It feels like every time I turn around lately there’s another proposal on Instagram. I wish I could sit down with every single engaged person and talk for hours about how exciting this season is and give them all the advice I have, but I know that isn’t always possible. And I also know that when you get engaged advice starts flowing in from every single direction, and that can be so overwhelming. But just a few weeks ago when one of my best friends got engaged, she asked me “what is your best engagement advice?” and I knew it was time to put all my thoughts, advice, and encouragement out there. I’m…

Follow. Friend request. Scroll. Search. Scroll some more. We’re all doing it. Some of us for hours and hours a day. It is probably even how you found this blog post. It’s a part of our daily lives, our society, our relationships, and if we’re honest maybe even a small part of our identity. Social media. We aren’t gonna escape it. So how do we take control of it rather than let it have power over us? First and foremost we need to realize that we have no obligation to be present on social media and our identity is not found in the number of followers or likes we have.…

On January 18th I married my best friend and high school sweetheart, Jaden. We got married on our 5th anniversary, so now we get to celebrate 01/18 forever!! Because we had already been together for so long. I really didn’t expect to learn very much or for there to be very much change right away, but BOY was I wrong! In the last 6 months I have learned more about Jaden, myself, our relationship, and the Lord than I could have possibly expected. I mean quarantine teaches you a lot about a person. Marriage has stretched me and grown me a lot, and I am thankful that I get to…

Often times I go through life taking for granted the enormous amount of blessings that have been poured on me, but other times, including as I write this, I find myself brought to tears at the marvelous blessing of being a child of God. And today that also means being overwhelmed by the blessing of being a daughter to my amazing parents. As a college kid, this is probably the blog you’re expecting me to write the least. But here I am, acknowledging just how stinkin awesome my parents really are and just how awesome my life has been. Yeah, you read that right. My Parents Are Awesome. And awesome people deserve to be thanked,…