Today I had an amazingly fun time taking pictures of my newly engaged friends Lindi and Joe. I also took engagement pictures for my already married friends Sarah and Jake which you can look at here if you're interested. Lindi's turned out much better than I expected! Here's just a few that I edited today...
love their blue eyes :) (didn't even edit them to make them look like this!)
"longest forehead kiss ever"
possibly the coolest building in downtown Chattanooga
love soldier pictures :)
my favorite of all
cute little church clothes :)
You are my sunshine :)
I love this because it captures our entire day I think... Joe being retarded and Lindi laughing :) I love how happy they are together!
So it's midnight and I just got home... why? Nope... I don't party. Nope... it's winter so I wasn't just hangin out outside. Nope... wasn't at a movie... I was talkin to my best friend for 3 hours at Steak and Shake! :D It's just so exciting! :D
MY BEST FRIEND IS GETTING MARRIEDDDD!!!!!
I get to be part of it and that is soooo exciting to me! When I first found out Joe was going to propose to Lindi, I was a little nervous that she would be all married and just forget about me and not be a good friend anymore. But since Christmas Eve when she called me at 12:13am (ish) to tell me Joe proposed, I've been totally on cloud 9 hah. She's picked the date already and is starting to get things in order. Of course there's still a ton to do.
You know how annoying it is when 6 people get engaged this week on facebook? YES I am irritated by it. But this is so much more exciting! I am involved in learning all the little details so far and there's only more to come. I'm SO thankful for my friendship with Lindi, so since you care, I'm going to tell you our life story. :) You're welcome!
In 2007 I got my first job at a family restaurant. Being 16, I was the youngest person there and the scapegoat of everything that went wrong. I quit after 4 months. A couple weeks later, I got a job at McAlister's Deli. After working there a little while, Lindi also started working there. She was 16 and I was 17 (like this matters). One night we were just tired of sweeping other peoples' messy bread crumbs up and I, for one, was STARVing (not like kids in Africa, but ya know). Lindi seemed pretty cool. She always made me laugh. But you know how you initiate a friendship and then you're like "dang, why did I even talk to that person. Now they won't leave me alone!" I was afraid of that. But despite that, I decided to be friendly. "Are you hungry? Do you wanna go to Waffle House after this?" haha I was wondering "is this weird? ... what if she doesn't wanna be my friend?" but she WAS hungry (we're always hungry), so we went to waffle house after work and talked and laughed all night. I couldn't remember having that much fun or laughing so much in a long time! After we both quit McAlister's we kinda lost touch. Then one day she needed a job so I got her a job at Ankar's (ohhhh Ankars).... now we joke about all the wonderful life lessons we learned from Ankar's. It's always a great conversation. Ever since Ankar's we've been pretty good friends. We can talk about ANYthing and when we have a problem with each other, we just say it. And we try to work on being better friends for each other. When I'm mad, she's mad with me. When I'm excited, she might be a little more excited for me than I am for myself. Lindi and I can laugh about anything together and it's not awkward. We can talk about our Christian life and share what we're learning. It's very clear to us that God put us together (it sounds like we're getting married...). What are the chances that someone you work with at a deli as a teenager will be a life long friend? Then we don't talk for months, and are reunited. We pray for each other and love each other. I'm so thankful for a friend who understands me and while we are alot alike, we're very different too. Her friendship means the world to me. In fact, a week on their honeymoon... not being able to talk to her? Well... she better call me and send me pictures from the beach is all I gotta say. I might have to hang out with her mom or something to make up for it. Ugh let's not think about that.
I remember the first time I met Joe. I was a little overwhelmed. Joe's not the typical person you expect when your friend wants to introduce you to her boyfriend for the first time. But he's hilarious and that's all I remember about that night. Hanging out with Joe and Lindi is so much fun. I never feel like the third wheel or out of place. They always make me feel at home and comfortable with them. And there's no doubt that Joe will do something like start randomly singing "Everything" by Brad Paisley from the backseat of the car when there's a totally different song on the radio.... I'm so happy that Lindi is going to spend her life with such a happy person. Lindi by the way, never lets people depress her. Working at Ankar's, it's pretty easy to get pissed at the world for everything. I mean, look who we're workin for here... old men who are at a restaurant 7 days a week for at least 8 hours a day... when they should be retired, playing golf and watching soaps. It's kinda a pissy place to work. But NOT with Lindi! She cheers anything up...
Well I'm just rambling now about two happy funny people. Surely, you can't wait to meet them.
Anyways, this is the first time I've been asked to be a bridesmaid. I get to go register with Lindi for the wedding and look at dresses with her and see her planning stuff online. Yeah, we just got done talking for three hours (not just about the wedding), but in the morning we're meeting for coffee so she can show me some stuff online she's started planning with www.theknot.com . YAY! Here's some pictures of us fun kids. :)
Lindi and me on Christmas Eve
This is the present I made for Lindi for Christmas. I should blog about that soon. Porter will be her new last name :) and she can hang this in their house soon.
Here's a video that's dedicated to Joe... you might think it's funny.
