Arkansas Bride

Our engagement has been featured in Arkansas Bride!  I was so excited when the story popped up on my Facebook newsfeed....

Go on over to the Arkansas Bride blog to read the full story and leave us a comment!

Our Engagement Pictures

Saturday was a day I've been looking forward to for soooooo long.... We had our Engagement Pictures made!  I've always been so excited for the day when I would get to have engagement pictures made with the man I was going to marry. After "ooing and awwing" when my friends had their's made, it was finally my turn!

We chose Anthony Byrnes to be our photographer for our entire wedding experience.  Now.... I'm one of those girls who researched wedding photographers long before I met my groom :)  Anthony had big shoes to fill and he over-exceeded our expectations.  He was absolutely wonderful to work with and made Jeremy and I feel so comfortable.  The day was so much fun!  Anthony was willing to go wherever we wanted, even risking his life on the train tracks (haha) and his freedom by sneaking in to Razorback Stadium.   Luckily we didn't get caught :)

I could go on and on about how impressed I am with the pictures Anthony captured of us. I am so pleased with just our "sneak peek" and cannot wait to see more when he's finished with them.  So if you're looking for a wedding photographer, I HIGHLY recommend using Anthony.

Jeremy was so wonderful throughout the entire photo session.  He humored me and all my crazy ideas, went shopping with me for clothes to match my outfits, and did not complain once throughout the day.  He wanted me to feel so special and I absolutely did thanks to him.  I still can't believe this is my life, he's so perfect for me and I never thought I would find him.  

God's timing is always right.  Always.

November Days

Friday night was an important game for BHS.  The Bentonville Tigers played Fayetteville!  Bentonville is currently ranked #1 and Fayetteville was #3 on Friday night, they are always one of their biggest rivals and every year the game is intense!  This year even more so after FHS beat BHS in the Championship game last year by 1 point.  Friday at school was a hustle of activities preparing for that nights' festivities.  Days like those always wear me out.

Jeremy and I met our friends Steve and Brittany for dinner at The Flying Fish before heading out to the stadium.  Little did we know, the Bentonville square was hosting the annual Toy Fair.  It was a madhouse there.  Arriving before Brittany and Steve, we walked around the square for a while and quickly noticed that we were the ONLY ones there without kids.  Haha.  At least Jeremy got to see the cool cars used in the newest Batman movie :)  He was amused.

We had a lot of fun cheering BHS on at the game afterwards.  It was a perfect night for football.  The tigers ended up winning 24-17.

Saturday was another Razorback Football game day.  We had breakfast with our friends Kendall, Carrie and their little boy Owen at Mimi's Cafe.  If you've never been there for breakfast, you need to go!  It's one of my favorite breakfast destinations.... I love their quiche, but really anything on the menu is great!

After breakfast we headed to Razorback stadium.  It really made me sad to see how empty the place was, when considering just a year ago you couldn't even get tickets!  Now... tickets are easy to find.

At least we came away with a win over Tulsa, and it was fun watching sweet Katie Waldrip crowned Homecoming Queen!  It's always great to see such a high honor go to someone so deserving.

All my favorite local boutiques have had sales this weekend on their hogs apparel and I've definitely taken advantage :)  I'm so excited for my new hog clothes that I get to wear to the basketball games... Yes... basketball is starting and my fiance loves ANYTHING sports and Razorback.  So, I guess my Saturday's of football are just being traded in for weekday nights and weekends spent in Bud Walton.  Can't say I hate it though :)

Birthday, Wedding & Powderpuff

This past weekend Jeremy and I traveled to Cabot to visit family and  celebrate my niece's birthday.  I absolutely cannot believe she is TWO already.  It seems like just yesterday we were anxiously awaiting her arrival.  She's starting to warm up to Jeremy finally :)   At first, all she would do was stare at him.  Haha.  Now she calls him "Me" (short for Jer-Me) when she sees his picture.  It's pretty cute. 

Heelyn is at such a fun age right now.  Her vocabulary is growing so fast and hearing her form little sentences is just so cute.  She was totally into opening all her presents, but wasn't that excited about the clothes, haha. 

After Heelyn's birthday party, my mom and I went to Searcy to look at a Christmas decoration store.  My mom had noticed that they had tons of burlap decor (which is what I'm wanting for the wedding).  I'm so glad she noticed because we got SO many cute things to decorate with!  I'm so thankful that my mom is the amazing decorator that she is... AND she knows exactly what my wedding vision is.  She came up with so many creative ideas.  Starting to get decor only makes me more excited for July to get here.  I absolutely cannot wait to marry that boy!

Right now I'm smack dab in the middle of competition season for Cheerleading.  This time of the year is both really exciting and super stressful.  We are putting the peices together on our routines and tension is extremely high.  Practices are either great or awful.  I love this time of the year... when it's competition day.  Haha.  There's so much hard work that goes into the before that it makes you forget sometimes the outcome.  

Anyway....  we decided to take a short break from practicing to play in a Powderpuff game against the varsity cheerleaders benefiting United Way.  It was SO SO SO much fun!  My girls were so pumped up and had a great time.    Even though we didn't win, we all had a great night and are already talking about a re-match.  Ha.  Who knew girls could love playing football so much??

Tis the Season for Pumpkins

Lately it seems like every weekend it rains....   This weekend, it was pretty welcome.  After several busy weeks & weekends, it was nice to have an excuse to just be a little lazy.  Friday night was the big Bentonville vs. Rogers HS game.  Typically RHS isn't a rival for Bentonville, but this year they were undefeated so they might have given us a little run for our money.   Well.... they didn't.  In true Bentonville style, we killed them.  Oh well, at least we get to watch one winning team!

It's tradition at BHS to wear camo on the day we play RHS.  Aren't my girls so cute?  They were on my good side that day ;)

Saturday Jeremy and I invited Megan (his sister) and her fiance, TJ, up for chili and to watch the Razorback game.  My guy makes the BEST chili.  Hands down. 

The way he eats his chili is a little ridiculous.  Crackers AND Fritos.  Yuck.  Meg and I may or may not have skipped on the last half of the game in favor of shopping at the Promenade.

 

On Sunday, Jeremy made good on his promise and took me to a pumpkin path near by.  It was SO much fun!  We went on a hayride and got to cut our own pumpkins.  My sister says ours looks like its rotten.   I disagree!  If you want a fun date I highly reccommend McGarrah Farms in Pea Ridge, AR.  They had TONS of pumpkins of all kinds!  I wanted a "bumpy" one, a big one, and a green one.  Oh and then I had to get some little baby pumpkins too.  Haha.... poor Jeremy. 

 

Sunday evening we lit the first fire of the season.  It's been chilly up here!  I just love the way my pumpkins look next to the lit fireplace.  Ahh... I love fall.



 



Long Time, No Blog

 

What a month September was.   I can honestly say we've been absent from the blog because we have been SO incredibly busy.   Football season is so much fun, but man does it wear you out having to see your team loose every weekend!  Haha.  Poor little hogs, and poor fiance.  Jeremy has stressed himself out so badly over the hogs losing season.   At least we've had a "winning" season of tailgating and hanging out with friends :)

School has me totally swamped right now.  Jeremy and I have barely gotten to spend any quality time together anymore.  I got in WAY over my head this year and while I truly love every minute of it, it leaves me pretty exhausted and overwhelmed lots of days.  Jeremy is so great right now.   He helps me out, listens when I feel overwhelmed, doesn't mind eating out a lot, and still surprises me with sweet gifts and date nights :)   I still can't get over how amazing he is.   How did I get so lucky?

Lately, Jeremy and I have begun attending a new church.   After much prayer we felt led to look into other churches and tried out Fellowship.  We LOVE it.  The main thing we love about Fellowship is how authentic everyone is, and the applicability of the message each Sunday.  We've even joined a community group!  We look forward to Sunday each week and are so glad we found a church that we can grow with.

So that's a quick update our lives lately.  Promise I won't stay gone so long next time!

Family, Friends and The Razorbacks

Jeremy and I decided to head down to Little Rock this weekend to spend time with my family and watch the hogs play at War Memorial Stadium.   We should have known part of the weekend was doomed (haha, poor little hogs) before we even left Bentonville.  The skies turned an earie grey and as I was driving home from work, whole families were standing in their yards watching the clouds as they tumbled in.  When I see people outside looking up at the sky, I start to get a little freaked.  I had just pulled into my garage when the bottom literally fell out of the sky.  Jeremy had beat me to my house, so we quickly grabbed my bags and left trying to beat the weather.  It took us about 45 minutes to reach Fayetteville, and with the weather being clear, we decided to grab dinner and run by Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a shower gift.  Bad decision, as Jeremy then had to drive in the monsoon like weather the entire way to Cabot.  Poor honey.  We made it to Cabot around 10:30 Friday night, pretty much exhausted.

 

Saturday morning we cooked breakfast with my parents, and then Mom and I headed to Chenal to do a little quick shopping.  My sister met us over there with my precious neice Heelyn.  I take any opportunity I can to spend time with her because it KILLS me that I live so far away and can't spend more time with her!  She's getting to such a fun age and says the funniest things!

 After shopping, we grabbed a quick bite at Chick-Fil-A and who doesn't love playing in the play area?  Heelyn didn't want to leave, I can't blame her!

Jeremy spent the afternoon grilling out with friends, and then I met up with everyone and we all headed to War Memorial to cheer on our hogs! 

All I'm going to say about the AR vs. ULM game was I had a very sad, depressed fiance driving me home that night.

Sunday we went to church at New Life in Little Rock.  Neither Jeremy nor I had ever attended NLC before and we both loved it.  The pastor is absolutely hillarious!  He also tells everything just how it is which we both love.  I think we will have to add him to our list of podcasts that we enjoy listening to.  Lunch was at Taziki's, and then we headed back so Mom and I could attend a Bridal Shower and Dad and Jeremy could golf.

One of my childhood friends, Christi, is getting married in a little over a month!  I will be the last of us to get married, I can't believe it.  I remember talking back in high school and we always thought I would be the first!  Ha.   Little did we know ;)  

Anyway, Christi met her future hubby Chad in high school and even though they have lived in different places for much of their relationship, they made it work and are going to finally become husband and wife!  I'm extremelly happy for her, Chad's a great guy!  It's so crazy to think of the first bridal shower we all attended together, to some of the lasts.... we are seasoned pros by now :)

It was great to get to catch up with some of my closest, longest girlfriends... whom I wish lived closer to me!  Although I absolutely cherish my college friends and beyond, no one understands you quite like the girls who you attended every school prom, cheered beside, and graduated with.  Although the friendships may change, the bonds are forever.

Football, Football & an Engagement Party

This weekend was jam packed.  Friday evening I convinced Jeremy to take me to a local boutique called Riffraff to pick up a Razorback Tee I wanted to wear on Saturday, and then to eat greek food.  After our quick dinner (and a trip to buy a rainjacket), I headed back to Bentonville to help coach the Varsity Cheerleaders at the BHS vs. Kansas City Rockhearst game.

  Even though it was rainy and pretty miserable weather-wise, I had a great time coaching the older girls and cheering the Tigers on for a win!  I didn't realize just how much I would enjoy coaching varsity, but the environment just makes it a blast!

My parents came up late Friday evening, and were just pulling into town when I got home.  Saturday morning Mom, Dad and I went for brunch at Mimi's and then did a little shopping. Jeremy opted out on the shopping in favor of tailgating ;) 

We ventured to the grand opening of Cabela's along with the rest of Northwest Arkansas.  It was crazy packed!  So neat though to have such a big buisness opening in our little corner of the world.  The guys from Duck Dynasty were even there!!! 

After shopping for a little while, Mom and Dad dropped me off at the tailgate.   It was great getting to talk to all the girlfriends, wives, fiances, etc. of all the guys Jeremy went to college with and who are life-long friends now.  I'm happy all of us girls get along so well :)  The guys don't even seem to complain TOO much when we leave the tailgate to hit up a boutique :) 

After tailgating for a while, we headed down to the stadium to Call Those Hogs!  Razorback Football is probably Jeremy's first love and he was so excited for the 1st game of the season.  I was just excited to get to find a cute outfit to wear :)

We ended up winning against Jacksonville State 49-24 but let me tell you, it wasn't pretty there for a while.

After the game, we went to Buffalo Wild Wings with Jeremy's former roommate, Ryan and his fiance Courtney.  Courtney and I get along really well and I was so glad they were in town!  We ended up staying at BWW until after midnight, just talking and catching up.  I hate it that Ryan and Jeremy don't hang out as much as they would like since they live in Dallas now.  Oh well... that just means lots of Dallas trips in our future :)

Sunday was a day we've been looking forward to for a while!  Our family engagement party!  We invited our families to lunch at Mojitos so everyone could formally meet each other before the wedding.  My grandparents and one of my sisters were able to come along with my parents.  Jeremy has a really big family and so we had a large group full of grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins.  Although it was a bit overwhelming for me at first (walking into a room FULL of people!) I was so glad everyone got along and had a great time.  

After lunch was finished, everyone departed to go shopping and Jeremy, Kyle and Dad played golf.  What a surprise.  Haha. 

 

Whew!  What a crazy, busy weekend but we are SO thankful to have been blessed with wonderful families that are just as excited about our big day as we are :) 

Mexican Chicken

This recipe goes way back.   I'm talking WAY back to Junior High kind of back.  You see, in cheerleading we used to always have Potluck.  I would always make a cake called "Better Than Sex" (another post, another time) and a girl's mom on the squad younger than us would always bring a huge casserole dish of Mexican Chicken.  Now... everyone has recipes for Mexican Chicken, my mom included and she used to make it often.  But what made this version special was the Nacho Doritos chips.  It was cheesy, mexican american goodness.

Now, Jeremy begs me to make this.  I'll admit, he doesn't get to eat it near as much as he would like.  It's crazy unhealthy!  But occasionally I'll give in and he has enough mexican chicken to last a week :)

The Ingredients

1 Can of Cream of Mushroom
1 Can of Cream of Chicken
1 Can of Rotel (Mild, Medium or Hot depending on how much heat you like)
1 small block of Velveeta cut into cubes
1 rotisserie chicken shredded
1/2 bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos

Tip:  If making this for just Jeremy and I, I like to split it into two casserole dishes and freeze one for later on.   It freezes very well.

On the stove top melt Velveeta cheese and combine with cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, and rotel.  In the casserole dish crush 1/4 of the Doritos chips on the bottom of the pan.  Layer with shredded chicken.  Cover the shredded chicken with the cheese mixture.  Top with more crushed Doritos. 

Cook at 350 for 20 minutes covered. Uncover and cook for an additional 10 minutes or until thoroughly heated.

Enjoy!

Our fun weekend!

Well I survived the first week back to school, and to celebrate we decided to head up to Branson with some great friends. 

Before we headed out of town, we had Friday date night :)  Jeremy told me to dress "casually" and if you know anything about me, you know that's pretty difficult!  Luckily I had worn jeans and a BHS t-shirt to school for Jeans Day so I was all ready for a fun night!  I had no clue where we were going, but after lots of guessing Jeremy finally gave in and told me we were going to Faith & Family night at the Naturals game!  I had been wanting to go to this because they were having a Brit Nicole concert before, but I had thought we had already missed it.  Jeremy being the great guy he is remembered and figured out when it was so he could take me.  Isn't he the greatest??

It rained a little, ok a lot, on us but it was still a fun night. 

The next morning we headed out to Branson to meet everyone for lunch.  We had lunch at Old Chicago and then the girls headed out shopping while the guys went and played golf.  Unfortunately it rained most of the day and we all were soaked!  We still had a great time anyways....   Later that night we went for dinner at Cantina Laredo followed by drinks at Ernie Biggs.  It was a great way to end a crazy week!  

Jeremy and I are so thankful to have such great friends who enjoy doing all the same things we do.  It's nice to have friends to go through life with!

 

 

Pigskin Classic & Tiger Pride

This is one of my favorite times of the year.... the air starts to turn a little crisp, I have a full classroom of excited teenagers, and... football season!  The first Razorback game of the year is only a few short weeks away, and high school football starts everywhere next week!  My cheerleaders have been working hard to prepare for our back to school event called Tiger Pride and their hardwork paid off this weekend!

 They did a great job performing, and cheered for the Black/Gold scrimmage.  It's always funny to me how shy and quiet they are at their first game, compared to their last basketball game at the end of the year.  They still haven't gotten used to the crowds and having to cheer LOUD!  It's such a learning curve at the beginning, but they will get used to it in no time.

At BHS we have Varsity Cheer and Dance, JV Cheer and Dance, and 9th grade Cheer and Dance.  Add all those together and you have over 100 cheerleaders on the field for Tiger Pride.  It took ALL of us coaches working hard to get this MASSIVE formation looking decent.  They looked great though and seeing everyone perform together was really neat.

Jeremy's little sister Megan is also a cheerleading coach for Springdale!  Poor Jeremy is surrounded by lots of cheerleaders all the time.  On Friday night, they had their back to school event the Pigskin Classic.  We went to watch Megan and her squad.  They were great!  It's so fun seeing other schools perform, especially since we will be competing against each other come October!  SO fun!

Jeremy is such a good sport about attending so many of my cheerleading events, football games, and basketball games.  Saturday night as I looked up into the stands and saw him sitting there, I couldn't help but say a quick prayer of gratitude for the amazing man God has brought into my life. 





July 26, 2013

Where are you going to be July 26th, 2013???  Well I know where Jeremy and I will be... GETTING MARRIED!!!!

Choosing a location and picking a date was definitely so much harder than I thought it would be!  We thought we knew exactly where we wanted to get married back before we were even engaged.  In fact, we had visited the place many times picturing how everything would be.  After much thought, we decided that place would not be the ideal location for us or our guests who would be traveling from out of town.  (The place was pretty far away, and we would have to have our reception about 20 minutes from the ceremony location). 

When my mom came in town a week or so after Jeremy popped the question, we began to hunt for the perfect place for us to get married!  Well... after a lot of looking we found it! 

St. Anthony's on the Creeks in Lowell, Arkansas!

When searching for the venue, I did not want to get married in a huge church.  Ideally, I wanted a quaint Chapel that would fit the number of guests we will have there.  I just didn't want a bunch of empty space that wasn't being filled by all of our family and friends.   Also, because we have such a large number of guests attending from out of town, I wanted the reception venue to be either on location or very close by.  I didn't want my guests having to drive very far and possibly get lost (hint hint Grandma and Grandpa :) )

St. Anthony's is perfect.  It seats around 160 guests, and also has a reception venue on location.  The reception venue is amazing.  It has indoor space for all our guests plus an outdoor patio!  I love it so much and cannot wait to get married there! 

Oh... and Jeremy loves it too :)   I guess that's important too!  haha.

It was really hard trying to figure out the perfect date.  Even though I'm a teacher, most of my summer's are tied up with professional development and cheerleading practice/camps.  All of June every year is booked solid.  We initially thought we would get married the last weekend of June, but after much consideration, decided to wait until the end of July.  This will give me time to do all the last minute wedding stuff and we will still have a few weeks to go on our honeymoon and get adjusted to the married life before cheerleading and school starts again!

AND... you might have noticed... July 26th is a Friday!  We chose to get married on a Friday for many reasons.  Mainly it is WAY cheaper to do this!  Also though, for our guests from out of town, they will still have the WHOLE weekend to enjoy Northwest Arkansas and get back home.  Sometimes you feel like a wedding takes up your whole weekend and you return to work the next week just plain exhausted!  I wanted to try to make our wedding as much fun and less stress on our guests as possible.  Plus, we can fly out on Saturday for our honeymoon instead of on a Sunday!  Saving more money!  Remember... Jeremy IS an accountant :)  Haha... saving money is a way of life for him!

So mark your calendars... July 26th, 2013 we will become husband & wife!

A week in Kansas City & a trip to the ER

Jeremy headed to Kansas City last week for work, and after discovering that I had the week free, I decided to tag along and do some back to school shopping! 

I shopped every day and got caught up on some work to prepare for school starting in a few weeks.  In the evenings we enjoyed dinner out and walking around the Plaza.  If you've never been to the Plaza in Kansas City before it's really a neat little shopping district with some AMAZING stores. 

It's no secret that The Cheesecake Factory is my favorite restaurant.  I may or may not have convinced Jeremy to buy me cheesecake every night we were there :) 

One night we met Jeremy's boss and his boss' wife at a quant little restaurant called "Cafe Trio".  It was a lot of fun and great to get to meet his boss finally!  Jeremy says he had one of the best steaks of his life there, haha.  I agree,  it was that good!

Our trip took a turn for the worse when my stomach suddenly started hurting incredibly bad our last night there.  Over the night it only became worse, and I could barely walk the next day I was in so much pain.  Around noon the next day we decided I needed to visit the ER.  Not the end to our trip that I had imagined.  They were concerned it could be my appendix and then ruled that out and became concerned about my gall bladder and the possibility of having to have it removed.  There's NO way I could have had surgery with cheer practice starting this week and school starting next week for us teachers.  Luckily, my stomach pain started to subside after going over 24 hrs without food and it was decided I just had a flare up from so much rich food ( oops, probably too much cheesecake). 

Jeremy was by my side throughout the entire ordeal and I was so glad to have him there.  So, although our trip didn't turn out quite like we had planned, does life ever??



Chicken Parmesan

Jeremy loves Chicken Parm.  I on the other am not so crazy about anything with marinara sauce on it.  I decided to cave though and make him his favorite.  While looking for a recipe, I came across this one over at Emily Bites.  It's a "healthier" version of this Italian classic, and I'm not going to lie, it was pretty good :)  Jeremy was pleased too ;)

Chicken Parmesan
Source: “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Fattening” by Devin Alexander

Ingredients:
2 (4 oz) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, pounded to ½ inch thickness
1/3 c reduced-fat buttermilk
Olive Oil Spray (from a spray bottle like a Misto, not a store bought pre-filled one that contains propellant)
1 oz Fat Free Italian or Caesar seasoned croutons
¼ c low fat marinara sauce
½ oz finely shredded reduced-fat mozzarella cheese
1 t grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:
1. Place the chicken breasts in a medium Ziploc bag. Pour the buttermilk over the top and seal it shut. Put them in the refrigerator and let them soak for at least 6 hours, or overnight, turning the bag over 1-2 times.
2. Pre-heat the oven to 450. Lightly mist a baking sheet with olive oil spray. Add the croutons to another Ziploc bag and pound them with the rolling pin, meat mallet or other flat, blunt object until crushed into very fine crumbs. Transfer crumbs to a medium shallow bowl or plate.
3. Remove a chicken breast from the bag and let any excess buttermilk drip off. Dip it into the crumbs, rotating it to cover the breast completely. Place the breaded breast on the baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining breast. If crumbs remain in the bowl, press them into the tops of the breasts. Lightly spray the tops of the chicken with olive oil spray. Bake them 5 minutes and then carefully, being sure not to remove coating, flip them. Lightly mist the tops with spray and continue to bake for another 2 minutes and then top each breast with half the sauce, half the mozzarella and half the Parmesan. Continue to bake 3-5 minutes or until the cheese is melted, the coating is crisp and the chicken is no longer pink inside. Serve immediately.

Steph & Kyle Tie the Knot

This weekend one of my very best friends married her college sweetheart!  Steph and I met during the first couple of weeks of school at a Tri Delt function.  We were in the few that were not drinking at a coke date with a fraternity and became fast friends.  She also met her future husband Kyle in those early weeks of school!  Steph and I lived together for 2 years until she moved to Little Rock to attend nursing school at UAMS. 

Stephanie is one of the most caring, geniune girls I've ever known and I am so blessed to have her as a friend.  She is the sweetest, most thoughtful person and always puts others above herself.  Kyle is a lucky guy to have her! 
We had so many great times together and I'm sure we will have even more now with our husbands added into the mix :)

Rehearsal was Friday night and rehearsal dinner was at the amazing Cajun's Wharf.  The food was so good and the company wasn't bad either ;)  I like to think I had the most handsome date there!

My hair looks a little rough, but we had been in the car driving all day!

The next day I headed to Little Rock early for a bridesmaids brunch at Mimi's while Jeremy heading to the golf course with my dad.  They always spend Saturday mornings golfing when we are in town and I wouldn't have it any other way!  I always dreamed of marrying someone who would love golfing with my Dad while mom and I shopped!  Ha!

After brunch, all of us girls headed to have our hair done and get ready for the big night.  Steph was amazingly calm.  I can only pray I'm that way on my big day! 

Isn't she gorgeous?

It was so fun to see so many friends from college that I don't get to spend time with anymore.

Overall I have to say this was one of the most fun bridal parties I've ever been a part of!  It was just so fun to get to hang out with everyone all weekend!

Steph's wedding was absolutely beautiful and there was so much love in the room to see two people so in love who have waiting so long (almost 5 years!!) to marry each other.  I always love going to weddings where God is given the glory and this was definitely true for Steph & Kyle. They had chosen a covenent marriage and I have no doubt that they will love each other for the rest of their lives.  What an amazing example of love they are!

Attending weddings of such close friends makes us so excited for our big day, which is still pretty far away.  Maybe I should start planning??