the breakup

If any of you have been anywhere near the blog world for awhile and know what the initials YHL stand for, then you most likely are aware of what I'm referring to with my post title. I began reading Young House Love blog when they first began over five years ago and it has been a daily/weekly routine of mine. There were odd jobs I had in college where I would watch the clock tick away and hit the refresh button on the screen waiting for their latest post just to get me through my shift. In this weird way, I felt like I knew them. My sisters used to joke about how I talked about them as if we were best buds. Okay, that makes me sound crazy but they were really inspiring and great writers.

My friend and former roommate, Ashley feels the same way. We started chatting about it via text today. I couldn't help but go down memory lane.

Fact: we met the bloggers/book author at a book tour and made one of their blog posts.

So ALLLLLLLL that to say, after talking to her I realized I haven't really blogged in a long time. YHL always inspired me to blog but I've grown out of it myself so I don't blame them. But with so many friends in so many different places, I do like to check in every now and then and give folks a life update so here she blows.

House Stuff

We are pretty much settled in and ready for an open house soon. We are still loving our home decision even when both garage doors break (yup, that happened). We have sweet neighbors, two that are are friends so we are enjoying that. I feel like I do more cleaning than ever since it is a bigger space than anything we have ever had but I'm not complaining. We feel incredibly blessed to have purchased such a beautiful home. We are proud. We still have many little things we want to do but I'm at the point now where it is time to sit back and let them evolve slowly. I'll do a blog reader picture tour soon for all those that are too far to visit.

Personal Stuff

Our jobs are going great. Now that I'm in my third year at my job, I feel much more at ease. I've come a long way in the how to balance job/marriage/friends category. I'm thankful for the amazing people I get to work with and the opportunities I have to make a small difference in the life of children. Todd is loving his part in the ministry. He was made to do what he does and to see him fulfilled makes me happy. I'm clearly way more invested in his job than he is mine which is totally fine because my first passion is certainly seeing people far from God raised to life in Christ. Again, we feel so blessed with the community of friends we have developed here in Charlotte and the outreach we are able to be a part of.

This is us these days in case you forgot what we look like.

Photography by: http://www.brianschindler.co

Hope to be back soon with more updates! Love to all!