Fourth of July Weekend

Well this weekend was 4th of July weekend. Exactly one month from the 4th Chris and I will celebrate our 7th anniversary together! Seven years ago I never imagined we would be in the midst of planning out wedding. Going into this weekend I wanted to spend as much time with my family as possible. I know I am not being kicked out of my family but it will never be the same spending holidays at home again. Next year I will have a husband, two families to juggle and later children of my own. Since the 4th was on a Sunday my family and I got up and went to church. After church my dad grilled chicken for lunch and soon after we all hopped into the pool for an afternoon of fun in the sun. Chris was at work, as usual, and he quickly found out he was having to work over. (As a side note: I am so proud of Chris. He has worked a full time job for almost the past year and gone to school. He is tired a lot of time but rarely complains. I know he has been working to afford for us to get engaged and now to afford our lives together. He is an amazing man that I was lucky enough to grab up.) Around four in the afternoon I left to go spend some time with Chris' family at the park, even though he wasn't going to be able to get there anytime soon. I love my future family in law but it is hard juggling my family and Chris', especially without him around. I am lucky that I feel right at home when I am around Chris' family when he is not there. They treat me like a part of the family and have for many years now. Chris finally texted me and informed me he would be able to get to his families gathering about 5:30. I told everyone to try to stick around for him to be able to see everyone. It has been hard on him, working full time and living in Florence. He doesn't get to come home as often as he would like, mainly due to his gas burning truck (poor thing haha). We try to rotate driving to and from our homes to each others. However, it does make it hard when he comes home to see his family when that time is also my time at home as well. We do the best we can to see everyone as much as possible, it is just hard figuring out right now. Chris spent some extra time at his parents house while I headed home to go hunt down firewords with my family (another past time that will be weird to experience with a husband next year). My dad cooked steaks and Chris came over for dinner. We sat around talking and then my family watched a movie while Chris headed off to his friends house to celebrate the 4th. Don't get me wrong with this post, I am highly excited to start my life with Chris as husband and wife. I have just always been a daddy's girl and a home-body who over thinks everything that changes in her life. It is just going to be different, yet amazing, to experience holidays beside my husband while still juggling my family and my in-laws at the same time. Just sometimes hard to let go of my "little girl" days.