Friday’s Letters

Dear Friday, wow. Let me just say, this week has been busy & I don’t really see an end in sight for awhile. But loving it all none the less. Dear Husband, you rock. Enough said. Dear 6 am workouts, you and I are becoming quite the friends aren’t we? It’s making me (& my thighs) happy. Dear Blog Friends, Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Clearly I like to disappear for a whole week with no explanation. I’ve always told myself I’ll write when I want, not when I  feel forced to. With that said, you can expect a post about my life lately including stinky shoes next week. Yes, you’re welcome in advance.

Dear Grace, I’ve had lots of fun playing with you these past 2 days, but you aren’t helping this slight baby fever I’ve had lately. This goes for you too Gabe.

Dear Uterus, stop having these feelings. Otherwise I might drive my hubby cray-cray. Dear weather, I think we already had this conversation last Friday’s Letter…what’s the deal? Dear Believer’s Chapel friends, church this Sunday is going to be amazing. It’s about being desperate. 9 & 11. Be there or be square. Ok you won’t be square, I don’t even know what that means actually. Dear Toms, why did you rip? I just got you but you thought it was necessary to rip. Makes me sad, but I’ll still be wearing you. Dear Sponsor Swaps, I’ll be changing things up next month, look for an email. And by next month I really mean next month. Time to get organized and motivated.
Go link up!

Are You Using WLW?

If you aren’t then you are seriously missing out! WLW stands for Windows Live Writer for those of you who might be a little less quick to catch on! It is a free program that you download and sync with your blog! That way you write all of your posts in this program and then “post draft to blog” until you want to either schedule or post it.

I will admit I was very skeptical of it at first because it seemed like so much more work. But after using it a few times, I realized it’s actually much easier. Especially now that picnik is closing! There is a way to resize pictures right in WLW.

Once you import your picture, this “Picture Tools” bar pops up. From there you can resize your picture…

Decide where you want the picture to line up…

Choose a frame & sharpen your pic, change the contrast, & watermark it…

Then when you are all finished with your post you just hit one of these buttons…

And your post will automatically snyc to Blogger! It’s really that simple! I love it because I don’t have to spend hours editing pictures & resizing them to fit in a post when I’m really only using them for that specific day (such as outfit pictures). This makes it so I can just import my picture & resize it all at once! No fuss!

Adding links is pretty easy too! You can watch a video about all of what I just told you here. {just disregard the mans voice, it’s kind of dull, but it hits all of the main points.}

So what are you waiting for? Go download this amazing free product, now! {there are step by step instructions here too}

*This post was not sponsored & is 100% my opinion.

Hot or Hot Mess {April 22}

Yes, that’s me posing for the hot or hot mess topic. Which clearly tells you my opinion on this. BUT…I only support this trend if the shirt you wear covers your rear-end.

Do you agree?

Outfit: Stripes & Coral

{HELP-I have a little Nikon CoolPix & whenever I try playing with the settings it turns out super white washed, like above! What is the best image mode to shoot in (outside) 16M or 8M? What is the best ISO sensitivity to shoot in (outside) 80 or higher? What is the best white balance to shoot in (outside) auto, daylights, incandescent? Flash on or off? Please, anyone? This is what I have to use until I win the lottery so I need to master it soon!}

Some Prints..

Just wanted to share some of the prints that I have made for our monthly GLOW meetings. Which are going pretty great, if I might add! We have one coming up just next week that is all about the “pearls”. Those are the mentors, the adults. We are making them these cute little gifts that focus on the theme {standing on truth}! I am so excited to show them to you, but if I did that it might ruin the surprise for some of my sweet girls so you’ll have to wait!

Store It.

Someday, when I’m back in my own little home, I’ll be tackling the whole storage game again. You know the one where you have a million things that you just have to keep, but really have no where to store. Yea, that game is one that apparently I enjoy playing because instead of getting rid of things, I try to put them out of site. but have a tough time doing that without using a ton of different rubbermaid totes. So of course I went to pinterest to save up some ideas!

All fun right? And just because I love closets..enjoy 2 of my favorites floating around pinterest right now!

What are some of your favorite ways to either hide or showcase your stuff?

{All images can be found via my "dream home ideas" board on pinterest}

Friday’s Letters

Dear Husband, you’re my best friend, k? Just because I spend lots of time with my non-husband bestie doesn’t mean you aren’t right there at the top of my list! And thanks for going to work everyday so we can be in our own again!! Dear weather, make up your mind already. Stop randomly snowing & just get warm please. Dear Friday, I LOVE you. Now please don’t end. Dear Choco-Mint Nail Polish, I’m going to put you back on my nails & I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t chip off for at least 2 weeks. Dear laundry, why can’t you wash, dry, fold, & put yourself away? Dear thighs, we have gotta start working you out.

Dear to-do list, stop multiplying! Dear GLOW girls, you’re all my favorites! Can’t wait for our next meeting, it’s all about your pearls & we have cute little gifts for you! Dear hair, I’m really trying to grow you out so let’s be cooperative during the awkward stages please! I’m mainly talking to you bangs. Dear shop, I promise I’ll start (legitimately) working on you really soon. Life’s just busy right now. Dear instagram, thank you for making my pictures look a 100 times cooler.

I love reading this series, so I thought why not do one of my own!

Go link up with the super sweet Ashley!

Hot or Hot Mess {April 21}

Ice Skating…on a warm day.

Last month, my GLOW girls went ice skating. First let me start by saying how much fun it was! Then let me tell you that we decided to go on one of the nicest days of the month. I’m talking temps in the 60’s, sunny, beautiful. Which resulted in most of us not wearing heavy winter jackets anymore. So imagine MY surprise when I walked in the the rink and it was frigid cold. I mean who do they think they are? Making it unnaturally cold in there when it was so naturally warm outside!! Most of the girls came prepared, with layers…gloves, hats, extra layers. But mainly because their mom’s were being, well, moms. And this chick here isn’t one of those yet, so I went in not the warmest jacket & without gloves or a hat.

It was all good though. It just forced me to get (stay) on the ice to keep my blood pumping!!

We had moms & dads & siblings tag along too!




It really was a great event! Next year, though, I’ll be much more prepared!

It is well…

Sunday was a pretty great day. And by pretty great, I mean such a special & powerful day. We like to call it the “super-bowl” of Christianity. It’s the day that our Lord & Savior rose from the dead & ascended to Heaven. It’s the celebration of all of our sins being washed away.

Forgiven.

If you don’t call that amazing, then I’m not sure where you are headed when you leave this world.

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We deserve death. We did not deserve Jesus’ death. Nope. Not one bit. But we serve a God who set us free from all of that.

I can’t fathom it really. That me, a sinner, who messes up daily…has a God that went before me. Who completely erased my failures. Who completely set me free.

“Living He loved me. Dying He saved me.”

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My pastor shared his message in the form of Peter & his actions. About how Peter doubted Jesus. He struggled with completely trusting Jesus.

Isn’t that a lot like our stories? Don’t we struggle with those same things? We think we know better than Jesus? That we know what will happen, or won’t?

Jesus tells us things. And we still question.

What is that about?

It frustrates me. It saddens me. It completely brings me to tears.

That I could ever doubt my King of Kings & Lord of Lords.

That’s what I’m focusing on this year friends.

My doubt.

I want to look back next Easter & be able to say

Source: etsy.com via Liz on Pinterest

If you’d like to listen to the sermon, go here.

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The hubby & I spent most of the day after church, just us. And it was perfect. I totally crave that alone time with him. We picked up some Burger King for lunch & then had pizza for dinner. Nothing fancy, nothing elaborate. Just uninterrupted time together.

With the weight of what Jesus did for us on our hearts.

A Reminder & An Order

Have ya’ll linked up to the Spring Fling yet? It’s your last chance to get your spring ideas posted & shared with a ton of readers!

And now for your order…

Go here & buy this.



It’s a blog planner from Dig Deep Design! Rushelle is amazing. She has become such a sweet friend in “real-life” & that makes me extremely happy. Her heart is overflowing and it’s totally obvious when you read her blog about her family and check out her designs in her shop.




It has seriously forced me to be more pro-active with this blog of mine. Sometimes I feel like I don’t write anything because I don’t have anything of worth to say & I’m trying to come up with something amazing at the last minute. Now I’m all for pressure under fire & usually I whip something pretty good up, but this is helping me to really focus on planning. Which we all know is pretty key when you lead an uber-busy life!

{AND-----she is in top-secret working on a bracelet design for my GLOW girls! So far, I am loving them!}

It’s pretty cool to call her friend.
So go now & check out all of her work! You won’t regret it. Pinky promise!