A story to tell

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I love looking at pictures and taking them, but I don't know about a thousand words, maybe more like 100 words! But I do have a thousand words to say and its not from some cool or funny picture.

I feel like I've always had a really good imagination. When I was young if I wasn't inside making elaborate homes for my barbies or coming up with plays and dances for my friends and I to perform, I was outside using my imagination to create any and everything. I look at some kids these days and just think, "wheres the imaginations? The fun games?" I just don't see it like I did in myself when I was younger. Even as I got older I could hear a song and come up with an awesome music video for it before the songs end. That's mainly why I don't like a lot of music videos, because I never like the outcome as much as what I came up with in my head.

So for quite awhile now I've been thinking a lot about something that I really want to do. I always pushed it to the back of my mind after thinking about it for "too long". Quite frankly I was too intimidated and scared to try and move forward with it. But after an AMAZING conversation with my husband the other night, I'm looking at things in a whole new light. We talked about my dreams and what I used to really be passionate about and want to do (talking about all this after realizing I've become an uptight, unfun chica) Zach gave me some great words of inspiration that slightly lit a fire up under my ass! So here it is, I'm finally going to right my book! Any of my friends reading this may be going "huh? she wants to write a book?" I've NEVER been vocal about this, I hardly even talk to Zach about it. But I'm going to move forward with it. I already have the type of book I want, partial characters, settings, plots and things like that. I don't want to say what its about but its going to be fiction loosely based on some real life things :-)
I know this is going to be a difficult journey.  I know I'm going to need lots of encouragement and prayers sent my way to actually follow through and complete this! But I know what I have in my mind and what I'm fully capable of so I know its going to be great!


** side note: You may be saying, ummm this girl cant spell, doesn't even know what grammar is and she's trying to write a book? Riiiiigggghhht. Remember me saying intimidated and scared? Yup, that's why. But I'll learn plenty along the way and figure out a way to get it right!**

a P.S. and Miranda

P.S. from yesterdays post. Forgot to add this video in. Love me some Miranda Lambert. I think this song is great and when I listen to it, it paints the picture of me and zach in my head :-)

All you need is love

Valentines Day. It means a whole lot to a lot of people. Me? not as much. Dont get me wrong, I dont mind it, but I've never gotten all crazy about it even when I was single. I dont feel you should wait until one day of the year to pull out all the stops, so to say. I enjoy celebrating this "day of love" with my husband, but I know we dont need to go spend all the money we've been saving on eating out for dinner, or for a dozen roses. Now, my honey already got me my specail vday present. My pink sparkley toms :-) oh joy. We dont have anything set in stone for how we are going to be celebrating tonight, but a good movie, some wine and a yummy home made meal sounds mighty perfect to me!

Zach and I dancing at our wedding reception.

But speaking of love, I feel so blessed to have so much of it in my life. Zach is amazing. He is still learning (and always will be for that fact, im a girl, we change and are moody!) and figuring me out. But man is he starting to get me good. He knows we he needs to push just a little bit further to get me to spill the beans or blurt out whats bothering me. Im a awful not so good communicator and he is a great one, most of the time. Because he loves me so much he really works with me and teaches me new things everyday about communicating and just how to better our relationship. Now, im not gonna lie. We have a far from perfect relationship, I think most NORMAL people do. We have our really hard days, really hard, but then we have all these amazingly wonderful days that totally trump any of the bad. Zach still treats me like a princess and would do absolutly anything for me, and I love him so much for that.

This past weekend was such a great weekend leading up to vday. Zachs daughter was down for the weekend, so I got to hang out with her a lot. My mom took us shopping on saturday which was A-MAZING (thanks mama times a million if your reading this!!!) and Sunday was just an all around perfect kind of day. The weather was pretty nice. We got to hang outside quite a bit, and Zachs daughter Savannah talked poppy (my dad) into taking the canoe out for the first time this year.(the canoe trip didnt last very long...way too windy) My sister and her husband and 2 little boys also came over and we all just hung out at Mimi & Poppys all day. Savannah made the sweetest valentine for my parents it almost made me teary eyed. My older nephew, Preston, and Savannah got to split an awesome Vday cupcake from Gigi's (highly recomend trying a Gigi's cupcake if you havent already).Savannah and Preston had so much fun playing together! And to end the day off Savannah got her valentines present from us, which was a ring with a ruby in it. She loved it! I love all of them so much and feel so blessed to have so much love.


Savannah had "valentines hair" Pink and blonde extensions we put in!



Pman... love his hands in his pockets, so cute!

Baby Hudson, getting so big!

It's a nice day for a white......kitchen?!

Its a nice day to start again.

 YES. That was a reference to Billy Idol- White Wedding. NO this is not a post about Billy Idol or music for that matter. Speaking of white wedding,  I didnt even wear a white dress at my wedding. My dress was Blush :-) It was amazing, but I digress. Anyways.... They say kitchens are the heart of the home. I dont know one person that doesnt want some amazing kitchen, amazing can mean something very diffrent to each person, but amazing non the less. We knew we were going to have to redo our new kitchen one day, but we were excited about that. Now dont get me wrong, we arent ready to tackle that project just yet, but it still fills me with excitement to look at pictures of kitchens and get ideas for our "dream" kitchen one day.

Something I used to be totally against was white cabinets. I mean if your gonna redo all your cabinets, why make them white? That seemed so boring. As ive gotten older I came to realize that white cabinets are actually kind of nice. Ill never be that person who has an everythings white house. Im to dirty, I have dogs, kids running around, and I just plain need more color in my life (side note: nothing wrong with everythings white kind of house, I actually love it, just not for me) I feel like having white cabinets leaves you with more possibilities for counter tops, backsplashes, accessories, ect. Heres a few I like the ideas of.
              

I love how they are white and light but have a touches of dark woods and colored wood in them to give it that something unexpected.
Another trend that seems to be growing on me are the colored wood cabinets(like the island in the middle picture). I used to say NO WAY, stick to natural wood colors, but my way of thinking has for sure changed! The more I see those types of cabinets, the more I can really picture something like that in my kitchen. Whether its the island or all of the cabinets, I think it looks fabo!

AND if you can't tell I have a little bit of island envy. Ive wanted a great big one for a while so the new kitchen will have to have one. Its ok to dream big :-)