We are NOT PREGNANT!!!! Yet…
And welcome to our Blog!
And welcome to our Blog!
With the encouragement of a favorite blogger Babblingabby, I decided why not join the fun now. I can’t promise it will be the most interesting, but it’s a great way to keep in touch with loved ones and record our newly wedded
To begin, let me take you to a previous time in my life…
A time of seemingly effortless beauty or charm.
A characteristic of quality, pleasing for its charm or refinement.
This is what defined me for 21 years. GRACE. Although I am sure my parents and Mr. B would argue the fact that Grace did NOT define me, but rather, a quality that I occasionally possessed. So I will put it out there that it may or may not have been my number one characteristic, but it was in fact part of me, who I was, my identity, every single day of my life. My last name.
On July 24, 2009, the day I said "I Do", that all changed. (Technically it wasn't until December 28, 2009. Yes I am that much of a procrastinator. Can you blame me?? Surrendering such a beautiful name…it’s quite the internal process to go through). Grace was no longer a part of my every day life. Sure there is the once in a blue moon that I will show some grace (I may be a grudge keeper), but it was no longer there to make me feel extra spiritual (don’t judge), extra beautiful, extra cool because my last name was also a first name, and the part of me that made me feel girly since my parents so kindly blessed me with a popular boy name...all of this → GONE. Are you beginning to think that I may have been a little too attached to my last name?
Although I love my husband to death I do not love his last name. Luckily for him, this was a sacrifice I was willing to make and he is well worth the last name. It has taken me about 6 months to come face to face with the reality that my name is no longer beautiful, that my planned children’s names don’t quite have the same ring, that I have to tell people how to spell and pronounce it. This is all very foreign to me. Even though I may or may not still be embarrassed when asked my last name, reality is I don’t think anyone cares or even notices! It’s kind of like when you just get a hair cut that you hate and you have to do some errands and you feel like everyone is staring at you, like they know you just got it cut and it looks horrible. Like somehow they knew what you looked like before. Or maybe I am just vain, care too much about what people think about me and think that the world might possibly revolve around me??
Anyways, I began to face this reality when I was 17 years old and met the
I try to remind myself
I have been brainstorming all day on a name for our blog. Let’s just say my creativity juice is just about gone. Not sure where it went, but it’s been used. So here were my options:
Smell-town USA (I had “Small-town USA” by Justin Moore stuck in my head so that’s my excuse for that creative name)
Smelicious (No words to justify that one…I told you my juice was low)
Once upon a Smell (Because it’s telling our story like a book. Is an explanation even needed??)
And the winner….dunt da dunt daaa (how do you spell a drum roll? Actually that’s more like the trumpet sound, not sure how to spell that either)
The Smelly Life.
I think it has a nice ring to it, yeah? It incorporates our last name, it’s obvious it’s about our life, it’s a little creative and well basically that’s about as many names as I could think of and unfortunately the creative genes don’t run in either one of our families so help was limited.
Hopefully through out the week I will post some pics of our wedding, honeymoon, apartment and highlights of life thus far!
The past few days we have been going through serious Internet withdrawals. The guy below us who we
Seriously though, God has blessed us tremendously. We are so excited to share what’s going on in our lives! We have a lot of plans coming up over the next few months:
Next weekend is Mr. B’s 21st bday and we are spending the weekend in Clearwater Beach
The weekend after the in-laws are coming for a visit and it’s our 1st Valentines as a married couple!
In March my mom is coming for the Strawberry Festival. My aunt and Grammie will be visiting for the weekend too.
We are going home to NH for a few days for Easter and bday celebrations.
In April we are going to Naples to visit my grandparents (that’s where Mr. B proposed!)
May 1st Mr. B graduates!!!!
May 3rd Bye-bye Florida!!!
In March my mom is coming for the Strawberry Festival. My aunt and Grammie will be visiting for the weekend too.
We are going home to NH for a few days for Easter and bday celebrations.
In April we are going to Naples to visit my grandparents (that’s where Mr. B proposed!)
May 1st Mr. B graduates!!!!
May 3rd Bye-bye Florida!!!
Enjoy your weekend!
Smelly Love <3
8 comments:
Yay! Good job on your first post sweetie! I love you!
Can't wait to follow your "smelly" life! So glad we are blogger friends. You probably know so much about me... can't wait to get to know more about you bloggie friend!!! =)
This is fabulous! So proud of you for starting this after you have talked so much about it! Remember, after 30 years the name will start to wear on you!
This is going to be so much fun!!I am excited to follow you on this "posted" journey of life!!
I just took a peek at your new blog and love it! I follow Babbling Amy's blog and saw the link and found my way over to
you:-). I totally had to chuckle about the whole last name thing!!! I did the exact same thing when I got married but I waited for more than a year to legally change my last name. Our CPA had a fit at tax time!!! I have a blog too but I have it set private since I post a lot of pics of my kids.....if you ever want to learn more about me just ask and I will invite you into my blog world as well. Enjoy blogging as it is A LOT of fun!
Hi! Thanks for stopping by my blog :D
It looks like we have a lot in common! We are both young wives, lvoe the Lord and our Hubby's are both graduating in May!! I love being a young wife and wouldn't have it any other way!!!
Nice to meet you and I can't wait to start reading your posts!
Jami @Intentionally Living...
I very rarely find bloggers in FL on here :) I'm a new follower!
Just doing a little blog hopping! It's wonderful to know that I'm not the only one who freaked out about my new name! I went from a cute easy to pronounce English name (tobey) to a crazy German one (Neurohr, pronounced New Roar) that everyone mispronounces and spells wrong. I've had some really embarrassing introductions to large groups of people with it too!
I also incorporated our last name in my blog title... Our "Neu" Life!
I'll definitely be stopping by to read more!
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