Life with Miss Mary: Best.Week.Ever.

We went from elementary friends to high school and college besties and now we are celebrating her wedding day! I want to say Congratulations! She got married last Saturday :) The day could not have gone any better. Not only did we celebrate her big day we got to enjoy the weekend with all our high school friends that live near and far. Lately we have seen each other quite a few times with all the weddings this summer. Boy do we LOVE weddings and the dancing that comes with it! We are on the dance floor all night!! The weekend was just full of fun! I was in the wedding so I don't have many photos from the weekend but here is just a few. I will post photos in a future recap post!

You know the feeling when your favorite shows start back? For all of you Revenge watchers out there... IT.IS.BACK. What did you think of the first episode? I cannot wait to see what this season holds. I love this show! I have 3 shows that I watch pretty religously and they are all back on now. Revenge is by far my favorite. Hart of Dixie is light hearted and cheesey but I love watching it! This is Gossip Girls final season. I got hooked on it in college and have kept up with ever since! Thanks Katie and Kristin for the persuasion. Katie provided me with Gossip Girl Season 1 and 2 on DVD and I am pretty sure I watched it every waking second, while I wasn't in class of course! Needless to say I do love the show.

The 3rd and most important reason why it was the best week ever. Joe and I celebrated our 7 years of dating! 7! My sister is a sophomore in high school and it's crazy to think that's how young we were when we started dating. I know, I know it's cheesey to celebrate dating anniversaries but it's nice to go out just us 2 for a nice dinner! We ate a great Italian restaurant in Des Moines called Centro. It was delicious! If you live around the area you must go! This year we found out we may not be cut out for big city living. We drove around the block once... okay maybe twice before we found a good parking spot. We normally take the first spot we see. We parked and starting walking to the restaurant. We only had a block to walk which is not too far right but we saw all these open spots that were litereally right in front of the door... so we thought. It took us a couple steps to realize we wanted to ~~walk~~ run back to the car and park closer before anyone else took our front row spots. We parallel parked AGAIN in a spot right in front! Come to find out they were 15 minute parking metors. So we drove around the block a little confused about the one way's and finally found a good spot and parked! It was about the same distance away from the door as the initial parking spot. We just laughed at ourselves and enjoyed the rest of the night. Needless to say we had a great dinner! The food was amazing!
You don't know how many times we've heard this... "When are you guys getting married?" or this "You guys are next." Joe and I were voted by our entire senior class to be the first to be married out of high school. Boy did we prove everyone wrong. :) Yes we have now been together the longest out of anyone from our graduating class but we are in no rush to get married. We are only 22 and 23. Yes, we have been talking about marriage for a few years now but we are perfectly happy with everything right now. Joe wants to finish up school and we both would like to become settled in our jobs. Don't get me wrong I can't wait to plan my wedding but it will be just as exciting when that time comes as it would be for me now!
Our relationship has had it's fair share of ups and downs but I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this guy. We always find something to laugh about. We know exactly how to push each others buttons and yes we do that on purpose every once in awhile. ;) No matter what we always go to bed happy.