Hi! My name is Casey Wiegand, I am a freelance artist, wife and mama. I love painting and sharing our life through my blog, where you can expect pieces of my perspective on life, faith, kids, marriage, with touches of art, creative inspiration, projects and things I love along the way.
I will begin at my high school graduation, where it all began (sort of)...Chris is four years older than me so he was at my high school graduation with his girlfriend at the time (they were watching her little sister graduate). I am not sure how this came about but he asked who I was. J She told him, “That’s Casey Jones and she'll be at Baylor next year.”
After graduation, I make it to Baylor and Chris can name countless times that we were at the same places, always remembering who I was from that initial sighting. My sophomore year he sat behind me at a concert and tried to get the courage to talk to me the whole time but never said a word. Some of Chris' friends from college live right near my parents’ house so he would always drive past hoping to see me.
Fast forward…he graduates (he is older) and moves back to Dallas
I graduate college in August. One night Chris was at a high school football game with a bunch of guys and my little brother, Travis, walks up to the group. Chris asks who he is and is told that he’s my brother, which then puts me back on his mind. Later that evening we both randomly wind up at a Kanakuk reunion. He waited at the bottom of the elevators to talk to me and I took the stairs!
Finally he decided just to get my number and call me. What was supposed to be a phone call for a "sort-of" blind date (I didn't even know what he looked like at the time) turned into hours of conversation. I remember when I went to answer the door on our first date my heart stopped. I could not believe someone so handsome and sweet was standing there.
I tend to be a bit of a homebody and I remember my brother saying to me one day, "You’re never going to meet anyone staying home all the time." My response was, “God knows me, He knows how I tick. If He must, He will bring him to me.”…and He did!
Our first date was on October 21st. I remember thinking I was in serious trouble because there was such an instant connection. We are both artists, see the world very uniquely and have interesting personalities with very specific needs.
Three months later he told me he loved me and wanted to spend his life with me. We went to Hawaii
We had an eight month engagement and got married on June 16th. I was 23 years old. We started our business/studio when I was 24. We had Aiden when I was 25, Ainsleigh at 27 and a miscarriage with Addison at age 28...and here we are today.
There is obviously a lot that has happened in the middle. We have had some messy patches, hard patches, ups and downs. I have let him down a zillion times and he has done the same, but at the end of the day, Christopher has always said, "There was only girl I could spend my life with and that's you," and I believe it, through better or worse.
He has made all my dreams come true.
He has changed my life.
He has loved me well.
He has made me a better me.
Through day in and day out.
He chose me. And I am thankful.
Our story J
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Artwork has been created by the amazingly talented and generous Valentina Ramos. Check out her blog: Feeling Inspired
Photos by the author, please contact her via her blog for guidance on use.
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