Goin to the chapel...

Yesterday we celebrated our 2 year wedding anniversary! What a full 2 years they have been! In the last 2 years I have gotten married, moved to NY, gotten pregnant, moved back to TX, had a baby and am now planning our next local move. I told Jeremy last night, no wonder I am tired!

Thinking back over the last 2 years I cannot imagine it any other way though! I have loved the adventure that we are on together and though at times it has been overwhelming God has taught us both so much. I am more in love today then ever and have a husband who loves me and spoils me in so many ways. How could I ask for more? We have a 6 1/2 month old baby girl who is our world and we both adore her more everyday! Truly, I am blessed!

Here is a walk down memory lane from my wedding day....

I loved everything about my wedding and would do it all the same again! It was such a fun day surrounded by friends and family. I was so blessed to have the wedding of my dreams! Here is to many, many more years to come!

And the winner is.....

The winner of my first giveaway according to random.org is....Darci!!

So fun!! Darci I know those adorable flowers will get put to good use on little Eden! If you will email me your address you 3 bows will be in the mail soon! Thanks for playing along friends and I hope to do more of these soon! Remember you can get your own flowers by visiting Mae's etsy shop.

Giveaway!

I am hosting my first ever giveaway! I am excited to help a friend who is a stay-at-home-mom to get the word out about her adorable hand made items. She has a etsy site here that lists all her fun items.

These would make wonderful Christmas gifts, baby gifts or gifts for yourself! =) Who doesn't want a funky and fun flower to brighten up your fall wardrobe. I have to admit when Mae gave the flowers to use for this giveaway, I was tempted to keep them and say I didn't! I think I may be doing some ordering of my own soon. They are cute, afordable and if you are like me I am always more willing to spend the money to support a Mommy staying home with her baby! Oh and did I mention she does custom orders?

So how do you win these adorable bows you ask? Well check out Mae's etsy site and leave me a comment with which flower is your favorite. If you post a link on your blog or your facebook to my blog then you can leave a second comment telling me you did. This giveaway will stay open till Sunday night at midnight and monday morning I will announce the winner of 3 adorable flowers! Oh and did I tell you that the winner gets a flower for babe, baby and bride!

Ok now, hurry up and get to commenting and shopping!

White House

Before Jeremy and I got married he purchased this adorable white house that needed LOTS of work. His plan to fix it up and us live in, funny how God has a way of changing our plans! We ended up renting the house out and it has been a source of lots of stress for us both but more for him. It has been rented out for the last year but we had talked about selling the house and had put it up for sale by owner in the past and nothing. We put it up with a realtor last Wednesday and on Friday we got an offer for asking price! Needless to say we took it! God is so faithful, we are going to be able to walk away from this house free and clear! We had assumed we were going to take a loss on it, oh we of little faith! Isn't it amazing when God comes through on the things we don't even have the faith to pray for?

Thank you God for your amazing love for us. That your plans are so much better then what we could imagine! And I am SO grateful for that. Forgive me for my lack of faith. May YOU reveive ALL glory for this!

Happy Monday!

Ava’s world has forever changed! She has discovered food and crawling! Once she caught onto the crawling thing there was no stopping her. She loves it! I had slowly started giving her some food, our theory on baby food is that our food is what our babies will eat. Who wants to eat that bottled stuff anyway? Not me! It also keeps me eating fresh good meals if I have to share with her! I had been feeding her an egg yolk that was soft boiled and she loves it! Other then that she doesn’t really want anything to do with anything that has to be spoon fed to her. She wants to hold it and eat it by herself, I have had to take chunks of banana’s and many vegetables out of her mouth after she bit off more then she could handle. She has 2 teeth and thinks she can handle much more then she can!

What better place to eat avocados then in a sink bath? :-)

This process of feeding her has been a learning journey for me. It was so God because when I was trying to decide what to do and when to start a blog I often read posted on that exact subject! So ask and you shall receive right!

Mom Has a Blog!

I am happy to announce that my Mom has launched her blog! This is something she has wanted to do for a while but wanted to do it right if she was going to do it. And she did! It looks great and I am excited to read as she posts and you should to! She will be posting encouraging topics for Mom's about life and all that this journey has brought her. Mom is my hero and I hope to one day be a Mom like her. She is so organized and runs a tight ship around the house, she home schools all the school age kids and is a wonderful Grandma to her 2 grandkids. I hope you keep up with her blog as I know it will encourage you no matter where you are in your journey.

Cleanse Day 17

We are on day 17 of a 21 day cleanse and to be totally honest it doesn't feel like we are on a cleanse anymore because we have gotten used to the diet we have adhering to. The diet that goes with it is all the vegetables and fruit you want, a small portion of brown rice and/or lentils each day and day 11 we added lean protein such as chicken, fish and eggs. I kept the protein in my diet from the beginning because of nursing. We have loved our new way of eating and hope to stay with it once we are officially done. I am no longer craving sweets and haven't really had anything that sounds good that I can't have in the last week or so. Its so nice to get that sweet tooth away and actually enjoy eating the things my body needs. Jeremy has lost 14 pounds and I have lost 9, we can both tell in our clothes that they fit so much better in many places. We haven't had stomach aches, heart burn, indigestion or any other affects from food. We both have energy and have slept great feeling more rested then before. I am again amazed that giving your body what it needs allows it to function at such a higher level and eliminating the things that your body wasn't designed to have takes away those issues so many of us deal with.

It has forced us to be creative with our meals since we aren't eating much meat or beans and both seemed to be staples. So now our main dishes are vegetables cooked all different ways! My friend and her husband who are great friends and both chiropractors have been doing it also and she has blogged some great recipes. My favorites that we have done have been a roasted chicken with vegetables and a lentil soup over brown rice. I have been inspired by a new favorite website, the nourishing gourmet and encourage you to check out her recipes. I have gained a new passion for feeding our bodies fuel for life rather then just eating for the pleasure of the moment. I have always had a passion for health but that has reached a new level while on this cleanse. I plan to continue the eating plan strictly for another couple weeks and then adapt a version of it for every day life. Of course making exceptions here and there to enjoy that pleasure of the moment! =)

I have to brag on my dear husband who has been a trooper on this and done great! Before meeting me Adkins is how he would have lost weight and now her has learned that he can survive 10 days with no meat! He has also been encouraged by the results and though this was in no way his idea he hasn't complained much and has eaten every vegetable I have put in front of him! What a man!!

I plan to post some recipes on here as I try some new ones and hope to inspire each of you on this journey of life!