(all photos are the property of Maiedae)
You GUYS, guess where I will be on June 1st?! The Maiedae Mixer – an annual fancy networking event for bloggers and creatives in the Southeast region. Jenny and Savannah of Maiedae are the two lovely ladies behind this event and from the looks of the gorgeous location, raffle items, and cupcakes (yes, there will be cupcakes!) it looks like they have completely outdone themselves! Have I convinced you to join us for a night of getting fancy and hanging out with like-minded ladies yet? Did I mention there will be a flower crown buffet? You’ll definitely want to pop over to the event website to check out the rest of the fun details and grab your ticket before they’re all sold out!

I’m positively giddy about having the opportunity to go to my very first blogger event. I casually mentioned the idea of going to my husband when I first heard about it, but I didn’t think it would really be feasible to travel almost 6 hours away to Rome, Georgia for it. Nate sweetly reminded me that we travel for his marathons, so why wouldn’t we travel for something important to me? He is usually the planner and I tend to like it that way. I’m a go with the flow kinda gal and I’d rather go along with someone else’s plans than try to create my own. I can have fun doing just about anything and I often worry that other people aren’t enjoying themselves when I make the plans! Silly, right? Nate is teaching me to recognize this trait and to realize that if it’s important to me then it’s important to him. We’re going to have a great mini trip and he already has some plans for the few hours I will be at the mixer! Sometimes you just need to go do something because it’s fun!

So, is it time that you did something for you? Maybe a girly weekend out of town is just what you need! I hope to see you there. =)

I had a hard time putting my camera down at Ashley & Brian’s wedding a few weekends ago! It was beyond perfect and I wanted to make sure that there wasn’t a single moment that went undocumented. Lucky for me and my anxiety about not capturing perfect moments- they hired a photographer! What a novel idea, right? I had a lot of fun pretending I was the photographer/videographer when I had minute though! Just look at these gorgeous people and this venue. Who wouldn’t want to take pictures of everything? Once again, I’m so happy for Ashley and Brian! I almost started gushing about my emotions again just now, but then I decided to spare you. ♥

Nate ran a half marathon yesterday – that’s 13.1 miles for those of you who don’t know. I’m sure that you already knew, but I just know that if I wasn’t married to a marathoner I would have had to use my Google searching powers to figure that out. So if I saved you 5 seconds.. you’re welcome. Not to brag on my husband or anything but (yes – to brag on my husband) he finished ahead of his projected time at one hour and 51 minutes! The race was out at Keeneland and it was beyond beautiful weather for it. My Mother-in-law and I grabbed some breakfast and coffee at Panera Bread and then made our way over to the race to hang out near the finish line and wait. Waiting for him always makes me so nervous! I always want to get the perfect photo and I’m always worried I will get distracted and miss him running by! Thankfully I saw he and his friend Daniel with quite a bit of time to snap a few photos and cheer them on! So, so beyond proud of Nate. I hope he can always tell that I’m his biggest fan!

On March 21st Nate and I celebrated seven years of knowing one another. We sent our annual (slightly cliché and sappy) text messages to each other on Thursday, gushing about how ridiculous it seems that we have been together for over 1/3 of our lives now.

♥ June 15, 2009 ♥Yesterday it hit me a little differently as I sat at work longing to relive this past weekend. It was one of those ‘ah ha’ moments that made me positively giddy and excited to be living this one precious life. What was it, you ask? The realization that our relationship has been growing every day since the day that we met, and that it will continue to get better every day going forward. That’s exciting, right? Every day of my marriage will be the best day of my marriage yet because we’re learning more about each other every single day. A lot of people frown upon getting married young because “people change”. But I haven’t been able to figure out how that’s a bad thing. Watching Nate change and grow has been one of my favorite things about being married to him and I hope he would say the same about me. Some of the most identifiable traits that make us each who we are today have really only developed in the last few years. Nate wasn’t a runner when we met; not even when we got married! So he certainly didn’t have a goal to run a marathon on all 7 continents in 2016 at that time! I was a blogger, but I didn’t have a sense of direction that I wanted to go in with blogging. I had no plans of being serious about photography, handmade, or lifestyle blogging as an actual source of income – but that’s slowly started to change and I’m making baby steps. We both have these relatively new interests and lofty goals to accompany them – but we love helping each other toward achieving those goals.

This past weekend was wonderful – we watched our two sweet friends get married, danced the night away at their wedding, went out for a delicious Sunday afternoon brunch at First Watch (we’d never been before!), hung out a while at our favorite local cd/record store, had a beer at Country Boy, and stopped at Barnes & Noble on the way home to buy a book I’ve been looking for. Our weekend was the perfect mix of things we both enjoy (except for the dancing – he did that just for me! haha!) and I’m so thankful that we’ve started to love a lot of the same things. I can’t wait to see how our relationship will continue to grow over the next year and the next!