24 Will Be Fabulous...

Hope everyone is having an amazing weekend so far!  My weekend has been extra wonderful and it's not over yet!  For those who don't  know, it is my birthday weekend.  I will reach the whopping age of 24 tomorrow!

So I'm going to tell you guys what I've done so far this weekend and what I have plans to do!

My sweet mom took the princesses home with her on Thursday and they are gone until Tuesday.  I miss them a million times over, but I am loving having some date time with my hubby.  So once the princesses left, my sis-in-law, Loren, and I went and got pedis.  Mine was fantastic!  I had extra birthday money from my mom and dad and my Mamaw, so I spoiled myself with the super deluxe pedi from Diva Nails.  Let me tell ya if you have about 2 hours and extra money, I highly encourage you to go and get one.  AMAZINGLY relaxing! 

I also went shopping and bought some much needed summer and spring clothes.  It's honestly just been nice to spend money on myself!  A little selfish?  Maybe...but I'm enjoying it! HA!

The highlight to my day on Friday was having lunch by myself at San Francisco Bread Co.  I know I am a loser!  But I seriously love those rare lunches alone where I can just think and people watch.  It's peaceful!

So today is actually the day before my birthday, but since we will be busy with church all day tomorrow we celebrated today!  First, Justin went shopping for me this morning.  He came home with a gorgeous Kathy van Zealand purse from Dillards.  If you have never felt her purses, you owe it to yourself to just go in Dillards and touch one.  The SOFTEST leather ever!  I'm in love!  However, he didn't just buy a purse.  He stuffed it with a beautiful blouse and cute flip flops and the Karen Kingsbury book that I have been wanting.  Oh and he didn't forget a card!  It was the sweetest card from him and the princesses.

I'm super proud of him!  He did awesome!

Tonight my man took me out to Outback for a yummy steak!  Next, we went and browsed at Barnes and Noble.  The perfect end to my birthday date was a trip to Cracker Barrel to enjoy my favorite dessert, the apple dumpling.  Such a fun night out with my sweetie!

Tomorrow I will turn 24 and I will spend my day in the best place I can think of.  I will be with the people I love at church!  That just sounds like an incredible start to 24!  24 will be fabulous!

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Happy Wednesday everyone!!!

Today I'm loving listening to Francesca Battistelli's new album!

I seriously feel like she wrote her songs about me!  They speak to me so much!  Check her out, she's awesome!

I'm also loving this wonderful new snack that me and the princesses found at Sam's Club!

Try them they're so yummy!

I'm loving that my husband is such a fun and good daddy to the princesses!

Check out these pictures of him teaching them how to play teaball.  Can you say ADORABLE?!

I'm also loving these beyond cute dresses I bought for the princesses to wear on Emma Grace's birthday next month!  I can't believe my princess will be 3!!!

Oh and what I am loving most today is that my girls Mimi and my mom and bestfriend is COMING today!!!

Emma and Sadie are on the edge of their seats with excitement!!!

What are you all loving today?  Link up here and let us know!





The Stuff That Drives Me Crazy...

I just finished the most magical weekend with my sweet family!  It included a trip to the park, eating lunch at Chick Fil A, a brand, spanking new gas grill, absolutely gorgeous spring weather, Emma sleeping through Sunday night service (which hasn't happened since she was an infant), Sadie puking in the middle of church and at Chili's, Emma taking a bath in ranch dressing, etc...

Oh wait did I say magical?

My weekend, or shall we say life, can all be summed up by one song, "This Is The Stuff" by Francesca Battistelli.

I lost my keys
In the great unknown
And call me please
'Cause I can't find my phone

This is the stuff that drives me crazy.
This is the stuff that's getting to me lately.
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin
But I've got to trust You know exactly what You're doing
Might not be what I might choose
But this is the stuff you use

45 in a 35
Sirens and fines
While I'm running behind

This is the stuff that drives me crazy
This is the stuff that's getting to me lately
In the middle of my little mess
I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin
But I've gotta trust You know exactly what You're doing
Might not be what I might choose but this is the stuff You use

So break me of impatience
Conquer my frustrations
I've got a new appreciation
It's not the end of the world

This is the stuff that drives me crazy.
This is the stuff
Someone save me
In the middle of little my mess
I forget how big I'm blessed

This is the stuff that gets under my skin
And I've gotta trust you know exactly what You're doing
Might not be what I would choose but this is the stuff You use

This is the stuff You use


I look back over my weekend and so many ridiculously, silly things drove me up the wall.  I often think about this life I lead and I'll admit at the craziest times I've thought, "Lord, what have I gotten my self into?"  It's at those times that God miraculously uses Emma to say, "Mommy, it is so pretty out today!", or Justin to wrap his arms around me and calm me down as only he can with the Lord's unbelievable help.  Haha, thank you God for such a patient man in my life!

So Emma decided to use her ranch as lotion instead of a condiment.  Oh well, she also kisses me everyday and tells me that I am so CUTE!   So poor Sadie can't stop projectile vomiting in the most inconvenient places.  Who cares!  She's normally healthy as a horse and thank God we have never had more serious health problems. 

The weekend may have been a little wild at times but God gave us the perfect Monday to recuperate and love on each other.  Today was a day for me to look back and see how totally blessed I am, no matter how messy my life seems at times. 

I am definitely living the GREAT life!

Blessed beyond measure today and everyday!

Hope everyone else had a blessed weekend, and remember your little messes in life are not the end of the world!  God has a plan and you are blessed to be a part of it!

Princess Sadie Rose loved eating the sand!

Princess Emma Grace loved everything about being outside today!  (Except the bugs...I'm raising a true princess here, folks!)

Magic Princess Castle that Daddy built the princesses...They were ecstatic about it...Justin is such a good daddy to the Princesses!

Our awesome new grill which is our 4th wedding anniversary gift!

Lead Me

So I was driving the princesses to the park today and was rather thrilled to hear my favorite song on the radio.  I love when that happens and it's a song that I have adopted as an anthem for my marriage!  This song has been such a blessing to me in the past few months as I have been learning to be a more submissive wife and Godly mother.  It is Sanctus Real's Lead Me which just happens to be KLOVE's sixth top song right now!

Although the song is about a husband and father stepping up and letting God lead him to be the spiritual leader of his home, it has helped open my eyes to the numerous shortcomings that I face on the journey to becoming a Godly, submissive wife and mother.

The past four years of marriage haven't always been pretty in this palace.  We might look like the perfect family, which is mainly because my princesses are picture perfect.  BUT it wasn't too long ago that we were facing some hard times. 

You see patience, understanding, and letting someone else take the lead do not come easy for me.  I want to lead!  I want control!  These traits have caused major downfalls in my family's lives.  Thank God for forgiveness and mercy though, right?

So these traits that I have on top of getting married and immediately starting a family have not always mixed well.  Impatience on top of crazy pregnancy and postpartum hormones is just a disaster waiting to happen.  So by the time my youngest princess was a year old, you could just say I WAS OUT OF CONTROL! 

Yes, I made up every excuse in the book.  I am snapping at my husband, because the princesses are driving me crazy today.  I don't feel good, because I was up all night with a sick princess.  I'm mad at you, because you forgot to take the trash out and I would never stoop so low as to take on a chore like that.  After about three years of those excuses, I began to realize that I had become a very self-centered person.  Actually, it wasn't me that realized it.  My extremely patient, loving husband and God helped me to see the selfishness that had overcome me.

I began to faithfully read the Word again, because of course I had stopped and didn't have time with the princesses and all.  I once again found a relationship with my Creator that I had lost amongst the clutter that I had allowed to fill up my life.  I finally began to dig myself out of the pit of depression that I was neck-deep in.  Basically, I took control from the devil and turned it all over to God.  I have found that I can be a strong woman, and still be the wife and mother that God has created me to be.  God has totally transformed the resentment that had built up inside me and he has formed lots of thankfulness and  some patience and gobs of happiness and abundant love in me once again.

Today, I am proud to say that I am celebrating 4 incredible years of marriage to my man.  You might be thinking, "Incredible?  It sounds as if your marriage has been terrible so far!"  And I would tell you that marriage and motherhood have NEVER been terrible!  What has been terrible is my selfishness and pride! 

So on this Thursday I am thankful!  I am thankful for God's unfailing love and mercy in my life!  I am thankful for the gift and calling of motherhood!  To see my princesses living faithful, Godly lives is my highest calling! 

I am MOST thankful today for my AMAZING husband!  The past 4 years have been an incredible journey that I would take again in a heartbeat!

Proverbs 12:4 tells us, "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones."  I don't know about y'all, but I am striving everyday to be the noble and virtuous wife that my husband needs!

Justin, you are my everything and I am so grateful for a Godly husband who is doing an incredible job of leading me and the princesses spiritually in our palace!  I'm so excited about spending the rest of my life with you! 

And thank you God for continually being my portion...

Happy Anniversary to us!!!



What I'm Loving Wednesday

Hey everyone!  I know it's a little late on this Wednesday, but I just got the princesses to bed so it'll have to do!

I am going to be doing a What I'm Loving Wednesday blog every week and it is just a fun little blog that a lot of my fellow bloggers are doing!

So I hope everyone has had a wonderful Wednesday!

I'm loving these adorable, pink metallic ballet flats that my wonderful mom bought for the princesses as their Easter shoes at Gap.com ...she got a sale though....unfortunately that's not the case anymore unless you have a good coupon.

I'm loving the extra $50 a month that I am saving because Emma Grace now wears these...

instead of Huggies!!!

I'm loving this sweet face...

And yes those are fairy wings on the back of her jammies...

And yes she does consider herself a diva/fairy/princess...

What I'm LOVING most today is the fact that tomorrow I will be married to the love of my life for

4 YEARS!!!

What are you loving this week?  Link up here and let us all know!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Blogging Mama

So I am officially becoming a blogging mama.  I read many mom and other blogs faithfully, and I have decided to take the plunge and begin documenting the chronicles of my crazy life.  My blog is going to mainly be about my little darlings, Emma Grace and Sadie Rose, and things that are important to me in my life.  These things may include anything from my wonderful marriage to my fantastic man, Justin, to something as simple as getting my life and house organized.  Oh wait!  Did I just say simple?  Yeah not so much.  Mainly, I just want to be an encouragement to other young, overwhelmed moms, soon-to-be moms, or wanna-be-moms.  God has brought me through so many hard times in my 4 years of marriage and 3 years of motherhood and I hope that my blog can be a testimony to someone in need.  Life may seem to be overwhelming you, but look around at all of your blessings and enjoy this beautiful time in your life.  God is faithful...