The weekend that beats all weekends

Nathan and I had an incredible almost four days together exclusively. It was wonderful. My first giant slice of happiness happened on Friday when they let me go home from work almost 4 hours early! I went home and super cleaned (I needed it as much as my house needed it) and waited for Nathan to come over. I can't even remember all of the amazing things we ate and did this weekend! But let's see:
Friday night we tried to make it to Earth Fare in time to get some pizza. We missed it. So we kind of got lost driving to Chipotle, got some kind of okay food, drove to Gigi's, got four awesome cupcakes, and played an alphabet food game that we made up as we went. After dinner, we cuddled and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and marveled at how much Gene Wilder was acting so far ahead of his time. He's incredible! Also, I ate cupcake number one.

Saturday was the real start to our weekend, and it was a great one! We decided a long time ago that we wanted to go to pre-marital counseling before we get married. In preparation, both of us were asked to do some deep, childhood, soul searching, and left us begging for more. We both were eating this stuff up, talking about it and figuring out where we both were. Saturday was our first session, and there were lots of good tears, lots of encouragement, hope, and safety offered. It was wonderful. We both can't wait to go back next month! Nathan and I had both said that we really wanted to go every weekend of we could! It was very eye opening, and wonderful, and I am so excited for the changes that await us in the future! We had Chinese for lunch, and then after our unloading at the counseling session, we held hands and walked around the outlet mall just talking and window shopping. For dinner we we to pizza hut, and then we talked at Starbucks until we both almost fell asleep!

Sunday morning Nathan and I went to church. Andy Stanley has been doing the Guardrails series which was very influential to me a few years ago when he first started doing it, so I was glad that Nathan could share this with me. It was a very good, close to home topic that got me crying, but it was wonderful to see that we were nothing doing things to keep our relationship golden! After church we went to Goodwill and I got a new denim dress that I have been looking for, a few shirts, and even Nathan found a new shirt! I love thrifting! After that, we went to Target and Michaels, went to KFC, stuffed our faces, and watched Kitchen Nightmares and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I also ate cupcake number two. After the movie was over, we mushed together and asked each other questions to learn about each other and invented stories and laughed a lot. It's funny how you think you know someone, but you never think that you may not know the simplest of things. I forgot what Nathan's favorite color was, his favorite number, his favorite Harry Potter book, his favorite love song, etc. Things that let you know the person you are with. I treasure the moments like that.

Today, we got up early and went to Cracker Barrel after playing the ukulele and making some music, and walked around Kohl's before heading home to take a nap in the rain. We woke up, had an early dinner of leftovers, watched Kitchen Nightmares, cuddled , did our devotion, and ate the last two cupcakes (that means that I ate three of the four. Thanks, Nathan!).

I am stuffed, probably 5 pounds heavier, and totally, utterly, completely happy without a worry in the world. I get to marry this man!

Wants

My 26th birthday was wonderful! Nathan made me the best spicy pasta and the best oysters rockefeller that I have ever had! He made me a poster of our inside joke drawings that we had made over the months, and I love love love it! Then on my birthday for real, we went to The Grit and I got their famous Golden Bowl that was absolutely fantastic! Who could have thought that tofu was actually yum?! It was great!

I passed my med math test with a 100! So no more of that for me! Yay!

I had some revelations occur to me over the past few weeks. I never really thought that I would be super motherly and super want the "American dream" of the nice little suburban house and 2.5 kids and a yard and cooking food for my husband, but I have fallen in love with that idea. I really want that. Someday (after I graduate). I hate that I am still in school. :(

Also, I weigh 132. Which is poop.

one more day...

Until my super secret fiance birthday celebration! I don't know what he's doing besides cooking (I don't know what), but I am so excited!!! I miss him too :( It'll be 2 days since I have seen him by tomorrow! It doesn't sound long, but he's my best friend! I just want to cuddle him all the time!

The first day of school went well, I think. I may or may not have made a 100 on my med math test, we will find out soon. I have one more chance if I didn't... but let's just hope that I did! I am ready to start learning again. It makes me feel good (and exhausted at the same time) to have things that I HAVE to do. School, work, wedding planning, and fiance should keep me super occupied! We are having a breakfast for the incoming juniors this morning, which should be interesting! Oh, and everyone asked me a ton of questions about the wedding, and loved the ring, and how he did such an awesome job, etc. :) It was nice! It was also nice to come back with no ill feelings and everyone in a good mood. Refreshed and ready for depletion, like last semester. ;)

I still weigh 130. Poop. I am going to try real hard today since this weekend, all diet bets are off. Food tomorrow with Nathan, and food Sunday with my family! I can't wait!

I guess I better get ready, or something.

excitement!

Things have been pretty wonderful lately! Nathan and I are learning more and more about each other and growing in God. He is reading Wild at Heart, which is giving him good insight into himself and into me, and I am reading about not being stressed out all the time! :) It is seeming to work! I am a lot happier and a lot more calm, not thinking about the things that I used to all the time, and now they are growing rarer and rarer everyday (which I am super thankful for!). I went to the doctor the other day and I am still hovering around 130 (129.5). I feel like mostly because I haven't been sticking to my diet like I should be! Nathan and I have been enjoying ourselves... with food! The other day I took him to a Mexican restaurant that he had never been to, and while the fish tacos were delicious, the pickled jalepenos super hurt my stomach :(

I also bought some new Chacos the other day after much pursuasion from Nathan, and we toured around 5 Points in Athens and ate a lot of pizza at Earth Fare. It was a wonderful, wonderful day! Today after I get off work and Nathan meets me home, we are going for a long walk, and then we are going to eat all of the calories we just burned by indulging in Olive Garden's unlimited pasta bowl. It is my favorite event of the year, except for Christmas. Maybe Thanksgiving, because I get to ride horses. But, pasta, for real. Also, today I looked for more wedding stuff at Goodwill, like I do all week, but I couldn't find anything for the wedding. However, I did find 4 dresses, 2 of which were 3 dollars a piece, a cardigan for me, and a flannel shirt for Nathan that matches my flannel dress that I bought! I smell engagement pictures!!!!

Anyway, we are narrowing down plans for our pre-marital counseling, and wedding planning has gone on hold for the most part. I have to start school on Thursday, and I am not ready! At all! I have a Med Math test that I HAVE to make a 100 on, so prayers would be great!

The end.

Fiance is the best artist!

I love this plaid dress! It has pockets!



This one looks like those blue and white china plates!



Plaid  dress and my Mad Men style sheath dress! <3