It's Been a Year!

Hello dear Friends! 

Happy TGIF to you.

First of all, I want to send all my friends in the states my extra love and hugs. This country feels so full of chaos and violence lately. All of these recent horrible shootings just hurt my heart. I believe evil is running rampant and loving this chaos. The only real peace I find is in my Lord and believing in His promises. I continue to be a prayer warrior. I love on my friends and family that much more. And I try to put out positivity, peace, and love in everything I do. I hope we can find a way to love our neighbors as ourselves. I hope we don't put people into boxes of one political party or another. That we don't judge and put our thoughts into "I'm right and you're wrong". I hope instead we find ways to move forward and work TOGETHER to heal and fix the issues in this country. 

Thank you for letting me share that moment from my heart. 🙏🏻💗

 I'm getting to this post late because I was giving time at the hospice facility. There sure are lots of moments of Fall around there. Here are some pics I caught:

But what I wanted to post and share a little today is about the fact that Matt and I celebrate our 1st Anniversary this weekend! Yay! 🎉❤️

I can't believe how fast that year has flown. It's been so wonderful and I guess time does fly when you're having fun. :) To be honest... I feel like I had some years there where my life was like in the movie the Wizard of Oz. Always feeling in kind of gloomy black and white. And then Matt came into my life and it was full blown technicolor! And it just gets brighter with each new day. He has brought such goodness, love and light to my world (& my kiddos too). I am so very grateful for the man he is and that I get to call him husband. I have never felt more seen, understood, loved and treasured by another human being. I love him SO MUCH! 

Thank you God for the gift of this amazing man and this marriage. 

Here are a few of my favorite photos from our day:

I loved everything about our day. It all felt so perfect. And one of my favorite memories was this....how beautiful the night became and how we gathered around a campfire together with our loved ones. Listening to music, chatting, laughing, and just taking it all in.  

My sweet Matthew just had these delivered for me. Aren't they stunning? I have always loved roses...but now sunflowers have my heart ever since they were such a big part of our wedding. 🌻💛

And they lived happily ever after...

Tonight we're going out on a date night with our besties, the C's. It will be so nice to get catch up time with them! 

 Tomorrow night we'll go out for dinner for our anniversary (which is actually on Sunday). And then in October we will be staying a weekend up at the resort where we were married. It should be beautiful with Fall color then. Feeling so blessed. 🙏🏻

Thank you for letting me go down memory lane and share. It feels extra special being the 1st anniversary. And I'm so grateful to all of you for sharing in this journey with me all along! Your friendship, support & love has meant so much!! 

Wishing you all an amazing weekend ahead. 

xoxo

Wedding Pictures (warning: lots of pics!) 🌻💙💛

Hello Dear Friends 💗

Happy TGIF to you!! I'm headed to work at the hospice house today, but I got my wedding photos back from the photographer recently and they're so fun. She has such an artistic eye and does a dreamy storybook kind of quality to her pics. There are so many! I'm still downloading them. But I thought I'd at least share some with you today since I can do that quickly. I will work on the Paris and QM 2 post over the weekend. 

There are so many pics that I tried to truly just chose ones you didn't already see from the friends and family pics I already shared. And they're are so many not needed to share, like at the reception are so many people pics you wouldn't know. But I did be sure to include the funny cake down the dress moment from the reception that I shared in the wedding story post I did back in September. How a piece  of cake went down my dress and Matt went to get it with his mouth and I said "no, my parents are watching!" and my kids yelled: "who cares about your parents your kids are watching!" Lol😂 I about died it was so funny. 

But my favorite ones are at the end of just Matt and I by the water. I love them - they're so storybook dreamy in how they turned out.  💝

I hope you enjoy! 

Blessings on your weekend ahead. Stay cozy and have fun!!

And they lived Happily Ever After...