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H A P P Y ANNIVERSARY to me and the mister! ♥ Today is our day! Isn’t it crazy how quickly your mind can flip back to a certain day like it was just moments ago? Since our wedding, we’ve conquered many challenges with our love {tee hehe}, like a 7-month span of unemployment; 4 [...]
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It has been super chilly in Minneapolis these last few days. No fun! I’ve even worn my red knit slipper boots a few times. Bauer probably laughs at me when I wear them. Haha! {Also, I thought it was mid-April…?!} I’m linking up with Lindsey today for WIWW :] All my items are from Target [...]
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Here are 3 more pics from our date last Saturday. Ohhhhh, looking through all the pictures we took for the magazine feature makes me SO HAPPY! {I’ll share the rest of the pics once the feature publishes.} I love dates with Zack. An afternoon spent in Uptown — eating yum-o food & making silly faces [...]
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Uh oh, I was supposed to answer these questions MONTHS ago — shame on me!!! Please say you’ll forgive me :] I promise to be better at responding to your questions because really, they do mean so much to me. Below are my answers to *12* questions ~ enjoy ♥ Stephanie and I at Blissdom, [...]
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Zack and I met in college — we were both freshman at Central Michigan University. It was pretty much love at first sight ♥. Zack and I had mutual friends and often saw each other around campus. At the time, Zack was singing in an all-male a capella group, and he wooed me with his [...]
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{photo credit} This post is a continuation of part I, which is part of my mini-series on budgeting. *** “You can do anything you put your mind to.” Do you believe that phrase? I was reading a blog that was hosting a recent Gussy giveaway, and the author wrote about Gussy: The short version of [...]
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Budget, noun: an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. No, don’t run away. Come back here — budgets are actually incredibly awesome and not that hard. Honest! Remember how I quit my day job 3 months ago to sew on Gussy exclusively? Yeah, that was because Zack and I made [...]
Read the full article →$25 Gussy shop credit goes to Jessica @ The Jenkins Family — yeow for Jessica :) I’ll be emailing you soon so you can redeem your credit. Gosh, I am just so thankful for all the comments left — 118 to be exact. That is a nice pat on the back :) Thanks again!!! If [...]
Read the full article →Zack and I got married one year and 4 months ago. I have cherished my wedding bouquet ever since because it was the most beautiful bouquet I ever laid eyes on. I remember my mom, on the day of our wedding, saying, Honey, would you like to see your bouquet? Gosh, it was gorgeous. White [...]
Read the full article →I have a little but typical-of-Gussy random story to share. Oh, who am I kidding? This is going to be semi-long. I had a rewarding experience yesterday. Zack was setting up the router for our wireless internet and I was sewing and prepping new products. Let’s just say I had a lot of time on [...]
Read the full article →delight yourself inthe LORDand He’ll give youthe desiresofyour heart, psalm 37:4 *** About 447 days ago, Zack and I stood in front of my childhood pastor and listened as he spoke these words: What is the date today? June 7, 2008 That is 6-7-08 What does 6 + 7 + 8 equal? 21. two become [...]
Read the full article →I posted this video a few months back. I’m here to share it again. The composition is so truly beautiful, it gives Gussy goosebumps. I love to listen to it. I hope your day, your entire day, is so very relaxing and where ever you are you are able to take a few minutes to [...]
Read the full article →What a great, great weekend. Zackary and I spent it at our home and definitely spent a lot of time relaxing. Friday night, his aunt called and we talked for over an hour. Oh, Gussy ;) Saturday, I did some housework, met a girlfriend for coffee and we chatted for over 3 hours! Yeah :) [...]
Read the full article →Our first wedding anniversary trip {married 06.07.08} started out with an adventurous drive to the family cottage. We wanted to save money but still do something we’ve never done before, which is stay at the cottage without parents — or anyone else, for that matter. After hearing Z lost his job just an hour before [...]
Read the full article →I can’t believe we’ve almost been married 1 year! :)36 days to go…until our first anniversary… ********************* 06.07.08 all photos courtesy Mandy Gould :)
Read the full article →I’m taking a little break from The Sweat Shop to give you all an update. First, I’m finally finishing two projects that I started earlier this week. Since I had The Bachelor to watch on Monday, and Wednesday I had the day off work, not much got done. So sorry :( Anyways, I have two [...]
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