Happy first day of Autumn kiddies!!!
It...is...so...beautiful...outside...
I've spent the past three days taking it all in.
They had it in the big white house at the end of the road in Cedarock Park, small and wonderful ceremony/reception. We (the mothers/bridesmaids/Amy) had the upstairs all to ourselves, while Drew and the guys just had a side room downstairs. Amy looked so radiant. That's the only word I can think of to describe her...radiant. She had curls upon curls with white ribbons interwoven all over her head. The girl (Josh's sister's roommate) who did her hair, also did her makeup for free because she knew me, and it looked great too. I have never seen Amy glow like this. I got so choked up before, during, and after the ceremony...but I didn't cry until it was just she and I standing in a side room and I said, "You're finally Amy Cousins," and she said, "I'm so happy." It was that simple, and I lost it. My best friend got her ultimate wish that day, ever since I've known her she's talked about the husband she would one day spend her life with and now that wish is coming true. The photographer was taking 'walking to the car' shots, and had Amy and Drew facing away from the camera, holding hands, and it had been cloudy/overcast all day, but as soon as she picked up the camera (cross my heart and hope to die) a light wind picked up and the sun shone down directly on the two of them. It was breath-taking.
On Sunday, Josh and I got some yummy Subway and took it to the park on Rogers Road. The sky couldn't have been a brighter blue, the crisp smell of fall came strong with every breeze, and we sat on a picnic table, cuddled against each other, for an hour. I kept asking Josh these sappy questions about his favorite memories, and he kept giving me all the "right" answers. Days like that are always a nice reminder of just how in love we are. It's hard for me to imagine anyone else feeling this, but I sure hope everyone gets to. I don't think people could be so cruel and greedy if they just had this kind of love in their hearts. The world would be a bunch of happy hippie kids holding hands and singing...and I would know every word to their song.
Today, we started a project in studio that is going to take two weeks, so after a ten-minute lecture about cleaning up after ourselves in shared work-stations, we were set free to do as we pleased. Brook and I left and went to the library to do our homework for drafting. That didn't take nearly as long as I'd assumed it would, and we had a few hours left over to hang out on the second floor balcony and talk over lunch. Then drafting was cut really short because like four people in the class did the assignment (that Brook and I had done earlier that day) correctly [Brook and I being two of them woohoo!!] so we went back outside to the big cushie chairs and talked for two hours. I had no idea she and I were so alike. Don't you love it when someone is telling you something about their life and they get so comfortable with you that they suddenly stop a sentence before delving into the climax of the story and say, "Oh my god, I've never told anyone this before," and then finish telling you any way? Don't you love when you catch yourself doing the same exact thing?
It's suppose to be like this all week and into the weekend, take a walk outside my North Carolina friends!! Life is too great, I think the sun has gone to my brain.
I've spent the past three days taking it all in.
They had it in the big white house at the end of the road in Cedarock Park, small and wonderful ceremony/reception. We (the mothers/bridesmaids/Amy) had the upstairs all to ourselves, while Drew and the guys just had a side room downstairs. Amy looked so radiant. That's the only word I can think of to describe her...radiant. She had curls upon curls with white ribbons interwoven all over her head. The girl (Josh's sister's roommate) who did her hair, also did her makeup for free because she knew me, and it looked great too. I have never seen Amy glow like this. I got so choked up before, during, and after the ceremony...but I didn't cry until it was just she and I standing in a side room and I said, "You're finally Amy Cousins," and she said, "I'm so happy." It was that simple, and I lost it. My best friend got her ultimate wish that day, ever since I've known her she's talked about the husband she would one day spend her life with and now that wish is coming true. The photographer was taking 'walking to the car' shots, and had Amy and Drew facing away from the camera, holding hands, and it had been cloudy/overcast all day, but as soon as she picked up the camera (cross my heart and hope to die) a light wind picked up and the sun shone down directly on the two of them. It was breath-taking.
On Sunday, Josh and I got some yummy Subway and took it to the park on Rogers Road. The sky couldn't have been a brighter blue, the crisp smell of fall came strong with every breeze, and we sat on a picnic table, cuddled against each other, for an hour. I kept asking Josh these sappy questions about his favorite memories, and he kept giving me all the "right" answers. Days like that are always a nice reminder of just how in love we are. It's hard for me to imagine anyone else feeling this, but I sure hope everyone gets to. I don't think people could be so cruel and greedy if they just had this kind of love in their hearts. The world would be a bunch of happy hippie kids holding hands and singing...and I would know every word to their song.
Today, we started a project in studio that is going to take two weeks, so after a ten-minute lecture about cleaning up after ourselves in shared work-stations, we were set free to do as we pleased. Brook and I left and went to the library to do our homework for drafting. That didn't take nearly as long as I'd assumed it would, and we had a few hours left over to hang out on the second floor balcony and talk over lunch. Then drafting was cut really short because like four people in the class did the assignment (that Brook and I had done earlier that day) correctly [Brook and I being two of them woohoo!!] so we went back outside to the big cushie chairs and talked for two hours. I had no idea she and I were so alike. Don't you love it when someone is telling you something about their life and they get so comfortable with you that they suddenly stop a sentence before delving into the climax of the story and say, "Oh my god, I've never told anyone this before," and then finish telling you any way? Don't you love when you catch yourself doing the same exact thing?
It's suppose to be like this all week and into the weekend, take a walk outside my North Carolina friends!! Life is too great, I think the sun has gone to my brain.