Not Your Average Morning <3

I was up fairly late last night working on my french test and I'm always up the night before it's due because I'm a horrible procrastinator (or shall I say, a great procrastinator) and I wait until the last minute to do my assignments.

Je me suis reveillée à 8:15 ce matin (I woke up at 8:15 this morning).

I had plans to get coffee with my friend Lauren who dropped from our french class because truth be told, it's a ridiculously difficult class. I didn't have a great day in class so I was looking forward to our coffee date and on my way to Starbucks I realized I had a missed call from Eli and a text from him asking if I was still in class. I called him back and he said he wanted to join me and Lauren for coffee. Lauren and I ended up planning for a different day in the end because she woke up late and I had alot to do today and Eli still came to Starbucks and he paid for my coffee :)

We get to my apartment and I told him I wanted to change because though it was nice this morning, it was too hot outside for me to still be wearing jeans and my long-sleeved shirt. He followed me in my room and I assumed he didn't hear me say I needed to get changed...BUT I then noticed there was a single rose on my dresser on top of my Bible. I turned around, and he was standing behind me smiling...SO DARN CUTE and I said to him, "Now, WHO gave me this??" haha Obviously, I knew he had, then I turned to put the rose in my sweet action green vase (SHOUT OUT TO KEMPER LANGFORD FOR THE GREEN VASE) and I noticed there were other roses in my vase, a whole bouquet! AND They were purple! He had another single rose sitting in front of the vase and I thought it was just for decoration until I saw the card attached to the bouquet.
It said, "For the nine months you had to share me with work, Love Eli" and he attached his EMT pin to the card so I get to choose when he goes back to work :)
And then there was the third single rose sitting by my giant picture that my uncle took of us after the Fourth of July celebrations and the picture itself is goofy because it looks all entirely too serious for me and Eli but that's where he put the last rose.

So basically I freaked out and cried a little bit because, for those of you who don't know, Eli's been working soooo hard for the past 9 months as an EMT along with doing school full-time and our relationship has only gotten stronger. It's been an emotional time for the both of us and even for some of the friends we're closer to. Last night was his last shift at Americare so that's why he gave me the roses and everything.


Now we're studying together at a quaint coffee shop off of Bruce B. Downs. Good start to my week :)

<3 Rachel