my favorite of all time favorites.

I haven't join in at all with Jenni and her 30 days of blogging, but I knew when I saw this topic a few weeks back, that I wanted to join in! I've had this blog longer than most realize. For over three years now. Sheesh, back in the good ole days I blogged recipes, yard sale finds, and silly little things. It's hilarious to me to go back and read through some of my first posts. Also, embarrassing. Like looking at your middle school year book in agony over why your mother dressed you that way except this time you did this all to yourself. Can't make excuses this time. These are a few of my most all time favorite posts ever. If you want a good laugh, you should go start back at day one of this blog and read onward. Granted you'll need an hour or so, but I promise it will bring plenty of laughs:)

For different reasons the posts below go down as my favorite of favorite. Some for reasons you probably won't understand others you will. Nonetheless, I'm so thankful I have these. Oldest first:

Wedding pictures:)

What I want most in life. Looking back, I have pretty much every single thing on that list now. Geez Jesus is good.

Husband blogs on being a newlywed.

Finding out the gender of our first born. I'm SO THANKFUL I have these images!

Getting real about being pregnant.

The day C WAS BORN!!!

Celebrating the best month of my life.

Why I go without

being honest about how sinful I can be.

a life in the day of us. our daily routine

the sweetest family video (the last four minutes will get ya) & our easter celebration. 

Being C's momma  and one of my most favorite images with him.

Our spring family pictures and knowing we were taking them to create our adoption profile:) No one knew that's why we had them done! So thankful to have these sweet images!

learning to have grace.

announcing some BIG news about our family of three:)

Hope you enjoy a walk down memory lane here on this ole blog. NOTE: these are not my most embarrassing posts, but I promise they are out there... just waiting to be laughed at;)

That one time I was a famous artist... kinda

 friday:

 Saturday:

 Sunday:

This weekend was one for the books. So much family time with my favorites.

D i v i n e.

Friday I finally splurged on a dress at Target I've been eye balling. By splurge I mean I finally convinced myself to use the gift cards I've been saving since Christmas. We take gift cards very seriously around here. They. Are. Gold. Speaking of gift cards, husband and I planned on using one that night for a date night, but last minute we followed our inner calling (read gut) and ventured to Gus's Fried Chicken. It's a famous local place that husband I had never had the pleasure of devouring... that is until Friday night. Oh. my. There is something sooooooooooo right (regardless of what doctor's say. dumb doctors) about eating all fried food. Pickles, Chicken, Fries and mac n cheese smothered in who knows how many cheeses. I'm salivating at the thought. Afterwards, we stopped by my sweet friends to see their new place. C almost crawled. It was eventful.

Saturday, I overslept thanks to a sleepless night of endless craiglist searching....why don't I live in a city that takes mid century modern furniture more seriously... But got ready fast enough to go with my mom and sisters to the A-Fair a town over. It's basically one giant craft fair with circus food thrown in for good measure. Why? Because any event in the south includes fair food. It's the law, I'm pretty sure. Free puppies were being given away. I alllllllllmost convinced husband that we needed her. He's a real stickler sometimes. And I had kind of a star moment. We walked into a boutique and a painting I had sold at a yardsale was marked up and being sold. Pretty sure the owner was  embarrassed. I mean, I painted that joker in high school and totally didn't think anyone would pay good money for it... did you see it? A joke people. Nonetheless, they asked me to sign it and said I should start painting more for them to sell. I think they were just being nice since they were pretty much caught red handed buying goodwill items and selling them for high costs. Oh well, I walked out of there with the most darling hand made quilt you've ever seen for only 30 bucks. They probably stole it from a nursing home:) I kid. I kid. We finished up the day with a cook out at my sisters with some of our church friends. Hamburgers and the hobbit. Yes please.

Sunday, Husband preached (always a favorite), I went to my sweet friends wedding shower (girl in the middle.. she's gunna be a smokin bride), sadly watched the Grizz lose their first semi finals game, and ended the night with my church family and stuffing my face with blackened fish and wild rice.

Hope your weekend was splendid and filled with as much food consuming as mine was. Little sad how much I love food and blogging about it. Does it count that I started the 30 day shred back? I'm gunna go with a yes on that one.

The Way I See You : Week 7

A weekly collaboration of momma's capturing our children the way we see them.

  After His Smile

    Shelby and Brandon 

  Kate&Kuby

Email submission:

 Andrea

Instagram Contributors: Use hashtag #thewayiseeyouchallenge to be featured here

    @dawnellesarlo                                                         @bowdenism 

Rules of link up: 
Follow: Kate&Kuby, After His Smile, & Shelby and Brandon 
Your post must be shots of the ones you love the way you see them.
You must link back to this post  

Next week is DSLR week:)

some BIG news. eeeeeeeek!

 Because this post has to do with us expecting... here's an image from my sweet friends maternity session. Check out the rest of her session here:)

Today has been such a good day, like discovering Sonic put two cherries in your cherry limeade kinda good. And that my friends is realllly good. I worked out this morning, and then sat on my front porch in my rocking chair listening to the little family of blue birds that have nested on our pillars while having my quiet time. I sat there and prayed for a while rejoicing over what happened last night.

Last night was a pretty deciding night for the Kublers. By that I mean... we've decided to expand our family from three to four:) We are officially starting the adoption process & I couldn't be more over the top excited!!!!!!!!

I've looked forward to the day of blogging this post because I knew that it meant it was more than just a dream, but now finally a reality. Last night we went to a Bethany meeting about international adoption. We know we want to adopt from Africa, and Bethany has a new pilot program that allows just that. Usually both parents have to be over 25, but through this program only one has to be. We went last night knowing that this meeting would decide a lot about our adoption path. Unfortunately, international adoption is not what the Lord has first for us at this time. Down the road, yes, but not right now. So, we are elated to start a domestic adoption!!!

We still have a lot of deciding to do. Whether we are going to go through Bethany or MS/TN department of child services. We are praying through which one the Lord has for us. There are major pros and cons to both... if anyone reading this has any type of information on either that they could share by all means EMAIL THIS GIRL!

I could go on and on in this post about adoption, why it is right for us, why it should be right for you, but that's another post for another day. And I promise it's one I will be posting. But for now, I've got a little boy who is almost crawling and fussing because a toy is just out of his reach. So, I'll go play with him instead of typing all my thoughts out at the moment. I know so many people will think that this is kinda crazy. Yes, we are full aware that we just had a baby, and he is only 7 months, but we want to be faithful and follow the Lord. And the time is now. So we excitedly will follow!

My excitement today is equivalent to the day I held that pregnancy test up and saw two lines. We are expecting:) Sweet little boy, where ever you are, whoever you are, we are going to bring you home and momma is beyond ready.

Goodness. It's a good day. A good double cherry in your limeade day.