So much has been going on these past couple of weeks, I
don’t even know where to begin!
As many of you know, my sister is getting married as well!
She will be marrying the man of her dreams in March of 2015. After waiting and
waiting and waiting for her to be ready to go try on wedding dresses, we
finally went! We spent two weekends going from store to store plundering
through a ton of beautiful dresses! It was so much fun being able to help HER
put on all those dresses since she was the one who helped me do the same! We
had the absolute best time dress hunting. We did a lot of laughing, a lot of
talking, and a lot of comparing dress pictures on pic stich.
This past Friday was Valentine’s day! Devin decided he was
going to come up to Greenville on Friday for the weekend to see me because I
had a huge test on Monday so I still needed to get some studying done. Thursday
night, I was sitting at my kitchen table studying and I heard a loud bang on my
door. Now…living with 3 girls in Greenville, NC and having someone bang on your
door…all three of us looked at each other like, “who’s going to get that?” As
Jessica braved up and opened the door (and hid behind it as she opened it)
Devin came through the door! What a happy feeling seeing that handsome boy
standing there! He surprised me by coming a day early! Yippie!
After class on Friday, Devin told me there was something he
had been wanting to do. After having a romantic Valentines day lunch date at
Jimmy Johns, he drove me over to the BB&T. He told me he wanted us to go
ahead and open up a savings account together! We’ve been saving up money
together for a while now. Devin and I worked at the Sunset Slush of Holden
Beach that his family owns. The nights we worked together, we would sit a jar
out on the counter that said, “Honeymoon Fund.” Surprisingly, we did fairly
well with our help us out jar! We saved up all of our tips and put it away. I
am thankful that Devin was responsible enough to save it so now we have a
little bit of money to start our marriage out with!
When we decided we were going to spend Valentine ’s Day
weekend in Greenville, we thought “what could be a better day to start our
WEDDING REGISTRY!?!” Since Devin and I will not be living with each other until
the night of our wedding, we had a lot of registering to do because we will be
starting a brand new home together. Walking into Bed, Bath, and Beyond, we were
so pumped to get started. I thought Devin was going to just snatch the
registering gun from the woman and run because he was so excited to get to
scanning! In our minds we thought we just went and scanned everything we saw
that we wanted but there’s a little more of a technique to it than that. I
never knew there were so many different kinds of silverware, containers,
plates, sheets, etc. We were quickly overwhelmed with it all. One of the ladies
that worked there saw us struggling so she tagged along and helped us to find
the things we actually needed to be looking at. After we got the hang of it, we
starting really getting an image of what our home will look like! Deciding on
colors and décor was exciting because this is what we will be seeing every
day!
Valentines Day Part 2
Saturday morning we got up early and went and had breakfast
at the local Cracker Barrel. After we finished eating we decided we were going
to also go to Target and start a wedding registry there. When we walked in, all
we had to do was sign in on the computer, grab a scanner, and go! After
spending 4 hours in Bed, Bath, and Beyond registering the day before, we felt more
confident in what to do. When we got to scanning, I felt like Devin and I
really had the same taste in almost everything and compromised on the things we
didn’t! I am a very visual person. If you don’t draw me a picture or show me an
example of something, I will not have any idea of what you are talking about.
So for Devin, this meant creating a kitchen table display in the middle of
targets aisle so I could see his vision. Spoiled much?
After we finished registering, Devin told me he had a craft
he wanted us to do. He wouldn’t tell me what we were making because he wanted
the end result to be a surprise. We went to Michael’s and got some paint, paint
brushes, chalk, wood, and little pegs. When we got back to my apartment, he got
everything ready and told me what to paint. While waiting on the paint to dry,
I crammed in a little bit of studying while he tried to dry the wood with my hair
dryer. After it was all painted, he told me to study and he’d finish the rest.
This is almost the end result……
This is a sign that will hang in our kitchen in our first
home. When it’s completed, it will have our names on blocks that we can put up
and write each other notes!
As you can all tell, Devin is full of surprises all the
time. When people say they get bored in their relationship and “fall out of
love,” I just honestly do not know how. Even after 7 years of being with
the same person, I am still absolutely crazy about that boy. Devin constantly
keeps me on my toes and I fall in love with him more and more each and every
day. I feel so loved and am constantly
reminded of the love God has given me. Devin is my best friend and I do not know
what I would do without him. Thank you for a wonderful Valentines day weekend!!
