Yes, I know I said a post per day…BUT I didn’t really have Internet access over the weekend.

Oh, the weekend.  First, the weather: Delightful, but the temp is dropping according to Weather.com.  Last week they were saying 70 degrees.  Now it’s closer to 66.

So, on Friday, Matthew and I went to the Williamson County Clerk’s Office to secure our marriage license.  They asked for our addresses.  I gave them Matt’s since that is where I’m receiving my mail.  It was while we were reviewing our license for errors before the final printing that I realized that we had gone to such great lengths to NOT live together, and now our official marriage license says that we’ve been living together now for months.  Ughs.

Oh well, what’s an official document anyway, just a piece of paper )

…that says we’re married…in 5 days. ) )

We also went to the movies that night to see Nights in Rodanthe, since we’ll be honeymooning in Rodanthe…but it was SOLD OUT!  Crazy!  So we saw Eagle Eye instead. 1. going to a movie is highway robbery. 2. the movie was terrible. 3. you don’t get your money back for Carmike wasting hours of your life.

7 DAYS:

On Saturday, Matt and I ran a few errands in the morning, but the highlight by far was him re-teaching me to drive a stick shift in a parking lot with CARS in it.  After about 30 minutes, I was tired, sweaty, nerve racked, and had the most toned left thigh you’ve ever seen.  Ok, that last part wasn’t true, but it WAS very sore.

Matt said I did a good job.  He’s so supportive and encouraging.

That afternoon I went to Chandler’s house for the bachelorette party.  I told Chan early on that I wasn’t interested in going out to bars and getting drunk.  I was much more interested in maybe grilling out some dinner, and spending time with my local girls (3 are too far away, sad).  We had a blast!!  I was the party pooper, though because I had to leave the earliest for reason’s I’ll say in “6 Days.”  I’m so thankful for good friends )

6 DAYS:

Ok, I had to leave early because I COULD NOT MISS church on Sunday morning.  Matt and I had a meeting with an elder (we got lucky and got to chat with one of the coolest guys we’ve ever heard teach), in order to give our testimony of faith so that we can join our church!!  We’ve been going to the membership classes, learning all about what our denomination believes, TULIP, church government, ministry, spiritual gifts, family, etc…  The join date is the Sunday after we get married and we’ll already be road trippin, but we’ll get to join on the next date in December.

Our Church has been such a huge blessing to us!!  It’s the first church that I’ve been a part of that reminds me of the church family I had growing up.  It really is a family.  And the fact that Matt feels the same way is wonderful!  We love it!

We spent the afternoon wrapping gifts, making signs, writing thank-you notes, watching Batman Begins, and playing with Stormy.  We went to Vanderbilt’s campus and found a big EMPTY parking lot…it was long so I could practice accelerating and shifting in the higher gears.  Turns out my biggest problem is getting the car moving from a stop…the rest is cake ).  Funny problem to have.  So we practiced that for about 20 min. …get the car moving…stop…first gear….get the car moving…stop…first gear…(repeat).

Then I drove us home.  It was a jerky drive, and I squealed the tires, but we made it )

5 DAYS:

I get to marry this dude that I totally fell in love with in 5 days.  I finally, after almost a year of being engaged, get to be his wife.  We get to become a “we.”  For the rest of our lives )  It’s really incredible, and sort of overwhelming, to know that our whole lives, we were being shaped and formed…the we were created to eventually come together.  That there is a purpose for our lives that we couldn’t possibly accomplish alone…that now that we’re getting married…that work can be seen to completion.  It’s a bigger picture, and we get to play a part in it.  Purpose.  It’s the coolest!

I can’t wait!