I am so excited to share today’s post with y’all! My boyfriend Craig and I celebrated our fifth dating anniversary a little over a week ago and wow I cannot believe it’s already been five years! To read all about how we met, you can check out last year’s anniversary post where we did a Q&A about each other and our relationship. So this year, I thought it would be cute to reflect on these last five years together and share five things we’ve learned about the other person while we’ve been dating. I was inspired by Julia’s post with her husband, and immediately loved the idea. So without further ado, let’s welcome Craig back to PLH and jump right in!
Five Things I’ve Learned About Kacie (by Craig):
1. She knows what she likes. And she’ll fight you about it. She’s not one to back down and definitely stands up for what she believes in. I really admire that about her.
2. Kacie is also a very genuine person. She’s not big on façades, or just doing the most for no reason. What you see is what you get with her (which is pretty fantastic btw).
3. Never standing still, she’s always growing or learning one way or another. Just when I think I have her figured out she finds a way to surprise me. For as long as I’ve known her, Kacie has been bonafide Slytherin. But earlier this year the Sorting Hat placed her in Gryffindor! You just can’t put her in a box.
4. She’s about her business. And like a true businesswoman, she takes obligations she’s made very seriously, and will hold you to yours.
5. She’s a hard worker, like wow. She holds herself to a high standard, and goes above and beyond on even the smallest tasks. If her name is attached to something, you better believe she put her heart into it. I wish that same energy went into doing the dishes, but hey you can’t win them all ?
Five Things I’ve Learned About Craig:
1. He is a thinker but not much of a planner. What I mean by this is that Craig is one of the most analytical, thoughtful people that I’ve ever met. He loves to do research and think about things long before making a decision. Because of this, you might think he’s also a great planner. In which case, you’d be wrong, haha. Nearly all of our trips and events are planned by yours truly because Craig is more of a go-with-the-flow kind of guy. He’s always down for the plan but he’s rarely the one that came up with the plan. Which works for us because I don’t mind being the planner, and feel like I’m pretty good at it, if I do say so myself.
2. He’s a terrible liar. Omg you guys, Craig is the world’s worst liar! It’s just not in his nature to lie; most times it doesn’t even occur to him. He once had a phone interview while we were in college, and when the interviewer asked him on a scale of 1 to 10 how excited he was about the position, he gave the honest answer (a six!) instead of lying like most people and feigning excitement, lol. Needless to say he didn’t get that job, haha, but I love that he’s not a good liar. He’s one of the most honest people that I know and I love that what you see is what you get with Craig.
3. He sees the best in everyone. Piggy backing off of #2, Craig is such a pure person and terrible liar, that he automatically sees the good in everyone he meets. He isn’t jaded or skeptical about many things, and always tries to understand WHY a person did something instead of just assuming the worst about them. It’s really nice being with someone like that because it helps me remember that we’re all human; and that even if someone hurts me, it probably wasn’t intentional and they’re most likely going through something completely unrelated to me.
4. He’s naturally gifted at basically everything. When I first met Craig during our freshman year at UM, it became pretty apparent pretty quickly that he is smarter than me. Yup, I can admit that. And this was so crazy to me because I was used to being “the smart one” in most of my relationships. As we’ve gotten to know each other more and more since then, I’ve also realized that he’s not only incredibly intelligent, but he’s also super creative. You guys know by now that Craig takes most of my blog photos, but you may not know that before I started teaching him about photography last year, he had barely touched a DSLR camera! He’s also incredibly talented at graphic design, which also happens to be my career. During college, he was intrigued by a project that I was working on and decided to take a graphic design elective one semester. He quickly got the hang of it and ended up being hired to do designs for a bunch of organizations on campus! He also does most of the cooking in our house (lol) and is super athletic. Basically, once Craig tries something, he’s going to succeed at it 99.9% of the time and I think that is so cool. I’m endlessly in awe of his talents.
5. He’s very sensitive. He’s probably going to kill me when he reads this but I’ve realized that under the easygoing, jovial exterior, Craig is a big ole softy. He’ll never tell you if you hurt his feelings, so you have to be observant. He also isn’t the world’s biggest communicator, so getting it out of him may take a while, but the effort is always worth it.
Well that’s our five year dating anniversary post! I know I already said this but I seriously can’t believe that it’s been five years of Kracie. It’s been an amazing rollercoaster ride so far, and I can confidently say that there’s nobody else I’d wanna ride this ride with.
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