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Silence, you have been scarying me. Moments like this, just me and a book, me in a quiet place, me with no agenda. These moments have been hard for me lately. Admitting I don't have much going on and not trying to cram more and more into every spare moment I get. I feel the need to stay busy as if I have something to prove to people. I'm realizing that the silence is necessary. These moments are crucial for when the busy stuff comes. I just need to embrace them. I find myself so often trying to book just one more trip, adding one more thing to the schedule, stuffing and stuffing. I want to learn to see these moments just as precious as the ones that look more adventurous and sparkly

I always joke with my clients on shoots, because sometimes things we set up for a shot just aren't normal. "Oh yeah will you just do what you naturally would when you hike up a mountian in formal attire? I know that's the norm for you guys." I mean taking a wedding dress to the dessert or jumping in the ocean in suit and tie may not be something someone chooses on their own. But I guess that's what makes our time together so special. We can just make up stuff and do something crazy for the heck of it. And hopefully 20 years from now you look back and say wow look how awesome and weird we were when we got married 😂👌

Fun fact about this image is that my mom was yelling at me while I was taking it. She has a pretty bad fear of heights so the fact that I would even think of putting my legs over the edge of this cliff really ticked her off 😂 Hence why this is one of the only images I have of myself on the seacliffs in Portugal. Things aren't always what they seem haha. Are you afraid of heights or do love the feeling of hanging near the edge of the mountain? I'm not afraid of heights but I do have some level of caution when it comes to sketchy hikes. I don't usually push my boundaries.

Sometimes it takes a friend coming to visit for me to see parts of the island I've never been too 😂🙈! Much needed adventure this week with my Cali girl! I've probably done more fun stuff in a week than I would've all month haha. Anyone else feel like they end up going on more adventure when it's time to show a friend around or when they have new bud?

Consider this a virtual coffee date ☕. I'll tell you a little about me and then I'd love to hear from ya! Okay 3 things:
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1. I graduated High School at 16. And before you go into thinking I'm some kind of mastermind, that's totally false. I was a homeschooler (✊you know who you are) and I just had a passion to do what I was passionate about, and that was art. I decided to skip my last 2 years of high school which definitely isn't accepted by everyone. But I know that time was one that God used to give me confidence in who am in Him. It was untraditional and scary and I had no idea what I was doing and still don't haha. I'm still taking life and learning and my business day by day, step by step.
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2. I used to be the MOST shy person you'd ever meet. For years I struggled with extreme anxiety and could barely function in normal day to day actions. I would barely say hi to people and couldn't even stay home alone. I'm no where near the same as Jesus rocked my world 8 years ago and showed me how to have freedom, hope and abundant life in Him. Well, in a lot of other ways I'm still a mess, but learning to embrace it.
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3. I don't actually drink coffee. So, when I ask a friend to go out for the coffee date, most of them know for me its really tea time 🍵. The coffee in this photo was literally just for a photo 🙈😂. My friend drank it.
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Your turn! I want to know who you are and about you! If you need something specific: tell me a word that best describes how you've grown from this time last year to now? I've been thinking on that a lot lately in my own life.

If you ask me, wedding days should look more like this. Those brave enough to skip traditional and let their mascara run a little are my kind of people 👌

One moment appreciating home and not wanting to leave for a bit and another moment searching up flights to a random place in the world and adding it to the bucket list. Welcome to my brain's daily dilemma. Anyone else? 🙋🏽

I was talking to a group of young women this weekend about how it's okay to have one solid friend opposed to hundreds of mediocre ones. That it's amazing to find a person who's friendship is worth fighting for than a bunch of people who would probably be scared to hear the deeper-than-surface-level stuff. Sometimes we search for approval of the whole world and look right past the people that matter most. The ones we know will accept us for our whole selves and exactly who we were created to be. Those people who have committed to correcting us when we're being dumb and supporting us in the deepest struggles. That kind of love is messy and beautiful and worth it. It's easy to get addicted to praise from people who only know us from a distance, through the layered fliter of social media. Sometimes hearing their words is more desirable than that of those friends that have really known us. But let's not lose sight of the ones who really matter and that we have the privilege of spending real present life with. Give them the best of your energy. "It is better to be truly known and seen and taken care of by a small tribe than adored by strangers who think they know you in a meaningful way" -Present over Perfect

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