Fiery, Fierce, and Five Foot-Nothing.

Levi and I have been in high gear planning for our wedding that's coming up on August 20th. It has been quite the adventure since we got engaged almost a month ago. It's been exciting, slightly stressful, crazy, and full of adventure. I say slightly stressful because we, mostly I, have had moments of feeling like I don't know how this wedding is going to happen, but then I'm reminded of the goodness of God and it pulls everything back into focus.  When it comes to planning, I am extremely organized and I love to plan, so I'm fairly confident this wedding will be planned before August. LOL. Who am I kidding, it will definitely be planned well before then, but getting from A to B is going to be a process. We have decided on making the decoration in order to be more frugal. I love creating things and seeing the end product after putting work into something so doing decorations for my own wedding is probably going to be one of my favorite things the next 3 mon...

I have officially been engaged for 12 days. And let me tell you, it's SO exciting! I love wedding and future planning and getting to do all of this with Levi. I want to start documenting our engagement over these next 4 months to share our story, our plans, the excitement and adventure of it all and to show the ways that God has and is going to bless us in this new season.  To start, I should probably go back to the beginning of April. Levi and I had been pretty busy in the weeks following up to our engagement for various reasons. One of the main things was that he was one of the people in charge of the Restore Conference we had at church the last weekend in March. During the week before the conference, Levi had mentioned that the Saturday after the conference he wanted to go on a date. Just the two of us. I thought that sounded like a great idea, so we started trying to figure out what we wanted to do. He dropped the name of the restaurant we had our first date at,...

December 1, 2014. It started like any other Monday. It was a typical day of work then going home to take care of some household chores. Then, my brother and sister-in-law walked through the door and when they greeted me, I knew my world was about to change. "Nae, grandma passed away this afternoon."  That phrase crippled me. I didn't burst into tears or fall to the floor in despair. I simply froze and then I calmly wept. The previous weekend was Thanksgiving and we traveled back to our hometown to visit family and see grandma. She was in the hospital and the doctors said there was nothing else they could do for her, so the decision was made to put her on hospice. By this time, she was sleeping a lot due to the pain medications she was on and she wasn't very responsive. I remember looking at my grandma and feeling like she wasn't really there. She was only a fraction of the person I had known her to be. Looking into her eyes was like looking through a piece...