I am happy to announce that my baby brother is getting MARRIED!!!! We are soo HAPPY, EXICITED, OVERJOYED, oh this list could go on & on, but I will spare you all of the adjectives for my brother and his now Fiance Amanda. I am pretty much smiling from ear to ear and you probably could see it within these words. AHHHH!!!! I'm excited:)
Oh, how I wished and prayed that he would find someone that he would spend the rest of his life with. He found this within Amanda and I can't wait to 'officially' call her sister. She is very much part of the family from the moment we meant her.
A little story on this couple. It was about 3 Christmas season ago, my mom told me that Grant had mentioned that he was seeing a girl for a few weeks. So being a nosey big sister I called him and asked him about this lil lady. Now, this is a guy that doesn't really give too much information to begin with and he pretty much spilled everything about Amanda. I got off the phone with him and really thought to myself "this must be someone special".
Keep in mind that Grant was getting ready to leave for his training in Georgia and then travel to Iraq so him and Amanda only knew each other for a couple of weeks before he left. So when we all went to Florida, Grant wanted Amanda go too. Which then put more of my theory into place, she must be something special. My sister & I meant her about a week before we left and we all hit it off right away. It seemed like we had known her forever. When we were in Florida it didn't seem like she was the 'new' girl, she just "Fit In" into our family.
They made it through a very LONG and DISTANT relationship and I can't wait until the day the say "I do".
Okay...Thursday night, Grant & Amanda came in and we all started to chat and I sat beside her and noticed something different on her ring finger..."HOLY COW" "Is that what I think it is". No one knew except Mom & Dad (they told them the night before). I pretty much jumped on her and then jumped on my brother. And they told us how he popped the question. It was really cute, but I will leave that story for them to share one day.
Here is a picture of the NEWLY ENGAGED couple:
Until Next Time...
God Bless
Jess
YAY!!!!
2 comments:
Congrats to your brother and Amanda (soon to be sister):) I have never been in a long distant relationship but I know it would be hard....they were meant to be!
awww i just read this blog!!!!! somehow i never saw it or missed it. it brought tears to my eyes!!!! I LOVE U ALL and have felt like family since day 1 and cant wait to "officially" be part of the mattinlgy family!!!!!
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