Bringing it back Home

Happy Sunday Lovies ! I cant express how much I enjoyed my day yesterday with my mom and dad. I was lucky enough to celebrate a wedding and a bridal shower. It was fun to see so much love in one room and share that moment with everyone ! I have to admit this whole having weekends off is totally Working out for me. Having these 2 days off in a row allow me to spend time with loved ones and relax a bit as well. Coming home last night from my moms house just reminded me of how blessed I am . There has been some tragedies this week with some old co workers and I can not imagine what they are going through so experiences like that always humble one when you stop and look around and see that you are lucky enough to have another day with the ones who love you. I was able to finally go to dinner with my dad last night . We just talked and talked and talked and he shared stories and things his dad taught him growing up and I was so glad that I was able to listen to him and share his fond memories of his father. I dont know what it is about spending time with family that always just brings me back home. And back to the innocence of growing up. I want to wish you all a happy sunday and leave you with some words of wisdom. If everyday you werent guaranteed, wouldnt you want to know that you spent each moment living your life instead of fighting what you dont understand? We are NEVER guaranteed another day and life is so short. So wrap your arms around the ones you love and forget the ones that dont deserve your precious time on this earth. Laugh so loud and real that your heart leaps out of your chest. Love so deeply that there is no question to others on how you feel for someone. Feel every moment and breath in so deeply you are able to just embrace EVERY SINGLE BREATH you are lucky enough to take. And START LIVING YOUR LIFE. THE WAY YOU WANT TO. Love you all, B

Daily Quote Design

Good Morning ! So I usually am a sucker for posting daily quotes on Instagram and Facebook. I feel the quotes I get in my email are such powerful quotes but not too pretty or fun to look at. I am now going to be posting from time to time my own designed quotes to make them look more feminine and downloadable to have others do what they please. I am super excited to have these and I will always give credit to who the quote belongs to preceeded by a dash on the picture. I will also feature a few different edits so you have variety to download. All you need to do is Click on desired picture to enlarge, Right click picture and "save as" As you wish to set as a background or print . ENJOY

Kill Em With Kindness

I am so stinking happy ! My honey got together with one of his guys that builds computers and completely fixed my laptop! So onto blogging for me ! I have no excuse now. Not at all! I usually dont mind blogging on the laptop using the BLOGSY app but it just is so different and much less likeable without the keys of a laptop. So A ton has happened lately and I want to share some random thoughts swimmin away in my brain. This may be a bit sappy and quite frankly I am ok with that. I have learned the true meaning of strength and integrity and this has been all made an example by my Mother. My Mom has been put through the freaking ringer pretty much the past 10 years or so and without going into details I want to share some things that I have learned. In times where you are left feeling not good enough or less than someone else because the choices you made for yourself, you just have to move along. When I was growing up I saw my mom basically get left in the dark by someone who she truly cared for and loved and I can honestly say not once did I not see her presenting herself with class. At time I am sure that she wanted to let go and express her anger and hurt, but She always seemed to keep it together for my brother and I. Just recently she tackled yet another challenge kind of similar where she was left to feel small and littler than others who quite frankly were worse than making her out to be. I saw her pull strength out of a place that I dont even think she knew she had and rose her head up high and just kept walking and believing in the choices she made for herself. With all of the hurtful things and words she endured, She just killed em with kindness. She let all of those nay sayers say what they felt necessary to make themselves feel BIG and just kept on keeping on. At 24, I truly believed that my mom's job of teaching and setting an example for me was finished but I at that moment realized her job as a mother will never truly be over. I am so greatful I was a part of my moms transition to see what Integrity and Pride is truly about. I sometimes am faced with similar situations where people are just not pleasant ( to put lightly) And I have to remember that it may not be anything personal but that maybe they arent as blessed to have a positive attitude or a strong support system or have an example to live by at that. So I am choosing to kill everyone with kindness becuase at the end of the day no matter how they may feel about themselves at least they can remember who was nice to them even when they might not have been. Mom I am so greatful for you continuing to show me what it is to be strong.

On to some less gushy mushy stuff .. So I am starting to actually do some Pinterest crafts and projects and It is completely consuming my life. Here is one that I recently did and am obsessed with. I love watching vloggers showing their homes and seeing printables everywhere becuase lets face it, THEYRE FREE! (Except maybe the couple dollars you have to spend buying frames to put them in) I Found this site on Pinterest where you can look through a gallery of printed letters and make them your own. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/collections/72157594587080023/ I tried to decide what word I wanted printed and I just used the word LOVE to put above our bed. I loved the letter choices so much I could barely pick . I found the ones I thought would look best in our room and decided to put them all in black and white when printing. So here are some pics and ideas to use . First I downloaded the Original Picture to my desktop

Now obviously The colors dont really coordinate with each other but since I liked the look of them all I just made them black and white to all kind of go together. I then printed them from my desktop ( Remember to choose your paper size based on what size picture frame youre using. ) I got some black frames from the dollar tree and just put the prints in them. I at one point want to spray paint the frames a glossy silver but I need a bit more time for that :) Here is the final product

I am going to do some more crafts this weekend and Will be sharing them with you all. Happy weekend lovies ! B

Prayers and healing

As I am wiping tears from my eyes watching the charity concert for the victims of Oklahoma I feel my own faith in humanity has been restored. Countless hours are spent reporting on news channels telling us how many horrible things that are going on in our country and our world. But to see people come around and come together to help out cities and towns of natural disasters and even terroristic attacks on our very own homeland. Despite all the struggles that these victims have to go through will , they come together and I'm just so amazed and blessed to live in this beautiful country where we rebuild and regain strength. With Memorial Day passing Monday it makes me that much more appreciative for our heroes and soldiers. Having spent 4 years married military I have seen first hand the struggles and challenges our armed forces have to go through with deployments and being away from families and loved ones. I think it's beautiful and refreshing.

Let's keep this peace and love coming and continue to help rebuild our communities and our country after times of destruction and terror.

 

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Typing this makes me sad to say that I have completely SLACKED on my blog. Something that brings such joy to my life I have postponed, put off, and pretty much just dropped completely. I have some pretty good excuses though. My new laptop my honey bought me for Christmas has windows 8 which has a bad connection problem with the internet. I have waited two months for it to work and through research I have found that they released this version way too early. I still have a little update to do on it but its working now so lets cross our fingers that it stays that way. And Yes I have my IPAD but it has been adopted by my 5 year old nephew. ( Who totally has the highest score on temple run just to add ;)) So there are my excuses. I want to start out with some changes to my life I would LOVE to share. I quit my job at Larry Miller Toyota because they were practicing a few things I didn't not feel morally were for me and my beliefs. I am now at a new Toyota store and am loving it. I have found it is rather challenging but It has pushed me. And for those who know me, Pushing is healthy for my idle mind. I also want to bring up one more kind of taboo topic. WEIGHT. I am a thicker girl I weigh between 145-150 depending on when I weigh myself during the day. AND I LOVE EVERY OUNCE OF MYSELF. I was pretty heavy when I was married but it was due to my absolutely horrible relationship I definitely stress ate. I want to live a healthy lifestyle. I rarely eat fast food anymore and I have completely cut soda out of my life. The reason why I am bringing up my weight is because my ex husband recently took to his facebook to call me names and most of them were pointing at my weight. Its funny because I think for a slight moment I was hurt but I think I was more taken aback that after 2 years of being separated and done he still feels he has to put me down . So immediately after that brief and I mean brief moment I rose above and prayed for him. I know he has a lot of issues and if it makes him feel better I will just wish him courage and guidance to get through whatever he is going through. I am also greatful he said those words about me because of 2 reasons... He once again showed his true colors to the public and it made me appreciate my boyfriend that much more. I am with a man who loves me NO MATTER WHAT. He is the most supportive appreciative caring and nurturing person I have ever met. I have a lot of people who tell me that I am super gushy with him but the only reason I might be a bit much is because when you have had (excuse my language ) shit for a relationship for so long it just makes you love someone who is completely ok with you being yourself that much more meaningful. Many of you may be wondering why I am putting all of this out there and its simply for this reason. DO NOT LET WHAT SOMEONE SAYS OR THINKS ABOUT YOU TAKE AWAY WHAT YOU THINK OF YOURSELF. If at the end of the day you love who you are and what you are doing with yourself and what you stand for then love yourself for just that. DO NOT LET ANYONE EVER DETERMINE YOUR DAYS YOUR NIGHTS OR YOUR THOUGHTS. I am so greatful that with becoming older I have gained the knowledge and wisdom to know the difference between reality and what is perceived. I want you all to know that sometimes things will get tough and not everyone will accept your lifestyle, or how you do things, or how you go through your day but in the end who cares. I have taken all of these challenges and just laughed it off and actually end up loving myself a whole lot more. So for anyone who has ever said anything negative about me thank you because I have learned to rise above and love myself that much more. I really am going to try to blog more as long as my laptop keeps working but I just had to spew out all of this tonight. I will leave you with this. At the end of the day only YOU can control how YOU handle things. Good Bad and Ugly you are in control of how you use these challenges and what the outcome can be. YOU are merely beautiful no matter what ANYONE else thinks. If you believe this, The ones worth keeping around will see and be inspired to think this about THEMSELVES. And for those who don't.... Send a prayer their way.

Welcome!

As I sit here after a veryRelaxing weekend I take a look around and I must say that my house is my home. My serenity. My Safe Haven. Not only is it where I share my life with the love of my life, but it is my favorite place to be. Whether I am home alone , spending time with Michael, or hosting family or the girls, I just love being here. I wanted to share with everyone my little sanctuary .

Oh and Aspen totally had to be included in this. She is such a doll. Sundays are usually days for me to relax and I have to say a clean and decorated home just makes it that more easy to enjoy. Sorry this is so short, I gotta go and get dressed for my movie date tonight. Have a beautiful week everyone! B Sorr

Monday Monday !!

Like many of you Mondays truly just suck. I try and apply all of my happiness and positivity but let's face it. Mondays are the beginning of the work week, the furthest weekday from Friday and we all may need a tad but if motivation . Actually lets say inspiration. I subscribe to behappy.me And get a daily dose of some cute little quotes delivered to my inbox. So here is a little inspirational compilation of some quotes that helped me get through my Monday .

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