The story of us...

I guess it would be nice to give a little background information on Matt and me and the beginning of our life together.

Well, this is always such a funny story to me! Back in December, I was joking around with one of my coworkers, Whitney (and the only other person my age in that building) if she had any cute, single cop friends that she could introduce me to.  Her boyfriend is a cop so I figured between the two of them, they knew of someone.  I was half joking when I asked her and didn't think anything would come out of it.  She told me she knew of someone that she knew I would get along with, but he was kinda dating someone.  My response? "Oh that's ok, it doesn't matter!" 

I mean, don't get me wrong, I was joking around and I didn't really think that anything would come of it.  I kinda knew that they weren't all that serious at that time and I kept joking to Whitney that she needed to hurry up and introduce us so he could go ahead and fall in love with me!  Well, after Christmas, Whitney and I went to hang out with some other school teachers and then Whitney decided we should go over to Matt's house to hang out.  That was the first night we met and like I predicted, he fell in love with me that first night ;)  I didn't hear from him for about a week afterwards.  Him and his girlfriend had broken up and we messaged each other back and forth a couple of times over Facebook.  He finally got up the nerve to ask me out on a date and being the meanie that I was, I totally left him hanging.  My reasoning? I didn't want him to ask me out over Facebook messages! He had to do a little more work than that! ;)  

He invited me to a friend's bonfire and I was SO NERVOUS! I was really afraid it would just be awkward! Luckily, we hung out a couple of times with other friends before we went so we were able to get to know each other a little bit.  I was definitely nervous for no reason at all.  The entire night, I felt like that was where I was meant to be.  I felt so comfortable and so at ease being with Matt and his friends.  It was like that from day one and that's one of the main reasons why things progressed as quickly as they did for us.  

At the beginning of January we had a week off of school and we were able to spend all that time together getting to know each other.  Whitney and I ended up staying at Matt's house the entire week we had off.  We started "officially" dating on January 12th.  Matt proposed on February 12th. :) 

I know, I know..a whole entire month after we began dating!  Talk about a long wait! ;)  I moved in with Matt at the end of February and we getting married June 9th, 2012.  

It's always crazy to me to tell people this story because I know exactly what people are thinking.  We always say that it might seem that we're moving fast to others, but to us, we're just moving at our own pace ;) I knew from the moment I met Matt that I would spend the rest of my life with him.  He is the most amazing man I know and he does everything in his power to make sure I am happy.  I just couldn't let him go ;)  And there you go! That's the story of the future Whitmans :)

Engagement Pictures

Back in like March, we went to the Bridal show in Atlanta.  My Mom, Grandma, Matt, and one of my bridesmaids, Whitney (who actually introduced Matt and me, but that's another story for another blog post!)  were all in attendance.  It was so overwhelming because there were SO many vendors there and I didn't know what to expect! We entered all kinds of drawings and signed up for numerous mailing lists, but one of the best things that we walked away with was a free engagement session! So we met with with Julie and J.J. Reynolds in Piedmont Park about two weeks ago to do our session.  It had STORMED so badly the night before and it had dropped down to like 50 degrees that I was really worried that the pictures were going to turn out horrible.  You know..shivering with frizzy hair is not cute.  I figured we'd just go with it since we weren't paying for them.  I got the email from Julie this past weekend that the pictures were ready and I was very please with how they turned out! Here are some of my favorites...

Of course I had to put on on here of my amazing ring! He picked it out himself and

let me just say..he did GOOD! :)

We've decided this one is going to be blown up and put above the mantle.  I 

just LOVE the colors! And yes...we are actually sitting IN the tree.  Maybe next time I will show all the bloopers and the pictures of me trying to get DOWN from said tree.

I am so, so happy with how they turned out!

I wanna play!

I totally want to be part of the cool kids and join this blogging world.  I was talking to a friend of mine and she told me how much she wished that she had started blogging during her engagement.  So I thought I'd try it out for a bit and see how it goes! I can't wait to put our story down "on paper" so to speak. :)