1 Graduation, 2 Weddings, and 61 hours in a truck.

This summer has been extremely busy for us!

On May 29th John graduated from USAFA and became a 2nd Lieutenant. Here are some pics from his Grad Week

After the Organizational Awards parade

John's dad got to swear him in at his commissioning ceremony

John surprised me on the day of his commissioning by asking me to help his mom pin on his LT bars. It was one of the most special moments ever.

  

He did it!

After his graduation we stayed in Colorado for a few days for John's former roommate's wedding 

In Evergreen, Colorado where John's friend got married. It was so beautiful

Then we started the roadtrip. Colorado to Oklahoma. Oklahoma to Texas. Texas to Florida.

First leg of the roadtrip

When we stopped in Paris, TX

When John finally got home to Florida

 

We got to spend plenty of time playing  on the beach in Florida.

Then we went back to Oklahoma to see our best friends get married. Congrats 2nd LT and Mrs. Corey Swartz

After the wedding John went to Europe with some of his academy friends for 3 weeks. They went to Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. I'm totally jealous that he got to go while I stayed at home and worked

John came back from Europe earlier than planned and surprised me while I was at work (sadly no pics of the surprise). We got plenty of lake time in with our friends.

John learned to paddle board and apparently he liked it cause he is now the owner of the paddle board haha.

He also leaned to wake board. I was pretty proud, he had two great runs on his first day of wake boarding 

Then we started the trip to Florida again. We're getting pretty good at this whole roadtrip thing. 

This is when we stopped in Texas to visit John's family. 

Now we're back in Florida! Tomorrow we start our last trip of John's 60 days. He is taking me to Disney World for my birthday. 

Thanks for reading everyone! I can't wait to update you on our Disney adventures and Johns big move to Columbus! :)

Our Story

Hey, Y'all!
Welcome to our blog! We're pretty new at this.

John and I met in September 2011. I was throwing my best friend a birthday party and her boyfriend was coming in from the United States Air Force Academy for the night. When her boyfriend walked in he had the cutest guy I'd seen with him. That night though we didn't really talk, he says I didn't talk to him and I swear that I did and he didn't talk to me haha. A couple months later I confessed to my friend that I thought he was cute. A few days later I got a friend request from him and I couldn't believe it. 

Then we started talking. It was December right before finals week. We texted every day during finals and I knew I was falling hard. Then when we were both on Christmas break we decided to actually talk on the phone. We talked for almost two hours that night, and every night after that. Then one night he told me he had bought tickets to come see me in January. I was so excited, at the point I already knew that I liked him a lot.

When that weekend finally rolled around I was so nervous. He asked me to be his girlfriend shortly after he landed at the airport. The next day we went on our first date: dinner at olive garden, dessert at Cold Stone, and a saw Red Tails at the movies.

Now we've been dating for a year and half. A year and a half of long distance through his junior and seniors years at the Air Force Academy, my sophomore and junior years of college. I was blessed enough to be his Ring Dance Date and to put on his Lieutenant bars when he got commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. Now he is off to pilot training in Columbus, MS and I'm starting my senior year at Arkansas. More long distance, but it's gonna be a wonderful adventure :)