Our Love Story, Part 9.2

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July 25, continued. I didn’t meet his mom right then, but I met Aaron and 3 out of 4 of the kids. Joe grabbed about 10 guns and 1097509730 bullets. (And if you know Joe, you know he still has 509740872084025 more bullets that he left behind.) We headed up to the saw dust pits and shot some clay pigeons for a while. Then we went back to his house and dropped everything off. At that point, I met his mom and sister. We left a little bit later, ordered some pizza, grabbed a Redbox and drove around some more. When the pizza was done, we picked it up and went back to my house to eat. Then we watched the stupid movie from Redbox and then another movie on Netflix. It was 3 in the morning before he left (and went to the gym). The rest is basically history! We have been inseparable ever since! I love you, Joey! ❤

Our Love Story, Part 9.1

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July 25, continued.. I was laughing and Joe was probably thinking “what the hell is wrong with this girl? What I’m saying is not even funny. Why is she dying of laughter?” I told him sorry and to keep going. Finally he turned around and Bailee quit real quick. She didn’t want him to see the faces. I finally pulled myself together and we finished our food. Then we headed over to Salina to check out the cars. We hung out there for a bit, then headed back to town. And you guys!! Guess what? The date was totally NOT awkward and weird. We talked the entire time. There was never a moment of awkward silence. We never ran out of things to say. We laughed and sang along to the radio. After the car show, we drove all around Richfield, Elsinore, Monroe and back to Richfield. As we were driving from the Brooklyn road into Monroe, there are those two trailer houses on each side of the turn. We turned to go into Monroe and I pointed to one of the trailer houses and sayed “oh, that’s my mom’s house right there!” The look on his face was PRICELESS. “…….. Oh… Did you want to stop?……” I was trying so hard not to laugh, but then I busted up. “I’m just kidding.” And the relief that washed over his face was pretty good, too! We still joke about that every time we drive by. On our third round around Richfield, I said that we didn’t have to keep driving all over the place and we could go back to my house. So we went to my house, talked to Bailee for a little bit and then decided to go shooting. We pulled into his driveway and his dad was outside in his Daisy Dukes and was soooo excited to meet me. I’ll never forget that. It kinda freaked me out at first (sorry Bob – love ya!!) just because this was really the first time we’d ever actually hung out and I was already meeting all of his family and they were asking about Karsyn. It was just a lot right at once. “Your mom is upstairs. Take Jourdan up to meet her. She will love that.”

Our Love Story, Part 9

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July 25. (This is a long one, so it has to be broken up a bit.) I woke up just before 10 and rushed down to the salon. I was getting my eyelashes done for the first time. Mom T said it would only take an hour, which was perfect. I’d still have an hour to get ready before Joe came to get me. The whole time, I told her how nervous I was for this date. “I think it will be so awkward. He’s so quiet. How am I supposed to keep a conversation going the whole time? I’m not real talkative at first. What am I going to ask him? What will we talk about?” Okay, so I was freaking out. My eyelashes ended up taking a bit longer and he had already asked if noon was alright? I’d already said yes. I left the salon at 11:27 and I told him I might be just a little bit late since my eyelashes took longer. He said it was fine. I rushed home to get ready. Good thing you don’t need much makeup when you have fake lashes! Those things are awesome!! Just before 12, I text him and told him I was ready. “Wow, you’re speedy! I’ll be there in just a minute.” A couple minutes later, there was a knock on the door. “Hey Jourdie.” I looked out and saw this old buggy-type car. What the….? “I traded the Dodge for this.” Then he laughed. I was still like “Uhhh… Okay…” He opened the door for me and then he told me it was his grandpa’s old car. Once we were both in, I asked what he had planned. He said lunch and then the car show in Salina and was laughing the whole time. “What’s so funny?” “You told me to surprise you with what we were going to do and then you asked what I had planned.” We drove around for about an hour before he pulled in to Sagebrush. No cars in the parking lot. They were closed. We went to Steve’s. No cars. They were closed, too. What the heck? It was a Saturday afternoon! “How about Frontier?” “Yes, that’s my favorite.” We went and traded the buggy car for the Dodge. Frontier was open so we sat down and ordered our food. Bailee was working and she kept pulling faces at me while Joe was talking. I was trying not to pay attention to her, but I couldn’t help it…

Our Love Story, Part 7

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July 18. I got home late the night before, so I slept in a bit. My parents wanted to go on a little trip, so I had Tanna and Tarris staying at my house. All day, I just hung out around the house, cleaning and putting stuff away a little here and there. But you can only do that so much before it gets boring. It was about 4:30 and I was in the kitchen snapping my friends for advice. “Do I just give him my number and hope he’ll text me or should I just wait for him to say something first?” They all said to just give him my number and wait to see what happens. 😨 This was so not my thing! I went to Facebook and opened a message with him telling him my number and snap name. I closed out of it probably 4 or 5 times. I was nervous. I sent one more snap out to my friends “wish me luck!” And I hit send on the message. (Later, I found out that he’d already had my number for a while!) My stomach was churning. My heart was pounding. I was a little shaky. And then the waiting game.. ⏰ after an hour, I couldn’t take it anymore. I needed something to calm my nerves and take my mind off of it. He’d opened the message but wasn’t saying anything?! 😱 So I went and got some ice cream. #comfortfood. When I came home, I sat on my ugly old brown couch and ate my slushie. Halfway through it, my phone dings. “Hey Jourdie. It’s Joe. What are you up to?” 💓 “Just eating a slushie. You?” He was up in Logan visiting his friends. He said he was at Sportsman’s and asked if I needed anything from there. I told him no, but seriously, how cute was that that he’d asked?! We talked throughout the evening and he asked if I wanted to hang out when he got home. I said yeah, I did, but my siblings were here and I didn’t want to kick them off the couch. I figured if he made it home at a decent time, we could just sit and talk for a bit, but he didn’t get home until around midnight, so we ended up not being able to, but talked til 2 in the morning. He told me he was going to bed, but that his house was kinda creepy at night and that he felt like someone was watching him. 👻 I called him a scaredy cat and told him goodnight…

Our Love Story, Part 2

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“Our” party was on Saturday, July 11. Katie (who I took with me) and Jayden (her husband – he was already there) ended up leaving leaving about 11 PM – just an hour after we’d gotten there. I was panicking inside about them leaving. I’m pretty shy around new people and I’d never really talked to this guy that I was planted right next to. (Jeff , Garrett’s dad, made us shake hands 😂 and sit by each other.) Joe asked me a couple questions, but mostly talked to Shelby. One of the questions he asked after I told him I worked full time at the college was “what shift do you work?” 😂 “Uhhh.. 8-5.” And the whole time, the dog kept chewing on my toes. 😬 I was so out of my comfort zone. Imagine my relief (and surprise!) when Hesston and Bailee rolled up. What the heck were they doing there? I had been riding with them earlier and they never said anything about coming to Jeff’s. I felt a lot more comfortable with them there, so I started to talk a little more. Around 1 AM, people started to head out and I was definitely one of them! I had said I was leaving. “Okay” he said and started putting chairs away. We didn’t even say bye to each other. By the time I got home, I had a text from Garrett saying how cute we were. 😂 He said that Joe was really nice, but super shy and just needs some time to warm up. I agreed and said the same about myself. “See ya in the morning.” The plan for Sunday was to go on a ride. And then I talked to Hesston and Bailee about how stupid I felt and how glad I was that they showed up when they did! We laughed about the awkwardness of everything and then went to bed. I laid in bed and wondered what the heck was going on and basically laughed myself to sleep… #tobecontinued

 

Jar of Dates

Today, I am going to show you how I made the cute Jar of Dates! I was inspired by this on Pinterest.

What you’ll need:
*Jar
*Ribbon
*List of dates {you can make up your own or find a HUGE list of them here}
*Scissors or paper trimmer

First of all, I printed out all 17 pages of dates from here.

Some of the dates were really long and some were really short. A lot of them had another link attached for you to view more ideas on the date.

Then I cut up all the dates. Then I folded them and shoved them in the jar!

The jar was very full!

As you can see, I added some zebra and lime green sparkly, polka dot ribbon to the top and tied it into a pretty bow. I made the tag in Word and printed it, then cut it out and glued it on to some zebra paper. Then I just put double-sided tape on the jar and stuck on the tag! {If you do a can instead of a jar, you can find super cute, pre-designed labels here.}

And there you have yourself a pretty little, overflowing Jar of Dates!

So now you have seen how to do the cups, the plate, and now this!

Tomorrow I will show you how I did the frame!