poker tables and diaper cakes...

So Matt and I are living in a big house by ourselves right now. The plan is that we will have housemates, but right now.. it is just us. It is a great space for entertaining and I love having our friends over. But sometimes, I can't wait to have a place that is truly ours. I look forward to really being settled for the first time in my adult life. Matt and I are both used to moving a lot and renting and our living arrangements being temporary. Today, I have little Fairchild on my mind. It was cramped, inconveniently located and often a pain to maintain. However, it felt like our little place. It was easier to feel still there, there wasn't so much space to fill.

Matthew has been investing a lot of time in his incredible poker table! Here is a preview.. He hand-made all of the stencils and painted on all of the images. After the paint dried, I sealed the table with some modge-podge, my contribution to the masterpiece! We have this idea in our minds that we will host a weekly (maybe bi-weekly) poker night and I will make snacks and hang out with the girls. Post-wedding has brought a much slower pace, but I think I want to slow it down even more.
I think his creativity has inspired me! My sweet friend Elizabeth is having a baby boy in August. We have had the opportunity to study early childhood education together at UTA and now to teach community-based Pre-K together! I made her a diaper cake to celebrate the coming of her sweet baby boy. It is my first one, but I am really pleased with how it turned out!


I am really looking forward to teaching next year and so thankful for a summer to prepare and rest a bit. I will be teaching half-days, but I think this will keep my body used to waking up and getting going and my mind used to preparing to teach. I have grown so much this year as a teacher and learned so much by trial and error. This year was necessary and difficult at times, but next year will be awesome!

Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by conflicting messages (and that is the reality of life on earth).. but I want to spend some time thinking on what I really and truly believe is God's plan for Matt & I. I think this is a day-at-a-time kind of journey, but I like that about a relationship with Christ. Every day He wants us, every day He loves us.

Counting down the days until school is out and then I will be counting down the days until our CRUISE! So excited to get away with my sweet husband.

Love,
L. Norris

So many thoughts lately

My mind hasn't been busy with wedding to-do lists and emails to send and plans to confirm. Truthfully, it has been nice to feel more calm and so nice to call Matt Norris my husband. I have shared so many conversations about that day and how wonderful it was and how some things didn't go exactly how I saw them going. But truly, the most important thing is that Matt and I have committed to love one another, for all time.

I have been thinking so much about the woman I want to be and the wife I want to be. Lately I have been feeling like in some ways that I might need a perspective adjustment. I am so blessed, so blessed beyond measure. But I get stuck in my plans for the future and sometimes forget to enjoy this time to the fullest. I find myself wishing that I could be more laid back in certain moments, more easy going.. more patient. I do feel, in all honesty, that the Lord wants more from me. That seems only fair, I want so much more of Him.

I am so thankful for our small group. Sometimes I am blown away by the blessing that it brings to me. I look back and I see times in our lives when God was preparing us to love one another, support and challenge one another, but also to experience Christ as adults. In some ways, it felt easier to make God first when we were immersed in a youth group full of adults spurring us on. But now, it is a daily choice. Who is my Lord? Who saved me? I believe it is Christ who did this, Christ who has given me life.

Steven was bold and he said we must be so cruel to know the love of Christ and not share it. If I truly believe that He has given me life, why do I serve so many other masters.

I want to let go more. I want to keep diving into the heart that God gave me so that I can discover more of my purpose, more of His plan. And truly, I want to be a blessing to my husband. I know that I need God's grace to do that. I feel encouraged and I feel the Lord working in my soul, this is good.

Small group tonight, meet us there Lord.

L. Norris

content & striving

I do not write this blog post because I am not content. I have everything I have ever wanted and more.. I write it because I never want to spoil my todays because I am wishing for what awaits me in all of my tomorrows.

I am still feeling so overwhelmed with blessing and thanks to everyone who did any part, small or large, to make this weekend all that is was. Today, I am a wife and it feels so amazing to be married to Matthew. He cares about me so much and I feel his love for me. Our wedding was incredible and certainly the best day of my life so far, but I feel deep in my heart that the best days are yet to come.

Our Wedding video trailer is posted and I LOVE watching it.. I feel like Leon captured our love for each other. I will post it here!

I love this man, with all of my heart.


Love,
Lindsi Norris

MARRIED!!!

I plan on sharing more about our wedding day, but right now I just want to say that our wedding day was PERFECT. Everything was perfect.. My heart fills with joy every time I see Matt's wedding band on his finger.. Life is so sweet, so so sweet. I will leave you with a couple of preview photos.

My beautiful and wonderful parents walking me down the isle. A time I will not soon forget..


My husband rapping his vows!!! It was incredible. I wouldn't have had that moment any other way. I love you my sweet husband.


THE KISS! Our first kiss as husband and wife. We both agree that married kisses feel different in the best way. FACE-GRAB! HOLLA! that moment was so sweet.

Dancing with my wonderful brother! I had so much fun celebrating with Brian. What a night!!

OKAY! More to come.. time to climb into bed with my sweet husband.

Love,
Lindsi Norris