wish i was here tuesday

today I wish I was here :

Source: Uploaded by user via Kelly on Pinterest

sippin on this

Source: cafedemitasse.com via Natasha on Pinterest

 with THIS beauty

 to celebrate 25 years of life!!!

Happy Birthday Mags! Realized we've lived apart longer now than we've lived together, good thing we haven't let it change a thing. love you sister.

blog crush

a new blog to check out:  my bff Maggie that you've heard me talk about here & here & here FINALLY has her own blog after being pin crazy and a blog lurker she has joined the blogger world :) Go show her some love today!

featured: MM

so you all heard me rave about my best friend who is a fashion design student at FIT when we went to visit NYC for her show. The show is called Fusion, it is a competition between the 2 design schools in NYC- she is in her last semester at FIT.

i wanted to share her creations with you all
the line: the estrangement
(she is 3rd from the right- the rest are her 5 looks)

the show from brian's iphone:



how awesome is she?! did the last look give you chills??

happy...

BIRTHDAY to my WONDERFUL friend jill.

Jill, I am so thankful for you in my life and so excited to walk through

ALL seasons of life with you.

xoxoxo.

KOBELINS

I love these two so so much. They are 2 of my very best friends, I think there is something so special about having that friendship with them both.

here are some pictures from their wedding as promised-- we had a great time!!

The Lord is SO good.

me and the hubs

besties

more besties- hubs and sister

bachelorette!!

We had a super great weekend celebrating jill + kyle's wedding. From the Bachelorette party, to the rehearsal & dinner, to getting ready, standing up there witnessing a great love and dancing the night away-- it was incredible! Jill is one of my very best friends and I love her so much. It's such a nice bonus that my husband and her husband (NOW!! yay) are also great friends with each other so the 4 of us get along SO great, it is a blessing to have friends like them.

I shared with you all how excited I was for our Bachelorette weekend in Sunriver 2 weekends ago-- here a few pictures:

Fun Hike!!

me and Jilly

Headed out into Bend for dinner!!

Beautiful Bride-to-be!!

all the ladies!!

wedding pictures to come...

TGIF!!!

Hello my friends!! It finally feels like summer, it's been way hot this week and I am ready for need  a tan!!

I'm headed to Sunriver, OR this weekend for one of my best friend Jill's bachelorette party!! I'm excited for the heat, the sun, eating lots of fruit, girl time, the pool, the river, lots of laughs and celebrating Jill and her wonderful upcoming marriage!

Makes me think of my bachelorette weekend last summer- a wonderful time on the Oregon Coast. We cooked, watched Friends, played on the beach, roamed the streets of Seaside and drank some wine.

{my sister must have been taking the pic}

We had SUCH a blast- so relaxing and exactly what I needed and wanted!

{sorry mags... haha}

What are ya'll doing this weekend?! What did you do for your bachelorette parties!?

and ps my #FF is my SISTER because I love her and she rocks. Go check out her blog and become a follower!! She leave for Africa in 3 weeks!! 

teapots

2 years ago my mom's best friend passed away. She was an incredible woman. So giving, so loving. She played a really special role in my life as she did not have any kids of her own. The love of her life passed 20 some years ago and she had decided at the point that she would not ever love anyone else as much. I miss her so much. She was an incredible woman. There are so many things that I am going to remember about her. She loved to cook, craft, decorate, shop, thrift and just all around make things more fun. She added a little pazaz to everything she did. One thing Zandra always told me was important was to have a collection. While she was sick, right before her final months she picked with me what I should collect. We decided tea pots. We celebrated Christmas with Zandra every year a few days before or after Christmas. We would have a feast at her house my family and her. The Christmas before she passed she bought me 2 teapots and lots and lots of tea. When I saw this picture it reminded me so much of how I miss her and how wonderful she is. So many of my passions come from her. Her and my mom used to dream up so many things, into their 50's. They started multiple businesses together and always did what made their hearts happy, I thank her so much for that idea and for doing that.

{via under lock and key}

birthday love

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MAGGIE!!!! one of my very very best friends for the last 10 years

LOVE YOU

The Maggie

{via sacramento street}

{via ?}

{via this is glam}

{via diary of lovely}

The Lindsay

2 home decor inspiration posts today dedicated to 2 of my best friends Lindsay & Maggie

{via real simple}

{via Lavendar & Lilies}

{via oh hello friend}

{via oh hello friend}

tea dates and the fab five

I shared part of my testimony with my girls at campaigners a few weeks ago. I shared about the year that Christ healed my heart. Some of that time I was doing Summer Staff at WFR, He taught me while I was there so many things but one is that "Where the Spirit of the Lord is; there is freedom". Burdens were lifted and weight was taken away. There is SO much freedom in the Lord. We had such a great time together. I miss this:

Freedom reigns in this place

Showers of mercy and grace
Falling on ev'ry face
There is freedom

Jesus reigns in this place
Showers of mercy and grace
Falling on ev'ry face
There is freedom

Follow Friday

BLOG STYLE !!

Today is for my friends in real life.

Anna is my little sister & my favorite person in the entire world. She is a sophomore at the University of Oregon- rocking in her classes in the Journalism school. She loves Jesus, Young Life, Africa and PR. TOMS shoes has asked her and a friend to be the University of Oregon reps for their brand to help promote and spread the word of a great great cause. Check her out!

Mollie is my super cute second-cousin-in-law (or just cousin for short). She is a senior in college. We share a passion for non-profits, fundraising, events and straight up making things happen (only I don't get to do that right now and she's totally rocking in her career before she has even graduated!!). Mollie blogs about lots of different things from life in Seattle/Bellingham to work to fashion and music. I think she rocks so check her out!

Rachel and I met freshman year of high school at Jesuit. We shared a love of volleyball and competition. She is so wonderful and full of such great insight. She is one big ball on inspiration. She loves traveling, trying new things, making new friends. I love Rachel because she knows exactly who she is and is always just that. Rachel is one of the most loyal friends I have ever had. Her blog is both fun and thought provoking. LOVE her. Check her out!

Janice is incredible. Her and I got to be friends through our husbands being friends. She has always welcomed me with open arms and made me feel comfortable wherever we are at. Janice is an incredible elementary school teacher and has perservered through so much. I admire her clinging to the Lord to get through all things. Janice and I share a love for sweat pants on the weekend, home decor, cute things, good deals, peachwave and lounging. Check her out!

Morgan is my newest friend to begin a blog (as of this week) but I know it will end up being great. Morgan and I became friends right before my freshman year of college. We had a sweet few years of an incredible frienship in Eugene. She helped me get through lonliness. We are soul twins - we have so much in common and got to share so much together while in college. Morgan has a passion for life, a life full of fun and commitment to the Lord. Excited to see what she is going to do with her blog!!

AND Jessica!!! I just found her blog and haven't read many yet, I don't know Jess that well yet but I secretly (well not anymore) think she is one of the most beautiful people both inside and out!! For real. She is an amazing wife, mother and daughter of the Lord.

Check them all out and become a follower!!! (we all know that we loooove followers- its partly why we write, right!?)
Who do you want to reccomend for Follow Friday?
Post and link up here so we can all see!!

complete desperation

Unashamed Passion
Reckless Obedience
Complete Desperation

Brent Cunningham is a great friend of mine. He was my workcrew boss at the Canyon summer of '05 and that is where we first met. This man is incredible, he is so faithful and dedicated. He really loved me like a daughter. I got to spend a month with him, his wife and 2 girls whom are all incredible. He taught us to receive Christ's love; to really receive it, proclaim it aloud and to our Lord. This was so big for my relationship. Such an important piece of my foundation in my relationship with Christ.

Brent came to visit me in Eugene when I was a freshman. It was such a sweet time we shared together walking around campus. I shared with him my struggles as a freshman in a new school-- feeling like my relationship with Christ was all I had. He was such an encouragement and literally walked through it with me.

It's special when you don't see someone often but have spent a month becoming family and that's how your relationship always feels- full of unconditional love and "sweet reunions" as Brent would say. This is the beauty of workcrew, the beauty of the Kingdom, the beauty of real life and the beauty of fellowship.

Also during his visit he shared this vision with me: Unashamed passion and reckless obedience in relationship to my (our) walk with Christ. He encouraged me (us) to live this way. It is something that has stuck with me ever since. It's an important saying to me and encourages me every time I recite it. Being completely unashamed of the love you have for Christ. Having a passion in your heart that is so large and you aren't one bit ashamed of it. Being completely and ridiculously obedient. Obedient to the point that it seems reckless. I LOVE this. If we truly lived each day this way, think how much more we would stay on His path for us, and think how much more he could teach us; with the ears of our heart obediently wide open.

Last year I added Complete Desperation to the end of it as I felt like this was something I needed in my life as well. As a controller, I can't fully give myself way to God unless I am in complete desperation, on my knees, striving for Him each day. At a place of brokenness and acknowledging that brokenness daily is when I am fully living for Him.

Jill&Kyle

Wedding inspiration {for fun} for my best friend Jilly

I love them both so much. They are so special to me and I love to look back on how much our friendships has at all the same time; grown, changed and stayed the same.

I cannot wait to be friends forever.

LOVE you guys

Kyle & Jill: July 17th 2010

{pictures from: facebook, brides.com, jcrew.com, Brooklyn Bride & 100 layer cakes}