*The Day I Married My Best Friend*

June 28, 2008 I walked down the aisle to parts of  the song "Me & You" by Kenny Chesney!


"Ordinary, no. Really don't think so, not a love this true. Common destiny, we were meant to me, me & you. Like a perfect scene from a movie screen, we're a dream come true. Suited perfectly for eternity, me & you. Ordinary, no. Really don't think so, just a precious few ever make it last, get as lucky as...me & you."

On this day, I took Craig Nyborg to be my husband, my best friend and my one true love. I seem at a loss for words when trying to write about this day. I just can't quite figure out how to transfer my feelings from my heart to the computer. It was a beautiful day! I wasn't your typical bride. I didn't need thousands of dollars spent to make my day amazing! A few special touches here and there, a groom that will always love me and take care of me and family and friends as our witnesses was enough to make our day amazing. During the ceremony we played a slideshow that showed pictures of both of us growing up and then pictures of us as a couple. While this slideshow played a song said it all! "When God made you, he must have been thinking about me!" This is so true. It's weird, I know, but I feel like I loved Craig before I met him. It's like I knew God had a man for me and I had my expectations and one day...there he was, the love of my life,my best friend.

I know pronounce you Mr. & Mrs. Craig Nyborg
"How sweet it is to be loved by you!"

Our reception was small with just finger foods and visiting. I hear the food was good. I wouldn't know, because I barely got to eat any. After the wedding we greeted approximately 150 guests, then made our way around the reception to try and say a more personal hello to each person. By the time we were finished making one round around the room, cutting the cake and all those rituals it was time to go take our pictures together. To do over I would do something different with the pictures. Our seperate pictures for the day started at 10:00 a.m. and the wedding was at 2:00. By the time Craig and I took pictures together it was almost 5:00 and we were more than exhausted. Our pictures are pretty much terrible for my standards. Either way, a wise student pointed out the following to me one day when I said something about our pictures: "Mrs. Nyborg, would you rather have perfect pictures and a rocky marriage or a perfect marriage and not so amazing pictures?" Point taken!







After the guest left, Craig and I decided to play a little basketball! We decided to shoot free throws and said that whoever made the most free throws out of 10 would get to wear the pants in our relationship! :) Wouldn't you know it...we tied! Just like it should be! After that, I was EXHAUSTED! It was time for me to gather up my things and get out the door!! Even though I was tired, I was still motivated to get on the road because we were going to CANCUN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited!


It was the longest day of my life and remember I'm saying this after giving birth to Carson! A day that was filled with 2 hours of active pushing, lots of pain medication and a c-section! We were both so tired and hungry! On the way to Memphis we ate the small amount of food that was packed up for us from the reception. Then, when we got to the hotel in Memphis (our plane didn't leave until the morning) we ordered a HUGE order of nachos from room service! They were so good.

Craig is my soul mate and I will love him until the day I die! Long day and all, our wedding was perfect for us and I couldn't have asked for more.
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Since I don't have a lot to say about our honeymoon I will add it to the end of this post!! The Grand Caribe Real Resort was Paradise. I will never forget the way I felt when I walked into the lobby. Notice I didn't say through the door. There were no doors. It was so open and beautiful with the highest ceilings I have ever seen and a view of the ocean from anywhere in the lobby. Just saying it's a lobby doesn't seem to give it justice. It was more like the entry way to Paradise! The water, oh man the water was beautiful. Everything was beautiful. Just thinking about it right now makes me want to start saving to go again!

Our days consisted of eating endless amounts of yummy food, laying out on the beautiful beach and being brought drinks oceanside! It was the life! There were no cell phone towers so we weren't worried with missing a call or text. We didn't have a care in the world.




I had the time of my life and I feel like I can speak for Craig, too! We had an AMAZING time!

The wait!

OMG! I'm getting married. All the things to be done! Wait...I'm supposed to have free time to plan a wedding...I wasn't aware! I was in the process of trying to complete my master's degree in one year (which I did), and I was working as a graduate assistant at the University of Central Arkansas. I also worked at Bath & Body Works at night and on the weekends. Between homework and 2 jobs how was I supposed to plan a wedding?!?!?! Thinking back on the situation now I feel like laughing. At this point, I had no idea what being busy really meant.


Just an engagement pic I LOVE and wanted to be on here!!!


I had decided to save my hardest classes for my last semester of graduate school. Why? I don't know! Either way, that was my schedule and I had to deal with it!! It couldn't be that bad I thought, and it wasn't...at first! Toward the end of January I heard of a job opening in the Family and Consumer Sciences department at Cabot High School. My supervisors at UCA told me about this and were encouraging me to consider it. After all, what certified teacher is available to start teaching in the middle of a school year?!? Me...that's who (I had all online, Saturday and night classes)!! It all happened so fast. I heard about the job on Monday, sent in my application on Tuesday, interviewed Wednesday, was hired Thursday and was told to go up to the school to fill out paperwork on Friday.

Before I go on, I must tell you that nowhere in my mind was I prepared to be a teacher. Sure I had a Bachelor of Science in Education, but I thought this day was months away. What were my rules & routines going to be? What would I say when I first walked in the room to meet my students? Was I going to be strict?...and on and on! I didn't feel prepared, but I had the weekend to think about it so I wasn't too worried. I knew that when I showed up to school on Monday I would be fully prepared. What I was not prepared for was to walk into Cabot High School's office Friday, February 1, 2008, and be told that the substitute for my class called in sick and they needed me to start that day!!! WHAT?...OMG! I'm not prepared. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say. What have I gotten myself into? OMG...OMG...OMG! The walk to my classroom (which I had never seen before) seemed like miles. I was a nervous wreck. The 8:00 bell had already rang and my students were waiting. MY students...how weird! I couldn't believe I had a classroom and students. This was all happening so fast! I walked in and the rest of the day was a blur!

You may be asking yourself "Why hadn't she already started preparing?" The answer is because I was in 15 hours of graduate school, still working as a graduate assistant and at Bath & Body Works and I didn't have the time! Oh, did I mention I was getting married in a little over 4 months!!! Throughout the rest of the semester I drove an hour to and from work, on Wednesdays went straight from teaching at Cabot to my statistics class at UCA that lasted from 6:00-9:00 and continued to do homework for my 15 hours of classes. Luckily my sister, Jessica, was planning my wedding and all I had to do was answer her questions: What songs? What flowers? etc. etc!!! Even though she was doing most of the planning I still had decisions to make! I was not planning to take on such a big responsibility (teaching at Cabot) and it was tough. I was tired and time was passing by way too fast.

Craig and I both graduated at the beginning of May! Just another milestone we were able to go through together! Craig missed my undergraduate graduation because UCA had an away series that weekend. It was nice to be able to share this day with him and get our diplomas on the same stage, on the same day!

After graduation with our diplomas! Right after this picture we jumped in the car,
drove to Jonesboro to get a picture made for the newspaper announcement! We had our
wedding shower the next day! :)

Back to Cabot... I had to reinterview for the position at Cabot because I was technically hired in as a long term sub. It took months for me to hear whether I was hired or not, and when did I get this answer...at the beginning of June! So what I'm saying is that Craig and I were less than one month away from getting married and we didn't know where we were going to live because we didn't know if I had a job or not. Luckily I was hired and we were able to find a duplex in Cabot to rent. There was no way we could think about buying a house right out of college and on such short notice. Before I knew it, it was the weekend before our wedding and guess what I was doing?!?! Sitting at Burns Park watching Craig play softball! At least I was writing thank you notes while I sat there, but still, there was so much more we both could have been doing! For example, moving into our new duplex!! We so were not prepared to move out of our apartments. We both had too much stuff, had barely began to pack and had to somehow combine two households into one and we had about 2 days to do it! We were moving in the middle of the week so our friends and family were all working so it was mostly just the two of us! We made trip after trip to Cabot and back just filling up each of our vehicles! It was exhausting! Luckily, my mom came up one day and helped unpack a few boxes! Late late Wednesday night we FINALLY got all of the boxes out of our old apartments and into the new one and we were headed to Harrisburg to get married that Saturday! So YAY for being moved out of our old apartments, but BOO that we were going to come home from our honeymoon to a duplex full of boxes! After that it was Thursday, decorate and try to hang out with some friends. Friday, decorate and rehearsal dinner. Saturday...WEDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!! A.K.A. The day I married my best friend and the 2nd best day of my life!! Second only to the day I gave birth to our beautiful baby boy!!!!!!!

After the rehearsal dinner!
The last time I saw Craig before I walked down the aisle!

The propsalS- Notice this is plural!

From the day Craig and I met, we both knew our relationship was serious business. Within a few weeks we were already saying that we loved each other and let me tell you...we meant it!




On March 17, 2006 (St. Patrick's Day) Craig and I were out with a few friends. Craig asked a girl at our table if he could have her pony tail holder on her wrist. She said yes and with that pony tail holder as cheesy and cheap as it may sound, one month and one day after we met Craig asked me to marry him for the first time!!!!! Not only did I say yes, but I wore that pony tail holder on my finger for months!! Well, not the same pony tail holder. It started to cut the circulation off of my finger and Craig gave me a rubberband.





The night Craig proposed for the first time! Fatbacks- March 17, 2006!


A week later was spring break! When I came back from spring break I walked in to Craig's room at his apartment and he was playing my favorite song, had changed his screensaver to say I love you, Jayme and had a present sitting in front of his computer for me. The contents of this gift were: a bag of rubberbands so I would never run out of rubberbands to wear, children's liquid tylenol because I don't like to take pills and a bag of my favorite candy at the time, blow pops. I think there was one rose sticking out of the bag. Craig just said there wasn't so who knows!!




In the following months Craig upgraded my ring to an orange and yellow stretchy beaded ring he got out of a quarter machine. The next was a large purple stone ring that he got out of a 50 cent machine.




To show you how fast things were moving, on May 2, 2006 Craig sort of proposed for the 4th time. I was taking a nap and he called and said "I left my glove at the field and your neighbor (who was a player also) picked it up for me and put it on your back porch. Could you make sure it's there for me?" I was thinking "I don't want to get out of bed." Terrible, I know! When I opened the back door I saw a vase with a dozen white roses and a card. I was in awe of the sweetness. With the door open I sat in the doorway and opened the card. In the card was a picture of us from the night we said "I love you" for the first time.

Kodak moment caught by Sarah Phillips! Right after we said
"I love you" for the first time! :)

I'll spare you the sappy details of the card, but it ended like this "I trust you in every way. I think this because of the way we look on the back of this picture. I knew right then, no doubt in my mind, that I want you for the rest of my life, Jayme Leigh White. I love you and some day I will marry you when we are ready." Then, on the inside of the card he wrote "There is something in the flowers that you might want someday." When I looked at the flowers, looped around one of the stems I saw a ring. Sure it was a $15 ring from WalMart, but it was exactly like a ring I saw in a magazine and he knew I liked it! With perfect timing, just like the movies, as soon as I pulled the ring out of the flowers Craig walked in. I was crying of course!

 Lastly, and most importantly, on July 26, 2007, Craig and I were at WalMart and I wasn't feeling very good. I told Craig my stomach was hurting and when we left he turned the opposite way of our apartments (we were neighbors)! I kept asking where we were going and he wouldn't answer. Finally he turned into UCA and we started walking around. I didn't think much about it because when I don't feel good I like to get fresh air by taking a walk. We started walking around and I thought something was different and I was thinking "is he going to propose?" The first hint was when we went to sit on the steps of Conway Hall (my dorm freshman year) he kept touching his pocket like he didn't want me to see something. I thought that I would help him out so I asked him if he wanted me to switch sides and he said no! After that I thought maybe he's not going to propose. I started showing him around to all of the different places I had been throughout my 4 years there. Kind of replaying things I had done, places I had been so the two of us could inour minds experience them together. To name a few, we sat on the steps of Conway Hall, walked outside of the cafeteria, walked past the 3 buildings most of my classes were in, went to the place where I had gone to a Haunted House and walked past the football field. At this point I was back to thinking he was about to propose and once again I was thinking I could help him out. I thought he was trying to get me to the baseball field since that was where we met, so I said "Hey! Let's walk over to the baseball field." Craig said "No, that's too far to walk!" Again, my mind changed and I didn't think he was going to propose. We started walking again, holding hands, and I thought quit overthinking things, YES he is about to propose. I said "isn't this romantic?" His answer "No, it's hot!" After that, I thought absolutely not going to happen. You see, I really wanted Craig to propose. We didn't talk about it much, but we had looked at three different jewelry stores and I had picked out my favorite ring from each place. I really wanted it to happen, but unfortunately it wasn't going to happen this night. We continued to walk around UCA, the place we met and fell in love, and since it was so hot outside we went over to my favorite part of UCA, the fountain, so the water would blow on us in the wind! When we got over to the fountain I asked Craig if he wanted to make a wish. He said he didn't have any change so I reached into the fountain and got a penny out (shhh...don't tell)! I asked him if he wanted his own penny, but he said we could share. I was sitting on the edge of the fountain as I started to think about what I wanted to wish for. What I came up with went a little something like this..."I wish Craig and I would be together forever. I love him, and I don't care about a ring or a proposal...I just want him!" I flipped the penny into the fountain and it was a beautiful flip of a coin if I do say so myself. Since I usually can't flip coins very well I was pretty excited. I turned around said "Dude, did you see that flip?" As those words came out of my mouth I saw Craig down on one knee. The next words I heard were "Jayme, will you marry me?" My hands immediately flew to my mouth and I started crying. I said to him "Is this a joke? If it is, it isn't funny." Then, I said "YES!!!" We hugged, I cried, and he finally said "Do you want to see the ring?" I had totally forgot!!! It was a BEAUTIFUL ring and an amazing night!!!!!!!!!!!!



When we got to my apartment after Craig proposed (for real)!
Love this because of the walmart bags in the background!
Reminds me of how our night began!





A reinactment of the night he proposed!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!



How this all got started! Beware: This post is full of cheesiness! :)

Craig Nyborg, big bad, handsome, charming baseball player transferred to the University of Central Arkansas Spring 2006!




WOW! Enough said! :)


The first time I saw his name I was helping redecorate the baseball locker room and he needed a locker. The lockers were assigned by numbers and the three new transfers didn't have numbers. The coach told me to put them in a locker and that would be there number! Craig Nyborg ended up in the #10 locker. That same day I needed to assign the new players to diamonds. These diamonds would support these players throughout the year. One diamond said "I want a cute player." I looked at the list and sight unseen I said "I bet Craig Nyborg's cute!"


The first time I met Craig I was trying to sell him tshirts. Three players had transferred in 2nd semester and I wanted to make sure them and their families had UCA baseball shirts and hoodies! Craig was the last to order and to be honest was aggravating me. I needed to place the order and he hadn't gotten back with me. I didn't know who he was. I just knew I needed his order. After a game I went to the edge of the dugout and said "I need to see Craig Nyborg." He came around the dugout and right then at the gate of the University of Central Arkansas' baseball field I met the man that would change my life forever. I remember trying to take his order and it went a little something like this:


Me: What tshirts do you want?
Craig: What do you think I should get?
Me: Do you want your name on the back?
Craig: What would you do? 


And on and on! He tells me now that he never wanted me to leave, so if he didn't answer I would stay there and keep talking. He was gorgeous of course, but I didn't think much more about it. I wasn't there to meet a man, and to be honest I'm sure I felt he was out of my league. After all, he was the handsome, mysterious transfer from Madison Area Technical College...why would he want to be with me!?


Around that same time I was playing intramural basketball and one of my teammates said "do you know any cute baseball players you could fix me up with?" I said "you won't believe this, but just the other day I met Craig Nyborg and I think you guys would be great together. I'll see what I can do!" A couple days later I saw Craig at a beginning of the year dinner. He was acting out a skit making fun of one of the coaches. He was so cute. I had never had a real conversation with him (except for the tshirts), but wow, he was handsome. I was taking pictures for a scrapbook and of course I have one of him! Before I knew him, I knew I loved him. It was as simple as that!

The picture from that night!

A day or so later, February 16, 2006, to be exact I was outside of the baseball house talking to a couple people and I asked them if they wanted any cupcakes because I had some extra at my apartment. They said no, but someone behind me said "I want some cupcakes!" I'll give you one guess who that person was...Craig! I told him he could have them, but they were at my apartment and I would have to bring them to him later. We exchanged numbers and I told him I would call him later. This was important...I had to pick the perfect time to give him the cupcakes. I had a lot to do that day and I didn't want to have to leave if I was having a good time. I told him I had an intramural basketball game at 9:00, but that I could bring them by after that! I was really aiming to impress. I was wearing basketball shorts, a cut off tshirt and tennis shoes. I had my hair up in a bun and had been sweating like crazy! Good thing I didn't dress up, because when I got there Craig was in his pajamas! I know it was late, but once I got there we had so much fun talking and I ended up staying for a few hours. His roommate, Jeremy Cloud, was there and we had the best time just talking and getting to know each other. He was amazing, and I couldn't wait to see him again. We've been together ever since! Needless to say, I did not set him up with my teammate! He was all mine!

Craig's pajamas!

White confetti cupcakes with cream cheese icing and sprinkles! Who would have thought those cupcakes would have been the reason I met the man of my dreams!?!

No time!

I don't have time to write anything write now! I just wanted to post something so my page wouldn't look so bare!!!! If you're reading this, sorry to disappoint!


More to come later!!!