Our Love Story

I've wanted to sit down and write our love story out for a while now, but just haven't done it yet. Then I saw that From Mrs. to Mama was having a Valentine's link up for people to share their love stories and I thought it was the perfect time to sit down and write it all out. So here we go...I hope y'all enjoy! :-)

How long have you and your significant other been together?

The Hubs and I have been together for three years. Although it feels like we've been together forever...in a good way!

How did you meet? {What's your "love" story?}

It all started back in the spring of 2009. All of my best friends traveled to Florida for spring break. While there they met the Hubster through some mutual guy friends of ours. I heard about him all week because my friends were constantly talking about him. "So there's this guy here from Georgia and he's so sweet...he has such a cute accent...he talks to his Mom on the phone...he's so funny" By the time my friends made it back to Texas they were all excited about their new friend.

I ended up meeting him a few days later and we somehow ended up paired up for my sorority's pledge dance.

All of the girls were Baywatch lifeguards and the guys were spring breakers! Creative, right?

The day after the dance we went to a Baylor baseball game together.

Then that afternoon after the game he called and asked me out on a date...for the next night.Ha! He said he couldn't wait for the weekend to take me out. At this point we had been together non-stop since we met.

On our date we went to see He's Just Not That Into You and ate dinner at Elite.

Ironic first date movie, right? ha!  

I just have to note that while the hubs was trying to be super smooth and cool at dinner he managed to choke...on an ice cube. HA! Talk about breaking the ice ;-) After the date we went to the Baylor campus and walked around, and yes we sat on a swing as all good Baylor couples do!

The following Thursday he asked me to be his girlfriend, and as they say...the rest was history. To say we fell for each other hard and fast would be an understatement!

 If married, how long have you been married?

We've been married for almost a year!  

If you are married, where did you get married at? Big or small wedding? 

After being engaged for almost nine months we decided to elope! The Hubster was waiting to hear about his dream job that would include six months of training (half in Georgia and half in Washington, D.C.) So wedding planning had been quite difficult, to say the least.

You can read all about our wedding {HERE}

Do you have any nick-names that you call one another? 

hmmm...he calls me baby, and he's the only person who calls me "Mallorie Gayle" regularly. I call him sweetie and honey..your typical pet names.

Name 3 things you love most about your honey.

He works so hard to provide for our family.

He is such a great Daddy.

We always have fun together and he can make me laugh in any situation.

The Proposal

On August 20th, 2010 all of my dreams came true when he asked me to marry him!

Before the proposal we went on a "special" date...the hubs actually recreated our first date! We went to a movie and had dinner at Elite!

Then we went on a walk around campus and sat on the same swing where we sat and talked on our first date.

He gave me a "K" James Avery charm and said, "You might need this someday soon..." At this point I thought he MIGHT be proposing but then he said we had to get back home to meet a friend of his.

But then as we were walking back to the car we started going another way and he took me to the bridge where we had our first kiss. The bridge had been decorated with rose petals and flowers.

Then he got down on one knee and proposed! I was just a little excited! I'm pretty sure I screamed!

I just thought the surprises were over! When we got back home all of our friends were there waiting to celebrate with us.

My parents also drove down for the special night!

I can't talk about our proposal without showing off my beautiful ring. I love it just as much now as I did on the day he gave it to me.

Is he a flowers and teddy bear kind of guy for v-day, or strawberries, champagne, and rose petals?

hmm...I think a little bit of both. I love getting flowers and he always gives me roses on special occasions and he will usually combine that with champagne and chocolate covered strawberries.

Are you a sunset dinner on the beach kind of girl, or pop a movie in and relax on the couch?

Totally relax on the couch. We're big homebodies, especially now that we have our little muchkin.

Tell us one thing you'd like to do with your significant one day. If you could do anything? Go anywhere?

Oh gosh...this is hard! I would LOVE to design and build our dream home together someday. I would also like to go on a true Honeymoon together. Since we eloped we had a honeymoon weekend but I would love to go somewhere and truly celebrate our marriage.

Tell us what you plan on doing on this Valentine's Day.

Thankfully it's the Hubs day off so we'll  have all day together! We'll probabally hang out at home and enjoy a special dinner. After all, we do have a pretty cute Valentine to celebrate with this year...

Are you asking for anything this Valentine's day?

Nope, not a thing.

Give us one piece of advice of keeping a relationship strong and full of love.

Leave each other little notes. I always write him notes in his lunches and occasionally he'll leave me one after he's left for work. This seriously makes my day when I find a note that he's left me :-)

Show us a picture of what love means to you.

I just love how the he is looking at Emma Claire in this picture. This was about 30 seconds after she was born. You can see how much he loves her already. It's one of my favorite pictures of all time.

Well folks...that's it!!! Thanks for reading our little love story! I feel so lucky to have found my perfect match and I'm glad I got to share our story with you!