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He Proposed!!!!!!!!!!
We dated through high school and then I followed him to college. He graduated and moved to NC for a year and just moved home on Friday! About a month ago, his mom called me and asked if I would help...
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Our Wedding | Year 1
literally go on and on for about 6 or 7 more paragraphs. Michael and I had so many AMAZING people help make our wedding day possible and we are so incredibly thankful for every single one of them. Our...
View ArticleA Big Change Deciding to be a Husband/Wife Team
Michael worked full time as the high school youth pastor for a year and half and then our lives started to change. It was a hard change. My business was booming… and I’m so thankful… but what that...
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Home Building 101
The included features were amazing and we wanted something FAR from cookie cutter. We live in a subdivision and so our process was a little different than those building outside of a community. We know...
View ArticleWe Waited an Entire Year for This! Join Us On The Journey
We built our current house because I woke up at 2am one night just two years after we were married and I had this vision of doing workshops in our home. My friend Melissa Jill modeled her workshops...
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How We Bought Land That Wasn’t For Sale The Power of Asking
We also wanted to find land that was CLEARED instead of wooded. My dream has always been to live in a wide open field with a pretty view just like where I grew up! My parents live on 10 acres in the...
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Breaking Ground! Building a Home Made for Hosting
I’m sure the girls who were surrounding me were worried. “She’s crying over DIRT and EXCAVATORS?” Yes. Yes I was… because those piles of dirt and those excavators represent the beginning of a dream...
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The Beginning Phases of the House Build Building A Home Made for Hosting
Instead of walking you through paragraphs and paragraphs, I’m just going to walk you through some images and tell the house story up until this point! Ok! So after you buy the land and make sure it...
View ArticleConstruction House Tour! With Two Surprises!
You're probably thinking... "Why are you posting a blog post on a SUNDAY?!!!" Well, call me crazy but I didn't blog last week and I've been wanting to share this house tour video ever since we filmed...
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We’re having a BABY!!! 2016-2017 The Most Exciting Year Yet!
Michael and I found out that our best friends Bud and Jill and my sister and her husband were expecting and we were so excited!!! We had all been kind of talking about how we were getting closer to...
View ArticleWhy We’ve Been MIA The Silver Lining of Gestational Diabetes
So what did I do? I googled it. Bad idea. That’s why I’m blogging about our experience because for others who have to walk through this journey, it doesn’t have to be as awful as it sounds online. Yes,...
View ArticleWhen Being One in a Million isn’t Cool Life Update & Prayer Request
It didn’t really affect wedding days because that finger is my trigger finger and doesn’t hold any of the weight of the camera. However, once I passed the 7 month mark, the swelling was noticeable and...
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Introducing Everly James Alsop Her Birth Story
We had a rough three weeks leading up to her birth. We were told that scheduling a c-section was basically our only option. But we begged at each appointment to wait, because we really didn’t have a...
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Dear James Michael A Letter to Our Baby Boy
We told your grandparents and they were equally just as shocked and excited. You were a surprise blessing that no one saw coming… except God. We took you on a trip to California and Arizona with your...
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Baby James’ Birth Story A Story of Loss & Hope
I’m so thankful that God has allowed Michael and me to share our journey, because it has allowed us to share our son with the world. I know that not every parent who loses a baby will have a desire to...
View ArticleA Preview of James’ Story + Our New Season A Story of Loss and Hope
When we look back at pictures and remember our time with baby James, I feel both joy and sadness. I’m thankful that we saved so much of that season but I’m so sad that he isn’t here. I cherish those...
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Happy 1st Birthday Baby James Celebrating Our Baby in Heaven
It was easy to fall into thinking that we didn’t do enough today… like we should have had a party for James… we should have started more traditions… we should have acknowledged him more. It’s easy to...
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Introducing Graham Warren Alsop His Birth Story
I gave birth to James on May 1st and we said hello and goodbye on that day. Three months later, on August 1st, I was pregnant with Graham. We had prayed about trying and realized that we had...
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