Surprise!

So my birthday was on Tuesday right? Well Matt brought me lunch for my birthday and a present :) he hadn’t been here very long and he said he had to go, I wasn’t too happy he was leaving so soon, but he said he had a meeting with the married housing department at the school. I didn’t think much about it because they had just called like last week to tell us that they didn’t have any apartments open, plus we had been trying to get into one (well to get matt into one until we get married) but because he wasn’t 23 they wouldn’t let him. Anyways about 30 minutes passed and he called and said that he had a confession to make that he had lied a little bit, my initial thought was “oh dear” and he went on to tell me that when he told me he had a meeting with them the meeting was actually to sign papers for our apartment and that he had the key in his hand going to open the door! I was so SHOCKED to say the least!!! Total surprise, I was tearing up I was so happy! This has been something I had been worrying about everyday! That night once matt got off work me his mom and him went and looked at his and soon to be our new home! I love it, it is small, but perfect for the two of us. He has already moved into it and the rooms actually are bigger than they looked with no furniture in them. Once my mom and dad get a little less busy they are going move our couch, loveseat and table and chairs. Matt’s mom and dad bought us a in table with a lamp on it, some curtains and matt some food! I am so excited to get to start decorating it and getting it all set up for when we come back from our honeymoon and get to live in it together! Mom and dad surprised me to with a birthday cake bouquet, it is super cute!! 

Welcome

 This is our living room

This is our dining area

 This is our Kitchen

 Matt's room for now, but going to be our master room

Guest room

Pantry

and bathroom

My Beautiful Birthday Cake Bouquet

Today Matt and I took our invitations to staples to get printed. We get to see the proof tomorrow! Yesterday I ordered our napkins for the wedding and our cake topper. I have been working on getting everyone’s addresses for the wedding invitations, man that is some hard work entering them into the computer and keeping track of who gave you theirs and if you put it in the computer right and so on and so on. I gotta start addressing them or I’m going to run out of time, yikes!! We have 57 days to go!! But only a couple of weeks to get the invites out!! It’s coming quick and I’m so excited!!!

21.

Today is my 21st Birthday! My Dad and Mom told me this morning that they are getting me the new movie that was released on DVD today "Gnomeo and Juliet". I’m quite excited! It is kind of funny that this movie was released on my birthday because I have some history with Garden Gnomes.

My freshman year of college we were pretty bored so some of the students came up with a... we'll say adventure called Dare Night. Already starting to sound bad huh? We had been split into teams and in each team we had a list of dares we had to get done in the allotted time. There was things on the list like "Take a bite out of an onion", "let a dog out of a yard" (which by the way we did, but sort of cheated at the same time, the dog was safely returned to the yard), "T.P a tree", change the letters on a Church sign" "Call your parents and convince them you turned gay"...you get the idea. The last one that we did was "Steal a garden gnome from someone’s yard" great idea, right...NOT! So we started out in a neighborhood, in my car, with me driving and the first house we found with a garden gnome of some sort the passenger was to jump out and grab it..so we found one and the passenger jumped out ran, grabbed the object and ran back into the getaway car and I zoomed off....here’s where it gets interesting, the object we got wasn’t just any ordinary garden gnome, it couldn't be that easy, it was a figurine....of Jesus!!! It was huge and really super heavy, but we made it back to campus with Jesus and all. That was a Saturday night, so therefore the next day was Sunday....and Church! So I’m setting listening to the sermon when I start to feel this guilt, that I had stolen something...I went to the alter and was so very upset. Afterwards I talked to one of my team mates that went to the same church as me and believe it or not he had the same guilt, so that night we snuck to the waterfall where our beautiful treasures were displayed and grabbed Jesus and went back to the neighborhood and returned him to his yard sidewalk in from of his house.

I told my parents about this, and I’m beginning to think that wasn’t the wisest decision that I have ever made, but I did. They thought it was hilarious...so much that it is still a joke 3 years later. Later that year I get an email from my mom...a sweet little greeting card. In this greeting card there is a talking Garden Gnome and this little guy is personalized just for me...telling me that the Gnomes felt safe until I came into town, that they were watching me and had security and all this and that. It was funny

That is story of my encounter with Garden Gnomes and why my parents are buying me the movie! :)

It Happened in France

I felt like I should share why I chose this name. Matt, my fiancé, and I met in 2009 on a mission trip to France. We had both set out on this journey with the goal of not liking anyone on our team. Well obviously that didn’t work out for either of us! After we started dating we talked about the day we started liking each other...and it turned out that we had started liking each other the same day which was my Birthday, so 2 years from today! :) So I thought "It Happened in France" was a fitting Name!