SUNDAY MORNING

Sunday morning this morning looks like a big bowl of Malt o Meal and some idea generation. It's full of list-making, goal-setting, and resting in good truth. 

Journal/Rifle Paper Co. 

Today is a good rest day after a lot of hard work on our back porch yesterday, which now has a ceiling!  Our family is real lucky to have lots of great friends who are willing to come and help us out on projects like that, and it's going to look great when it gets finished.

Can't wait to share some fun stuff that I have lined up for this week!

Happy Sunday,

Abby

12/52

12/52

About a year ago I became familiar with the "I Believe in Nashville" campaign put on by DCXV. Every time I drove by a similar mural in the 12 South neighborhood I kept telling myself I needed to go by and get some shots there, but I never did. It was under construction during this graduation week, but on the afternoon of graduation my parents, Brandon and I went by the mural at Marathon Music Works to get some final images from the day. It was so fitting for my last day in the city, and I'm so glad that I made it a priority. 

xoxo. Abby

GRADUATION

This Friday, my whole family (including a surprise brother! Thanks Adam!) flew/drove/made it to Nashville to celebrate the end of my undergraduate career and the start of a new adventure: my post-grad life. The days leading up to the big day were hectic: lots of packing, lots of squeezing in lasts and lots of praying for good weather. Graduation day itself seemed just as hectic, but in a totally different sense. It was a blur of about fifteen hundred undergraduate names, hundreds (literally) of pictures, and lots of laughter, all laced with the realization that this is really the end of my life as I know it.

I know that my life will go on to be so much bigger, so much crazier, than my four years that I have spent at Vanderbilt, but for now I just want to spend some time being grateful about the past instead of obsessing about the future. Thinking about the girl that I was coming into school August 2009, it is truly only through the work of a gracious Savior that I am the woman that I am today. A woman of purpose, a woman who has learned what it means to struggle and trust and live faithfully, who tries to live selflessly and understand things that are bigger than herself.

For the next few days, I just want to spend some time resting in a good God. Life isn't slowing down, but it is now more than ever a priority I'm making.

Lots of love from a proud sister ready to watch her brother graduate tomorrow,

Abby

11/52

11/52

This isn't technically a self-portrait, I guess, because it's not just of me, but it seemed more than appropriate. This photo for me captures everything that it means to be young and silly and free like we are, and have been blessed to be. I'm trying to savor every moment with these wonderful people in this wonderful place that we call home, even if it's just for a very little while longer. 

A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOUR DESKTOP

Hey friends!

It's May. I've decided to accept it and be excited about it. And after I decided this I ACTUALLY got excited because on my feed on bloglovin'  this morning I got a new calendar from one of my favorite artists and bloggers, Oana Befort. I have dreams that my blog will look like hers sometimes.

Every month this year she has created a beautiful desktop background based off of her illustrations and May is no exception. So go check out her blog and find a little happy for your first of May.

Lots of love from my room which is currently overtaken by piles and boxes,

Abby

9/52

9/52

A shot from my weekend at home the past few days. 

After almost four years of living in Nashville and falling in love with the city, it's funny how I can sometimes forget that I am first a Florida girl at heart. As much as I hate the humidity and the tourism, I will always associate home with the magnolia and palm trees in my neighborhood and Tijuana Flats. This weekend was a great reminder of that.

Happy Sunday,

Abby

8/52

8/52

On a lovely day a few weeks ago before spring faked us out I made it to Alumni Lawn, hammock in tow. As the weather continues to warm as April is officially here, I'm excited for more days like these. 

Wishing you a relaxing Monday,

Abby