Life!
This is my last semester this spring, nursing major (who isn't?). I can't believe that I actually have to be a nurse now. aahh! scary. Not that you should have any lack of confidence in my abilities ;) i will be...WE will be moving to Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina.
We, because...I'm getting married. Crazy right?! Well his name is Travis, which I'm sure facebook could tell you. he's great. he really is. our story... well we met at milligan, my first semester there in fall of '08 (you're getting the WHOLE story, dates and everything. lucky you!) to be honest, my first impression of him was that he was super hot, but a little strange. We became acquaintances, our friend groups were friends. But pretty much from the first moment I met him, he was on the I'm-never-going-to-date-him list. We didn't converse much until that spring semester '09 when we went camping with a group of friends. He was driving alone so I volunteered to ride with him. (No ulterior motives I promise) This is actually when he started to like me. We spent 2 hours in the car getting to know each other, it was nice but I spent the rest of the weekend being annoyed with him. i know right? i'm a great person. anyway, he was quietly interested in me, didn't really tell anyone. he had something going on with another girl, i was distracted by another guy. Both were one of those complicated-we're not dating-you like me-sometimes i like you relationships. Things went on like this until halfway into the next semester, fall of '09, when we started to become much better friends. His "thing" with this other girl was over and mine was ending rather badly. It was around this time that I broke my nose (long story, rugby type game, it's fabulous) and had to have nose surgery back in St. Louis as a result of my insurance. He offered to drive me back to St. Louis, allowing me to study for this wicked nursing class i was in, he went with me to my doctor's appointments, anything to help me out. And i realized, wow, Travis is such a nice guy. Thanksgiving though, is when things really changed. I knew he lived in North Carolina, and I was visiting Jenn and Daniel in Raleigh, so I asked him if he lived anywhere near them. He didn't, but he told me "oh yeah! no problem, I can drive you". We drove up to Raleigh and upon arriving at Jenn's house, he didn't leave right away, staying for an hour, just talking with us. As soon as he left, Jenn, being the loving older sister she is, immediately started questioning me concerning our relationship (apparently she realized what everyone else had, he liked me and I was completely oblivious to the reality of life). "Soo, what's going?!" "Nothing, Jenn" completely incredulous that anyone would question this completely innocent relationship. "I don't understand, do you not find him attractive? is he not nice?" "no he's attractive and he's incredibly nice, I just don't like him" "I don't get it! you two are going to date, fall in love, and get married" Okay crazy! Yet on the way home, I was wondering...could this work? Yet ten minutes into the car ride back to school, I thought, absolutely not. This continued through winter break, do I like him? absolutely not. Until the end of January, I finally admitted it...We began to date, I fell in love, somehow, someway. You always wonder who that mysterious man will be that you will one day marry. It only took me two years, many doubts, and even more questions from people who realized the truth before them to see that it was trav. somehow, he was patient and loving enough to never push me or even ask me on a date until i was ready.
He proposed by taking me back to the places he had on our first date. The last place was an overlook in the mountains, a place I had always secretly loved and the place I even more quietly wanted him to propose to me. He took me there at sunset and proposed.
Somehow God knows me, sees me, and loves me. He's brought me here and it's intimidating standing here, ready to graduate and move, but if there is one thing I know, I know the love of Jesus Christ. That's enough right? Somehow, He will always be more than enough.
