• Faith,  Marriage

    Friday Favorites | Vol. 5

    April 21, 2017

    It’s been a little while since I participated in Friday Favorites and I love writing these so I’m back again today to share about my week(s). I think I may start doing this every Friday I just love them so much.

    Friday Favorites

    o n e

    Shared this on Instagram yesterday too 🙂

    I spent some extra time with God yesterday, coloring this out of my bible and journaling and it was so great. I bought this coloring Bible a few months ago but haven’t really taken the time to really sit down and color and soak up God’s word in that way. I usually just read 1-2 chapters and that’s all. I actually watched an Illustrated Faith video the day before which inspired me. I think eventually I want to step up my game and start doing Illustrated Faith too. Do you do Bible Journaling or Illustrated Faith at all? I’d love to chat about it. 🙂

    t w o

    Follow my Etsy Instagram to keep up with new products being made + keep your eye out for LAUNCH DAY.

    I finished that blanket a few weeks ago for my Etsy shop and my husband and I are looooving it. It’s so soft and cozy. I can’t wait to make more and to sell it once my shop opens! (We’re getting closer!) A lot of my family has asked me to make one as well, which I just love. It brings me so much joy to be able to make things for people and for them to enjoy it. Do you crochet or make anything with your hands? It’s so therapeutic to me!

    t h r e e

    Don’t mind our squinty faces 😉

    Tommy and I just celebrated our first married EASTER. It was a really great day, we went to our old church with my mom. (She still attends there.) It was a gorgeous day out. AND I hosted my first holiday in our little apartment! I literally cooked all day and I loved it. It was perfect timing too because we move out at the end of the month! It was a great way to say goodbye to our tiny apartment.

    f o u r

    In order: my cousin Nichole, my mom, me, Tommy, my grandma, my grandpa, my brother’s girlfriend Rachael, and my brother Dylan

    I shared a little bit about this in my Florida Vacation Recap but last Thursday we celebrated my grandparents 57th wedding anniversary!! We were in Florida visiting them, and Easter happened to be their 57th anniversary so we took them out before we made the drive home the next day. It was really special being there with them, especially since my grandma’s health hasn’t been the greatest in the last few years. If you wouldn’t mind saying a little prayer for her, I would greatly appreciate it!

    f i v e

    We are doing a Bible Study on my blog starting in May and everyone voted and picked THIS book. I ordered it right when it was decided and just received the book this morning. I’ve flipped through it a little bit and I am SO excited to dive in! There’s still time to join in with us too! Check out this post for more information about it.

    What have you been up to this week friends? I’d love to know. Linking up with these lovely ladies below.

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  • Life

    New Posting Schedule + Info For The Online Bible Study

    April 4, 2017

    Hey friends! I just wanted to stop by really quickly today to update you guys on a new posting schedule for my blog. I usually get upset when one of the bloggers I follow disappears without explanation because I somehow feel as though we’re friends and I don’t want to leave you guys hanging like that. (Because we are friends, right?! 🙂 )

    New Posting Schedule + Explanation

    I’m only going to be posting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at least for the next month or so. I will reevaluate after May or June and see where I am at that point. I just have started to go in different directions and would like to have more time to work on starting my Etsy shop and even just working on the technical side of my blog. I also don’t want to write a post that isn’t well put together just to write a post.

    I am also still focusing on the direction I want my blog to go in and need more time to work that out too. It will always be a blog about Jesus and his love for us, but I want to work on making sure that that is the main focus and that it is obvious. I am going to be spending time praying and working through what that means for me and what I should be writing about.

    And finally, I also have a passion for marriage and want that to be another main focus of this blog, but am not sure how that fits in with my main focus. I want to work through all of this so that I can be the most helpful to you. I want to have a clear vision from God so that I can be used best. And to do this I need to have some more free time. It may be temporary and I may be back to posting every day in a couple of months or I may stay posting a few times a week permanently. It all depends, but I hope that you understand.

    Online Bible Study Info

    I am still working through how exactly this is going to pan out but I am so very excited to work through a study with you girls who signed up. Also, it is not too late to sign up! If you are interested, click over to this post, and read a little bit more about what the study will consist of and leave a comment that you are interested to sign up!

    Later on today I am also going to be putting up a poll on Facebook for which book we should read through. If you have a suggestion, please leave it below! 🙂 The poll will be up for about a week and a half. I am going to be on vacation from this Friday (4/7) until the following Saturday (4/15). I will probably not be posting from now until then. (Maybe one or two, we’ll see.) But visit my Facebook page to stay in touch and to vote on the book we will be reading!

    Another way to stay in touch over the course of the next couple weeks is Instagram! I will posting about my trip on there as well. 🙂

     

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  • Faith

    Online Bible Study Sign Up

    March 27, 2017

    Good morning friends 🙂 This weekend was a great one. Yesterday Tommy and I went to a marriage bible study at our new church and it was so awesome. We were so encouraged and finally felt like we fit in at church. We still have a long ways to go when it comes to making friends, but at least we know we’re on the right track!

    Online Bible Study

    I wanted to share what has been on my heart for a little while now. I really would love to start a bible study or just walk through a book with some other girls. I was thinking of a book that had participation questions at the end of it like Entrusted – A Study of 2 Timothy By Beth Moore. I just wanted to see if anyone was interested before I started it. If this is something that you would like to participate in, please “sign up” below by commenting that you would like to participate in this.

    I also want it to be an easy group to participate in. I will give everyone an email buddy that you can email back and forth together with, to hold you accountable, and just to have a friend to do a discussion with. Also, I will create a Facebook group for everyone so we can all chat together as well. 🙂

    Within a week or so I’m also going to be posting a poll on my blog’s Facebook page where you can vote on which book you’d like to read with the group. We’ll read through the one that gets the most votes. Also, if you have any suggestions for the book, please let me know! 🙂 Make sure to follow my Facebook page so you don’t miss the poll! You can find that here.

    In Case You Missed It…

    On Friday I posted twice (!) and shared a guest post from another site. So in case you missed that and are interested you can check that out here.

    \\How was your weekend friends?! I’m so excited to hopefully start the bible study!

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