What Love Day Looked Like

 

Social functioning

 

I can’t decide if Kevin and I are similar to parents with newborns or to an elderly couple. Either way, we have to leave social functions super early on Friday nights to make our 8:00 bedtime. This became a problem when our Stake Valentines Dance started at 7:30. But the real problem was that we thought it started at 6:30. After a half hour of wandering the halls, expressing irritation that the dance wasn’t even set up yet, we realized that we were an hour early. It’s fine.

The good news is that we got all a little bit gussied up and went dancing last night and it was great. Even though we left after less than an hour of dancing.

The other good news is that we are getting really good at taking pictures with our self-timer.

The good news for you is that I chose only 5 out of the 90 pictures that we took before leaving for the dance. We are disasters, and we like it that way. :)

Date Nights

Kevin and I love spending time with each other, no matter what we do. But we both feel strongly about having a weekly date night to do something special. Unfortunately, our date nights lately have been fairly lame because we try to go to bed super early on Friday nights since we work at the temple early Saturday  morning.
Last Friday our date night started at 3:30pm and we watched Shrek the Musical while eating homemade pretzels. It was really fun, but by 6:00 we were practically ready to go to bed. So we escaped the lure of sleep by driving up to the Y trailhead with our camera in tow. We spent a very cold hour playing with the camera and the self timer.

It was a simple thing, spending an hour outside, just the two of us with a beautiful view beneath us. We almost didn't take the camera, but I'm so glad that we did because I love the pictures that we took. When we got home, it was only 7:00 and we got ready for bed (yes we are that lame), but it was a really great date night.
I think what it comes down to was that we put a little bit of intention into it. Even though it was a simple thing, and it was only an hour, I felt so much closer to Kevin than if we had stayed home and watched more TV or something.
The moral of this blog post is, we took really cute pictures that I wanted to share, and I love my husband.
The end. :)

One year

Yesterday Kevin and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary.
I can hardly believe that it's been a year.
It's this weird time thing where it seems like we just barely got married, but at the same time it feels like we've been married forever and ever.
That's probably a very naive, newlywed thing to say, but that is how we both feel about this past year.

 We've had so many fun experiences together, and so many firsts. First apartment together, first time on an airplane together, first vacation together. And now a first year of marriage.

 There are just so many things that I love about Kevin, but there are also a lot of things that I love about our relationship as a whole. I love the safety that we both feel, emotionally and physically and spiritually in our marriage. I love that I can almost always assume Kevin's answer to any question, and especially that most of the time his answer is yes. I love that if something is important to me, it becomes important to him, and vice versa. We support each other fully and I appreciate that about us.

 We are definitely not perfect. We have our struggles and our miscommunications. This year has been a year of learning how to communicate in a whole new way, and learning how to reconcile two different people with different opinions. I'm grateful for the times that we've struggled or argued because it's brought us closer together and made us stronger as we've worked through the harder moments together.

 We have created this wonderful little life together. It's incredibly simple. We don't have much. But we have more than what we need, and we have each other. We love each other very much. I don't know what the future holds, but I'm so excited for it. I'm excited to watch our little family grow, and to continue to learn and change and become closer.

We have been married for one whole year. It has been the happiest of my life. I am so grateful that through the sealing covenant we made in the temple, we will be husband and wife through the eternities. 

I wish we were snuggling right now

The one downside to having such an incredible Thanksgiving Break is that it makes getting back into the swing of things super hard. I only had one class today but it was still hard. Poor Kevin woke up at 3:15 this morning and couldn't fall back to sleep so he got up and did homework. He has five classes today, so let's just say it's been rough.
The semester is wrapping up fast. It's good and bad because it means that soon this semester will be over and we can have a longer break, but it also means that everything is due in the next two weeks. Boo to that.
Really all I want to do is crochet scarves and watch movies.
Oh, and snuggle my handsome husband.

I seriously love everything about this sweet boy. How cute is he though? So cute.

because i want the world to know.

This is going to be one of those posts where you think "how obnoxious that this girl just talks about how perfect her life is all the time."

Because I really feel like my life is awesome right now. I am loving every second of it.
I love waking up in the morning to my adorable husband kissing me incessantly (it's hard for me to wake up. Sometimes a lot of kissing is needed to get me out of bed).
I love making omelets with peppers and tomatoes (even if the one I made this morning was a little on the burned side...)
I love hanging around in my underwear and my hubby's pajama pants.
I love making Kevin a yummy, healthy lunch so he can do well on his Ochem test.
I love kissing him goodbye (well, actually that stinks, but I do love kissing him).
I love having time to myself to read my scriptures, write in my journal and take care of myself.
I love plugging my phone into our TV and listening to the Amelia Peabody series while I exercise in our living room.
I love that I can open my fridge and know everything that is in there, that we don't share with anyone else.
I love parfaits.
I love chowing down on fruit while I read my library book.
I love seeing Kevin on campus and when he sings to me even in front of people (how embarrassing).
I love going home together at the end of a long day and having someone to comfort and be comforted when needed.
I love making dinner for our family of two.
I love eating that dinner for two.
I love cuddles on the couch, kissing in the kitchen, making out in the master bedroom (I couldn't help going for the alliteration there, it just worked).
I love talking about our future together and reminiscing on all the wonderful times we've had.
I love our relaxing evenings together with Kevin doing homework and me interrupting him for more kisses.
I love our nightly routine of getting ready for bed, scripture study and prayers and maybe an episode of LOST.
I love that the last thing I see, touch and think of is there right beside me every night.
I love our little life in our little corner of newlywed bliss. I love my husband. I love our Lord who has given me all that I have. Things are so good for us right now.
I'm in love with our life together.
:)

Lovers day

(Warning: Long and disgustingly nauseous post ahead, with lots of discussion about love, gifts, love, mushy sentiments and emotion. Read it anyway, unless you are offended by newlywed love)

I have never experienced Valentines Day while having a significant other. I always was a loner on this day of the year and I was pretty much over it. It didn't bother me, it was just how it was, although there was a part of me that longed to be smothered with love, flowers, chocolate and sweet gestures. A few weeks before Valentines Day, I asked Kevin if he would do something to make it special. I was delighted to see the cogs already working. I knew that I would be happy with anything that he did to make the day a special one.

I woke up to Kevin singing "Happy Valentines Day to You", carrying a tray with a beautiful breakfast. Omelettes, toast, milk and orange juice. It was so yummy. He also gave me the sweetest love letter. We ate together in bed and cuddled for a while. Then he decided he'd better head out to school. I stayed home to "finish a paper" which I really did, but that wasn't the real reason I had wanted to stay home.

As soon as he was gone (and my paper was done), I got down to business. I put on my apron, turned up the heater and started baking. I made some pretzel dough and put it in the warm oven to rise. Then I made homemade meatballs for the very first time ever and put them in the fridge for later. I finished the morning's work by making cake batter truffles and getting them half way dipped and sprinkled. Then I ran out the door like a mad woman to turn in my paper and have some lunch with my aunt (thanks again Janice!).

I got a hold of Kevin when I was on campus and he met up with me before I rushed off to have lunch. He had bought me a beautiful red rose! Just a few days before, we had been discussing how expensive flowers are and I asked him if he would buy me flowers someday when we had money. So this was a sweet surprise. He apologized for not getting a bouquet, but I couldn't stop smiling at my beautiful flower.

Throughout this whole morning, Kevin had been sending me sweet little texts and telling me to "look in the red shoe by the door:" and "check out your right pocket of your gray jacket." He had written me all of these little love notes and placed them strategically so that I wouldn't find them until he gave me the clues. I was constantly smiling as I walked around campus, as I sat in class, I just loved it.

After my class, we started walking to the car and Kevin said we needed to stop at his locker. I was chattering away when I realized that he had pulled a little box out of his locker and was holding it out to me. He bought me chocolate. :) Again, I wasn't expecting this and I loved the little box of fudge.

We went home and changed into our running clothes. The gorgeous weather was too good to pass up. We went for a little Valentines Day run which was awesome!

When we got home from our run, Kevin mysteriously said that he needed to take the car and run a few errands...he left and was gone for over an hour. While he was gone, I got to work in the kitchen again. I rolled out the pretzels and got those baking and then started cooking our romantic spaghetti and meatball dinner. The flower sat in a pitcher on our table and we ate by candlelight. As we ate we reflected about the time we have spent together and our experience falling in love. We shared with each other some of the reasons we love each other so much, and someone might have gotten a little emotional. I'm not tell who though. ;) He melts my heart every day. He is so kind and sweet to me. I am so grateful for his love.

We finished the night by watching a romantic movie and sitting wrapped around each other.

I am so grateful to have such a wonderful love in my life. Kevin is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me. He is so sweet and kind and thoughtful and loving. He sees me in an entirely different way than I see myself, and he helps me see myself the way he does. He treasures me, protects me, and loves me completely. I love him so much.

Call me cheesy, cliche, obnoxiously in love, whatever. I don't even care. This Valentines Day was a total success, and I love my husband desperately.
Happy love day!