Taken Ladies
1. How long have you and your significant other been together?
Josh (my husband) and I met on his 20th birthday (November 21, 2003). We've been together a little over eight years now!
2. How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?}
We met through a mutual friend. Bethany was one of Josh's friends in high school, and she became one of my best friends in college. I was whining explaining to Bethany that there were NO dudes for me at Northwest, when she mentioned this guy from back home named Josh. She claimed we would be perfect for each other, but I was definitely skeptical. I'd never done a blind set-up before, and when it came to boys, I was uber shy. She conned me into going up and meeting him on his birthday because she had a gift to deliver to him, so we met on his b-day! About a month later, we began dating with our first date - The Nutcracker.
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| Bethany caught my bouquet at my wedding and is now happily married :o) |
3. If married, how long have you been married? If not, is this the guy you hope to marry? {do tell}
We were married on October 14, 2007 on a gloriously sunny 70 degree day. We've been married for a little over four years now.
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| Happiest day of my life! |
4. If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding? If not, where would you like to get married? And will it be big or small?
We got married at the Pickering Barn in Issaquah, WA. It was a medium-sized wedding. We invited 200, but about 130-150 showed due to it being on a Sunday, and a lot of our guests were from out of town. It was perfect, in my opinion (not biased at all) because it felt like one of those heaven moments when everyone you love is surrounding you, applauding you, cheering you on. We started the day with our decorations gone missing, but they were re-located in time for my youth group girls to decorate the tables good and fancy. In the mean-time, I decided to spontaneously move our wedding from the old barn outside - a true feat of victory for me!
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| We danced on and on and on... :o) So fun! |
5. Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? Do share!
We call each other babe, sweetheart, and sug (short for sugar, so it sounds like "shoog"). My favorite thing about Josh, though, is his LACK of a nickname for me. While most of my close friends and family call me Britt, he never has. It is always Brittney, which I kind of like :o)
6. Name 3 things you love most about your honey.
1) His creativity - When he gets focused on a project, he is focused. Obvi this can be kind of annoying at times, like when I'm saying, "Look at me! Look at me!" obnoxiously myself, but I truly appreciate that when he gets a great idea in his head, he sticks to it until it has been completed to perfection in the way he envisioned it.
2) His gift of hospitality - Josh has a way of making people feel welcome in our home. I really respect him for that because I get semi-nervous at inviting people over. I would rather just hang out with him because its easier. He values the relationships that are built when people come together, and he is always game for a house-guest or two. We definitely balance each other out in this way...I learn from him how to be open-armed and to consciously think of others' well-being.
3) His love for his family - Josh is such a family guy. It is probably due to the fact that he has such an amazing family to love on, but I am so thankful for his strong bonds with his siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. He would do anything for any of his family members, and it has been really fun to watch that love develop toward my own parents and brother over the last eight years. I can't wait to watch him extend this same love (and more) to our own kids someday...
7. Tell us how he proposed? Or your ideal proposal?
Josh proposed with a puppy! Going back to #1 in the question above (his creativity), he really went all out for his proposal. I had been shouting from the mountain-tops about my love of pugs for months, so he went on the journey of researching them and finding the best little guy a girl could ask for. He made this elaborate story to get me to the breeder's house so he could let me "pick out" Brutus, who had a beautiful (and also well-researched) ring tied around his neck. It was absolutely perfect, and showed how well he knows my heart. P.S. We celebrated afterwards with Blizzards at Dairy Queen, which shows how laid back we really are :o)
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| Our "ring bearer" - Brutus! |
8. Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals?
He's a gift-giving kind of guy. This year I got an iPhone which made me giddy with delight, and again, it was a BIG surprise which makes it that much better! He has gotten me flowers on occasion, but usually not on Valentine's Day (too predictable). He will send them to me randomly, which is great, too!
9. Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch?
Definitely a pop in a movie and relax kind of gal. I also really like going out to movies. A lot of times dinner for us feels so awkward and formal when it is just the two of us - never what it is supposed to look like on the movies (all romantic, hand-holding, stare into each others' eyes...blech)
10. Tell us one thing you'd like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere?
Have kids! This is my one true goal in life. Right now, it trumps any other life desire I have.
11. Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.
We decided to ditch the crowds on the actual day, and celebrate on Feb. 15 with dinner at Twigs (one of our fav local Spokane restaurants) and a concert - Matt Kearney. It was fun, but we're old and left the concert early 'cus we both had super EARLY work days ahead of us.
12. Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?
I did not ask for anything, no! I had been kind of complaining about my old EnV Touch cell phone, so maybe that was a round-about way of asking for an upgrade, but I had no idea an iPhone was in my future!
13. Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.
Laugh together, at each other, with each other. Sometimes when Josh and I are fighting, one of us just bursts into laughter at how utterly ridiculous the other is being, and it brings it all back to reality. Also - hold on to each other in times of sorrow and grief. We went through a horrible year from Thanksgiving 2008 to Thanksgiving 2009, and we both see how difficult it would have been to do it alone, without each other. We cried together, talked about those close to us who'd passed on (still do), and were honest when we were taking our grief out on each other. Life is never perfect, so we celebrate when it feels like it is.
14. Show us a picture of what love means to you.
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| You've got to be "all in" |
