Daily Tide 11.19: Harper at 2 Months ♥

oh my goodness, how I love this girl...

I love everything about her... seriously.

she makes the best lil faces...
I totally see her dad in this next one :)

Mom, sister and our most precious niece came in town for the wedding...
Our time together flew by much too fast...

Matt and I had THE BEST time just hanging with them :)  

Daily Tide 11.19: Mr & Mrs. Dan Mueller

It was a very, very special day!  

The ceremony was incredible...the venue absolutely beautiful...

Here are a few snapshots from my camera, taken by my friend Sienna...  

Bre looked stunning... radiant... absolutely beautiful...  It has been an incredible privilege for me to watch the Lord dress her up and make her beautiful from the inside out... true beauty... Her Savior he has clothed her with a gentle and quiet spirit... He has adorned her with joy and love and grace...

Dan's first look at his beautiful bride...

How is it that the old man jumped the highest... ?!?

Scan through the next two pictures quickly... these two will have to find a place in my house soon...

 :)

It was FREEZING in the field...  here we are trying to hide in the boys jackets...

Bridal party...

Ceremony...

First kiss as husband and wife :)

God is SO GOOD... today is a special reminder of His great love and goodness :)

My prayer for you marriage as you begin your life as husband and wife, is that you love for each other would be defined and motivated by an overwhelming gratitude of how God has loved you...  That as you celebrate the grace of the Savior, you would willingly, sacrificially, and unconditionally desire to give your spouse what God has already given you.  My prayer is that you both, together, grasp how wide and long, how high and deep, is the love of Christ; because we serve a God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.

I love you guys!  Congratulations!

Daily Tide 11.17: Wedding Rehearsal

Daily Tide 11.12: T-1 Week :)

Wedding day is almost here :)

Matt and I absolutely love these two!

We can't believe that in 3 short days we will be celebrating with them as they exchange vows and join their lives in Christ!

Peter described marriage as "the grace of life" (1Peter 3:7)... 

SO TRUE... No one has brought more joy/blessing/love/kindness/goodness to my life than Matt.

I'm sure they will find this to be true of their marriage as well :)

 

Daily Tide 11.9: Sunsets & Racehorses...

I love my husband... tremendously...

God has given him unbelievable wisdom in leading me...

Matt teaches me many things...

And he loves this race horse enough to show her there's a better way...

He reminds me that it is good to not be constantly running at a pace that results in injury...

He reminds me to play... to relax... to stop striving...

This racehorse tends to chomp at the bit, thinking of everything that "needs" to get done, making her thousand lists, and believing I'm the one to do it...

My husband reminds me that is simply NOT true...

"Cease striving and know that I am God...." Psalm 46:10 (NASB)

"Be still and know that I am God..." Psalm 26:10 (ESV)

I admittedly like many things... 

But only ONE thing is important.

I have a lot to learn...

Here's to tethering the racehorse inside...

And to taking in a-m-a-z-i-n-g sunsets with my love... 

 

P.S.
Yes, these are pics of the sunsets that inspired us to paint the hallway grey, which resulted in a second trip to the home improvement store to purchase more paint, which resulted in the installation of Mr. Beautiful black granite kitchen sink, followed by a return to our grey paint as we set ourselves about painting both the master and the office, which set us about deep cleaning the place-vents, air filters, windows, blinds, screens etc... oh, and since we were at it, why not just go ahead and put the extra brick in the garage to use and add brick to the space above our hall cabinets...

Now you understand why he calls me a racehorse...

Daily Tide 11.8: Bring on the Holidays

I have a confession...I've never cleaned the outside of my windows...

Probably because we have yet to invest in our backyard... which means there's no reason for me to gaze out my windows back there...

But it was getting harder to overlook the accumulated affect of four years of dust, dirt, water spots, etc...

So I did it!

I scrubbed all my screens, windows and sills...

Scrubbed the inside of the windows too...

And the blinds... 

Actually, I hand dusted each individual blind with a soapy rag...

Which got me into deep clean mode...

So air filters were changed, vents dusted, light fixtures disassembled and washed, recessed lighting was cleaned, walls were dusted, baseboards wiped down... 

And with this, we conclude our lil "project" season...

Temporarily suspending any and all projects for a while... 

We are looking forward to the upcoming wedding and holiday season.  Ready to soak up lots of extra hours with family and friends :)

Daily Tide 11.6: More Brick ♥

We had some leftover brick from our latest dining room project sitting unused in the garage...

Matt put it to good use this past weekend...

Enriching this lil cabinet nook in the hallway...

:)

Daily Tide 11.5: We still got it :)

Back in our Arizona days we had 2 doggies...

You have already met Ms.Zuma...

She has affectionately been deemed the "crack dog..."

She runs around like a crazy wind up toy...

Always deliriously happy with life...

Matt hand-picked our Zuma-girl way back in the day while we were still dating...

She's seriously the greatest.

We did have another dog.

He was an american stafforshire terrier.

We picked him up from the pound and named him Mac, because he was kinda like the mac daddy of canines...

He was one strong dude, built like a monster truck...

He had a literal six-pack that bulged out from the nape of his neck and ran down his back...

Whenever we took him anywhere we were always asked what we were feeding him...

We told them "doggie steroids"...

He was a good dog, fiercely loyal, pretty chill...

In AZ we lived about a mile from Matt's parents...

And Matt had this crazy idea that he would teach Zuma and Mac to pull us on the our long-boards...

It worked :) 

It became our primary mode of transportation to their house...

We'd strap them up in harnesses and set them off...

It didn't take them long to learn the route...

And they'd inevitably start racing each other, picking up more and more speed...

Matt and I just held on for the ride...

Good times :)

Though Mac is no longer with us (he kept biting other dogs, cost us lots of $ and had to go back to the shelter) and we've all put on another five years...

But it looks like we still got it! 

:)