Weekend Fun

I've not been doing so great keeping up on my blog lately. Life has been so busy!

Our 3rd anniversary was on June 21st. Both of our moms came over to our house to take care of Lily and Levi so we could go out for supper. It was a nice little date! Little did I know that I was in for a big surprise when we got home! Jacob bought a sleigh bed for our anniversary present, and didn't tell me. While we were out for supper, my dad and brothers brought the bed over and set it up in our room! When we got home, Jacob had to work pretty hard to get me to come in the bedroom. Ha! I was shocked! I love it, although I had just told him recently not to spend the money on it since there are some other things we need more. LOL

On Saturday, I helped my sister with a baby shower for a sweet girl in our church. Isn't the decorating amazing?! My sister is so talented! She blogged about it here.

After the baby shower we headed to a little girl's 3rd birthday party! Lily had so much fun - painting, eating, and digging in sand for prizes!

After church Sunday night my family came over for supper. Ridley and Lily had fun playing, but as it got later and later, Ridley climbed up in PaPaw's lap . . .

and Lily lay down on the couch by Aunt Myra. 

They were both so worn out from the busy day!

Hope y'all had a great weekend!

3 years

Three years ago I married the man of my dreams, my best friend. Today I am thankful for God's grace these last three years. They haven't always been easy, but I wouldn't trade them for anything. My heart daily thanks God for my wonderful husband and incredible daddy to our children.

Here's to 67 more years! :-)

Love, True Love!

This is a fun little thing fill out around Valentine's Day. I did it last year and thought I'd do it again this year. 

February 2008 - during the 2 weeks we were dating

1. When was your "engagement" anniversary: February 23, 2008

2. When is your "marriage" anniversary: June 21, 2008

3. How long have you known your spouse: around 15 years

4. How long did you date/court before you were engaged: haha...well, 2 weeks

5. Where did you meet your spouse for the first time: Don't remember exactly, but I think it was at 4-H

6. What is your spouses name: Jacob

7. Do you have any children yet: 6 wk old Lily Grace

8. How many: Just 1 for now

9. Do you have any house pets: yes, 2 chocolate labs- one is named Roo and the other is nameless

10. Do you own a house or rent: Own

11. Do you live in the country or town/city: town/city

12. What is one of your favorite activities together: cooking or watching a movie

13. Do you have a favorite vacation spot: Not really, yet. Anywhere we go together

14. How many siblings (including in-laws): 9

15. What church do you attend: Trinity Presbyterian Church

16. Is this the church you were married in: yes  

17. What is your favorite restaurant to eat at together: Outback

18. Do you work or stay at home: Stay home with my little girl & work from home as well.

19. Where did you honeymoon: Charleston, SC

20. Leave a piece of marriage advice: 1.Give your all and expect nothing in return! 2.Love covers all sins.

January 2010 - our latest family picture

This post is linked to Just for the Joy of It.

Our Engagement Story

I'm linking up to the Valentine Extravaganza that Mama M over at My Little Life is hosting this week. There is a different theme each day. Today is engagement stories.

This time of year is really special for me and Jacob because 2 years ago we had our first date on Valentine's Day and then we got engaged on February 23! We {Jacob} moved fast once he knew I was the right girl! ha! We'd been best friends for a long time, but that's a story for another post.

Here's our engagement story. Hope ya'll don't mind, but I copied and pasted it from a facebook note that I wrote a few days after we got engaged. It would take me all day to type it one-handed while feeding Lily. ha!

Jacob is the concertmaster for a symphony in a city about an hour away. Last Monday, he told me that he had rehearsal all day on Saturday and he wanted me to come eat lunch with him during his break. He said there was a nice park with a waterfall where we could go and walk around and then go to an Italian restaurant. Well, then every time he saw me last week he gave me a few red roses. By Friday night, I had 11! :) Yes, I’ll be honest, I started suspecting throughout the week, but I wanted to be surprised, so I tried not to think about it!

On Saturday, we met after his morning rehearsal and he took me to this beautiful park. It was soooo cold, but we didn’t mind! :) When we got out of the car, he gave me the 12th red rose that had a scroll wrapped around the stem and tied with a ribbon. We walked around a little bit and then sat on a bench looking out over a pond with ducks and a fountain. Then he told me he wanted me to read the scroll. The first part was 83 reasons why he loves me (I’d done that for him for Valentine’s Day). I read them out loud and we laughed and cried through them. 

On the last page of the scroll was a letter that told me how amazed he is how the Lord has brought us together, then it said to reach into the pocket over his heart and I would find something he wanted me to wear for the rest of my life. (sniff, sniff!) So I reached in his pocket and got the ring and he got down on his knee and said (as best as we can remember), “Kelly Joy M., I love you with all of my heart and I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I really want you to marry me. Will you marry me?” I said, “yes, of course!” :) We sat there for awhile longer laughing and crying and not caring that it was freezing cold! Oh, and I must say, the ring is absolutely perfect!! Jacob picked it out all by himself. 

After we left the park, we went to a really nice Italian restaurant and had an awesome lunch together. 

Then I went back to his rehearsal with him. Apparently Jacob, during the morning rehearsal, had shown everyone the ring and told them that during lunch he was going to ask the big question! So we ended up being like 5 minutes late to his afternoon rehearsal and Jacob was trying to quickly get to his spot without making too much disturbance {which is not easy when you are concertmaster!}, but everyone was eagerly waiting to hear what happened. Jacob just turned around and said, “she said yes!” Everyone clapped and was so excited for us! After the rehearsal we drove back to my house together and saw my family and then we went and saw his family later that night. 

It was a wonderful day and I’m sooooo excited to be marrying my best friend in 117 days!!!

Caffeinated Randomness: Accident

Last night was one of the scariest nights in my entire life. Jacob and I were over at my in-laws for a big surprise birthday party for my brother-in-law.

He was so surprised!

After supper all the guys (there were about 14 of them) decided to play 2-hand touch football in the front yard. They strategically set up three cars with the lights on so the yard would be lit up.

The game was going really well until my dear hubby decided to run a fastbreak (or whatever it's called) down the sideline, which happened to be the edge of the curb.
As I was watching, I knew something horrible was about to happen.
Jacob was running as fast as he could, with bare feet (because he had worn flipflops).
Someone touched him.
He lost his balance and tripped.
Crash!
He slammed extremely hard directly into the front of the pickup truck with it's lights on in the picture.
I thought he had hit his head. I thought he was dead. The full cup of water I was holding was thrown across the yard as I ran as fast as I could over to him.
Praise God he was alive! 
He had actually hit his side and back against the truck. His foot was torn and bleeding, he couldn't breathe very well, and he thought he had some broken ribs. After he got up and rested, he decided that at worst his ribs were bruised or cracked. We didn't check the truck, but with as hard as Jacob hit it, I'm afraid it might've had a dent or other damage.

Thankfully we made it through the night, getting a decent amount of sleep, and he is going to the doctor for x-rays this morning.

I honestly have no idea how people make it when they lose a spouse. Last night, I saw the accident, thought my husband was dead, and had the scene replay in my mind for hours. It was horrible. I can only praise the Lord for his goodness to me and our family.

Today as I care for my dear husband, I am reminded to always be thankful for him, no matter what. And to always remember to tell him that I love him because we never know what can happen.

For more Caffeinated Randomness, visit Under Grace and Over Coffee.

Happy Friday! Go hug your family and make sure they know how much you love them!

Some Wedding Pics

I was looking back through some of our wedding pictures and thought I'd share some of them for the blog hop. These are just some candid shots that my bro-in-law took while the professional photographer was doing her thing. I really love how they turned out!

 

I love this boy!

Show Us Your Life - Our reception & honeymoon

This week over at Kelly's Korner, we're showing our reception and honeymoon!

Our church was doing renovations to the fellowship hall and kitchen, but we started in plenty of time to get it finished before the wedding. The problem was that our town had a really insane building inspector (she has since been let go from her job) who gave us tons of red tape just to get a building permit.

Anyway, we weren't able to get the fellowship hall finished in time for our reception. As you can see in the picture below there are white plastic table cloths covering the framing and ceiling. My brother, Jacob's brother and I spent almost 1 whole day putting up the table cloths with push pins!

I had to wear a mask because the dust was making me sick

Judah (Jacob's bro) and Luke (my bro) were such an amazing help!!!

We had a pretty simple reception: wedding cake, several kinds of cheesecakes (instead of groom's cake), fruit, coffee and coffee punch.

Our cake turned out beautifully. I loved the flowers around it and the strawberry filling!

I didn't do a very good job throwing my bouquet. I threw it up instead of back! Ha.

Leaving the church through bunches of bubbles.

The sweetest old man drove us away in his awesome mustang!

He made everyone laugh by cranking up the song "Pretty Woman" super loud on the radio!

We went to Charleston, South Carolina on our honeymoon. We really enjoyed it!

A yummy restaurant where we ate lunch one day.

We took a carriage ride and saw so many beautiful old houses!

Love those big swings by the water.

One day we toured this plantation. I think it was my favorite thing that we did! It was really hot outside, but we got so many great pictures of flowers and wildlife. It was so peaceful.

We learned to love the self-timer on our camera!

There were tons of huge old trees

I loved this bridge!

We ate at an old-timey restaurant one day for lunch

This is at Fort Sumter. Very awesome!

On our last night there we drove to a beach to watch the sunset.

After we left Charleston, we drove to New Jersey for a friend's wedding. Jacob had already committed to play in her wedding before we even got engaged, so we just planned our wedding and honeymoon around that. We got to drive through Washington DC and tour some in New York City, both places I'd never been before.

It was fun, but we were both sooo ready to be home!

My Wedding Party & Flowers

This week at Kelly's Korner, we're showing our wedding party and flowers. I loved joining in last week with my wedding dress, so I decided to participate again this week!

Here's a little background info I should share before I get to the pictures. My hubby and I were best friends for 9 years throughout highschool and college. We went to the same church, were both homeschooled, and went to the same university. I knew all along that he was the guy I was going to eventually marry! He on the other hand was verrry slow about making up his mind. LOL!

Jacob was best friend's with my sister's fiance', so guess who ended up being best man in their wedding?! Mmhm, you guessed it! Jacob was best man and I was maid of honor. Well, finally Jacob made up his mind and we started dating in February of last year. We dated for 2 weeks, then got engaged, and got married less than 4 months later! Pretty crazy, I know.

Ok, now on to the wedding stuff.

I carried a bouquet of hot pink roses. Simple but beautiful!

All of my immediate family. Such a good-lookin' bunch!

Jacob and me with his family

My wonderful Daddy! I'm definitely Daddy's Girl.

I just love my mom so much!

Me and my awesome sister (she was pregnant with my nephew, but looked great!)

Me and my 3 wonderful brothers.

This picture cracks me up every time I look at it! Junior bridesmaid: Elizabeth (Jacob's sister), Bridesmaid: Katie (Jacob's sister), Me, Matron of Honor: Myra (my sis), Maid of Honor: Cassie (my best friend in college)

Insane wedding party! Everyone was one of our family members except Cassie.

Jacob and me with the flowergirls (my cousins) and the ringbearer (Jacob's cousin)

These are our grandparents: My Memaw and Jacob's Nanny & Papa. Papa has been a pastor for 50 years and he took part along with my Dad in our ceremony.

Funny story: All of the girls got ready at the church across the street because there wasn't enough room at our church. Well, of course it started raining like 15 minutes before the wedding. So this picture is of us trying to dash into the church without getting rain drops on our dresses. We went from the van to under the tent then my cousin held an umbrella between the tent and the church for us to go under. The white blob at the door is me. Pretty funny picture!

Sweet children walking down the aisle. They did so well!

Jacob is a professional violinist and he surprised me during the ceremony by playing the song "Adoration" for me.

Jacob & Me with my sister and her hubby (it was their wedding where we were best man and maid of honor)