life. dreams

Today, I have been thinking about dreams. We all have them big or small and they usually take up a lot of our thoughts. I am a Christian so I am also always wondering what does God think about this too. I was listening to a sermon this week and the pastor was talking about how we are motivated by three things: 1) Selfishness 2) Fear and 3) Love. Fear and selfishness suck the life out of anyone but love energizes. I think that God loves our dreams that are motivated by love. In fact, I think that most of those even came from Him. 


My love dream: Community- I am a lover of the body of Christ and seeing people share life together. I believe that there is no event too small to attend to support the ones you love and attending these events (like choir concerts, wedding showers and birthday parties) shows that you care and honor this person. My dream is greater sence of love and unity.  

What's your love dream? 

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People. Brit {The Magnolia Pair}

Well April is wrapping up today, but I do have one last sponsor. Its Brit from Magnolia Pair! I personally love her blog. She has adorable style (her blog is so flippin cute!!!), she's warm and fun. Show her some love and check her blog out. You will not be disappointed!

life. Oh How Pinteresting {Outfit Edition}

This Wednesday I'm linking up with The Vintage Apple for Oh How Pinteresting. This week my top ten pins are focused on outfits. I'm planning on going thrift store shopping this saturday for some summer dresses so I'm hoping to use this for inspiration. PS Portland has some AWESOME thrift stores- its kinda how we roll :).

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life. High Five for Friday

ITS FRIDAY!!!

                        .......enough said :)

I will again be linking up with the lovely Lauren for High Five for Friday!!!

Here are my top five exciting things from this week. 

1. I got my April Birchbox! It had Taylor Swift Wonderlust Perfume (a really nice sweet scent), some nourishing hair cream, tea, natural cleanser and moisturizer and some really cute nail polish!

2) Last night I went with some friends to our favorite Thai place here and Portland. So good. I had the Massaman Curry. 

3) I got a new record for my back squat: 175lbs!!!!

4) We surprised the heck out of my mom for her birthday!!! You can read about that here. 

5) Bath and Body works had a sale.... do you think I went over board??? lol! 

How was your week??

people. Surprise!!!

So yesterday was my mom's birthday and let me tell you, I pretty much have the best mom in the world!! So this year my dad and I got to thinking we need to do a surprise party for her. The problem is how to truly make it a surprise because if we were to take her anywhere around her birthday she would probably catch on. So we came up with the Home Invasion Birthday Party. Wendy (a family friend) arranged it and had everyone meet close by then they all arrived early with food, presents and decorations and surpised my mom (big time surprise!) singing happy birthday and then we had a instant party!!! It was great, especially since my mom is such a behind the scenes type of person. I loved seeing her in the spotlight and hopefully she will someday forgive us. 

Here she is with Penny. 

life. Oh How Pinteresting {Fitness Edition}

Linking up again with The Vintage Apple for Oh How Pinteresting!!! 


I have discovered that I LOVE themes!! So this weeks theme for Oh How Pinteresting is fitness. The beginning of last December I made a huge lifestyle change when I joined a local (crossfit style) gym and started eating Paleo (no grains, no refined sugar and a few other things). While this journey has been tough at some points it has been well worth the effort. I feel great, I'm losing fat and gaining muscle. I have challenged myself and have pushed myself past my preconceived limits. 


So, inspired by my fitness journey (oh, it is a journey-still learning like crazy!) here are my top ten pinterests for this week. I hope you enjoy!!!

Eating Right is like a prerequisite to being healthy. I love lean meat for 3 reasons. 1) It tastes great! 2) Its good for you. 3) It keeps you full. 

Weight is NOT an accurate measurement of fitness. I wrote more on this topic here. 

Motivation.

Stretching. Currently the thing I have the most trouble with, but I'm working on it :)

Truth. 

This is the story of my life right now! Last November I didn't know what a dead lift was. Now I can dead lift 225, squat 175 and bench press 110! I have surpassed all of my preconceived ideas of my own strength. 

 My kind of workout- Strength training with heavy resistance.

LOL!

Love This! Family and Fitness! New Role Model Alert!

Breakdown of running. Fascinating!!!

Love. Georgian Banov

Have you guys heard of Georgian Banov?? He is a wonderful Christian (Charismatic) Speaker. Last night, I went with some friends to a conference near my house where he was speaking. Just Wonderful! You know those people who have so much love and joy in them that it is contagious. Yep. Thats Georgian. Georgian is from Bulgaria and currently has a ministry to the Gypsies in eastern Europe with his wife Winnie. 
Check out their website: globalcelebration.com