night. So I headed for the elevator and opened my note.

"You're almost finished! Come into the room and go out to the balcony."

By this point i'm freaking out because I have a pretty good idea of what's coming next! I finally make it upstairs and find the room just as i'm about to open the door I stop because I hear lots of talking inside so I stop to listen. I can tell there are other people in the room. Then I get confused and disappointed thinking I got my hopes up for nothing!

I walked in and found Stephen with our friends Josh, Stephanie, Bryan, and Andersen. He came and gave me a hug and said he thought a room on the beach would be a nice surprise to celebrate finals being over. ( I was surprised all right!) So I changed out of my work clothes and hung out with everyone as we tried to decide what to do. I should have been clued in that something else was up when I asked about going to the boardwalk for drinks or down to the pool to swim and everyone else voted to go walk on the beach. So we all headed for the beach. It was a perfect night the sky was clear and the moon was HUGE, it was gorgeous out there! We all walked and talked for a bit then Stephen took me aside and asked if I wanted to walk down to the water. I told him he better not push me in! So we walked down to the water and away from everyone else. I turned around and he was on his knee pulling the ring out of his pocket as he was telling me how he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me! I was SHOCKED!! I said yes of course and we went to join the rest of the group. (I still wanna know how everyone kept such a big secret?!) We all stood on the beach and talked a little longer and even saw a shooting star! It was a perfect night! :) I couldn't have planned it better myself



What I'm Loving Wednesdays..



Found this linked up blog post, and couldn't resist! I LOVE this concept from This Kind of Love. Go over and check it out and link up your WILW! :)

Today i'm loving lots of things...

The Rain

I hate being stuck inside but I love that classes are cancelled so I get to just hang out with my love all day. Definitley needed this day to just lounge!

Stephen suited up in his AF issued rain gear to go out and pick up lunch.(I need to go to the grocery store, but there's NO way i'm going in this weather!)

Our apartment complex flooded!! I sort of feel like we're living on a house boat.. surrounded by water on all sides! I'm loving it, but poor Natty dog is hating it!

But he's ok because his sweet daddy brought him a treat!

yup his own cheeseburger!!

What else am I loving today....

Wedding band!

We picked Stephen's wedding band. We haven't ordered it yet, and we may not buy this exact one because i'm not 100% sold on Kay Jewelers, but we want one of this different looking black and silver ones... LOVE IT!



New Tv Show!

Watched the new Lifetime Show: Coming Home... LOVING it! Cried of course, but totally worth it, I love this show!



Trivia night!

One of our favorite games.. our local Mellow Mushroom does trivia night on Wednesday so we love to get a group of friends and go up there. Good pizza, cold beer, and fun trivia with friends! Can't wait til tonight!

Mardi Gras...

I know, I know, it's over now! I actually missed all the parades because the weather here was so terrible, but i'm loving these cans by Bud Light for the season!





Lent

And now, the lenten season begins.. I've never actually given up something and stuck with it for the full 40 days. I really want to this year, but I want to pick something good. Something that will actually be hard for me to do. I'm thinking maybe chocolate? But i'm not sure yet. I will be sure to let you all know when I do decide so maybe i'll be more likely to stick with it!

Wedding bells are getting louder!

As my countdown clock on my blog likes to remind me, we're 73 days away! WOW.. that sounds SO soon! Just over 2 months away.. 2 MONTHS!! It seems like we were just at 6 months! Where is time going!?

Seriously, thank God for my wonderful mother! I would be so lost without her. She's pretty much keeping my butt in gear on our to do list. I've been having these weird headache episodes lately. I had them 4 days in a row last week. We had decided while Stephen was gone to do his inprocesssing at Eglin, we would get all the wedding invitations addressed so they'll be ready to go out by the end of the month. We tried working on them Friday night. My mom, me, and my very sweet cousin, Mandy sat down with the intention of getting them all knocked out. 15 minutes and 5 invitations later, my eyesight blurred and my hand went numb as another one of my episodes came on.. I spent the rest of the evening on the couch with my eyes closed, while they continued to write. The finished over half of them!! The next day I had to go to work and while I was working, my sweet mama finished them all for me! I am TRUELY blessed with the amazing people in my life!

When I got off, we went to run some wedding errands, my mom is hand beading my veil so we went by the bridal store to see it compared to my dress.. wouldn't you know my dress had come in!! I was so excited! I got to put the dress on again, but this time it was MY dress, the actual dress i'll wear down the aisle!

This Sunday, we're having engagement pictures taken! =) One of the sweet wives from one of the Eglin Facebook pages, is just starting a photography business, she offered to take our pictures for free so she could practice with engagement shoots. Of course I said yes! I'm so excited! Her pictures are always pretty so i'm excited for her to take ours! I'll post some on here when we're done :)

I feel like there's so many other things left to do, but until then I'll just keep asking my mom what I need to be doing and when... 73 days! YIKES!!

Top 2 Tuesdays

I found this link up on a couple other blogs I love to read, and the more I thought about it, the more I had to write this one! Today on this wonderful blog we were supposed to link up with the top 2 things we had learned about relationships. Oh boy... as most of you probably could, I feel as if I could write a book on what i've learned in just a few short years! But i'll go with the top 2.

1) Patience- Not just in romantic relationships, but in all relationships patience is key. It's hard as human beings we always want things our way and instantly. Being with Stephen has taught me an immense about of patience. When I come home and his clothes are everywhere and his dirty dishes are scattered around the apartment, I just take a deep breath and remember I'd rather my apartment be messy and have him home, then to have it perfectly neat and him on the other side of the country from me! That patience makes it all worthwhile when I come home from a crazy work day like today and find that he's cleaned the apartment!

2) Be with the one you can't live without- It's easy to settle. It's easy to get comfortable in a relationship and think that yeah, you can live the rest of your life with this person. But what's most important is at the end of the day knowing you COULDN'T live your life withOUT this person! That's when you know you've found your keeper, your other half, and your best friend!

Just 2 of the many things i've learned so far on this crazy road we're on! :)