in Christ Alone....

what an easy title to write... 

but oh wow, to truly walk that way.. that is an entirely different story.  Praise God that he ALONE molds and grows us and we can not do it on our own.

So why is it that we try to... always?

I think this is the main battle of our walk with the Lord... that we constantly battle ourselves. 

The Lord has put this song in my heart for the last couple of months probably because God knew I would struggle with what this really meant.. Before I retired from being a youth director.. yes im 26 and I retired... I was teaching through the book of Philippians... I really love the teaching of Paul.  I do NOT get Paul at all.  He has SUCh faith and joy IN PRISON? ya'll prison... I would guess you could join me in saying that we struggle to have faith and joy in our homes.

Paul got it. and oh how I long to get it.

Many of you know I am writing a bible study currently... and you can probably guess by the babble at the top what the title is called! THANK YOUUU for those who have already ordered one! 

In Christ Alone is almost ready!

I love writing bible studies or quiet time books... It was one of my favorite parts of my job.  I do not claim to know a lot. But I do believe in the power of the Holy Spirit... that Jesus meant what he said when He left His disciples...He said it was to our advantage that He leaves and sends His spirit.. to be Jesus living inside of us.. oh heck yes! I cling to that as I walk through the text with you.  I promise that no matter what.. you getting in God's word will be a blessing. My goal is only to guide you... and no worries I have listened to tons and tons of sermons... so if it sounds really good... my friends Tim Keller and Francis Chan probably taught it to me somewhere along the road... I wish they were my friends. 

To order email me

OH! HomeGoods!

HomeGoods is one of those wonderful stores where things are cheaper! I have found tons of things there that I see no reason to buy elsewhere unless of course if I wanted to spend more money... wait who wants to do that! 

Here are some of my finds... we are in NO need of chairs.. so of course HomeGoods has tons of them! 

(all pictures taken from my phone so they are not awesome!)

 If I had a reason to buy these chairs they would be in our house NOW! love them!

GOOD                                                           NOT GOOD

Check our our FAVORITE papers!

If you have been thinking about ordering an agenda... here are some papers to encourage you to make that order! 

we apologize that our website has not uploaded all of our pictures... we are working to make sure it works soon! but for now.. check out the favorite papers for the cover of your agenda!

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We name each paper after the first person who orders it! 

 "the Alison"

 "the Callie"

 The stripe comes in all kinds of colors

 Comes in other colors

 "the Janie"

 NEW and comes in lots more colors!

 NEW! and comes in LOTS of colors

the Kady

Summer is magical...

What do we do when are not creating agendas???
our first agenda went out days before my wedding... great timing! 

here is a taste of our summer

I am a HUGE summer fan! But this summer has been one of my favorites! Mainly because I married my favorite person ever! 

 I love this one of Jen... Jen walked alongside Nathan and I as we dated and got married... I am blessed to know her and a better follower of Jesus because of her.

 probably the sweetest little person I know... I babysat Hadley for a long time and just adore her! She was a precious flower girl! 

 I truly have the best group of friends! They are beautiful!

 My sweet mom and mother in law! 

 Dad's always make you laugh.. always.

 I loved having my youth group girls do a prelude to "holy spirit come" 

clearly, this is the best part!

please note how excited Kelsey is in this picture!

All credit for these awesome pictures goes to our wonderful photographer Christine leGrand. She is easily one of my favorite people ever! I highly recommend having a friend be apart of your wedding in this capacity... she was SO much more than a photographer.. and if you don't have a friend.. Christine will easily be your best friend in a hot second.. she's that great. no joke.

Whoever came up with the Honeymoon. THANK YOU!

 sometimes on a honeymoon this is what you have to do...

 self timer.. thank you.

grace 
is also having a magical summer... this is our first summer apart in about 3 years... grace and I typically spend the entire summer together doing a lot of nothing and a lot of fun! She is a faithful member of my old youth group and I could always count on her for summer youth group fun! 

Every summer our youth group goes on a mission trip.. Grace went to Honduras and had a great time serving Jesus!

 Hannah Bridges (easily, one of the greatest people of all time)and Grace on the bus...

lauragrace agendas are blowing up!

We could not be more excited with how many agendas have been ordered! Thank you so much for ordering your agenda! Since they are custom... it has been such a joy to create them and see how each one turns out!
 Check out some of the latest.. 
All made with my favorite partner (well besides my husband)
GRACE

Grace will probably kill me for this.. but I just can't help it.. I love this picture....

 and it shows how excited she is about lauragrace agendas!

This one came out so fun! 

This one is my favorites currently (hence all the photos)

I made this one for my new sister in law! She is one of the cutest people I know... so I had to make an agenda worthy of that! I so hope she loves it! Alison is a true follower of Christ and easily the most compassionate person I have ever met.  I could not be more blessed to have her as a sister... 

(I'm going to sacrifice on this one... its the morning of my wedding... Alison looks precious I look exhausted!)

A beautiful bridesmaid!

This one is Colleen's.. (Colleen is also AWESOME)

 She trusted us to decide what to do.. and here it is! Thankfully she emailed us and loves it! Thanks Colleen for trusting us!

She was also our first mailing!!

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