Going for it.

It's been a while and I feel like I've started most of my posts with those same 4 words...I'm not complaining though because life is a complete blessing and I love how busy we have been. A couple of weeks ago, we woke up at 0400 to head to the BAHAMAS! My husband and I spent 8 beautiful days at the Atlantis resort & casino on Paradise Island. We took over 1200 photos- here are a couple. I love that I kept a journal during most of the trip. To be honest, I bought the journal to use during 2013 since I will be away from home a lot and want to be able to look back at the thoughts I had. To be honest, yet again, I haven't really stuck to it--so much for trying HA! I've seen some bloggers turn their blog into books at certain points and I think that would be a really neat way to capture the year. Especially because there are link ups with neat themes, beautiful layouts, and the ability to share photos- so here's to starting small and saying I will try to blog once a week {at least}.

{{About to swim with Dolphins!}}

{{The BEAUTIFUL creation that we spent most of our time in.}}

{{AMAZING}}

{{1 of our many dates.}}

{{Love.My.Husband.}}

Random thought for today: Ever had a goal/idea/dream in your head and you couldn't get it out?! That sure has been happening to me! It was driving me nuts trying to decide if it was about me having "selfish" plans for my life or if it was God saying "alright--c'mon when are you going to believe me and let me do the work?!" Well--after praying about it and asking God pretty much something along these lines "if this is Your idea God--I know it wont go anywhere but if it isn't your idea, and this is a selfish want of my own, please help me to be at peace and forget about it" and not only did it NOT go away, but EVERY conversation we had with our friends/pretty much every sermon we would listen to brought it up. So not only is this not out of my head, it's all over the place! It's like God is saying "HELLO--DO YOU GET IT YET?!?!?!" We were at church today listening to the final message in a series about Writing the story that God wants you to tell. There are times in life when we just need to GO FOR IT and trust that God has the details covered and that He will help us achieve the dream. We don't need faith to finish--we just need the faith to start and the rest will fall into place.

That was powerful to hear today. With the talk of the new year still going on and the changes happening around us every single day--we need to become the outspoken generation. The generation that stands out in faith, that isn't worried about what people think, that expect His great plans for us (Ephesians 3:20) and that KNOW, no matter what, that God is still God and that we always have a reason to praise Him!

I look forward to link ups this year, I look forward to documenting all the HUGE plans that God has in store for us this year and most importantly I can't wait to keep on Smiling--because NOTHING is better than this AMAZING moment that we have been given on Earth.

Just go for it,
-M