life in provo has been incredible. we've settled down into our routines and our apartment definitely feels like coming home. i love every day i get to be on campus and enjoy utah in all it's beauty. i find myself daily thinking about how lucky i am to actually be living out this dream i've dreamed since i was 15-years-old. i tried and tried to imagine what it would be like to be married and living with drake may. and now i often find myself still in unbelief that it's all actually real. it's pretty much awesome. but, he continues to be even more amazing than i ever expect.
last week, i came home from work feeling exhausted. i was hormonal. my muscles ached. my head hurt. and i went straight to bed without preparing dinner for either of us. after getting the much needed extra hours of sleep, and enjoying a day to catch up homework and a night off relaxing on the couch, when i got home from work two days later, drake surprised me. he started by asking me how i felt. was i tired tonight? i answered expressing how much better that day went, and then he said:
"so do you want to go out?"
"out? where?"
"like on a date."
"a date?!"
"yeah, like dinner or something. whatever you want."
silence. shock. surprise. and excitement!
it's not that we don't go out a lot. we go and do things together a lot. it just isn't usually such a surprise and on such good timing. i could totally go for a nice dinner to heal my crappy week. and i didn't even have to hint around or anything! he just surprised me!
so, we went to Red Lobster, a favorite restaurant because of it's many memories from high school. and he enjoyed The Feast while I indulged myself in my absolute favorite crab legs. it was so fun, and so worth the $50, to me at least.
i really am so in love with this man, and soooo excited for the rest of our lives!
on september 14, i got to go back to the Salt Lake temple and witness the sealing of my cousin Shelby to her sweetheart Joel Blackner. it was incredible. i mean, i was expecting it to be beautiful and touching, but it was even more. it was my first sealing since i got married myself, so all i remembered was what it was like for me. for me, it was emotionally overwhelming. there was SO MUCH going on in my head. i was a little nervous. it was hard to wrap my head around the idea of finally being married, much less that it was for eternity. i was still taking in all that i just learned from attending the temple anyway... so it was a little overwhelming. very special, but a lot to swallow too. well, experiencing it on the other end, just watching the sealing is amazing in it's own ways. shelby was so gorgeous. she was stunning, really. and joel glowed with happiness. they were a beautiful couple. and the spirit was so strong. stronger than i remember it being when i got married. i was able to just sit, watch, listen and be touched by what was said. i honestly felt the spirit bearing witness of how much everyone in that room was loved and how this was what was right. i had tears in my eyes throughout the sealing, and i wished that drake could have come with me. he had to work :( but i was so happy to be there, and i got to sit next to my mom, and that was special too.
i'm so excited for the rest of our family to get married off now!
just another reason to love life, and love that love is in the world, and love the temples and their purpose!
the following saturday, drake and i visited the provo temple for the first time together too. my dearest friend, kendall, and her husband met us there. i was a little nervous going through alone, but having her there was special and meant a lot to me too. overall, it was a wonderful week and i felt very very blessed. just another reason to love where i am right now!
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