Under the bus...

So this is my friend Liz with her Mom. 

Aren't they beautiful?

Liz is from Texas.

She even has cowgirl boots!

Which, can I just say, she looks super cute in. 

So the story of how Liz got moved to Alabama seems pretty basic at first:

Boy meets girl. 

Boy marries girl. 

Girl moves to Alabama.  

And thats basically how it went down but since I've been packing the house up I found my journal from 2005 so I thought I'd share a bit. 

So here are the 'goods' on how it all started. 

Back in 2005 my husband's best friend was single. 

Single guy on the left.

In December of that year I wrote this in my journal:

Just in case you can't read it I'll transcribe:

"James W took us to the Madrigal Dinner at Covenant College. It was so beautiful. James brought a girl named Liz. He met her at church and she seemed great. She is funny and smart. 

I really liked her which of course probably means they'll never go out again!

Nice. 

I love how I was totally throwing James under the bus there.

Sheesh, could I have been any ruder?

That was in December here is what came in January.

"James stopped me last night as I was heading to get Billy after work and told me he is really falling for Liz. He said that the other night she came over and stood beside him and his heart just dropped. Those were his exact words! How sweet. I'll keep praying."

And then in February I wrote this:

"James said that he plans on fixing Liz tacos for Valentines Day. I advised him that was...

...a very bad idea. 

If I recall correctly he did not take my advice. 

Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me!

Here is the next bit about them in the journal:

Just read an e-mail from James about Liz. In it he says she is "simply the most amazing woman I have ever met. She leaves me speechless." Which, let me tell you, is quite a feat. 

Again with the throwing of him under the bus. 

But if you knew him...you would know. 

He is rarely speechless. 

He must not have remained speechless for very long because he proposed. 

Here we all are doing a little bowling. 

Its what all the cool kids do. 

Just look at the look on Billy's face. 

He definitely belongs with the cool kids.

So that all began six years ago. 

When this:

Looked like this:

Wow.

A lot can happen in six years. 

That boy is at a sleepover tonight. 

Here was the invitation he got for it:

The birthday boy made it all by himself - which makes it even cuter.

Lets just talk about this invitation shall we:

1) I love how it announces it's going to be the 'best sleepover of your life.' 

Like they have all had these long lives and have so much experience with sleepovers. 

2) I love how the fact that there is NO BEDTIME has so many exclamation points. 

Well, I mean I love it because I'm not the Mom in charge. 

Put simply this invitation was like the holy grail to my minion. 

He loved everything about it. 

He was totally impressed by it. 

Of course this James:

is easily impressed.

This James, however:

is not. 

Good thing this girl:

is so awesome.