it's my birthday

it's my birthday, my last full year in my 20's. Whew that was a wild ride and I can't believe I am going to be the BIG 3-0 next year. I want to savor this year, my last year in my 20's. I want to be grateful for each day that I have. It's been a crazy decade thus far. I have been through a lot over the past 9 years and I want this year to count, to matter.

I want to enjoy my life, the life God has given me. Savor each moment spent with family, friends, in the word with him and time alone with my husband.
Life, I feel just speeds up each year. Time moves on whether your ready or not. My grandma always told me: stop wishing your life away, and I am sure someone in your life did the same as you were growing up.
We wanted to be BIG, we wanted time to fly on by, but now we're all like STOP. Now we want to stop and smell the roses and enjoy the little moments, at least I do.
But I do hope I grow this year.

Grow in the word and grow into a character like that of Jesus.

Grow in love

Grow in hope

Grow in faith

I also want to shrink this year.

Shrink my "selfishness"

&

Shrink my waist and thighs

28 was my golden birthday, it has been a good year-

Now it's time for 29 (a year worth savoring)

Just because it's my birthday I want to share a few things I love:

I feel like she is my soul sister from another mister and they as a couple remind me of my hubby and myself :goofballs completely in love with each other.

shoes are so super cute, need them

ice cream (my health weakness)

I love us

Cheers to my last year in my 20's!

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Client living room design board

Daniel and Megan's living room design 

I can't wait to see how this actually all comes together.

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Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy

Summer reminds me of my country roots. I grew up listening to country music in the back of my mom and dad's car standing on the middle hump in the backseat singing Patty Loveless" chains, chains, shackles and chains"

Kasey Musgraves has some catchy music, I don't agree with some topics she sings about, but she's got great hair and sing along music and she's country.

If you don't already know my heart lives in Nashville. I. Want. To. Move. There. Like. Yesterday

My go to Summer Outfit: a flowy dress with my cowboy boots, oh and a tan ;)

Some day, God willing you'll find me, my hubby, my four kiddos, my dog. some goats, and a couple cows on my nashville farm living the crazy life. Having small group with a community of southern believers on our "mini farm" and designing for some country crooners, some day....God willing.

Here's a little country inspiration

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pull up a chair dining room redo

Megan and Daniel are friends of ours and they have asked me to design their new home's dining and living room. How fun, right?!?

Here is my first design board for their new dining room

I am so super excited to get started on making these two rooms feel like home for them and their adorable baby girl Charlotte.

I love the rustic wood elements with the soft grey, warm gold and cream tones. I can just picture a clean scented candle burning while enjoying a warm meal in the fall at their new home.

More details to come!!

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Where I'm at

Where I am at......

as a wife: I long to be a wife who has her home managed well, tidy and yet messy all at the same time ya know what I mean... the tidy look of put togetherness (i just made that word up) but yet a look where it's lived in and loved in, ya know?! The messiness means there is beauty. Beauty of two individuals loving each other well, the beauty of cozy, comfortable living, the beauty of someday children playing with toys strung about, tripping on GI Joes or lalaloopsy dolls one day. this messiness makes my heart go FLIP-FLOP. So I love the tidiness but need the messiness because I don't think your truly living unless you LIVE in the mess. I want to also be a wife who loves her husband well. This is a constant work for me, I tend to nag and often get too worked up on wanting perfection out of our relationship and I recently read something that puts things into perspective for me and it went something like this:

                                                      A husband loved his wife and wanted to love her fully and he did to the best of his abilities but he told her from the start that he will never fulfill all of her love desires. There's one who can and will tho and that one is....

JESUS!

I love my husband he is my soulmate, my best friend, and the only person on earth that I want to spend every second with, but I can't expect him to be my perfect love desire, but I can count on Jesus to be and this truth needs to be written on my forehead so that I can remain in truth and not set my hubby up for destruction whenever I expect him to read my mind and do all the extravagant dreams I dream up in my head without mentioning it to him. I mean I am sure I am not the only women in the world who does this, true life is not a fairytale and although love is sweet, Jesus's love is the only love that won't ever let us down. My hubby is an amazing man who works hard to give me all that I spew out of my mouth on a daily basis, but he can't be Jesus, and I need to rely on Jesus to fill my love need first. 

as a student: I just finished my second clinical rotation with the most amazing preceptor. You guys! Have you ever met someone that reminds you soo much of yourself that you kind of freak?!? Well the more I learned about her the more I thought we were alike. I loved her, she taught me a lot and will forever be a great mentor to me. She holds a special place in my heart, and although I am happy my second rotation is finished, I am sad because I can't take her with me to be my preceptor for the remaining clinicals. I have two more rotations left and then I will be a FNP (family nurse practitioner). It feels crazy good!!

as a designer: Well for now it is still a dream, a dream I want so badly to come true. If you ever have had a passion that burned within you, then you can relate to how I feel. I love design, I love the details that go into a home. I want to make peoples dreams come true when it comes to making their house a home. Would you all continue to pray for me and for God to open up doors if this is what he wants for my life. I would appreciate it!!! I do have a friends home that they have asked me to do a few rooms, I am new at the actual business side of this so I could use the prayers. 

These are such cute little bowls for your condiments for the 4th of July. 

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