Beautiful Mess

Can I be cheesy for a second? I love my sweet husband!! I was reminded of such an incredible memory today. I have a country station that I've built on Pandora, and today it played "Beautiful Mess" by Diamond Rio. What you may not know is that this song came out just shortly after Brian and I started dating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYiA6X1b-8

He burned me a CD with that song on it, before I'd ever heard the song. I remember him shyly handing me the CD as I was leaving his apartment one day. I listened to it in the car, and was blown away by how perfectly it fit our budding relationship. In fact, I listened to the song SO much during that time that my sorority sisters started making fun of us. We did NOT care-- we were WAY in love.

Man, I remember that summer ('02) and I'm still amazed at how God made this man JUST for me. There was no denying it to anyone who saw us together- we were completely head over heels for each other, and giddy.

It would be another 18 months till he proposed, and another 25 months till we said I do, but we knew. Summer '02 was when Brian first came to the lake with my family. It was the summer I went on my first trip with his family (I got a piece of plastic in my eye, and we had to go to the Wal-Mart optometrist in Carlsbad, NM- a shining moment for me...) Summer '02 was when I was a nanny for SIX children all summer, and Brian would bring me sweet notes and leave them on my windshield for me to find when I left for the day.

It was the summer we took this picture:



Um, yes. We were infants.

Did you know that Brian still kisses me on the hand every time we hear the Beautiful Mess song? He still opens my door when we get in the car, and kisses me before he closes it. He's still my perfect match, the man God made just for me. He still gives me "funny tummy". You know what I'm talking about- that feeling you got right before you answered the door on your first date with YOUR one?

Just thought you might want to know what I was up to around this time 7 years ago... I was obsessed with this song...