ENGAGED!!

So... My last blog I told you that me and Caleb were going to have a nice dinner!! Well.. He proposed to me that night!! hehe :) I know alot of you have been wanting to know the story. so I shall tell you even though it really doesn't have anything to do with my blog (Priceless dating).. :)

Friday-Jan 7
Ok.. to start off I have to mention that as I all when i was already to go.. I couldn't find my camera.. ! I love to take pictures.. and since me and Caleb were both going to be dressed nice I really wanted to make sure I had my camera! So I literally threw my apartment apart looking for my camera! It was 6:00 .. which was when I was suppose to be there.. However, i texted Caleb and told him my problem and he understood (he knows me well enough that if Joee wants/needs her camera.. then it must be found...lol ) He mentioned that I could borrow his roommate's camera.. So when i finally gave up hope.. and prayed a little prayer.. cause I know that is what my Mom (Beverly) would do.. I had this thought all of sudden that maybe it was in my car.. but I knew that it couldn't possibly be there... So I looked around a little more then gave up and went to the car.. and sure enough there was my camera sitting in my passenger seat.haha I had to laugh to myself.. God defiantly has a sense of humor!!

Any who.. back to the engagement story.. haha..
As I walked into Caleb's apartment I was at first very confused when I saw that it was very dark.. However, I noticed that he had candles light around his kitchen and he had a very nice table set with candles also on it.. I was definitely surprised. The 1st course of the night was our salads. Then once we were done with our salads Caleb served me this yummy chicken and mashed potatoes and corn on the cob!! It was all soo delicious! I was very impressed with all the work that Caleb went through. For the dinner he bought table cloth, candles, and wine glasses for the (for our sparkling grape juice)! It was all soo romantic..Caleb looked soo handsome... and he seemed a little more quite than usual. (He later said that he was pretty nervous/anxious.. but I def couldn't tell) I kind of had some suspicions as to what was going on but I wasn't totally sure.. He was pretty quiet... and just kept smiling at me as i rattled on about who knows what.. But Caleb being quiet isn't something abnormal.. lol After we had our meal Caleb served me the dessert that I had brought.. (which if i knew that I was going to get engaged I would have def made something more fancy..)

FINALLY... after dessert.. Caleb brought his chair over next to me... He started talking to me about how he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me.. I almost started to tear up when he got down on his knee (which I was so surprised I couldn't even tell he was really on his knee.. I just knew he was pulling something out of his pocket) My hear started to race... and then Caleb pulled out the ring and said "Joee, Will you marry me?".. I said "oh my gosh.. oh my gosh.. oh my gosh.. " and then hugged him.. Then I took the ring and placed it on my finger.. just amazed at what happened!! He then laughed and said " You still didn't answer my question" haha then of course i said yes!! and kissed him.. then looked at the ring.. and just said.. "oh my gosh" a couple more times!! :) I paused for a second and said, "You asked my dad right?" haha.. and No worries he did.. :)

Then of course we had some more sparkling grape juice.. took some pics.. then called our family and friends! It was the most perfect & romantic night!! The rest of the night I just had a grin plastered to my face!! :) It's crazy to think I am engaged!!! We finally picked a date.. It's August 13, 2011. Which is great.. because 1.. our apartment leases end Aug 1... and 2. Our anniversary is on the 13th now.. and its our lucky # :)

So you have officially heard my story..
I am sure I will be updating you on more of the wedding planning..

Oh.. P.s. Another random cute thing..was that Caleb told me that I was the 1st one to see the ring. Cause he wanted it to be a surprise to everyone! :) Isn't that soo cute.! I'm a lucky girl!!
Well until next time.. Hopefully my blog wasn't too cheesy for you! haha :)

Joee Lynn

I'm back!!!

Hi there!
So sorry guys that I haven't updated my blog in a LONG time.. I am going to try to do better.. I know that me and Caleb have went on a lot of cheap dates.. but do i remember them now..?? Haha. noo.. But I do remember our Christmas date..

So.. we decided to save our money which means that we didn't get each other gifts.. (It was very HARD for me not get him a gift... cause I love to get him gifts.. but i didn't) I did however give him a box of random stuff for when he got his wisdom teeth out a couple weeks before Christmas! :) This was also the 1st time we have actually spent Christmas day together! I hung out with his fam Christmas eve and he spent a little bit of Christmas day with me and my family! It was great!!
So.. we went to my favorite restaurant in my hometown. Brother's Railroad Inn.. Its this nice little Italian place..!! Kind of like a little mini olive garden! :) I LOVE it.. I wore my new sweater dress that I got for Christmas..It was very nice. We went to dinner and had a great time.. and then we went and got Ice cream. After that we watched Sherlock Holmes with my family and my dear friend MaryLynn!! :) It was a very great evening.. and pretty cheap... since we saved our money not buying each other gifts!

We have a dinner date tonight... He is making me dinner! I made dessert! :) I made this yummy brownie-cookie bars. We are even dressing up.. I picked out a cute dress to wear! I will try to post pics and tell you all about it sometime soon!! Sorry again for such the long delay on blogs! But I have a feeling we will be doing a lot of cheap dates for a while! hehe Christmas really makes your bank account hurt.. haha. ! Welp.. Have a great Friday!!

** Joee

Love is in the air tonight..

Hello there!!
So It's been a while.. I can't really remember whats happened in the past weekends.. but this last weekend went like this..
Friday- We were at a party for our prayer group that meets on Mondays. It was at Caleb's place. It was real fun!! We had pizza, chips, and i made dessert. I made brownies and cookies.. mm.. The cookies turned out to be a bigger hit.. which is what i expected! lol :) It was a pretty fun night.. lots of laughing..

Saturday: Caleb's brother & sis n law & little Madison (who is in Leslie's tummy) were in town. So Caleb hung with his bro for most of the day. But then for dinner we all went to Old Chicago! it was tasty and fun! lol They couldn't stay too late cause they had to drive back to KC. After they left me and Caleb just hung out.. It was so nice.. we just cuddled on the couch and watched our favorite TV show Chuck.. :) We had a little mini break from the show though and we went and got me a Chocolate dip cone from DQ cause i was craving one! hehe Yup.. it was such a relaxing evening!!

Sunday: Well we went to church. Then went our separate ways for most of the day.. but in the evening before bible study we went to the Konza Prairie.. It was sooooooooo nice!! like amazing.. we just chatted and enjoyed God's amazingness!! It was the perfect way to end the weekend! So yes... that was last weekend.. It was pretty nice! I felt spoiled though cause everyday last week i got to see Caleb! hehe.. Which NEVER happens. lol We didn't really do anything crazy.. we watched a little chuck.. (if you cant tell.. we are a little obsessed.. it's great though.. check it out!) But it was nice just being able to enjoy each other's company..

so.. on a random note.. We have this new dream.. So I want to open a bakery..Caleb & I both love cooking.. So we thought maybe someday we can open a restaurant/bakery. It's funny cause we love to discuss this and make elaborate plans.. but i really would love to have a bakery some day.. Caleb said he could be my chef.. and i could do the desserts & breads, my sister could do the cakes.. and my new sis-n-law could be the barista & be in charge of the coffee stuff! :) aww.. it's fun to dream! Welp.. I hope you enjoyed reading my not so exciting love life.. haha. ! But i recommend going to the Konza prairie or any pretty nature hike with a loved one.. (that could be a good friend, family member or your partner!) It's defiantly very nice.. go a little before the sun goes down!!

Have a great week!! :)


Joee

Casual Dates

Hey there,

So I haven't wrote in a while. Me and Caleb haven't really had any super exciting dates lately. I know last Friday we had a very mellow, relaxed evening. We started a new show.. Its called Chuck! It's a bummer though cause we have to wait for the dvds in netflicks but we watch about 4 episodes on Friday.haha. and then we went to Sonic cause i was craving it..Oh, we also got some wings from Pizza hut cause Caleb had a gift card. We had talked about maybe going bowling but.. that didn't happen. Sometimes its soo nice to just be lazy and relax. P.S. the show is really fun!! I liked it and so did Caleb..

Let see.. other than having dinner together and just hanging out we haven't done a whole lot. Tomorrow we are planning to go on a date.. Cause I am going out of town for the weekend. I think we talked about going to the Time out Corner cause we have 2 things for free 18 hole put-put. I am not sure what else we got planned. Sorry this blog isn't too exciting.. I guess that's what happens when your a busy, poor college student. haha..

I am sure we did some other things but that is all i can think of.. kind of lame i know.. but.. eh.. its life!! haha. But no worries i will keep you posted on dates to come. maybe we will find a super great deal that i must inform you on!! Take care all!!

Joee

3 years of Bliss

Well Dear Readers,

Me and Caleb celebrated 3 years of dating on Monday! :) It was very fun!! The weekend before that we did a couple cheap dates. Friday we did a little grocery shopping ( which i ended up buying Caleb his gift then.. which is wanted a deep fat fryer! lol Which he made fried okra for me! :) ). Ooh.. We made some bbq chicken... it was very yummy!! :) We watched an episode of Lie to me.. (on our Netflicks... its like our new thing..) It was very relaxing.. We also answered a question out of the book we are doing together.. It's called 101 Questions to ask before getting engaged.. It soo great.. i really recommend it for anybody that is dating and is getting serious and thinking about getting engaged.. ( Now don't be getting any ideas in your head.. i don't think you will be hearing any wedding bells with me and Caleb anytime soon.. we are just trying to build our relationship right now.) It's a very good book. I can def. tell that its strengthening our relationship.. Anyways.. that was a very fun/relaxing evening.. Sunday we had a study date.. It was pretty mellow..

Monday- Our Anniversary 9/13
So I went over to Caleb's house after he took a test. We just ate some dinner and watched some more Lie to Me.. It was very nice.. to just relax together.. Nothing like crazy.. but sometimes the more mellow times are more cherish-able!

Wednesday-
The reason we didn't go out until Wednesday was because i ordered my dress from forever 21 (for only 11 something!! :) it was a steal!) Well, it wasn't suppose to get to my place till Tuesday. So.. any ways. We dressed up very nice and went to Olive Garden.. However, once Caleb got there he told me to close my eyes and he surprised me with a VERY pretty necklace. I felt like a princess for a night!! haha ( Dorky, i know! ) I hope that every girl can find a guy that treats her like that! All i say is don't settle.. God has your prince charming out there for you..!! :) . I am not sure if we have anything planned for this weekend. maybe another Study date.. but i think the dates we do have we will be very cheap.. cooking dates are the best! :) mmm food! Have a great weekend! :) Joee

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1.02.28

Summer is over... :(

Hello there!!
Wow, so its been FOREVER since i have updated my blog..
So.. Now that I have an apartment i really am going to be doing some cheap dates!! But those are becoming more and more fun!! So lately.. Me and Caleb's favorite cheap date has been making supper for each other!! :) Today he made me french toast!! yummmy!!! and the other day i made cheese, chicken quesadilla just for Caleb.. they were tasty.

OOH.. and i have a GREAT idea for all you that are looking for some cheap date ideas... if you LOVE to watch movies or TV... Me and Caleb just got Netflick.. ( we are right now still in our free month trail) but we are going to split the cost... so we will each pay like 4 something.. But we get movies and TV shows instantley onto our TV.... I have a Wii and so it works through that and he has xbox. We started watching this show called Lie To Me. .. ITS great.. We both like it.. which is...means alot.. lol haha :) I am not going to lie the instant movies arent like the best movies ever. i mean you can find one thats good.. but the real good ones you have to get in the mail. but it takes like 1 day for it to get here. We have the plan where you get one movie at a time.. But i think its a pretty great deal.. So.. our dates lately have been pretty mellow.. making supper for each other or together and watching some Lie to Me..


But ya.. nothing too crazy! !:) I will be keeping you posted on our cheap dates! lol I am sure there will be LOTS more.. oh.. and our 3 year anniversary is coming up Sep 13 soo...... we are brainstorming on something we are going to do that's not toooo expensive but fun!! lol

Have a great week!

Joee

It's been awhile...

Hello there readers, So wow.. i am sorry for the leave of absence.!! Things have been crazy these days!!! But i must inform you of some of our FUN/ cheap date before i go away back home for the summer.. and i get really bad internet service.. so i doubt i update a whole lot!! So... lets go back to about..2 weekends ago... Me and Caleb just hung out.. the usually.. but!!! Sunday.. we went and got breakfast before church at Village inn ( great place..) But when we were almost done a lovely lady i work with appeared with her husband.. and they just happen to sit in the booth behind us! Anyways.. so as we about to leave.. the waitress was being.. all sorts of shady.. and i wasn't sure what was going on. Well.. then Caleb got out his debt card to pay.. and my work friend came over and stole him our bill!!! So.. they paid for our breakfast!! Isn't that the sweetest thing ever! :) I truly work with some of the best people..So getting FREE breakfast was pretty great!! I don't remember what else happened that weekend.. But last weekend..... Lets see.. Friday: Me and Caleb went to Olive Garden ( haha NOT cheap. .. so if your broke don't go there! )... I really wanted to go before i left town... It was TASTY!! ooh.. and me and Caleb... did this cool thing... well. it was his idea.. but we traded leftovers.. Its cute idea.. He said it was going to be our new thing... butthats if we like each others leftovers..! After that we rented Rio Bravo.. ( so this is one of Caleb's fav movies.. and we started watching it once while doing Laundry but didn't finish it.. so he made me promise we would finsih it before we went back home.. ).. Anyways.. it was a very good movie! If you like westerns... or John Wayne.. then you would like this movie.. There was a singing part in it. that i LOVED! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYCJlFfhW8 ( check this out! )

Saturday: Well... we both just did homework for some of the day and then around 2 we went to Kansas City.. to meet his family! It was fun.. We messed around in a Cabelas for a while.. and then we went to Lowes.. ( I LOVE to play .. the imainge if game.. like if i was rich.. i would have this kitchen or this...) Anyways.. i did that.. and Caleb played along.. kind of.. lol haha. But if you ever are really bored you could go to like a home type store and do that.. i think its entertaining! lol .. After that we ate dinner... and then went back home...

Sunday: We did the usually Sunday activities.. Church, lunch, and study.. but around 5 we went to our bible studies BBQ.. mmm. soo tasty.. and free.. LOVE IT!! :) It was pretty great!! So ya. . nothing tooo exciting but it all was pretty fun! :) Well. i will try to keep you updated on some fun cheap ideas that we do over the summer! ( which we are both saving our money.. so it will probably be alot. ) .. Oh.. i almost forgot.. we also went an saw Iron Man 2 last night.. at like 10:15. lol haha. it was GREAT! :) Side note : Sonic runs are always semi-cheap and a cute casual date! Well lovely readers... until next time! Joee Lynn