What a wonderful Sunday spent with good friends, good food and presents! Tyler and I got so much of what we needed to start our new home! I’m so blessed by these beautiful people and their generous hearts. So thankful for my wonderful friends for throwing this shower for me :)
* All photos taken by my beautiful roommate, Lauren Ellis. This is us:
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This year (so far) has been a busy one, but it’s been so full of love and time with great friends and sweet family. Towards the end of January me, Tyler and two friends of ours took a road trip to Atlanta. There we has lunch (at West Egg–wich is so good!) with a good friend from Iceland (and his recent wife) who now live in Finland. We had such a lie-giving time. It felt as though we’d all been around each other all the time–it was such a sweet time.
Then the last weekend in January was the big trip to Washington to meet Tyler’s family! Which sounds a bit strange to just now be meeting them because we are getting married in only 37 days! It was a great trip though. I really liked his family and enjoyed spending time in the Northwest.
DJ, Tyler’s best man, and Karin, Dj’s wife, through us a wedding shower and I was able to meet not only his family but his long-time friends!
And just before we flew home we explored Pike’s Place Market :)
Tree-houses, Road-Trips, Travels, Family, Friends….oh it’s been such a great start to a great year!
Ok, so we didn’t chime in the New Year while in this tree house, but that would have been quite incredible. Instead we spent the evening painting and made a big breakfast…
…then we spent the day there exploring! This treehouse, built by Horace Burgess, stands over 97-feet tall thanks to the 80-foot white oak tree it was built around which also happens to be about 12-feet in diameter at its base. It has 11 floors, about 8,000 to 10,000 square feet, and is held together by roughly 258,000 nails!
We got to meet Horace himself while we were there. He shared with us many stories about his life and how God told him to build this treehouse. In 1993 he had a vision of this treehouse and started building it as soon as God said “go.”
I asked him if he ever felt like Noah, “exactly,” he said. People thought he was crazy spending all his time and supplies building this treehouse, but he continued being faithful to what God showed him. What I love is how he freely opens it to the public so they can enjoy this heavenly place. Donations are accepted but he has no desire to make money and turn the vision God gave him into a money-making tourist stop. Instead he hopes everyone leaves feeling blessed. Someone should most definitely make a movie or write a book about Horace’s life.
So, cheers to the new year. It’s going to be an unforgettable one– I can feel it!
BLOGS & INSPIRATION
