Our 25 Randoms

Well I keep see­ing these 25 Ran­dom Lists on Face­book; I just love read­ing these things. I love peo­ple and I love get­ting to know oth­ers more. There are so many things that we don’t know about our friends and fam­ily. For me, I love to go deeper — to really under­stand people’s hearts. I’m not so sure how deep these will be because I also love being silly and mak­ing peo­ple laugh. But either way they go, here are 25 Ran­dom things about Vitaliy and Can­dace Prokopets.

1. Vitaliy is Ukrain­ian and Can­dace is American.

2. We are both obsessed with Mex­i­can food and could hon­estly be happy eat­ing it for din­ner every night of the week. Unfor­tu­nately, the rest of the house doesn’t share the same obsession.

3. Coke rules, Pepsi drools. But you prob­a­bly fig­ured that one out from this post.

4. U2 and Mark Driscoll changed our lives. (Besides Jesus, of course.)

5. Can­dace was prom queen in high school. Vitaliy sang “My Heart Will Go On” in high school. (Need I explain more?)

6. Our first date was to a book­store and it is still one of our favorite places to spend time together.

7. Vitaliy speaks Russ­ian, Ukrain­ian and Eng­lish. Can­dace speaks Eng­lish and some Spanish.

8. Can­dace was bit by a black widow. Now Vitaliy kills all spi­ders that come any­where close to his princess.

9. One might say that we are a lit­tle obsessed with movies. Just a little.

10. Our favorite TV shows are NCIS and Crim­i­nal Minds. But we don’t watch them on TV. We down­load them so that we don’t have to watch the commercials.

11. Vitaliy grad­u­ated from Moody Bible Insti­tute with a major in Bible. I am still fin­ish­ing my degree through Moody online with a major in Bible as well.

12. Vitaliy exe­cuted the most amaz­ing mar­riage pro­posal. Seri­ously, the most roman­tic and thought out engage­ment ever. (I love you, babes!)

13. Can­dace is the orga­nized one. Vitaliy is the laid back one. We bal­ance each other out in so many ways.

14. We want to have 4 kids. How­ever, that could change after I expe­ri­ence giv­ing birth.

15. Vitaliy is a super com­puter nerd. I’ve never seen him unable to solve someone’s com­puter prob­lem. (This is one rea­son I mar­ried him! Saves me a lot of has­sle hav­ing an in-home com­puter technician.)

16. Can­dace is the loud one; Vitaliy is the qui­eter one. How­ever, we both laugh LOUD!

17.The first time Vitaliy told me he was falling in love with me this was my response, “What! What did you just say? You can­not say those words to me! Not for at least a long long time.”

18. Vitaliy does per­for­mances in the bath­room mir­ror as he gets ready. I really need to install a cam­era for these. They are just too hilarious!

19. Can­dace is a sweet fanatic. (If you’ve ever had my Gooey But­ter Cake, you know exactly what I’m talk­ing about.)

20. We value authenticity.

21. We love to laugh but aren’t afraid to cry.

22. The tragedy that we’ve expe­ri­enced already in life has affected us in ways we can see and in ways we won’t know for a long time.

23. We are opti­mists and can’t see liv­ing life any other way. Life is dif­fi­cult already, why make it any harder?

24. We are pas­sion­ate — pas­sion­ate about pho­tog­ra­phy, about life, about each other, about humankind, about…

25. Jesus Christ is our sav­ior and He is our Lord. This foun­da­tional aspect of our lives dri­ves what we do and why we do things.

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Because posts are so much bet­ter with pic­tures, here is a pic­ture of Vitaliy and I from 2005. It is lit­er­ally one of my favorite pic­tures of us because it cap­tures us bet­ter than any other image we have of our­selves. In pho­tog­ra­phy, I want the images to be able to speak for the sub­jects — to reflect their per­son­al­i­ties with­out hav­ing to say a word. This is exactly how I feel about this image.