Looking for a little more love in your life? Lists of the very best places to fall in love are all the rage these days. Not to be outdone, we've compiled our own list of Places to Fall in Love with Elijah. Whether over the phone or over a glass of tea and tapioca, here are 38 spots you're guaranteed to be heartstruck.
1. Through his freshman year high school picture, sent from a friend to your sister and tucked into your journal.
2. In your college dorm room, reading his emails and waiting for his phone calls.
3. On the Natchez Trace Bridge, where he kisses you.
4. In the living room where you bring him home to meet your family for the first time and your little brother and his best friend decide “that weird guy” is good enough for you as they bond over a mutual appreciation of “Family Guy.”
5. In a backyard on Sola Street where you come home from class to find a bouquet of flowers in the basket of your bike.
6. At Talitha Koum, where a gaggle of giggling high school girls meeting him for the first time doesn't scare him away.
7. In the front seat of a parked car, where hours pass like minutes.
8. In Chicago on a beautiful October day, where you eat apples from the Farmer’s Market and are pretty sure you’d like to spend every day of the rest of your life with him.
9. Outside the Margot Cafe in the snow, where you tell him you love him.
10. On a cross-country move in August while you drive from Oklahoma to Arizona with the A/C turned off and the windows rolled down.
11. On hikes through the Santa Barbara foothills, where you climb to waterfalls and jump into freezing cold swimming holes together.
12. At Youth Group where he connects with the kids in a natural, relatable way.
13. Outside your parents’ house every night where you stand in the dark and pray together before he drives home.
14. In a classroom where you overhear him enthusiastically teaching Latin to 2nd and 3rd graders.
15. In the NICU where he reads bedtime stories to your tiny twins who are tucked away into incubators.
16. At a backyard cottage in Santa Barbara where he insists you go on a bike ride and leave the crying twin babies to him.
17. At his job, where you observe countless colleagues come to him for his input, advice and wisdom.
18. On a disc golf course where he finds joy in doing something he loves.
19. In a hospital room where, 3 different times, you watch him fall in love with his children with tears in his eyes.
20. In a hospital room where he sits by you as you grieve the loss of your baby.
21. Lying next to you in bed each night, where his nearness makes you feel safe and secure.
22. On a sled with your daughters, teaching them about joy and fun and bravery.
23. On the couch while he listens to you talk to a grown up for the first time all day and all the words just come spewing out.
24. On that same couch where you listen to him speak about the things that matter.
25. At your grandparents’ house while he blows leaves off a porch that will be be covered by leaves again the next day, all to make your grandfather feel better on a Saturday morning.
26. In a hospital parking lot while you're in the transition phase of labor, where you yell at him and he doesn’t bat an eye.
27. Reading next to him in bed while he laughs out loud (repeatedly) at an (assumedly) hilarious book.
28. By your baby’s crib, where you catch him standing and staring at his sleeping child.
29. At a Cross Country meet surrounded by boys who look up to him, speaking words of inspiration and encouragement to them, words they’ll keep with them as they grow into men.
30. In the middle of the night while he helps you clean vomit off of children and carpets.
31. In the living room where he watches an amazing (and thrilling) amount of disc golf coverage on the television.
32. In the kitchen each evening where he gives you a (sweaty) kiss and you breathe easier because he’s home again.
33. In front of the waffle iron and the chili pot while he perfects his methods.
34. On the phone every day when he calls just to check in and hear your voice.
35. In the front yard where he builds you three boxes so you can bring your gardening dreams to fruition.
36. On the couch on a Sunday afternoon, falling asleep with your head on his chest and the sound of a football game rumbling in the background.
37. In the living room while he reads Lewis and Tolkien to your daughters.
38. Over a cup of bubble tea, which you really try to love as much as he does. You probably won't ever love it that much, but you sure will love him.
