Tag: Marriage
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Texts after babies
Sorry for being grumpy this morning / I love you / Can you print this for me? / Can you pick up almond milk? / Can you call our insurance company? / The new season of Outer Banks comes out soon / Two years ago today—can you believe how little they were?! / You can…
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Fair love
I went on my first blind date at the state fair. It was a Sunday afternoon—October 19, 2014—and our best friends set us up. The sky was bright blue and the temperature so quintessentially autumn that I had no choice but to wear my favorite green flannel shirt. My date was fun and easy to…
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Love & toast
I’m sitting cross-legged on our spit-up stained comforter, nursing CJ as morning overcomes night once again. Josh pops his head into the room. “I’m heading out with Kyeler to pick up breakfast,” he tells me. “What would you like?” I am exhausted, irritable, and looking for any excuse to be rude to anyone on this…
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Asheville eats
This past weekend, Josh and I took a trip to Asheville to (belatedly) celebrate our 2 year anniversary! We stayed in an awesome AirBnB in West Asheville and ate sooo much good food. We also went mural/graffiti hunting and found several really intriguing ones, which you can check out here. Overall it was a super…
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Our Wedding Day
I’ve been tinkering with words for about two months now, trying to find a way to express how I felt on the day that Josh and I got married. Words that come to mind: peace, joy, excitement, happiness, gratitude… Those are all wonderful and true words to describe our wedding day, but they still fall short…
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Weddings
I absolutely love weddings. They so often have that fairy tale quality to them – love, elegance, and a dashing prince charming who has come to sweep his princess off her feet. Thank goodness I’m not idealistic at all, right? At the same time, though, weddings terrify me. Particularly my own. Not because of the actual…
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Marriage Prep
First, let me offer the disclaimer that I know absolutely nothing about marriage. I only know a very small amount about preparing for it, and those are the insights I want to offer here. (You will also notice that I’m using this post as an excuse to show you more engagement photos*. No shame.) Josh…