Showing posts with label Mr and Mrs. Harvey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mr and Mrs. Harvey. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

All About Us

I've been seeing this "couples quiz" on numerous blogs, and I think that they are really interesting and fun to read, so I decided to fill it out here on my blog, as well. I'm obviously procrastinating today and not getting much done! :)

So here it goes...
What are your middle names?
Mine is Louise & Grant's is Thomas.

How long have you been together?
2 and a half years...we've been married for almost six months! :)

How long did you know each other before you started dating?
Not long at all...we met at work on a Friday, and I was headed to visit friends in Milledgeville for the weekend. He called that night, because there was a Luke Bryan concert in Milledgeville on Saturday, and he asked if I minded if he joined me. I said, "sure", so he came down that afternoon, and we hung out. We went to the concert together, and the next day, we hung out all day. We had lunch, went to the park with my dog and talked all day long. It was an awesome start to a great relationship, but we've been very serious ever since. I came home from that weekend and knew that eventually he would be the one that I would marry.

How old are each of you?
I'm 25, and he's 27.

Did you go to the same school?
Nope...neither high school nor college.

Are you from the same home town?
No, our hometowns are about 30-45 minutes apart.

Who is the smartest?
It depends...I'm probably the smartest when it comes to book smart, but he is the most common sense smart, and he can catch on to things quickly or learn to do something easily.

Who majored in what?
Grant - Forestry
Rachel - Management Information Systems

Who is the most sensitive?
Hands down...Me! Isn't that true for most women?!

Where do you eat out most as a couple?
Mexican, because it's my favorite place to eat and Grant could usually care less where or what we eat as long as he is getting a good meal.

Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple?
Negril, Jamaica on our honeymoon

Who has the worst temper?
Grant

How many children do you want?
Two...and no budging on that!

Who does the cooking?
Grant cooks breakfast, and I cook dinner, but Grant is one of the best cooks, so I occasionally am able to talk him into cooking dinner, as well.

Who is more social?
Probably Grant...I have some great friends, and I enjoy meeting people and spending time with my old friends; however, I'm also content to just sit at home with Grant and Banks. Grant on the other hand likes to always get out and meet people and hang out with friends. He never sits down!

Who is the neat-freak?
Me...I'm always moving Grant's things, and I think it drives him crazy!

Who is the most stubborn?
Grant

Who wakes up earlier?
Grant...He wakes up right when our alarm goes off, and I wake up shortly after, but not usually until he leaves to go downstairs and takes the dog with him.

Where was your first date?
Well, we went to lunch together the first day that we met one another at the office at Loco's; however, our first real date was to the Luke Bryan concert the next night in Milledgeville.

Who has the bigger family?
Me...I have a HUGE family!

Do you get flowers often?
Never...he bought me a plant once, does that count? He thinks that they are a waste of money, because they die so quickly! Ha-Ha!

How do you spend the holidays?
We spend Thanksgiving day with my family, and either we or him spend the day after Thanksgiving with his family. Both of our families spend Christmas Eve together, and we spend Christmas Day with his family. Usually, we spend the day after Christmas with my family, and we spend New Year's Day at home together with some of our friends. It's pretty evenly shared, and I enjoy our routine.

Who is more jealous?
Me...Not usually jealous over girls, but just jealous in general about the way someone decorates their house or the car that they drive, etc.! Though, I really try hard not to be.

How long did it take to get serious?
An hour...no really, a few days, I guess. He was four hours away when we met, so we would talk for hours and hours at a time each evening, and it was so easy to get serious, because we learned so much about one another so quickly over the phone, and we talked about everything. And just connected...it was something that I had never experienced before.

Who eats more?
Grant

What do you do for a living?
Rachel - Project Manager for Software Development
Grant – Marketing Analyst for Southeast and Southwest

Who does the laundry?
Me, but I hate it, so I always appreciate when he does the ironing. :)

Who’s better with the computer?
Me...it's my degree! Ha-Ha!

Who drives when you are together?
Grant...I hate driving, so I very rarely do it when we are together.

What is "your" song?
"Then" by Brad Paisley

Friday, September 25, 2009

Love is Patient

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
- Ephesians 4:2 NIV

Back in March-April of last year, our Sunday School class at church watched Fireproof and decided to take on the Love Dare. Our Sunday School class consists mostly of young, married couples, so it was a great exercise as a group. Though Grant and I weren't married, we had gone to the movie theater to see Fireproof, and we both really enjoyed it. Grant bought me the DVD as soon as it came out on video. We participated in the Sunday School class, but I have to admit that we failed at completing the 40-Day Love Dare. We started, and we got through the first 20-25 days; however, we weren't married, and at times it was directed towards married couples, and it didn't apply to our relationship. Also, simply put, we got busy...the wedding was a few weeks away, and we were busy with work, last minute wedding plans and finishing up the semester of school, so we just stopped.

After the wedding, and I had time to stop and think about it, I felt like we had failed. We have a great relationship, and we were / are getting along great, but we had committed to doing this, and we didn't finish, and I was disappointed in myself. So, I decided to start from the beginning and do it again. I'm not telling Grant that I'm doing it, but I started today. I read the assignment, and I'm ready for the challenge to actually complete the entire 40 days! I should be finished with this assignment on November 4th. Even though it's a daily exercise, I won't post about my progress daily, but I'll post about how things are going on a regular basis, so I have the accountability from you all. I think I might even go home and watch the movie this weekend for a little added motivation! :) Though we have a great relationship, I can only hope that this exercise will improve our relationship even more, and we will become stronger as a couple. I'll keep you all posted.

Here is today's dare:
The first part of this dare is fairly simple. Although love is communicated in a number of ways, our words often reflect the condition of our heart. For the next day, resolve to demonstrate patience and to say nothing negative to your spouse at all. If the temptation arises, choose not to say anything. It's better to hold your tongue than to say something you'll regret.

This one should be pretty easy...Wish me luck!! :)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Weekend Recap

So, I had one of the best weekends in a long time...Grant and I are constantly on the go, and we rarely have any time to just sit down and relax. This weekend was the first weekend since I can even remember that we didn't have any plans for the entire weekend, and it was absolutely wonderful.

On Friday, my parents came over, because Grant is working on painting the exterior of our house, and he had rented some scaffolding and needed some help getting it up. So, my mom and I just talked and went and got pizza for the workers! :) On Saturday, Grant worked outside all day, and I ran some errands, did some homework for my MBA and went to the baby store in town just to look around. It was really a lot of fun! I also relaxed on the couch and took a nap!

On Sunday, my dad came back over to help Grant some more, and I finished up my homework, made lunch for Grant and Dad and took another nap. It was just awesome to not have to do anything all weekend. To not have to rush around to some event (shower, wedding, get-together, etc.) was awesome!

I'm looking forward to a short week. We have a three and a half day work week, and I'm planning on working from home on Thursday, so it'll be a three day in-office week. It's going to be great. I don't have any meetings this week either, so I'm thrilled! We have no plans for the 4th Of July weekend, but I'm still very excited about it. My parents are going out of town, so we won't see them, and I have a feeling that Grant's parents will be going out of town, as well. But that's okay! We'll have a good time hanging out together...we plan to go see a movie and go see the fireworks in town. We would've gone on vacation to our beach house too, but we decided not to, because Grant wants to finish painting the house this weekend. This weekend marks the anniversary date of our engagement since we got engaged on July 4th, 2008! Yay! :)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Couples Swept Away - Negril, Jamaica

We had the most amazing Honeymoon of all time...It was absolutely wonderful, and I wish we could go back. We drove to Atlanta and stayed in a gorgeous hotel on Saturday after the wedding, and it was beautiful. We then woke up the next morning, and we headed off to the Atlanta Airport, and we flew into Montego Bay, Jamaica. We arrived around 12:30 PM, and we arrived at our resort around 2:30 PM.

We found our room, and we headed to find something to eat. We were exhausted, so we found a hammock, and we spent the afternoon in the hammock relaxing. We missed dinner the first night, because we were so tired that we went straight to bed around 6:00 PM.

Anyways, our trip was the trip of a lifetime. We enjoyed each others company, and we had six and a half days with just the two of us and all of our attention was on one another. No computer, no cell phone...nothing. It was great! We laid on the beach, we had lots of good food to eat and we went snorkeling, wakeboarding and on a Catamaran Cruise. It was an amazing adventure, and I'm so glad that we got to start off this new phase of our lives together with such a bang.

Now for some photos from our trip...

At Margaritaville in Negril

They were singing me songs... :)




Dinner at Feather's

Grant getting one of many drinks...



Wakeboarding







Our last night...We were sad!

Our rings...Grant's looks like a washer! Ha-Ha! :)


If you are looking for somewhere to go on a honeymoon, I recommend Couples Swept Away highly! There is nothing about it that we didn't enjoy...we had a great room, view and wonderful food. It was wonderful!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

I'm Back...with Wedding Preview Photos!

So, it's been awhile since I've posted, and I felt like starting over on my blog, so I deleted all of my previous posts. I'm not sure what made me do it, but I just wanted to start out fresh and have a clean slate to begin posting about our wedding, honeymoon and future!

I'll start off by posting the "Sneak" Preview photos from our photographer that we received last week. We should have the remainder of our photos by the end of this week, and I can't wait to see them. I know that they will be awesome!

Let me say that we had the best photographers EVER! Our photographers came up the night before the wedding, and they came to the rehearsal, so they could get a look around and see where they could get some shots. Then they met us at the salon at 10:00 AM on Saturday to begin photos, and they stayed until we left on that evening at 10:00 PM. The wedding was wonderful! It rained, so we had an inside wedding which was a little disappointing, but it was still beautiful and nothing went wrong on our special day. It was all I could ever ask for and more...

My Wedding Shoes - I LOVED them!!

Practicing the Shag & Cha-Cha Combo with my Dad




First Site - It was amazing!!


Sneaking up to see Grant!!

I had the world's BEST Bridesmaids!!






Leaving after an amazing Wedding!

My Dad's '54 Chevy Panel Truck that we drove away in...He's had it since he was 16!

Watching our Last Dance of the Evening!

Last Dance!


My Candle Pass with my Delta Zeta Sorority Sisters!

Deeee Zeeee!! We're the ones that can't be beat, We're the ones that won't be beat!!





Thompson House & Gardens - Bogart, GA

Father / Daughter Dance - You are the Sunshine of My Life

Grant's Dad and Our First Dance


Mr. & Mrs. Grant Thomas Harvey


Watching it rain...Really Hard!!















Stop back by tomorrow for a post and some photos from our awesome honeymoon at Couples Swept Away in Negril, Jamaica.