blings & things

i love this picture. i hate coffee.

today is so far so GOOD :)
i woke up this morning, late as usual. actually, i didn't wake up late i'm just NOT a morning person and i hate getting up. michael is THE earliest riser on the face of the planet. and for some reason, he never looks tired when he wakes up? but if you know michael, you know he has enough energy to supply us all in case we were ever to run low.

work has been good so far today :]
i've kept myself busy so it's gone by pretty quickly!

please keep my papa in your prayers. he is in the hospital for a UTI which is nothing crazy.. but when you move old people around they get very feeble and confused. my papa will be 93 years old this april. and trust me, he is in fabulous shape for 92! but being in the hospital has caused him to go down a bit in the past few days, so please pray for comfort and peace for him & a quick recovery!
please & thank you :)

he is zee cutest papa ever.

this morning my older sister called my mom [she is getting married in august] and wants me to be on the lookout for some cutsie envelopes for her save the date cards! i can't show you her save the dates until they go out because i don't want to ruin the surprise.

they. are. so. cute.

but i'll show you a few of her engagement photos which were also taken by my FAVORITE.. erica stephens! [click here to go to her photography site]

gorgeous right?

and since i showed you her wedding bling, i must throw mine out there too ;)
[which was also taken by erica]

don't you LOVE it? i know i do. :]
and in case you're wondering, because everyone asks, "I LOVE YOUR RING, DID HE PICK THAT OUT ALL BY HIMSELF!?"

no honey, no he did not. ;)


xoxo

bam.

another beautiful day in our neighborhood:)

today i went and picked up the other clip and headband that i have had on hold.. i buy accessories TOO much. but they're just so cute! i love this one :) michael is rockin' it for you guys so you can see JUST how cute it is.. an how cute my husband is too ;)


can't you tell he is thoroughly enjoying it?

so tonight michael got to come home ON TIME! unbelievable right? :) i was ecstatic! hopefully God will be opening up other [better] doors sooner than later, which i think he IS. but it's all in HIS timing.

we just enjoyed the night together. i wanted to go watch "jason and mollys wedding"[bachelor] but i just wasn't feeling it tonight. i just wanted to stay in with michael, so that's exactly what we did :) and i loved it!

while i was sitting here about to write my blog i asked michael if he wanted to listen to some fervent worship [our churches worship band, click here to listen to their music!] he said yes, of course. so i turned it on and almost immediately God started speaking to me. the song came on where micah kept saying "release your fire from Heaven..." and while he was saying that i kept hearing "revival is coming, revival is coming" and i just started to draw [something i can NOT do] but i knew only me and God would see it [willingly] so that's okay by me.

when i started to draw i started drawing buildings and roads, with a yellow and red rainbow overlooking the city. the only building i knew what it was was the COURTHOUSE.

and guess what..

it's downtown florence! [where our church is]
red: symbolizes action, fire, charity, spiritual awakening. it also glorifies the sun and the joy of life and love. In the Christian symbolism, it denotes Holy Spirit.
yellow: is a symbol of light & purity.

[this is from a website my friend moriah showed me that she uses.]

how amazing is that?
and to top it all off..

michael said a guy [not from here] came to the ark [our church] and said that revival was coming and court street was going to play a role in it.

do you know what's on court street?

ding ding ding..

zeee courthouse.

bam.

xoxo

SUNshineDAY!

today was so beautiful :)
absolutely gorgeous outside! it was about 65-68 degrees ALL day long. we even wore our flip flops! i'm not sure i have ever been so ready for summer. well, maybe when i was in highschool.

don't we look cute?
i have zeeee most adorable punk of a husband.

♥

zekey and xoe also LOVE days like today.
i opened the window [screened in] and laid blankets down one time zekey got so excited he ran right into the screen. haha :)
they look relaxed huh?

this morning when mikemike finally pryed me out of bed, we got up and put some clothes on and got some bbq at RICKS.. fabulous! and we had a picnik at this beautiful park :) and in the summer time they have they splash pad going which is water shooting up out of the ground and all the kids like to play in it! also in the summer they have a light show at night on the splash pad! we actually took some of our engagement pictures here.. we're not normal "stand side-by-side and smile" picture takers. and luckily erica (click link to view her photography site. she is uh-may-zing!) is professional but.. fun!

we have many many more, but those are just a few fun ones! [and my computer is being slow for some reason?]

anyways, after we had our picnic we just walked around the park for a little while and then we rode around and looked at CARS! i love doing that. first my obesession was houses, and now it's cars haha. i want an SUV so bad, but i'm very happy with my car until we pay mikey's car off :) but we do enjoy looking!

afterwards we went home and i took a long nap.. and mikey almost didn't get me to wake up again. im telling you, i'm a sleeper! haha [and my furbabies take after me as you can see above ;)] one day i will have human babies and you can all hear about every detail of them.. WAIT what am i thinking? my furbabies are my human babies!

sheesh.

i had a huge scare today. my sweet friend caitlin, who was one of my bridesmaides lives in gulf shores, and i met some her friends for the first time a few years ago when i went down to stay with her for spring break and so i'm friends with some of them on facebook. well, one of her friends posted as a status today, "praying for caitlins family. we loved you caitlin" so the first thought that went through my mind was..

OH shaaaaasta.. SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO MY CAITLIN!

so i texted her, as i'm almost in tears.. nothing. i texted her sister, nothing. i asked hillary, nothing. then caitlin texted me back. AHHH. hillary was talking about another girl named caitlin, who died this morning because of texting while driving. god i am so thankful my caitlin is okay, i was expecting the worst. BUT, someone did lose a daughter, a sister, a granddaughter, and a friend today.. PLEASE be safe! even if you aren't the one texting while driving, be aware.

a girl here died not too long ago because of the same thing, and ever since then i have made it a point to turn my phone upside down [so i cant see if it lights up] turn it on silent, and not look at it until i get to where i'm going. it's hard because i'm used to not even worrying about it, but please please PLEASE try to do the same thing!

today was a great day and i am so blessed to have spent another day with my sweet husband. i am SO glad we got to spend this day together, no calls from work, no where to be.. just enjoyed the entire day!

i hope you all had a wonderful SUNshineDAY as well ;)

xoxo

mr. and mrs.

mr. & mrs. tomlin :)

yesterday was our 6 month anniversary. [sorry i didn't blog!]

i can't believe we have been married for 6 months! sheesh!
i know six months isn't even a year.. but it's HALF a year.

we talked about it last night, and we both remember every single detail of it. [i guess we should since it's not that long ago] but whatever :)
last night we spent the night together and we went to eat at ruby tuesdays last minute.

i never knew how good they were!

do you want to know how much our meal was?

[i got a teensie bowl of shrimp and past and he got a big plate of various things]

almost fifty dollars.

i. thought. i. was. going. to puke.

i'm not cheap or anything, but $50? if i'm going to spend $50 i want a big ole steake with a baked potato on the side, not a few pieces of shrimp and penne pasta! but it was SOO good. so i'm glad we went ;) i just had to complain first, ha!

but we had so much fun, i love him too much.

today i woke up early [8:45] because michael was frantically freaking out because his alarm didn't go off and he was almost late for work. but he wasn't!

so i got ready, and went to pick up my little sister and we went to nolans birthday party, and it was sooo precious. erica is so creative!

now we're home, waiting on my sweet husband to get off work so we can go to church ;)

i hope you all had a fabulous saturday!

it was beyond beautiful in alabama :) 60-65 degrees the entire day!
a wonderful day for a birthday party!

later lovelies
xoxo!

thankful for thursdays

well, today was just.. today!

today was michael's "off day" which basically means work still calls all day and nags but he just doesn't get paid to hear it. please excuse my attitude, ha!

i went to work this morning and i only had to stay until about 11:30 before i got to go :) i was so excited that i'd get to spend most of my day with michael. i miss when we were dating [he had another job] and i got to see him every single day.. all day! but now he is blessed with a higher paying job which is all around a better job.. minus the whole nagging thing. but now i get to sleep beside him every night- so that's a plus!

when i got off work we went to target to get sweet little nolan [ericas baby] a birthday present. he just turned 1 year old this past week and his "party" is this saturday ;) i love love love this little man, and his brother sean! and of course erica is a good friend of mine :]]

afterwards we came home and had some left over pizza and layed down for a while before we got ready to go to the doctor for the furbabies. zekey had to get a stick stuck up his hiney, a shot in each side of his hip, AND a kennel cough thing squirted in his nose.. he took it like a champ! this was all to get him ready to be "de-manned" on wednesday. so maybe he will stop feeling the need to hike his leg on everything in our house! and the fact that i'm sure those big choo choos are weighing down his little body! haha ;)

we ran around all day [all while michael is being nagged from his job that called 6 times today :)] and then went to wal mart to get cupcake mix and spaghetti sauce! so.. i guess you know what we had for dinner! :)

we're both TOO tired to go get his car.. which we left at target when i met him there, so pray i wake up on time in order to get him to it to make it to work.

i. am. not. a. morning. person.

ick!

i know, my day was SO exciting today.. but it was a typical thursday.

spending much needed time with boo boo :)

how was your thursday?

what do you like to do on YOUR off day!? :)

xoxo!

bummed about the bachelor

i dont know about you, but i am not happy with jakes decision. personally i don't think she is that pretty, but that's just me! [and not saying only date someone because what's on the outside] but with that being said, was she even pretty on the inside? maybe i'm missing something. i know, i know, she was always a doll towards jake but something about that sassy attitude [coming from someone with a sassy attitude, whoops!] just gets to me. i know you should look at someones heart and not always listen to the stuff others are saying--but when it comes from 24 other girls.. something is wrong. and of course, jake WOULD be on DWTS. whatever, i wish them the best!

as you know by now, ali is the next bachelorette! i'm not too sold on this idea yet. i like ali, she was my favorite [after tenley] and i honestly thing had she not left, jake would have picked her. but as much as i love her, i don't think she deserves to be the next bachelorette. she chose to leave. yes, she had two VERY hard things to chose from. but, if she believed she was really in love then she should have trusted that "love" and stayed. so she got jake for as long as she could, she went back home with a job, and she gets to be the next bachelorette? that doesn't set right with me. but.. i do love her :)

tenley! my favorite since [seriously] she stepped out of the limosine. she is so kind and so sweet. she was never in confrontation, always laughing, and until the VERY last date, jake never mentioned wrong reason as to why the answer wasn't tenley. personally, i think she should have been the next bachelorette--but as my husband said, they MAY have asked her and she said no. i don't know though.. but look at her! she's precious, absolutely precious!


these two lovebirds are still going strong! :) i loved her. i think she is so cute, so so cute- along with her little canadian accent! but at the time i have to admit, i was pulling for jake.. but look at them now-- they look adorable next to one another. hopefully in the long run i'll see that with vienna and jake too ;) i read an article this morning that said ed was pulling for vienna and jillian was pulling for tenley.

what do you guys think?
who were you rooting for & why?

xoxo

amazingness.

so i'm at work today and my friend kaiti calls me. we were just discussing our dreams and how amazing God is. we shared so much information, which isn't unusual seeing as we're both talkers when we get together. :)

so when we get off the phone i just have this massive want and desire to go home and spend time with Jesus. don't get me wrong, everytime i'm in the shower, the car, church, bed, etc. i'm sharing some kind of somthing with Jesus. but this desire was different. i wanted to go home, turn on some fervent worship and let Jesus rock my socks off.

well, to say Jesus rocks my socks off is an understatement. and i guess i got what i asked for ;) when i ask Him to show me something he doesn't just show me one thing.. he literally leaves me in the floor begging for Him to keep on filling me up with his divine love and his presence.

anyways.

so i come home from work, i turn on some fervent worship, and the first song that comes on his called COME ALIVE. throughout the song micah [the worship leader] yells "dry bones, hear the word of the Lord..Prophecy!" Along with "You WILL live!! You WILL live!! You WILL live!!" a good amount of times. So i'm laying in my floor sprawled out and the Lord said "Romans 8:13.. read Romans 8:13" so i jot it down, anticipating reading it as soon as i get finished.

i'm telling you, He always leaves me speechless.

so, i look up the verse and it says:

"For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, YOU WILL LIVE."

ho. ly. mess.

that's not all.

a few other songs play, and still, i'm just laying in my floor soaking up everything i can get from my precious Father.

an amazing song comes on called rejoice. the song says a few repetitive things like:

"Dance out of these chains, shout down the walls, let's stomp on the enemy's head 'cause we have won!" "You're a good, good Father. You're a good, good Father. You're a good, good Father.. You never leave, You never leave!"

and then it says:

"You brought me out of the darkness and into the light.."

when it said this i immediately just started crying, thanking God for bringing me from the nasty places i have been to this wonderful life i live trying to know his heart more and more everyday, and soon, taking me HOME to heaven--forever. ahhhh:):) along with this, i was telling Him "God, i want to know you- I always want to have intimate moments with you and know you more. I want to HAVE to dive in to your word everyday, because if i don't my spirit with go crazy. I want to please you and I want to show others how to follow you, God. I want to understand you, and I want to do things that make you smile, and make you proud to have a child like me."

once again, i'm laying there fully in the presence of God when he says "Colossians 1:9-13"

do you wanna know what that says? are you sure?

"And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thank to the Father who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son."

wow, huh!?

as if all of that wasn't amazing enough, i decided to ask God what exactly he means. He told me:

we have to go out, and we have to prophecy to the nations. to everyone. we have to share the word of God and live for HIM leaving our sinful nature behind. when we leave our sinful nature behind and we "put to death the misdeeds of the body" then that will allow us to live. we as a nation can raise up the "dry bones" of our generation by US being pleasing to God and by doing so, we will bring other people to know the God we love, and the God we serve. He has brought us [the dry bones] out of the darkness and into the light [the kingdom of his beloved son.] it's time. revival is coming. and he has chosen our generation to release the kingdom of God onto these dry bones. [our nation, school, homes, city, state.]

:):)

all of this goes along with a dream i had a few weeks ago. i had a dream that there was a tornado over shoals christian [the school i graduated from] even though there was obviously a huge storm coming, everyone was standing outside. the people in the parking lot were divided into different groups. some of the groups were so excited. singing and dancing, crying joyful tears. while others were scared, crying out of fear.

when i woke up the next morning i knew my dream had meaning. i went a few days wondering what it could mean until one night i broke down. i couldn't sleep and i was tossing and turning. i got in prayer mode and just told the Lord to release what he was trying to say over me, telling Him, He was going to have to spell it out for me. So over and over in my head I heard Revelation 1:7 over and over and over.

i didn't know what the verse said, so i got out of bed and looked it up.

and this is what it reads:

"Behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so, Amen."

:D

again. speechless.

God is going to do amazing things to not only our nations but our schools, and one promise i have is for shoals christian. as obvious, the children who were excited are the dry bones who chose to wake up and LIVE for Him. the children who were scared, were children who chose to follow the "misdeeds of the body" and live in sinful nature.

He's coming.

Are you ready?

xoxo