The Blogtember Challenge: Day 3- Summer Favorites!

Happy Saturday! Today I'll be sharing my favorites from this summer. 

Saturday, September 3rd- Now that summer's at an end, share a list of favorites from the season!

-Watching my husband in his weekly ultimate frisbee games

-Chacos

-Ice cream

-Life Lived Beautifully devotionals

-Celebrating 1 year of marriage

-Anniversary trip to Charleston

-Moving into our new home

-Starting a bible study with sweet girls

-Bourbon 'n Toulouse (cajun food in Lexington)

-Sweet time with family

-Amazing, godly friendships

-Playing lots of games with friends and family

-Getting our sweet puppy, Tucker

Summer was great and a nice rest, but now it is time to enjoy the best season of them all... FALL! Guys I am so excited that it is here. Now to go be a normal person and will be tailgating and going to a football game. Season tickets are entirely too much, so I haven't been to a football game since I college. I'm headed out with my girl friends and we are gonna have a fun night!! GO CATS!!! Whose your team?!

The Blogtember Challenge: Day 2- September Goals

Happy Friday! I'm so glad that Bailey has this post in the Blogtember Challenge cause it was on my list of blog posts. August was such a great month. The Lord truly blessed our little family in so many ways! First we moved into a bigger place that has much more space. Then Reese got a new job, which is a blessing because it is more towards what he wants to do/went to college for. And at the end of the month we got our sweet pup, Tucker! I can't wait to see what September brings, especially since it brings fall with it! #FavoriteSeason

1. Complete The-Blogtember Challenge.

2. Memorize a verse, and really meditate on that verse. All summer I have been doing Life Lived Beautifully bible studies with some dear friends of mine. Currently we are on the Be Still and Know study over Ephesians 4:17-32. It has been great and I've really enjoyed digging deeper into these verses with the girls. 

3. Read 2 books. Currently reading A Woman's Heart for God by Sheila Cragg and then on my list is Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World by Joanna Weaver. 

4. Complete at least 1 photo album. I want to complete one for either our wedding or 

5. Complete a DIY. Not sure what I want this to be yet. Possibly a wreath or something for our front door. I'll keep ya updated!

6. Finish organizing our townhome. We just moved at the beginning of August, so we are finishing up organizing everything and getting decor hung up. We have so much more space - so grateful for that - so it has taken me a bit longer to decide where I want everything! But I know this place will be ready for the house/apartment tour on September 8th for the Blogtember Challenge! 

7. Revamp my blog design. I also really want to learn how to design blogs so that I can change mine up if I ever want to or even work on designing blogs for friends/bloggers! Sounds so fun :)

What are your alls goals for September?

The Blogtember Challenge: Day 1- Introduce Yourself!

Good afternoon friends! I am excited to complete the Blogtember Challenge hosted by Bailey over at Love Bailey Jean for the 2nd time! I did it for the first time in 2014, but didn't even complete it so thats my goal for this year!!

Thursday, September 1: Introduce yourself however you like!

My name is Danielle! I started my blog, Simply Faithful, in July of 2013. I had gotten into reading different blogs and wanted to start my own journey in the blogging community. I've definitely been off and on from blogging, but am so excited to use this Blogtember Challenge to get back into blogging and hopefully make some friends through it! 

I'm twenty-three and graduated with an Elementary Education degree from the University of Kentucky - GO CATS! After graduation I married my high school sweetheart (we didn't go to high school together, but if you want to read more of our story go here, which is funny cause I posted it during Blogtember Challenge). Our anniversary is June 26th, 2015. I've been posting pictures from our sweet wedding day - getting ready, first look, ceremony, & reception - if you all could like to see those! 

Last week we got a puppy! His name is Tucker and he has definitely stolen my heart in a matter of days. He's the sweetest, most calm 4 month old pup I've ever met. I couldn't see my home without him now!! 

I lead a pretty simple life. I definitely an introvert and need time to myself. I love our Lord and have had been growing even closer to Him summer with relying and trusting Him. I haven't found a teaching job yet and am very discouraged, but I have had to realize that Our Lord has an even better plan than I can make up, and it'll all happen in his timing! 

I thought I would also add in some of my favorite things:

Pepsi or Coke? Neither, I hate soda, never have like it. Give me all the Sweet Tea!! 

Yellow or Purple? Purple

Pen or Pencil? Pen.. my collection is bad! #teacherprobz

Cookies or Cake? Cookies

Sunrise or Sunset? Sunset! My phone is filled with sunset pictures. They're gorgeous in KY!

Pizza or Spaghetti? Spaghetti

Halloween or Christmas? Christmas

Winter or Summer? Winter, I hate the heat and to be honest sweating... eww

Night or Morning? Night

Dresses or Skirts? Pants please.

Ketchup or Mustard? Ketchup! Especially Whataburgers Spicy Ketchup *Insert licking the lips emoji.

Baseball or Basketball? Basketball all the way! I'm a Kentucky fan. 

Washing Dishes or Doing Laundry? Laundry

Boots or Sandals? I love both! 

Picky Eater or Adventurous? I love trying to foods and restaurants!

That pretty much sums up me, I could probably go on forever but y'all will learn more about me during this month! Let me know if we have anything in common, I'd love to meet some of you all and grow in this blogging community. I can't wait to share more with you all and see where Blogtember takes each of us. 

Wedding Pictures: Ceremony

Happy Wednesday, friends! Today I'm sharing with you pictures from our ceremony. I won't share too many just cause I don't want to put people online that may not want to be, but I'll share what I can. Our ceremony was supposed to be at 6:30, but because of the weather we decided to start a few minutes early. We were fine until about 5 minutes into the ceremony where it started to storm and just downpoured! And then it was over when the ceremony was over, LOL. It definitely was not what we planned, but I love that its OUR story and we love that it rained, we definitely felt and saw Gods presence during the entire day, especially as we were becoming one. So here are the pictures, enjoy!

That sky though!

 A little blurry of us, but here come the umbrellas! (*Insert monkey covering eyes emoji*)

 Can you all tell how hard the rain is coming down?! 

 Sweet bridesmaids! :)

 I just love this picture above. I love that you can see the rain, all of the people who sat there under their umbrellas, our amazing groomsmen who held umbrellas over us, and that looks that we are giving each other. It truly captures the moment! It captures OUR perfect wedding day!!

Photographer: Dei Gratia Photography

Come back soon for last post for our wedding pictures, the reception! It was so much fun and I cannot wait to share it with you all. 

Wedding Pictures: First Look

Happy Monday! Today I am finally sharing with you all more pictures from our wedding (that was over a year ago)! I have previously shared our getting ready pictures here. So today I'll share our First Look. I've always thought that having a First Look would just make the day go smoother, with pictures out of the way and initial nerves out of the way. Now that I can look back on our wedding day, I am so glad that we chose to do pictures before the ceremony because our ceremony did not turn out the way I would have preferred due to a torrential down pour (literally!). So, here ya go!

Now if you notice in the remainder of the pictures, the sky looks darker... well thats just because God decided he wanted to give us a torrential downpour during our ceremony (seriously, NO JOKE!).  So boy am I grateful for the pictures we took prior to the ceremony, but I have to say it is definitely one to remember. Enjoy the rest! :)

Photographer: Dei Gratia Photography

Our photographer was just wonderful, and I love how all of our photos turned out! Now I need to get some more pictures printed and an actual book made. I'll be posting our ceremony pictures here soon, so be on the look out!