BLACK FRIDAY with YOUNG LIVING

It’s already Black Friday over here in Young Living world…. and it’s legit the best sale we have had ever!!

30% off tons of oils
25% off diffuser and kit collections
20% off some amazing roll-ons
BOGO Shampoo/Conditioner
25% off CBD
20% off select supplements

I MAY have just made the biggest purchase I’ve ever made. The deals are just too good to pass up!!

I stocked up on some basics like Lavender, Peppermint, Lemon, Stress Away, and Vanilla … but also got myself our new gorgeous CAR DIFFUSER , and some kits of emotional and sleep-specific oils that I’ve always wanted to try!!

Sale is live now through next Sunday, while supplies last!! So go order now!!
https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/company/black-friday

AND if you’d like me to make you a personalized custom cart with sale oils, let me know and I’ll send you a link!

ORDER HERE: https://www.myyl.com/simpleoilylife

Or email me for help!

simpleoilylife@gmail.com

Being who I am.

I am determined to live more “me” lately, to be more of who I am made to be.

I challenge myself to be better in the things that need to change. I seek more than just the average and the familiar. I don’t want to be the same as everyone else. I don’t want to be the same as I was last year, last month, yesterday.

I don’t get things right most of the time. I pray and cry. I yell and cuss. I worship and dance. I feel a lot of feels, but I use my head too.

I have an enneagram number, but it doesn’t define me. I have a color test answer, but it’s not all of who I am. I have certain letters on a personality test, but it’s not all I do.

I can roar like a mama bear. I can be gentle and subdued. I can be loud. I can keep my mouth shut and listen. I can be anxious, sad, joyful, excited, scared, warrior-mode…and I don’t want to shy away from any of it. Because it’s who I am.

I have beliefs others don’t have. I have struggles others don’t have. I have dreams and goals and visions others don’t have. I have testimonies others don’t have. I have a purpose others don’t have. (So do you, friend.)

I am a woman after the heart of Jesus, and a woman who cherishes freedom (in so many regards), and a woman who lives my life thankful that mercies are new every single morning.

If you have let this last year or two redefine you (not in a good way), cause you to feel a need to conform, or make you forget who you are and what you have to offer, what you believe, who you are in your core…take a minute to stop and remember.

Write it out. Don’t be shy with yourself. Your heart deserves to remember who you are…and then stand in awe of God’s perfect creation of YOU, unapologetically.

Choose Life.

My very life exists because of a brave young girl who made a hard decision to carry me, and then to give me life through adoption.

I am forever grateful for her decision, and it is not lost on me the fear and emotion and sacrifice that was a part of that decision...when her plans as a high-schooler were turned upside down with my pregnancy.

...a bravery and sacrifice I will never understand or even try to. Just one I am thankful for.

To see the valedictorian speech from my own high school going viral right now (you can google it if you want)...spoken with such disdain for life in the womb, and describe an unexpected pregnancy as a thwarting of hopes and dreams and aspirations and efforts for a future ... yes, it’s gut wrenching on so many levels.

And really? It’s just not true. It doesn’t have to be. There is another way than what she is fighting for. I’m living proof.

I sat in that very graduation for that very high school 20 years ago this year.

I sat there as an unplanned, adopted child about to pursue my own dreams and live the rest of my own life...because of the choice my birth mom made.

Life over death.

Was I an interruption to her life as a young girl? For sure. I can’t imagine that and I won’t try to understand it.

But I know what is on the other side of the hard choice she made. Because it’s me. And now it’s my kids.

My heart is heavier than it has been in a while seeing this, and I know everyone has different opinions. I am strong in mine too. I’m not here to debate.

I am here to simply say “Hi! Hello! I literally exist because instead of living in fear of how an unexpected pregnancy would mess up her life, my birth mother GAVE me life.”

There is absolutely no argument to this. It’s my story.

To fear the loss of hopes and dreams and aspirations and efforts for a future? Quite opposite...I was given life instead of seen as a forever hindrance. We both got life actually.

She fought a war for her daughter that didn’t involve death.

And one of the most beautiful parts? I now have a relationship with that brave woman who gave me life and it is beautifully redemptive.

We all deserve a chance to live and have a story.

Cupcake joins the family!

We recently added a new member to our family…Cupcake!

She is a beautiful American Paint Horse, and my daughter’s amazing horse coach helped find her for us. She is absolutely perfect and we are all in love!!

She will belong to Abigail, and is now her very own Barrel Racing horse!! It was the biggest surprise and could not have been more exciting to make our girl’s dream come true!!

We did a huge reveal in our backyard! (and no she won’t live there LOL), and Abigail had NO idea!!!!!

I look forward to sharing more here about our new life as horse-owners, and as Abigail pursues her passion!!

Thanks so much to Heather McCutchen for being there to capture it all!!

Spring Break 2021!

We are spending the week for Spring Break in one of our favorite places, Sky Ranch Family Camp in Colorado!

Many more pics to come. And would love to share more about our experiences at Family Camp! It’s such a blessing to our family. We went last summer for the first time and then they opened up camp last minute for Spring Break this year, and we jumped at the chance! Can’t wait to share more!!

Hope you had a good spring break too!