Meet My Mate Monday

I apologize for missing last week... When we left off: I probably passed dozens of evenings in the library where Luke was there for at least part of it. This went on the whole first semester.I dont remeber seeing him much the first half of the second semester...but the second half things came into focus quite a bit. There came a point in time when all of a sudden I remember a lot more of Luke. Probably around Spring Break time I noticed that Luke was everywhere. I saw him on my way to class, in the cafeteria, when our large group of friends were out making trouble...and one day he was standing outside my dorm as I was coming back from a class. He had been standing talking to someone else (who I couldnt tell you). As I walked up I remember feeling jealous of whoever he was talking to and excited to see him all at the same time. He stuck around after he was done talking with _________ and told me he wanted to ask me some questions. He had just decided to change his major and was trying to figure out what he wanted to change to. I guess my major was one of the contendors. We talked outside for almost 3 hours, and only about 10 of it had anything to do with my major. The rest of the time was about our families, friends, interests, and some shameless flirting on my part. From there we walked to dinner together and sat and talked through dinner, too. Much to my embarassment, this did not go unnoticed by my girlfriends who peppered me with questions as soon as Luke and I werent near each other anymore. I of course, was not successful in deterring their curiosity. I think the grin from ear to ear gave away the truth of the matter. It's safe to say, I went to bed a very happy girl that night. Luke was in ROTC, and I knew he had a banquet coming up, so I slyly (or not) put a bug in a friend's ear to mention me to him as a prospective date. This, however, didn't quite turn out how I planned. Tune in next Monday.

Meet My Love

To clear up any confusion about the following, I am participating in Meet Your Mate Monday started by Lora Lynn at Vitafam. A group of us bloggers will be sharing over the next several Mondays how we met the loves of our lives...and letting others in on some of the funny moments that led us to where we are now.

Here goes!

I, like so many other young ladies who go off to college, never intended to seriously get and MRS. Oh sure, you secretly hope it will be a perk of attending a small Christian college, but you convice yourself you will be one of the ones who leaves unattached.

I entered Olivet very excited about my new independance and the road ahead. I made a lot of friends in the first week at Olivet. Many are still friends...one is still my best friend.

I was an Exercise Science Major with a Biology Minor, so that basically meant that I got to take all the intro level science classes with the pre med kids and pretend I was smart like them. This also meant that I spent many a late night in the library studying and meeting to work on projects. One of my fellow bio nerds was a guy named Andrew. Andrew had a roomate named Luke (you see where this is going, right?). Luke was a nursing major, so he was a kindred spirit to all of the bio majors as far as class load and time spent in the library went. I remember thinking he was really cute, very nice, but also very quiet. In case any were wondering, I'm not the demure type, and much to my embarassment now, took great fun in making fun of his roomate and friend, Andrew. I also had to qualms about sharing my opinion on most topics, whether it was asked for or not (I like to think I've tamed my tongue a bit...a small bit maybe). At any rate, I probably passed dozens of evenings in the library where Luke was there for at least part of it. This went on the whole first semester.

I dont remeber seeing him much the first half of the second semester...but the second half things came into focus quite a bit.

You'll have to come back next week to hear more...

We are still here...

I've begun writing this post at least 3 times, but can never find the words. I just dont know how to wrap my brain around it all. I guess I will just do my best at explaining emotions that I dont quite know what to do with yet. I'll try to make this short.

Luke arrived safely early Tuesday morning and, as far as I can tell, has hit the ground running since then. He has meetings and other such things to prepare them for when they move out to their real destination...Iraq. That will be sometime in the next 3 weeks I would think.

I've talked to him on the phone about 4 times since he left, and he sounds like he's keeping busy. He sounds good, though. It's hard to know if I like that he's keeping busy or whether I want him sitting around missing me. I suppose he can do both...be busy and miss me, right? I like to think so. The strangest thing about it all is talking to him while I'm feeding the Bubba lunch, and he's getting ready to head to bed.

Brayden is doing fine. He is catching on to the fact that he's stuck with just me, but mostly just goes about his day like normal. We do play the DVD of Daddy reading bedtime stories right before he goes to bed, and he gets up and points at the TV and says, "Dada" so I know he knows whose reading to him. I'm sure he is quite curious, though, about why Dada is living in our TV now...We'll explain when he gets older...

I'm probably not faring quite as well as the Bubba, but thats to be expected. Sometimes I'm numb and sometimes I'm...not numb I guess. Like I said, it's very hard to wrap my brain around all of this. Sometimes my day seems to go by fast, and sometimes I cant believe its just Friday. Thats to be expected. I'm anxious for my upcoming visit to Illinois where I'll get to see both my parents and Luke's. It will be nice to be out of a house where I see Luke everywhere and a routine that he still seems so much apart of. God is truly providing for us, though. He has provided me with great friends here and across the country who know what I'm going through firsthand, and that is a huge help.

Thus endeth the update...and my ranting. We love all of you!

Antics

If you read this blog regularly, you know who the star of the show around here is. This blog is a feature for the many antics of the Bubba. This blog will be no different, so hold on to your hats people!

This is Bubba climbing into one of his drawers in the kitchen

Playing in said drawer
"Are you just going to stand there? Help me out!"
This is a curious little habit the Bubba has. When we change his diaper the takes off as soon as he can and plays for as long as we will let him.
Here he is showing off his new shoes we got yesterday. I call them his "blue piggies." This is our attempt at getting him used to wearing shoes before my sister's wedding this summer.
The "blue piggies" up close.

Family Pictures

So you can see for yourself

Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday

Since Luke is leaving this weekend, I decided to throw both boys a birthday party tonight. It was just the three of us here at home for a quiet dinner followed by...well...you'll see.

Both boys with their respective birthday desserts (because they both cant have the same thing!)

You see where this is going, right?
Ah yes...cake EVERYWHERE!
Can we say "Sugar High!"
MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Cake!!!
And now you know what followed...

Pictures of Luke half naked with his cake all over him in our next post (just kidding!)