Sinking In

Every day the reality that I'm getting married, moving to Dallas, starting a new life with the most amazing person I know, leaving behind everything I've know for 20 years........I have the right to be a little scared right? The great thing is that I have a huge support system, and despite being gone, this place will always have a place in my heart and I don't have to be gone forever :)

Okay, that was my reality check. Now, for opinion time....people keep telling me that I need to do what I want because its my wedding but I realize that sometimes my ideas are slightly outside the scope of reality because...I'm me. So the question at hand (yes, I want feedback but don't get your feelings hurt if I don't go with your opinion) is...I have my bestie for life, Anna whom I have asked to be my bridesmaid. And then I have my "here bestie" Brandi whom I love just as much and she tends to fill in the places where Anna can't because she's away at college. I've been stuck between who to ask to be my maid/matron of honor mostly because naturally it's anna right, but Brandi is the one here that can actually fill the role. So my thinking is that anna can be my maid of honor and brandi can be my matron of honor.....is this legal???? thankfully the two know each other and get along well and could work together but I just wanna know if thats just crazy talk or if its okay to do what i want on this one :)

As for any other planning, not much is happening right now because Eric and I are both sick. We agreed today to stop sharing cooties until we weren't sick anymore....that sucks. We were planning to go to Silver Dollar City tomorrow but if we're not feeling like 100000000% better, it's not gonna happen....that sucks. ha.

We're ubber close to setting a date. I'm ready to have a date because like everyone asks me, I even got asked by someone I didn't know today...crazy stuff

Next week brings school researching, figuring out whether its worth taking nursing classes this semester. if they aren't gonna transfer, I'm not going to take them. I'm also in prayer about my job situation. I will be unemployed again as of next tuesday. God is already providing babysitting jobs for which I am thankful. Just waiting to see if that's going to be enough. I never doubt God's provisions but sometimes I get a little impatient.

I should probably be going to sleep. I was headed for bed about an hour and a half ago but then I got a chance to talk to my bestie which doesn't happen as much as it used to so that definitely became first priority. then I decided to update this :) I have lots of thoughts running through my head. Just trying to keep it all straight and keep focused!

Thx 4 readin and feel free to comment :)

~The Future Mrs. Eric Morgan :D

God Blessed the Broken Road

For those who know me at all, it's been a rocky road that lead to my prince charming so needless to say I am beyond thankful that I am finally here. I was just reading back through the first email communication that Eric and I had in March of this year. It's really hard to believe that we've come this far in less that a year but I believe it has been due to divine intervention. Some of you know that I was really, really sick this summer for like 2 weeks. I couldn't do anything besides lay on the couch feeling like my head was going to explode. The more medication they gave me to make it better, the worse I felt. I thought I was going to die. They never specifically identified the cause for this. Now, I don't believe that God would cause me to be sick but I definitely believed that He used this time to show me the value of the growing friendship I had with Eric because just shortly after that, we started spending more time together and began our "more-than-friend's" relationship. And now, here we are, engaged! Now that I've had my rambling, here's the story I've been asked for numerous times:

Thursday, December 23rd

I had to work until three that day. When I first got off work, I was doubting Eric and I's decision to go out because I really just wasn't feeling it, but thankfully, I changed my mind. We got ready, Eric wearing his new Christmas shirt that "we" picked out at Kohls last week (possibly a random detail but im covering everything i deem memorable). He never told me we had reservations but at some point we went from eating at 6 to eating AT 7 so I kinda figured out that we had reservations, but he wouldn't tell me where we were going. We ended up at Savor, a really nice restaurant. it ended up being really cute that he reservations because there really wasn't anyone there. we had a really nice dinner. i had mushroom risotto...super yummy! once we finished, we went to the fayetteville square to see the lights. we walked around a couple times, drank some hot chocolate, took some pictures, then we got bought tickets and got in line for a carriage ride. we waited for a while (and about froze) then it was finally our turn. we went around once and as we started our second go around, he kinda got fidgety, said some really sweet things, pulled out a ring, asked me to marry him, and I said yes!!!! (side note: i added that i would definitely be crying if i was a crying person, and he added that he was planning to get on one knee, until that carriage started moving..dont blame him on that one). it was super sweet and super special. I'm the luckiest girl alive.

We've done a fair amount of planning in the last five days. Our time will be limited being apart from each other. we bought a wedding planning organizer that we've already made plenty of notes in and plan to have with me at all times. we unofficially have a date, it is very close to being official. this will be my update location of all things official, so keep reading :D

Thx 4 readin

~The future Mrs. Eric Morgan :D