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May 27, 2016

Blessing Our Home…

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Mark and I with our Pastor Brian Krawczyz (Grace Monroe)

Blessing Our Home

I think I quite possibly may be a little too excited about today’s post. Like maybe even more than Addie on her “last day of school eve” today. You see… I love traditions, I love making unique memories, I love our new home and I love our church family. Take all of those ideas, mush them together and what do you get?!?… One super memorable Monday evening. I have to admit that I SO wish I could take credit for this idea. But I will have to hand that over to Mark and our pastor Brian. I simply brought a bolt of fabric, several bottles of wine, some candles and three dozen Sharpies. They took care of the rest.

Several weeks ago we were at Our Historic Wonderland and Mark randomly asked the girls if they wanted to write their names on the studs of their new bedrooms. You may remember this image I posted on my social media pages back in March…
Blessing Our Home

Well apparently that got his memory juices flowing and that evening he told me about something he’d seen several years ago where someone had written bible verses on the walls of their new home before Sheetrock was installed. I thought it was so incredibly sweet and knew it was something I’d wanted to do. Then we got to talking and decided to take it a step further. Since moving to Monroe two years ago, we have felt this incredible sense of community. Everyone has opened their arms so much to our family and we have absolutely fallen in love with so many families at our church, in our community and at Addison’s school. And in moving into this home, my goal is to be an open door to our community as they have been to us. A place for everyone to feel welcome and at home. And what better way to welcome our friends and family than to have them involved in our construction from the beginning.

And the story continues… So we had honestly kind of forgotten about the idea with all of the craziness we’ve had going on and the stall in construction. And then Sunday before church I saw Mark texting about our Sheetrock delivery scheduled for Monday and I hit rocket planning mode. We spoke with our preacher Brian after church and we decided on the following day, Monday evening, for the house blessing. He also mentioned a tradition that our church has of planting a Bible into the walls of all of their new church builds open to the book of Psalms. So with all of these ideas in mind, we sent out fancy text message invites 😉 and made a trip to Wal-Mart for candles, Sharpies, wine and flowers. We hired four sitters, ordered 6 pizzas and sent about 30 kiddos to the backyard to play (the house is a little bit of a construction danger zone). We were so beyond blessed to have around 40 of our friends and family (plus little ones) spend the evening with us this past Monday to bless Our Historic Wonderland…

Oh and remember my blog post last month about our baptisms and the “surprise” photography? Well, David Cannon Photography‘s (@davidcannonphoto) wife Stephanie, AKA our new neighbors, photographed the entire event and blessed us once again with these gorgeous images. They are incredibly talented and he even specializes in Architecture/Interiors photography. Sounds like a neighbor match made in heaven to me! 😉

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 XOXO, Brittany Hayes

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  1. Bridgette H says

    May 27, 2016 at 9:26 am

    I love it! What a sweet idea and you’re already making beautiful memories in your new home. ❤️

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  2. Haneen Matt says

    May 27, 2016 at 9:56 am

    Brittany! This brought me to tears! How incredibly SPECIAL! I would feel wrapped in love living in this home! These photos are such a treasure to have. Just amazing! God bless!

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  3. Darcy Potter says

    May 27, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Dang it!!! Why didn’t I think of doing something like this! If only you had written this post about 4 months ago 😉 Our new home is now completed but you now have my wheels turning to do something 🙂 What a lovely idea and such a blessing that you live in such an amazing community with awesome people to surround yourself with. Hugs and luvs, Darcy

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  4. Katherine B says

    May 27, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    What a beautiful idea! Love it!

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  5. Emma LaMartina says

    May 27, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Such a glorious gift from God, to be cherished by your Family for a lifetime. God bless your new Home with love and happiness.

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  6. Margie says

    May 27, 2016 at 6:18 pm

    Such a great idea. I love it!

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  7. Elizabeth says

    June 8, 2016 at 9:53 pm

    I love everything about this! What an amazing foundation for your new home…so in love with this! Love that you and your family love the Lord and put it out there for us all to see.

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  8. Janet Bergeson says

    June 13, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    What a true, true Blessing.

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  9. Elise says

    June 14, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    What a small world this is! We used to go to the original Grace back when my husband and I were first married/having children. I remember Brian and his wife. I LOVE this idea!!! A friend of mine did this with their home, too. So wonderful! Do you know Cathy Henry, by chance? She moved to Social Circle recently, but also attended Grace.

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  10. [email protected]&R Adventures says

    June 17, 2016 at 3:02 pm

    This is such a sweet idea! I absolutely love it. What a wonderful way to start out in your new home!

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