Happy Birthday, Lover Boy.

Taking a break from the relationship posts.

I've got you up to the point of us being engaged.

I hope you've enjoyed them, I've loved the comments I've gotten so far.

I'll either continue them tomorrow or Monday.

I also didn't respond to any emails yesterday or comment on any posts.

I will, promise! Don't take it personal, I love you ladies!

I've been down in the dumps since Wednesday. Bad.

That positivity from Monday faded away by Wednesday

& I've basically hated myself since then.

Wish I could say I was exaggerating.

Gotta love depression. Constant battle, that shit is.

Anyway, I'm hoping today will be tons better

because not only is it Friday...

It's one of the greatest days, e-v-e-r!

Today is my handsome Husband's 28th Birthday!

It's also his Pop's (his grandpa) Birthday!

Source. Side note: this would be 100x's better if it were a Football picture.

 
And he took the day off!
So, aside from still having to find something to wear to his cousins wedding Saturday,

we will be hanging out & doing what he wants to do.

Which should hopefully include getting bullets for his new gun so I he can shoot it. ;-)

And then we're going out to eat some seafood with some family.

(A treat for him because I don't eat it, so it's rarely an option for date nights.)

I'm super bummed I wasn't able to get his gift this week.

But that's okay, I'll just get it in a couple of weeks.

I'll get more into the stuff that didn't go my way this week, later.

So today kicks off the busy weekend.

Birthday today. Cousin's wedding Saturday. Our 2 & 10 yr. Anniversary Sunday.

Bring. It. On! 

I mayyy be MIA on here. Unless I get some down time to type something up.
But there is always Twitter (@bnb03) & InstaG (BNBA) 

I hope everyone has a great Friday and weekend.

♥♥♥

Brandy

We're engaged...finally!

So, as of Dec.25,2009 I was a soon-to-be-Mrs.

Dec. '09

As I said in the last post, by this point we had been together for 6 and 1/2 years.
It was really one of those "it's about time!" things.
I was so excited! We had tossed around the idea of getting engaged, on a serious note, for a while.
And it was so weird that this guy that I had called my boyfriend for 6.5 years was now my fiance.

And then came all the questions about when was the wedding?
We need to hurry and get to planning.
Some people actually thought that we would go ahead and get married that summer after becoming engaged. (summer '10) since we had already been together for so long.
But no, I didn't want to rush planning. I did want a proper wedding. I didn't to be forced to pick a date, or anything like that.
So, my answer to everything was basically, "we haven't decided yet."

As I also said in the last post, we had been going through a bit of a rough patch not long before becoming engaged. Things were obviously better, but there was still a lot of work to be done on us.
It takes time.
We were engaged in total for a year and a half.
We spent that year continuing to work on ourselves while beginning the fun and super stressful task of wedding planning while also being about to have fun.

There had also been an unexpected tragedy in his family so we had to really step up and be there for his mom and little brother.
We ended up basically moving in with the two of them for the about 2 or 3 months.
There was a lot going on.

 But we still managed to focus on getting back to where we really wanted, and needed to be.
And we did.

One of our Engagement pictures. AG Photography

 

2010 rounded out with an engagement shoot, a nice family vacation, and more fun.

 

Then it rolled over to 2011 and continued & the countdown to the wedding was on!

This is one of those short and sweet type posts I mentioned. I'll get into the planning in the next post....

♥♥♥
B

Moody Judy.

Post number 2 for the day. Should you be the slightest bit interested you can read numero uno here.

I'm just going to keep this short and facking sweet. Or as short as I can doing multiple link ups.
Which means, not "short" at all.
I'm quite honestly not in the mood for anything right now, mood swings out the ass today! But I'm not going to let it completely ruin my day. I'm just gonna do what I normally do, only add in a bunch of relaxing. My sleep schedule is way off, which means my tank is on low. Plus, that bitch, Aunt Flo, is hanging out..it would happen this week. So, I'm not gonna get myself too wound up today & at about 8 or 9 I'm gonna pop a ZzzQuil and hope it puts me out of my misery for a good 8 or 9 hours. :)
On with the linkies!

Robin has been super busy with work, school, company in town, and just life in general, so there is technically no "I Can't Believe" link up today, but I'm still going to give her a small shout out. Definitely check her out. :-)  I can't believe I let my sleep get this messed up. I'm actually not surprised, but I'm mad at myself a bit.

Heather, Ash, Bailey, & Amy

So, Weigh In Wednesday.
Welp.
Last Week: 158.5
This Week: 159.2
Up: 0.7

Working out has been at a zero. So, I understand. Not even mad at it. Actually I haven't even thought about my weight in a couple of days. So, ehhh. The past couple of days I've been so consumed with trying to spoil my hubs a bit once he gets home, that working out or weight just isn't at the top of my list...or brain.
Wanna reiterate that my UGW is 135. I started out at 163 in April. That means that in almost 2 months I've only lost about 3.8 lbs. I'm not complaining. But I know I can do better if I just put my mind to it more. I gotta find that happy medium between being wayyyy tooo lenient and wayyyyy to strict (or putting wayyy to much pressure on myself).

And now for a new link up.
From One Year To Beyond. This one is only happening during the month of June & it's about the first year of marriage. But, really I think anyone in a relationship can participate. For details, go over visit my girl Karla at Forever Newly Wedded and check it out. She happens to be a co-host, along with 9 other ladies. I'm not going to link to all of them. (Don't take it personally- as I said above. My mood isn't where it should be and I just don't feel like it)
But definitely go check them all out. I know I'm gonna, you can get to their pages from Karla's! SO GO!

 

The first topic is:
The funniest moments from year one.

As bad as it sounds....
I can't think of one. But yet there are many!
I know, I know...so very anticlimactic. Merp.

We have many, many funny moments. We constantly are cracking ourselves up over the dumbest, silliest, and funniest stuff. There just doesn't seem to be one "Oh my God, Let me tell you..." moment that is sticking out to me right now.

I almost feel like it's pointless to link up, but I'm doing it anyway. If I have an AHA! moment I will just post it in next weeks!


Okay, I'm done!
I'm now going to become consumed by blog reading & maybe working on some more drafts while laying in bed listening to music, inhaling Mt.Dew and eating M&M's. That's all healthy right? No? Ehh, Fack it!

Don't forget about the CMT Music Awards tonight!

Happy Humpday, Ladies.
And here I find myself giggling.
Mood swings, I tell you.

♥♥♥
Brandy

My Boyfriend.

Read Chapter 1 here.

So, in the beginning of June, we had established that we were bf/gf.
Summertime was typical summertime, lots of hanging out.

July '03

He would hang out in my room more.
He stayed the night more...in my room.
We grew closer.
I still remember when he said I Love You, when we first kissed...aaannnd when we first...well....
It was all in about the first month of us being bf/gf.
He very quickly became a little more...permanent at my house. He was there all the time. During the day. Overnight. Within a month or so he had essentially moved it. I turned 15 in July.
I know you're thinking, "what, you were 15, he was 18 & he lived with you?"
Well,...simply put, yes.
Everything was going good.
In July, I went to Florida for a week as I had done before, to spend the week with my best friend & it was so cute when I got back I came home. This boy had gotten me a dozen roses and a note. (The only time he's even gotten flowers for me-lol).
He was getting ready to go away to college. To Wyoming. He was initially going to leave in September, but changed it to end of Dec./beginning of Jan.

Nov.'03

I still didn't fully meet his mom, step dad and baby bro until a few months into the relationship. His mom was very unsure about our relationship in the first couple of months since he had turned 18 & I was 15. There was the whole "underage" issue and all, but she still accepted it. And then by the time December came around we had been together for a little over 6 months & I remember having to say goodbye to him not long after Christmas, (it might have even been in like the first week of January.)
I was devastated. My boyfriend just moved to freakin' Wyoming, to go to college. We had decided that we were going to try this long distance thing & see if we could pull through. If I'm being honest, I really didn't see it fully working out. Let's face it. I was a 10th grader & he was about to start college and we were basically on opposite sides of the country now. But we didn't want to break up.
Well,...about a week into him being there, it was time for him to actually start school.
He didn't even finish his first day. His mom called to my school, had someone from the front office call me out of class to talk to her on the phone. She told me a few details & told me to call Doug. So I hung up with her & called to talk to him.
His anxiety got the best of him, he was homesick, didn't want to be there, etc, etc. Everything just kind of hit him at once. And when it came down to it, it just wasn't for him. So it was either by that night or the next day his mom and I were on a plane to Denver.

If I'm not mistaking, I think...this is a small part of the Rockies (obviously, not the big parts, haha)

Now, I'm a puss when it comes to flying. I always said I would never, ever fly. EVER. EVERRRR. And yet here I was agreeing to go with my b/f's mom to Denver, Colorado to get him. We landed in Denver & then drove up to the CO/WY line to meet him & then we all drove home. And just like that...3-4 days later we were back home.
A couple of months later he landed a job at a car dealership.

 
Everything was going good.

June '04

June '04 Vacation

June 2004 marked 1 year & I was even invited to go on vacation with his family.

And then we added another year,
and another, and another, etc, etc.
We had been through ups and down. Been there for each other in bad times, sad times, happy times and all.
We went through many times when I was sure we'd break up. I'm a difficult one to deal with and he can also be hard to handle.
But, I don't know, we just worked so well.
I graduated in '06 & turned 18. Age was no longer and issue, not that we cared anyway. We hit our 3 year mark a few weeks after I graduated.
We started getting a little more serious. We moved from upstairs at my house, to the basement. We had a dog and eventually got a cat. (lol, that sounds dumb saying it or typing it, but that can be a big deal for some.)
Over the next couple of years we tossed around marriage, kids, jobs/school (mainly for me), etc etc. Typical "adult" type stuff, even though I was only 18-19-20, it was still something on my mind. I had always been okay with being a mom that young. I kind of got baby fever early in life... But I needed to try to get back into school or find a job.
We were a typical couple. We had some pretty rough arguments, but we also had some very special times.
We basically "grew up" together, and that came with a bunch of trials. We grew stronger together.
In many ways we grew up faster than most people our ages, which is what presented a lot of our problems. It can be difficult transitioning from teen to young adult anyway, add on a serious relationship & it can sometimes speed it up a bit.

'07

'08

Fast forward ahead to about 2008. We had been going through a rough period due to outside influences. It had been an up and down battle & It came to a point where I had to give him an ultimatum. It came down to "it's me or that". Well, he chose me.
I'm not going to get too much into that right now. But it all came to a peak in October of '08. It was a huge eye opener to him I think & he realized how he looked & learned real quick that I wasn't playing games. Over the next year or so it took a lot of adjusting. I've always been willing to work with him. It didn't come easy, but we had been together for 5 going on 6 years and been through too much for me to just give up without trying at all.

Brings us to the end of 2009 and on Christmas Day. We always spend the night at his moms on Christmas Eve so we can open gifts with them on Christmas morning.
So that morning I got one gift from Doug.
I pulled a little box out of a little bag on Christmas morning & he looked at me and just simply said "Will You?"
So romantic, right? ;-)
After 6 1/2 years together, we were finally engaged!
I know I have a couple of pictures from that morning...just don't know where. lol 

Just Engaged! Christmas Evening '09

♥
B

So, there was this boy...

About 10 and a half years ago that I had seen around a handful of times.
He has been to my house a time or two, he was friends with my brother, which meant he was 17 years old. He was from my town, and he was a senior but he didn't go to my school. (He had been kicked out of school in our county schools in middle school).
I hadn't really met him, technically, but I knew who he was. His name and all, okay I knew of him.
He was cute, y'all.
My 14 year old self noticed him right away.

I remember one night in December, I was going Christmas shopping with my parents. We pulled into K-Mart, parked, and then I saw his truck pull in.
Ohhhh, man!
So I pointed him out to my mom -mistake- saying how I thought he was cute and all.
So in the store....we were looking at the fishing stuff & boom walked right by him & his friend.
Mom proceeds to point him out and ask if that was who I walk talking about, out loud...
I walked away.
Gotta love when our parents seek to embarrass us.
Luckily, I'm pretty sure he didn't notice.

On New Years Eve (02/03) we had a small gathering of people at my house.
And by that I mean, it was my mom, brother, his g/f (at the time), 2 mutual friends, one of my cousins, I think my dad was in bed...and then there was that boy. He came to hang out, and drink.

I remember playing bartender that night. I was always good at making a mean margarita, yes, even at 14.
Anyway. I remember all the fun of that night, we had a lot of laughs. I barely even talked to him aside from asking if he wanted a drink every so often. Then going to bed with my cousin and talking about how cute he was.
He started coming around the house more. To the point where he was there every. weekend.
No complaints from this girl.
I was crushing, hard. I was actually crushing pretty significantly on two guys, both of which I had just met, this boy being one of them. But I digress, that may be a post for another day.
Anyway, a short time after new years I was easing up and starting to talk to him and vice versa, all in mixed company of course. No one-on-one talking, yet. He was quiet like me. Just as damn shy as I was. But my mom knew I had a crush on him, my brothers GF knew I had a crush on him, I'm pretty sure my brother knew. I mean...it was a little apparent. My Spring Break came around and my brother was going on a trip to PCB with some of his friends, he asked to borrow a couple hundred dollars from me. I told him that if he would get his friend to take me shopping one day during my spring break, I'd give him the money. He agreed & one day after he got out of school (I'm pretty sure our SB were different weeks) he took me to that Mall of Georgia to go shopping.

It was my first "alone" time with him. I don't even remember shopping, pretty sure I left the mall empty handed (which I often do). But I just wanted to hang out with him. I do remember, we were either walking into, or out of the mall, and I told him he needed to lighten up and enjoy life. I mean I didn't say those words, but I remember saying something to that affect. He was just so quiet, and seemed so....serious. Anyway, we had become friend, as lots of people tend to do when you're hanging out every weekend, and by now most days after school.

 

We became more and more comfortable with each other. Started flirting. We always sat beside each other when he was at the house. He would sometimes take naps & his body would be on one cushion and his legs on my cushion of the loveseat. There we several time when I'd lean over and fall asleep propped up against his butt. (Don't laugh, that's the best way I can describe it, lol).

I remember going to a very small graduation/birthday party with him, my bro, bro's g/f, and another friend. There were only like 10 people there, 4 of which were seniors (him, my brothers g/f, and 2 of the other people.) I remember everyone was drinking except for my & my brothers GF (who was about 7 months pregnant by now) and I was worried about him. Wanted to make sure they made him lay a certain way when he went to sleep to that if he were to puke he wouldn't choke. lol
I remember one time I was chilling out in my room upstairs & somehow or another he ended up upstairs and we were sitting in the hallway, just talking about random stuff. We were laying in the hallway at one point and I was talking to him about how I was going to live in a cardboard box when I was older & I was talking about how I'd paint/decorate it, and he was just like, "no you won't". We laid there and it was one of those things where your hands just kinda end up next to each others. We held hands a little bit. Talked and talked. Then we ended up at one point he was sitting up, indian style, and I was laying there and we were still talking and I'll never forget he grabbed my legs and pulled me to him, essentially in his lap, and we ended up face to face and we just looked at each other. And instead of making a move, I remember I turned my head. I panicked. haha. Perfect opportunity to kiss & we just...didn't. But it was like something out of a movie. I'll never forget that.
I told my mom and my bro's gf about it and they ragged on me about it.
One day my bro's gf was talking to me over my 'beep beep". (My first cell was a Nextel, & I loved my beep beep -walkie talkie-...you know "hit me on my nextel chirp") and he was at the house, sitting by me so he could hear the beep beep convo, and she came across saying how I "loved" him (just picking on me). Well little did she know that he was sitting beside me. Embarrassing.
The end of the school year came for him a couple of weeks before my county schools got out. My brother, his gf, and I went to his graduation.
About a week or so later it was his 18th birthday.
And two days after his birthday we were sitting outside of my house, in his truck, talking about how he didn't feel like going home, I told him to spend the night again, etc etc & then I remember he looked at me and asked me if I really did liked him. I don't remember much else other than I know I told him I did. I'm pretty sure he told me he liked me and then we talk about going out. Well....that conversation somehow ended with us deciding that we were going to "go out".

That boy was Doug and on June 9, 2013, we became boyfriend and girlfriend....
:-)



♥
B

Just another Manic Monday.. :-)

No case of the Monday's here!

My weekend was pretty good. 

And we DID clean Saturday. Not a ton, but enough that it looks different.

Today begins a busy week.

 Had to go deposit a check only to turn around and go get Doug's tag and then groceries.

Oh, those groceries. So. much. money.

I spent way too much & only got enough for 3 nights worth of dinner & then some snacks and a couple of staple items. Crazy how easy it is to spend a lot of money on food.

 But that's okay! Gotta do what you gotta do, right?

I'll be interested to see how much less is spent when I only have to buy for Doug & myself.

Oh!

So, as I was standing in line at Wal Mart waiting to get to the belt to unload my buggy...

The woman in front of me was just a texting away, barely ever looking up. She had, I think, 2 things in her buggy.

After the person in front of her paid and walked away, this lady had finally but her 2 items on the belt but was now rummaging through her purse, looking for her money-I'm assuming, with her precious phone in her hand still. All while sounding a bit irritated while talking to the dude with her, "Where is it? He didn't put it back in. here."

Well she finally moved up so I could get to the belt & unload.

By the time I got unloaded she still hadn't paid and ended up tell thing cashier that she had to go to her car and that she would be right back. So the cashier voided out her purchase and then it was my turn.

 2 Things about this....

1- Am I the only one who will double-check my wallet as soon as, if not before, I get in line at Wal Mart, Target, or where ever I am?! Sometimes I even check before I get out of my car to walk in. Maybe that's an OCD-type thing, I don't know.

2- Put your phone down and pay attention to what you are doing. Be present. I mean come on. It can wait 5 minutes. Had she not been staring at her phone she could have had her money ready, or she could have realized before hand that she didn't have what she needed.

But, it's whatever!

& then, silly ole me, I was coming home & I turned my blinker on to turn right, and turned left. I rarely do that, let alone do it unknowingly.

Haha! I crack myself up.

I don't know why I'm in such a good mood today, but I hope everyone else is too!

This weeks posts will be mostly scheduled, so they'll probably post in the morning. They'll start tomorrow. They are gonna be talking about when Doug & I met to when we got married, to now. Y'all will be tired of reading about Doug & I by Sunday, I'm sure of it. Some posts may be picture heavy, some may not, some might be long, some might be short and sweet...(probably more long though). 

I'll actually probably post twice on Wednesday so I can to my typical link ups.

I'm trying to get everything ready to go, but y'all, it's a lot on top of everything I'm doing at home! :)

& NOW, I've got to get started on supper! Doug chose 3 meals this week: Spaghetti, Burgers, and Chicken Tacos. Tonight is spaghetti.

Hope everyone has had a good day! If not, make it great starting NOW!

♥♥♥

Brandy

Source: Pinterest

Hey June...

It's June!
There are a couple of those slow months in the year for everyone.
For me it's usually the winter months Jan-March..sometimes April.
May through the rest of the year is usually great.

Today starts my hubby love's birthday week AND our anniversary week.
Which means this week, for me, consists of making sure his car tag is updated, doing my usual housewife stuff & gift shopping for both events plus a wedding that we are going to on Saturday. Still need to find something to wear for that.
Friday is my hub's birthday so there will be a date night, Saturday is his cousin's wedding, and Sunday (a week from todayyy) is our 2/10 year anniversary, which will also be a date night.
It's a big one for me!
So needless to say i should be busy for the next week!

Today, though...
Today I'm gonna work a little more on my posts for the week & then probably do a whole bunch of nothing other than sorting out what I'm doing this week, figuring out dinner menus, making grocery lists, yadda yadda.

But, I can't believe it's June.
Less than 3 weeks til 1D time! HOLY BALLS!
A month & some odd days til my birthday (which has nothing to do with June, but it just means it's getting closer.)
I'm  ready to start checking things off of my Summer Bucket List!

Okay, short & sweet today.
Happy Sunday!
♥♥♥
Brandy