On Photos

I have been inspired recently by a dear Insta-friend to take more photos with my husband. She and her husband have made it a priority to take a photo together each week, for memories and for their children. 

I love this idea. It's so easy for me to take photos of beautiful things--places I've been, meals I've cooked, people I love, my cats. But John and I rarely get behind the camera together. I think we both like taking photos, and it's also just easy to forget to take pictures together. Or I don't have any makeup on and am feeling self-conscious. This should not be. I want to remember us, at every age and stage, with every haircut, made-up or not, dimples, wrinkles, and the on-coming grey hairs and all. I love us, and here's a photo to prove it. 

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Photoshoot!

We've been "home" in Ammurica now for a little over 3 weeks now, and I feel like there is so much that I haven't blogged about yet! So, I'd like to play a bit of catch-up and post about our last few weeks in Korea, our travel adventures, and the beginnings of our transition back to living in the States. 

The hubs and I really wanted to be able to have our photos professionally taken before we left Korea. Firstly, because we hadn't had photos taken since our wedding day 5 years ago; and secondly, because we wanted photos to mark our time in Korea as it was coming to an end. 

Thankfully, we know this really wonderful photographer! Our sweet friend, Karen, was willing to photograph us in our natural Korean habitat. ^^ We had a blast taking photos with her, she has such an amazing eye and she is so creative! Not to mention, her editing is fantastic. Here are some of my favorite shots from our shoot: 

Thank you so much, Karen! 

We will treasure these photos forever! 

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This is not the end.

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Twenty-seven.

27 years of life. 

14 years walking with Jesus. 

5 years with an amazing husband. 

4 years adventuring in South Korea. 

8 more days until California. 

An uncountable amount of people who love me. 

I am so thankful. 

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Whirlwind Wedding Weekend

John and I are now back in Korea after our whirlwind trip home to California for my brother's wedding. It was SO beautiful! We had such a wonderful time seeing family and friends, and celebrating my brother and his new wife. 

Here are some photos of the beautiful day: 

Getting ready with the seester & my big girl shoes. 

From top left, clockwise: brother, dad, mom, husband

Here comes the beeeeautiful bride! 

The handoff. 

CUTE decorations! 

Dancing in to the reception. 

Table 12--I helped make the wedding favors! 

Speeches & songs. 

Dancing & cake. 

The getaway car. 

Congratulations SO much, Mr. & Mrs. Majzoub! 

I love you both dearly! 

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Someday Baby

One of my Pinterest boards is entitled "Someday Baby" and it is full of cute and wonderful ideas for the future. 
And yes, I do mean future. This is not a pregnancy announcement. 












Within the last year however, I have wished for that "someday" to be more of a "sometime soon". 
The baby fever really hit me last year, when my BBF (best-baby-friend) was born, and I haven't been able to shake it since. 

This week my husband wrote a post about our recent baby-thoughts, 

and I'd love for you to hop on over and read it here. 

And in the meantime, 

I hope to turn my "someday" sighs 

into "Thy Will be done"s. 

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Happy Valentine's Day

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Easy-Peasy Heart Banner {a photo tutorial}

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Dear Dad,

I've been missing you a lot these days. 

I miss your hugs. 

I miss drinking tea together. 

I miss driving and listening to Enya in the car.

I miss hearing you whistling through the house. 

I even miss your cheesy jokes. =) 

I miss you, Dad. 

I'm sorry that I couldn't be home

to celebrate your birthday with you this year. 

But I'll be thinking of you all day. 

Love, your

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Pre-Flight Jitters

In just over 24 hours the hubs and I will be

departing on our long-awaited trip Stateside. 

Three take-offs and landings later, 

we will be home. 

I say "home" and I mean it. 

"Home" has become a very fluid word for me 

in the last few years. 

I think all my expat friends will be able to relate. 

Home is where the love is. 

And there is so much love waiting for us in Tennessee. 

I'm not really looking forward to 

saying bye-bye to my Moto-cat tonight

or to the 2 layovers that we have in

store for us tomorrow, 

BUT,

here's what I am looking forward to for our trip: 

*FAMILY! 

*hearing and speaking English everywhere

*TARGET! 

*REAL Thanksgiving food!!! 

*just. relaxing. 

*catching up and sharing laughs

with people I love

*Red Robin

*pumpkin pie

*TARGET!! 

*visiting my very first Hobby Lobby

*autumn in pretty TN

*not working

*people-watching in airports

*my neck pillow

*reading through an exciting new series

and 

*TARGET!!! 

I covet your prayers for the hubs and I as we travel, dear friends. 

Please pray for safety for us and please pray against spiritual attack. 

Pray that John and I would operate  in great love 

towards one another in the midst of the chaos of traveling. 

And please also pray that God would grant us 

wisdom and clarity on how to spend our time and money

during this trip. 

God-willing, my next post will be from the States! 

LOVE! 

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Happy birthday, Hubs!

I'm looking forward to dancing through so many more years with you, God willing! 

I love you. ^^ 

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Happy birthday, Momma!

I love you and miss you so.

Linking up all over the place.

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The Hubdate

Last week I posted about the hubs being sick and us not knowing what was wrong and being worried about it.

Well, now we know...

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Traffic Jam

Imagine that you are sitting in your car on the local highway. 

Your car is not moving. 

You are in a traffic jam...

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In Sync

Nope, this post is not about the beautiful boy band 

that haunted my adolescence, sorry. 

It's about marriage...

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We SO excited!

I lead a pretty simple life here in Korea. Not too many extraordinary, overly exciting things happen to me on a regular basis. 
And don't get me wrong, I LOVE my simple life. LOVE IT. 
BUT... 

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Green Card

No, I'm not traveling, nor am I pursuing work in another country. 
But, I do have a new green card...

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Fourth-a-versary

This post is dedicated to my John. 

Today is the fourth anniversary of our wedding day. 

Four years. 

1,461 days. 

35,064 hours. 

2,103,792 minutes. 

126,227,704 seconds. 

Thank you, John-dear, for the best 126,227,704 seconds of my life. 

Happy Fourth-a-versary! 

I love you. 

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Views from {Auntie Fay}

I love the time I've gotten to spend with my dear friends and their little son lately.  

I especially love seeing my John love on the little guy. 

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