Night Time...Edited

My favorite part of the day is the night.  At night Jake and I are together, after a long day of separation.  We both work all day everyday when we aren't in school and so neither of us gets home until about 6 in the evening. Our evenings always seem so rushed trying to fit in cooking and eating dinner, going to the gym and taking showers and still get in bed at a decent time so that we can get up early and start another busy day.

So why is this my favorite time of day?

I like cooking and eating dinner because I like to hear Jake tell me that it was delicious.

I like going to the gym because we play racquetball together every night (a.k.a we make idiots of ourselves every night) we're not very good, but it is a lot of fun.

When we go to bed, the place for sleep and other fun things...like SCRABBLE.

Jake and I are pretty lame, every night before we go to sleep we play scrabble on the Ipod against random people.  We're cheaters though, we quit games if we are getting beat really bad, and we don't start a game if we think we have bad letters, we just delete it and start a different one. This could stem from the fact that we are sore losers...well, I am.

One night about a month ago, I decided to make a little romantic gesture.  Jake was in the shower, and so I got our actual Scrabble board game out of the closet and set it up on the bed to play when Jake got out.  Jake was beating me about three quarters of the way through the game and so I made up a word a played it.  Jake raised his eyebrows and let it slide.  I won that game.

Jake knows me and even loves my flaws.

Love and Friday Night Fun

If there is one thing that defines my husband it is that he LOVES his family.  He is one of six boys and I think that the relationship that they all have is truly inspiring. They hug each other all the time and never end a conversation without saying "love ya man."  Sometimes the entire point of a phone call is just to tell each other that they love them and just wanted to see what they were up to.  In the last year and however many months that I have known Jake and his family and had a front row seat to this I have tried to let it wash over me.  I love these little bits of love and kindness that they show each other.  I have never been one to just tell someone I love them, even if I do, I used to think that it was a phrase that had a tendency to be overused, but I don't think you can overuse that phrase.  Jake tells me that he loves me, I kid you not, no less than 20 times a day, and I relish in those words every time they pass his lips.  As I have gotten to know his family I have truly fallen in love with all of them as well and those words pass my lips easily in daily interaction with them, with all of the conviction that I have that they are true.

Speaking of family...check out this sweet one

This is Jake's brother Jason, his wife Jaylyn and their five kids Adeline, Jeffrey, Porter, Miranda and Roy. You don't get much cuter than this.  Jake and I love to go over to Jason and Jaylyn's house, the food is always so good and Jaylyn always has fresh pineapple, YUM! The conversation always flows and these two are so funny.  Their kids are a hoot as well.  Tonight Adeline told me some spy secrets and Miranda and Roy couldn't wait to eat the cookies we brought over.  They are so fun to be with.  I love that I gained sixteen nieces and nephews in this whole marriage deal, they are all so sweet and snuggly.  We watched a movie called The Trial tonight.  It was oddly similar to a lifetime movie and filmed here in Charlotte.  Jake picked it out and when it was over he hated himself for it.  Jaylyn and I liked it even through it's unrealistic jury verdict...go figure.

So thank you for all of the fun Jason and Jaylyn, we ALWAYS love coming and hanging out with you guys and maybe Jake will get his movie picking act together for next time.

Family is such a blessing.  Jake and I have been blessed with two really large families and we love it.  It is something that I often take for granted but in those moments when I realize just how important it is and how much of my heart my family consumes it is astonishing that such a thing can be forgotten in the run of the mill typical life of this full time student and worker and wife.

So in case we don't say it enough, thank you family, we love you more than you  know and more than anything we love spending our time with you.

Now it's my turn...

I decided that Carly was having too much fun blogging about different things, so I commandeered her blog and now I'm going to write something for myself. Actually, in talking this past week I told her that I wanted to write a post on her blog with some of the reasons why I love her...but as you can tell from her last post, she stole my idea. So, now I'm going to share a few of the reasons why I love her, but keep in mind that these are just things that are on the forefront of my brain and that there are countless reasons that I am completely in love with her. Also, keep in mind that these are in no particular order.

1) She loves me as much as I love her, even though I have WAY more faults than her.

2) She makes me laugh and smile when I'm not having a good day

3) She makes my good days even better

4) She understands me, and listens to me when I'm telling her my frustrations

5) She has a testimony

6) She keeps me from killing Doc

7) She makes me feel like no one has ever made me feel

8) She laughs at my corny jokes

9) She calls me even when she doesn't have anything to say

10) I can't stand it when she isn't around

11) She makes me want to be a better person so that I can treat her like the princess that she is

12) She lets me write on her blog

13) She makes cd's with songs that we like for me to listen to in my truck

14) She isn't afraid to be herself when she's around me and lets me

15) She shares her feelings with me(even though not always right away...I get impatient sometimes)

16) She doesn't judge me for weird habits I have or weird things I like to do

17) She loves my family

18) She has such an awesome family

19) She says she isn't going to talk about the wedding or do any planning until after this semester ends, but she calls me almost daily to tell me something new she thought of

20) She follows the "whats yours is mine" rule and makes me follow it too

21) She calls me when I'm at work which makes my days go by so much easier

22) She comes to spend time with me after work, even though its late sometimes

23) She cares about what I think

24) She is beautiful, smart, funny, witty, clever, cute, amazing, gorgeous, and is my best friend in the entire world.

25) She said YES!(after I told her to "just answer the question")

Lists...

Things that make me happy right now...

1. Painted finger and toenails

2. This sweet blog

3. That I get to go home and to Atlanta in the next week

4. Sunflowers

5. Thinking about getting married

Things I need to do...

1. Study for finals

2. Get together stuff for bridal shower invitations

3. Pack my stuff up to move

4. Get boxes from Matthew and Lisa

5. Find a new job

Things I'm looking forward to...

1. Bridal showers

2. Marrying my best friend

3. Painting and decorating our house

4. Going to the beach

5. Planning our wedding

Things I want to do this summer...

1. Go to Utah and see Laura and Steve and Melanie and their family

2. Read at least 10 books

3. Go to the beach

4. Go to Carowinds

5. Spend more time at home

Reasons I love Jake...

1. He make really corny jokes that we both think are really funny

2. He brings me flowers every month on our anniversary

3. He winks at me

4. He tells me he loves me at least 25 times a day

5. He didn't get mad at me when I was a creeper and read his e-mails

6. He's willing to watch whatever movie I want

7. He keeps his hair the length I like it

8. He lets me be in control of the radio in the car

9. He randomly sends me really sweet text messages

10. He does little odd jobs around the house, he's very handy

11. He's a good listener

12. I trust him

13. He holds me when I cry

14. He's very computer savvy

15. Every thing reminds me of him

16. He carries me like a princess when the grass is cold and wet and I'm wearing flip flops

17. He puts his arm around me when I'm cold

18. He loves his family

19. He gets really excited cute when we talk about getting married

20. He sings in the car

Today I want to visit New York City...