Our Love's Beginning

I am 18 years old, Just married December 17, 2011 to the love of my life, a true gift from God, and an amazing soldier in the Army, Andrew.

 I am originally from Florida. I moved to NY in august, 2011 to stay with his parents as we prepared for the wedding in a few months...How did a NY soldier meet a Florida girl, you ask?

Andrew and I are both born again Christians, and were raised in God-loving homes. Back in 2009 my friend sent out a mass email to her friends, all in a panic that "if she didn't forward the email, she would be kicked off of Facebook" (or so the email said...but God used that moment of panic for much bigger things!) Andrew and i Both got the email, and both commented on it, to let her know that she need not panic, and it was just a spam people are sending out.
When i saw Andrew's comment, i decided to add to his comments, and somehow it turned into a conversation between the two of us on this email.
We obviously ended up adding each other as friends, and i thought he looked familiar. (cause as a15 year old girl, i HAD to stalk his photos...and he was a hunk! obviously still is ha-ha)
 Either way, we later realized that we had met before...for a BRIEF moment at a christian camp we both go to annually...2 years prior to this Facebook event!
 It's funny how small this world actually is...when God is planning it out anyways :)
After this, drew asked me to be his long distance girlfriend 6 months later (I would have said yes that day on Facebook though.)

As time went on, his brother was graduating Army Boot Camp in South Carolina (aka right in between where Andrew, and i live.) So my mom agreed to drive me up to see them for that weekend and we had a BLAST! first time i met his parents- very nerve wrecking!! But it was perfect!

Andrew holding my hand as I slept through the movie :)

Andrew surprising me at my front door

July, 16 2011 Andrew proposed! He flew down to Florida with his mom, dad, and youngest sister (which i had NO idea till he showed up at my door) He then proceeded to tell me that i was NOT working that weekend, and my boss had put me on the work schedule so that i would not suspect anything special that weekend...Like going to Disney World with my soon to be fiance!!! I set up the proposal myself-- his plan was to take me to the castle in front of EVERYONE and ask me to marry him publicly during  the fireworks, but my claustrophobia changed that! I would NOT follow him into the crowd, out of complete panic almost yelling "why cant we stay back here???" Out of love, he found us a bench to sit and watch the fireworks.  After, we walked up to the castle and i asked him if we could get a picture (the castle was lit with a white spotlight...it looked magical) he kept saying that you cant see well, so we will have to wait till lights turn on to take one...well i was too stubborn to accept that! :)  I asked his sister to take a picture of us, she did. I showed it to him and said " see??? you can see us just fine! ugh" and he looks at me, smiles and says "how well can you see this?"gets on his knee, and proposes. :) To this day i kick myself for being so stubborn...but he turned it around on me and made it perfect!

My Stubborn moment/ Proposal setup Picture

right after he asked :)

(We were married December 17th 2011. figured i should add a picture from that as well--Prayer dedication)








He also took me to Disney World for our honeymoon, (YAY) and kept it a surprise until it was time to pack (which for us, was our first night together- right after the reception...and some "bonding time" of course :) We were newlyweds that by Gods grace, saved ourselves for each other, what else would you expect?) It was an amazing weeks honeymoon!

Andrew playing with my sister Hannah

My family is from Florida, so they traveled up and spent Christmas eve with us at Downtown Disney. My family loved the time getting to know my new husband, especially my baby sister Hannah!





So there you have it. Our relationship bundled into one (Large) blog :) There will be more to come...as we are now expecting our first baby!! And we find out the gender on May 22! :)