Monograms&Mimosas

This weekend was by far one of the best weekends I have had in a while. Finishing up my last semester of nursing school does not leave me with a lot of free time! This weekend was full of wedding excitement, bridal bliss, and quality time with some of the greatest friends a girl could ask for.

 

 

My roommates decided they wanted to throw a bridal shower for me with all of my closest friends from Greenville! They even worked it out that my sister, mine and Devin's mom, and some of my bridesmaids from back home came which I am so thankful for! They have had to keep secrets from me for the past month (Taylor was not so good at this) but it was so worth it. All of the hard work and planning they did was so humbling and it is something I will never forget.

 

 

Just walking into the shower, I was in such awe. Everything was decorated in pink, white, and burlap. The stairs were lined with my future name “SELLERS” and when I walked in the room, there awaited all of the girls! We had some of the most delicious food served with a yummy glass of mimosa. Since my roommates know me better than most, they served breakfast foods which they know is my favorite meal of the day!

 

After we finished eating, Jessica had a little game planned for me. Since I am not showing nor telling anyone what my wedding dress looks like, they decided they were going to try and create what they thought my dress would look like…..with toilet paper.

 

Since there were a lot of girls there to play, we broke up into teams. Nursing school girls and girls outside of nursing school. I decided to volunteer my sister since she is also a bride-to-be so there wouldn’t be an unfair advantage with the second team! I was with the nursing school girls and my sister was with the others! Let me just say….you put a bunch of nursing students together on a team, they will get the job done and it will be perfected. They were wrapping me by doing figure 8s and such! Guess all those lab days practicing wrapping limbs paid off! If you took a quick glance at my toilet paper dress, you would have thought it was an actual dress. It was a “sweetheart mermaid dress with a long train and a bow in the back.”  

 

Sorry Emily…I think I won that one…..Your toilet paper gloves were a great accessory to your dress though!

 

After we finished playing the game, I opened up presents and am so grateful for all the sweet gifts everyone got me. I am so excited to be able to sport that Sellers name and they got me pretty prepared to do so! To all the guest who came, thank you again. You all mean the world to me and I am so thankful for your friendship. I don’t know what I would do without you all.

 

To my host…you girls went above and beyond to make this day so special for me. I can’t believe our time as roommates is almost over. I don’t even like to think about the day we all move out. You girls are not only my roommates, but my family. I have learned so much from y’all and am so excited for the next chapter in our lives. Thank you for loving me at my best times and at my worst times, my goods days and my bad days. You girls are the best. I LOVE YALL!

wedding registry,valentines day, and more!

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!!

 

 

my sweet mama sue

Mrs. Susie has been a part of my life forquite a while now. I can still remember the first time I met her! It was at one of Devin’s high school football games.  Kelli Tatum, one of my sister’s good high school friends, took me over to introduce me to them. Kelli knew the Sellers very well so she wasn’t a bit shy when we walked over. As we approached them, I noticed it wasn’t just Devin’s parents I was meeting…it was his mom, dad, brother, five of his brother’s friends, the Buffkin family, maw-maw…the list could go on and on. They always sat on the top bleacher at the games so from that day on, I knew where to look for them! I can honestly say that since the day I met her, she has treated me like her daughter. I was 14 years old when I first met the Sellers crew. God’s timing is so beautiful and perfect because he knew I needed this family at this point in my life. My high school life was by no means a walk in the park. My family went through some very difficult times and she was always there for me with welcoming arms.

 

I always admired how involved Mrs. Susie and Mr. Donald were in Devin and Drew’s life. They never missed a thing the boys were involved in. I realized very quickly that if I wanted to be a part of this family, I needed to learn at least the basics of sports or I would be the easy target for jokes. On the flip side though…I’m sure Mrs. Susie never once imagined she’d have to sit through so many dance recitals with only having boys! Once Devin and I started dating, Mrs. Susie never missed a single one of my events either. Proms, dance recitals, graduation, etc. Whatever it was, she was going to be there. It is so special to look back and think about her being there alongside  my mom and I while I looked for prom dresses and dance costumes! It’s crazy to think that now we are picking out wedding stuff!

 

 

I am so grateful to be entering a family that has been a huge part of my teen years. Mrs. Susie and Mr. Donald have always told me I was one of them! Family pictures, family dinners, you name it…I was there. If I ever tried to take a picture of the family, they’d yell at me and tell me to come on and get in the picture! It wasn’t too long after Devin and I started dating that they told me to stop ringing that doorbell and just come on in.

 

 

Mrs. Susie is one of the strongest women I have ever met. She has been a great role model to me with seeing how to live a God centered life and a family centered life. Her love for her husband is a wonderful example to me for how I want to love my husband. I wish more than anything that Papa bear could be here right now and see me become a Sellers girl. He always called me his baby girl and I know he knew I would have the Sellers name one day. I promise Mrs. Susie to love your son like you love your husband. Thank you for giving me my best friend.

 

 

 

The Sellers Girls

 

I hope you had a wonderful birthday, I love you!

-babygirl

 

A friendship that changed my life

Well to start off, I wanted to talk to y'all about a girl I met in college. I will be the first to say I was terrified going off to college. I have always been such a homebody and loved spending time with my family. Starting my freshman year at East Carolina, I immediately connected with Devin’s group of friends. They were so loving and welcoming. I just knew I had made all the friends I needed to make. After a while, I kept getting the feeling that I was missing out on things on campus because I was always off campus hanging out with Devin and his crew. Well, being the typical freshman I was, I decided I was going to sign up and join EVERYTHING. I was blessed enough with the experience of being on the ECU Club Dance team for two years. These girls will forever have such a special place in my heart. Anywhooo…I remember talking to Devin one day and telling him I felt so lost because I just had not found my “best friend” that everyone talks about finding when they go off to school. Of course I had Kandice from day one of college and she is still to this day like a sister to me, but she had her little “click of friends”. I had a lot of really close friends, but not that ONE best friend.

 

I remember one night, a couple of girls from the dorm decided to go out to dinner. I decided I would invite these two girls that lived diagonal from Kandice and I that I hadn’t really gotten a chance to know to come. They all came and we had a wonderful time! After that night, I kept running into one of the girls that lived diagonal from me that had come to dinner. We still didn’t really know each other that well, so it was still that awkward “hey how ya doing” passing in the dorm shower room and in the hall ways kind of friend ship.

Well…Everyone….Meet Jessica Pate.

There was the one day I was feeling really down about who knows what now, and I asked Jessica if she wanted to ride with me over to see Devin and his friends. On the way over there, I completely broke down to her and told her how I didn’t feel like I had found my place in college yet and then she broke down and said she felt the same way! Hahaha Who knew God would use two young emotional females to start up the beginning of a new and wonderful friendship.

 

Since this day, the two of us have been inseparable. If we aren’t together, people ask where the other one is. We are usually up to no good and always looking for something to get into! Whether it be stealing a dorm mate’s mattress, tying our neighbor’s door together so neither one could get out, having a dance party to ourselves, stealing walnuts from Devin’s neighbor’s house (sorryJ), making our other roommate fake an arrest and ask Devin if he claimed her (yes we had an officer help us with this), and many other things I should probably not share with the world hahaha. There is never a dull moment.  We decided we were going to live together in an apartment after our freshman year. We have now been roommates for 3 years! I can hardly believe that much time has passed!

Since we’ve been friends, we have seen each other experience heart breaks, tragedies, celebrations, engagements, etc. What I have learned from our friendship is that a good friend doesn’t always have to say the right thing…they just need to be there. I personally have had a rollercoaster of emotion over the past couple of years and she is one of the people who I remember always being a constant friend.

While being at East Carolina, I did join a church in Greenville. In the beginning of mine and Jessica’s friendship, God was never the center of our life. We were mainly concerned with what we were going to do Thursday-Saturday night. Throughout our time going to church together and learning more about the gospel, God is now the center of both of our lives and usually end up in deep discussions about God and the great works he has done in our life and how we can better serve him. It is such a blessing to have a friend who shares the same love for Christ as I do.

Our friendship is one that indescribable. Our jokes, not many people would understand…Our talks are usually strange and you wouldn’t follow…We can sit across the room from each other and one of us starts laughing and we already know what the other is giggling at.

There are many friends that will come and go throughout life…I am aware of this for it has already happened. But it is friendships like this that are for life. Jessica is one of my bridesmaids and I can’t even imagine my wedding day without her. She not only has a special place in my life but also in Devin’s life. He looks at her as his little sister. Devin has been a wonderful aid in helping Jessica find peace in a lot of aspects in her life. We always say that Jessica is going to have to live right next door to us one day because he doesn’t know what me and her are going to do without each other hahaha (and because I’ll have to do her hair/make up every morning before she goes to work).

I am forever grateful God puts such special people in my life. I have prayed hard for a Godly group of friends and he has surely provided as he said he would.

HONEYMOONING, CUPCAKES, PHOTOGRAPHER, and MORE

This Christmas break, I did some major wedding planning! Since I will be finishing up my LAST semester of nursing school in Greenville this spring, I figured I better complete a lot of items off my to-do list.

 

I finally met and booked my photographer! Her name is Amber Parker (soon to be Rhodes). Her business name is Chasing Moments Photography. Just over the past few months, I have seen her business grow tremendously! I am excited to see where God takes her career. She recently did one of my best friends, Maggie Hickman’s wedding. I have only seen a few pictures from the wedding so far, and let me tell y'all...they are beautiful. I am so blessed to have her as my photographer!

Okay, okay...here is the big and exciting news…Devin and I have officially booked our honeymoon!! We will spend our first week as Mr. and Mrs. Devin Sellers in JAMACIA!!! I told Devin to narrow down the search to about 5 places and I’d pick from those. He worked so hard to make sure he found the perfect place for us to honeymoon.

 

So…I got my to-do list from the knot.com and it told me to start researching bakeries and to do cake tastings! Devin and I had no problem starting this task. We started researching local bakeries and the price for cake is jaw dropping. After Devin started seeing the prices, he was determined he was just going to bake the cupcakes himself because he has 2 cupcake pans and he could do it in no time…come on babe…this is NOT happening. So we continued our search and came across this lady out of Leland. Her company is call Cooper and Chloe Cupcakes. We emailed her and asked if we could do a cake tasting. She prepared us a ½ dozen cupcakes to try. Let me just say…they were FABULOUS! She is super talented and very nice, and I am so excited to have found her.

 

My sister and I got to go to a Bridal Expo together as BRIDES! It was so fun walking around together viewing all of the local vendors! Once vendors found out that we were sisters, they would immediately turned to our mom and say "Oh my gosh, how are you handling all of this?" hehe. My sister and I are very close, so planning for our weddings together has been such a great experience. 

 

 

 

These are just a few of the details we got set in stone while I was home for Christmas break. I am now back in Greenville to finish up my last semester in college. Time has really flown. I feel like just yesterday I was moving in the dorm for my freshman year. I am really allowing my faith to guide me in life right now. I will soon be applying for jobs as a nurse! As soon as I figure out where I’ll be working, then we will begin house hunting! I have a couple of job openings I have my eye on. I will continue to pray for guidance and have constant faith knowing that God will lead me to where I can serve him.