At least I don't eat cold ravioli!!

Thirty-seven days away from the wedding and life couldn't be more INSANE! The good thing about being busy is that the time seems to fly by faster. These past few weeks have been a blur. After celebrating my 21st birthday Monday, I am starting to realize that I am no longer a teenager. I have to start figuring out how this whole responsible adult thing works. I have a feeling the reality of that will really set in after the honeymoon and bills start coming in the mail. What will probably make me want to curl in the fetal position and cry for mommy is shopping for groceries. I've never had to really grocery shop, and when I have, I'm really bad at it and I end up staying in the store for hours and making phone calls to mom saying, "What's the difference between chuck steak and sirloin?" and "How the heck do you marinate something?" Boy have I been spoiled! I'm excited to experience grocery shopping and cooking, but be prepared for horror blogs about mishaps in the Day kitchen. But I know that once I get the hang of it all, I will be the best coupon clipping, bargain shopping, steak marinating, cupcake baking, southern version of Martha Stewart you've ever seen!! I feel bad for Steven, however, who will have to suffer until I reach that point. 

Last Saturday, after a WONDERFUL day of driving through the mountains and taking Steven's boat out, I decided to test our stove out for the first time. We went back to our house to work in it for what was left of the evening before going our separate ways and since Steven had splurged Friday night for an AMAZING birthday dinner at Miyabi's (words can't describe how much we LOVE hibachi steak and shrimp) we decided to grab some Ramen noodles and ravioli. While Steven ate his ravioli straight out of the can (YUCK) I turned on our stove top and prepared a gourmet meal of noodles and ranch dressing without burning the house down! It was a very exciting experience to use my brand new pots and pans!! I also washed dishes for the first time in our house! Steven made fun of me for being so giddy about it, but at least I don't eat cold ravioli out of a can like a cave man!

Everything is coming together beautifully and the pics will show how much we have really gotten done. Steven is an AMAZING handyman and I am so happy to have a man who can repair things and take care of his own household without having to call somebody else. Through this experience, he has proved to be an electrician, a plumber, a painter, a landscaper, a mover of heavy furniture that I struggle with, a VERY professional curtain rod hanger, and the list could go on!! He's also a great mess-maker, but we won't go there. Now I've just got to do my part and keep our house spic and span (which won't be hard with my OCD) and prepare edible meals. If you can't tell...I'M CRAZY EXCITED! What we are both looking forward to the most is the honeymoon! Not just for "you know what" but because we will have a week to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! Thinking about a vacation is what gets me through the day sometimes. 

At the end of the day, I am blessed with so much more than I deserve. There are many days that I am a lame excuse for a Christian and why God continues to bless me, I'll never know. In the midst of the madness, I do my very best to stop and thank God for everything He has done and He has continued to sustain me by helping me to stay calm and stress-free through it all. All the praise and glory goes to HIM! He is my rock and my strength!! 

The beautiful view from Caesar's Head

Enjoying the COLD morning!

Steven driving his new boat

I love that he includes me in his hobbies :)

My birthday present from Steven - Duck waders so I can go hunting with him this winter!!

Our new bathroom sink!!!

My FAVORITE addition to our house!

The bathroom is officially completed!

Our new towel rack

Our bedroom with new paint and curtains!

New doorknobs!! :)

New faucet in the kitchen

Living Room

Counting down the days...

So we are 53 days away from holy matrimony and I am praying the time continues to fly by!! Life has been CRAZY the past few weeks. I hate how professors pile on the work when students get back from fall break. I feel like I can finally breathe after two weeks of endless tests and projects. My brain is mush and it's not even November yet!!!

Speaking of November....this girl has a birthday coming up! On November 8th, I will be the big 2-1! Since I don't drink, it won't be different from any other birthday, but I'm still excited. Although, after this birthday, there's no other age to really look forward to. Last year, my mom threw me an AMAZING surprise party (well a halfway surprise party). I accidentally found out about it, but I didn't have the heart to tell her so she still doesn't know that I knew about it. It was amazing though! Needless to say, with the wedding coming up, this year's birthday will be recognized by a small family dinner and maybe a few gifts, which is just fine with me. I'm partied out from the billions of showers for me and for other people. I'm just excited to see what Steven is going to get me. It's a surprise and I had to make a promise not to be nosey, which is REALLY hard for me! November will definitely be an exciting month, filled with showers and last minute preparations for the wedding and for our house.

Steven is continuing to do a wonderful job painting our walls and putting up lights. I'm so proud that he's such a great handy man. Our sweet little house is coming together great and I am happy to say that all of the gifts I received from my first shower, which was A LOT, are all tucked away nice and neatly throughout the house. This past weekend, we bought table lamps and walked around Hobby Lobby (heaven on earth), picking out decor for our walls. Steven was so sweet walking through the store and showing me what he wanted for our walls, and I gotta say, he has pretty good taste. He picked up a sign that said "All because two people fell in love" and wanted it for our bedroom. It was precious. He's the sweetest :)

As time is winding down, and my tongue continues to have the taste of envelope glue, I am trying to enjoy all of the planning and anticipation. I don't want to get so caught up in rushing the wedding along that I forget about the here and now. Steven and I are continuing to grow in our relationship and we are working hard on communicating positively with one another. During this last stressful month, we are trying to make the best of everything and just laugh. He knows how to make me laugh, and boy does that ease the tension of planning a wedding and going to school. We make a pretty good team if I should say so myself :)

Showers of Blessings and dish towels!!

My fall break was very eventful to say the least. Friday, After hours spent searching for the perfect dress for my shower, I finally found a winner at the ever so wonderful Ross. From there, it was home to prepare for my meeting with our wedding pianist to plan out every musical note for the ceremony. Call it cheesy, but I teared up with excitement when she played the bridal march! It just made everything seem so real! After that, it was time for dinner and a trip to Lowes with Steven and his dad. With a full stomach of hibachi shrimp from Atami's (my favorite) up and down the endless aisles of home improvement bliss I went. Never in my life have I been so excited about curtains, curtain rods, light switch covers, and blinds!! Oh and don't forget glade plug-ins!! Apple cinnamon scent of course! We arrived back at our house where I insisted on screwing in every single outlet and light switch cover! It was an amazing feeling to step back and look at how much work has been put into our adorable little home. 

Believe it or not, I got off to an early start Saturday morning with a McDonald's breakfast with my sweetheart and ANOTHER trip to Lowes for MORE curtains!! YAY! As soon as we arrived back at the house to start putting up blinds, I realized we forgot to get a valance for the living room, so off to Lowes AGAIN! Since I was alone this time, and not being rushed by Steven who seems to think I wonder off whenever we go shopping, I decided to go ahead and grab a shower rod. It's so funny when you start working in your own house, how small things like a shower rod are so exciting! I am happy to say that after Saturday's work, most of our blinds and curtains are up and all the light fixtures have been replaced! 

Then comes the MOST EXCITING part of Saturday - MY FIRST BRIDAL SHOWER! After picking up my precious nieces, Bella and Marleigh, I was able to see what my sister and her husband have been up to the past few weeks. Whenever they decorate for a party, they DECORATE. They are super creative and I couldn't wait to see what was on the other side of our church fellowship hall door! When I walked in, it didn't even look like the same room! I don't even know how to really describe it! I will put pics up soon of their fabulous creation. I went home to get ready and I arrived back, a few minutes late of course, to a group of beautiful familiar faces of people who have been a part of my twenty years on this earth. It was wonderful seeing everyone, eating delicious food, and opening what seemed like an endless amount of household goodies!! Let's just say I have severe writer's cramp from writing about fifty thank-you cards! They showered me with TONS of beautiful gifts, with dish towels being a popular item, and ornaments for our first Christmas tree. The gifts that excited me the most were my bath rug and chocolate brown trash can!! I left feeling so loved and extremely blessed by those that I love. My sister did an amazing job and I feel so lucky to have her and the rest of my family who go above and beyond for me in so many ways!! One shower down, three more to go! Although I gotta say, my other showers have some pretty fierce competition with this one. 

My shower cake
The theme was "Carved out for one another"

Sunday, Steven preached a wonderful sermon on being a light in this world at Holly Springs. I am just so proud of him and how he has grown in the Lord. I love him so very very much and I know he will be a wonderful husband and father to our future children and not to mention a wonderful minister of the Gospel. Sunday afternoon consisted of lunch at Mamo's and a much needed nap before heading back to our home church for a prayer service. After service, we spent time with our wonderful pastors at their house for pancakes :)

Monday and Tuesday of fall break has been an endless case of writer's cramp with shower thank-you's, wedding invitations, and my dreaded homework. I am dreading 6:45AM because it's back to reality. I'm so ready for my reality to be 66 days from now!! :)

Self-Diagnosis

For those of you that know me well, I LOVE my sleep. Up until Monday, I've always thought my busy lifestyle was the reason I often doze off in class, chapel, church, while driving, and at any other time where I am required to sit still. In my human biology lab, while discussing the respiratory system, my professor asked if anyone breaths through their mouth while they sleep. My hand shot up because, if you have ever seen me sleep, my mouth stays wide open catching flies and Lord knows what else. I was so glad Steven didn't dump me after seeing me fall asleep for the first time because I am one ugly sleeper. He's gonna have to wake up to my wide open, drooling mouth every morning. Poor fella. But anyway, my professor went on to say that if you breath through your mouth when you sleep and you find yourself dozing off throughout the day, you may have sleep apnea. For those of you who don't know what sleep apnea is; It's when you stop breathing in your sleep and before it wakes you up, you start breathing again. Unknowingly, you don't get a good night's rest, causing drowsiness throughout the day. Suddenly it all made sense!! I have been waking up every morning feeling like I don't sleep a wink, when I've actually slept a good 7 to 8 hours. After thoroughly examining the symptoms, I am making a self-diagnosis for sleep apnea. I'm really not sure how you treat it, but I think some duct tape over my mouth will do the trick. Maybe one day I will find out if my self-diagnosis is accurate. It might be that I just have a severe case of the lazies. Only time will tell. Until then, caffeine and I will fight to beat this drowsy demon!

Our humble abode

After finding out last April that we were getting Steven's grandmother's house, it has been a project and a half trying to clean it out and give it a facelift. I am excited to say that our living room and hallway are FINALLY painted!! With some help from some great friends and family, we slapped two coats of paint on our walls this weekend and it is AMAZING how much difference a new coat of paint makes! My darling Steven has sacrificed a lot of his time after he gets off work to do even more work in our house. He has been pouring his little heart into that house and I'm ready to pour my heart into it by decorating!! We are making great progress and I cannot wait to see the finished project!! 

Our living room before paint with just the primer

After paint :)

Our hallway

Our bedroom...it's a little dusty from sanding. This is our next project :)

The "man cave" 

Our cute little kitchen

I'm new at this...

After viewing my sister's blog, I caught the "blogging fever". Plus I wanted to comment on her posts and it wouldn't let me because I wasn't a member of the "blog community." So....I have decided to share my thrilling life with fellow bloggers because in a few months, life will be getting slightly hectic. 


On December 18th of this year (exactly 79 days from today) I will be joined in holy matrimony with my love, Steven Day. He and I have been together for about two and half years and it has been nothing short of an amazing journey. I could go on for hours about how great Steven is and how he is much much more than I deserve. He is the inspiration behind my blog title "Woving Life"because instead of saying "I love you" we say "I wove you". Stupid, I know, but I think it's cute. God has blessed us greatly and if you want to read all about our journey together, you can visit our wedding website at www.theknot.com/ourwedding/candacemcconnell&stevenday. We already have two children that I will probably blog about soon, our pups Buckshot and Bandit. They are our babies!! 


We serve a great God and He continues to pour out His blessings over our lives and we are so thankful! Currently, we are going through MIP which is the Church of God Minister Internship Program, and although the work load from that just adds to the chaos of planning a wedding, going to school, working, serving in ministry, and getting a house ready to live it, it has been a great experience so far. It is a nine month program and although it's enjoyable, we will be glad when it comes to an end. 


Aside from a wonderful soon-to-be hubby, I have an AMAZING family, including my future in-laws. They are all so supportive and I could go on and on about them too. Last night I posted an album on Facebook called "the 5 best tots in the whole wide world"with tons of pics of my 3 beautiful nieces and my 2 handsome nephews. They have taught me a vast amount of patience through the years and my heart overflows with love for them. 


My best friend from college, Martha, currently lives in GA and I miss her terribly!! I am currently trying to talk her into moving to SC because I just can't stand my best friend being so far away!! Her and her husband are an amazing couple and we love them very much!! 


I am surrounded by awesome friends and family who have made me who I am today and I am so thankful that God has placed them in my life. It just wouldn't be the same without them. I'm new at this blogging thing, but hopefully I will get the hang of it. In the meantime, enjoy the stories from our crazy busy, insane, wonderful, beautiful lives!!

My adorable hubby-to-be & me....I wove him

Daddy with his boys. Buckshot is the red one and Bandit is the black and tan one. Buckshot LOVES to lick. It drives us crazy!

They were sleepy after playing in the snow last winter

Xander, Bella, and Gracie at Farm Days

Nate at Farm Days after enjoying a blue snow cone

Little Miss Marleigh was all smiles before her dedication service

My best friend Martha and me after cheering for NGU football....good times...

My mom and dad (Nama & Papa) with 4 of the grands at Nate's dedication service. Number five, Marleigh, wasn't there yet. 

Steven and I with his parents and sister