It's true, I left a little piece of my heart in San Francisco when we came home from our Honeymoon. I say this often but, that beautiful city is probably the only place that I would gladly leave Greenville, SC for. Then I think about our family, church and the low cost of living here and I always change my mind. HA! But since some of my love sick, honeymoon heart is still in San Fran I thought it would be great to make a photo book to remember everything and cross off #47 on my 101 in 10001 list.

^^ I love all the great art you can add to any page! 

This drawing of the bridge was absolutely perfect.

With the easy process on Shutterfly and the high quality products I knew that the book would turn out beautiful but I was still shocked at the beautiful result. Flipping through every page makes my heart long for the west coast again!! One day, we will make it back out there. One day!

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A Dream.

I had one of those extremely vivid dreams last week that I couldn't seem to shake. Gladly it wasn’t a sad or scary dream, it was wonderful and happy. Strange, but happy. Peter and I were in San Francisco and we found a house that we loved that was for sale and decided to move there. The house was beautiful with a view of the water and big wide open windows so you could see everything. There were people all around and everyone seemed so happy. The sun was always shining so everything was bright and we loved it. Oddly enough we were helping the former home owners move out and we were moving our things in. Nothing looked familiar to me because it was all new things but it felt like home. It felt comfortable.

I remember waking up and looking around the room and realizing I was in our real home. Here in Greenville in my normal bed and Peter was snoozing beside me. It surprised me how I was initially sad because the dream wasn’t true. It confused me because in my heart I don’t feel that way at all. I love our home and our life here. Our family is here. All of our friends are here. Our church and growing church family is here. Our life is here.

San Francisco will always have a special place in my heart. That is where we created our first memories as husband and wife on our honeymoon. Where I was so content and elated with this new married life together I could hardly contain it. I still feel that way today but that happiness has just grown deeper. I know that at my core I have a need and a want to be the best wife and helper I can be for my husband.

Since this dream I have been praying to understand the meaning of it. I believe that dreams are a part of you and can give you insight for your life. I also believe that bad dreams are a form of attack from the devil and that the good dreams are a blessing from God. Some kind of gift from Him to show you a deeper part of yourself. So I’ve been praying to understand that.

I now feel like that dream was a little peek at my heart. It is big and full of light and that is not because of a trip to San Francisco or even the man that I am blessed to call my husband; it is because of the Savior that I have inside my heart. He makes all things new and good. He shines that light on us and He wants to shine it out of us so we can share His love and grace with everyone. That is what He has called me to do. He makes everyday new like that new house in my dream. I can take out the old and replace it with His blessings, His favor and His goodness because I know that everything in this life is ultimately His. My heart, my life, my marriage, everything.

little bit more of San Fran!

At the beginning of the trip when we were in San Francisco I was crossing my fingers for a trip to the Ferry Building Marketplace but we couldn’t squeeze it in. I was a little bummed but I was still crossing my fingers that we could make it happen before we flew home. Well, make it happen we did! It was even better than all the pictures I saw online. All the vendors with the fresh food and the delicious restaurants to choose from was so neat. We decided to try out The Slanted Door and it was also my first time eating Vietnamese food and Oh My. I don’t know what took me so long and it was honestly really dumb of me to wait because I have a feeling it will be pretty hard to find some Vietnamese cuisine that will top that restaurant. After the yummy lunch with the beautiful views outside we found a few of my most favorite desserts, French Macaroons!!! With a slow drip cup of coffee from Blue Bottle Coffee company and a Hazelnut, Coffee & Pistachio flavored Macaroon we ended our trip on the highest of high notes. Or at least in my book…

A little bit of SanFran...

Everyone told me that I would love San Francisco and I was almost positive they were right but I never thought I would fall so hard. We only had one full day in this beautiful city but it was probably my favorite part of the whole trip. I’m really happy we decided to start the trip in San Francisco and it was a lot of fun to pack in all the spots we visited and enjoy the eclectic style of restaurants and bars around our hotel at night. The weather was perfect! Sunny days with a crisp cool breeze and chilly nights intended for hand holding and light sweaters. So, yes… I am a fan of San Fran which only meant we had to come back to the city a day early before we flew back home. It just felt right to end our trip in the same place we started it.  

^^^ beautiful room which I fell in love with. 

It was the perfect way to start the trip in the city!

^^^ our first meal and possibly our favorite since we found a cute little Thai place a couple blocks down from our hotel.

^^^ looking all touristy and stuff...

^^^ this picture does not do this hill justice. It was a beast.

^^^ I may have jumped and giggled in these beautiful yellow leaves.

^^^ delicious panini in Little Italy!

^^^ we took the ferry ride over to the beautiful, Sausalito.

It has been 4 days....

It's really strange because it seems like it has been a lot longer. I feel like I'm in a blurred state right now where everything is happy and perfect. My new husband is with me all the time and calls me things like babe and sweetie. We are exploring Northern California together and I pretty much fell in love with San Francisco. Our plans are changing thanks to Yosemite being closed but its not putting a damper on our trip because we are typically "go with the flow" kind of people. 

We just arrived in Sonoma a couple hours ago and as I'm sitting on the big king size, super comfy bed typing away I hear Peter's electric shaver in the bathroom as he cleans up his face a bit. Its the little things like this moment that make me happy the most so far. Knowing that I will hear that buzzing noise for a very long time because he is my husband now. Call it cheesy if you want but I'm a fan of cheese. 

Off to happy hour and dinner... I could definitely get used to this. Only one week left of honeymooning!