If you're feeling overwhelmed this Monday morning with all the things on your plate.... If you're feeling stressed because a big deadline you have coming up... If you're beating yourself up because you ate the chocolate cake last night... GIVE YOURSELF GRACE. God gives it to us freely, so take a cue from the man upstairs today. 🙂 I sat down to work about 2 hours ago, and straight up just sat on my phone because I didn't have the mental energy to do anything productive. I was about to beat myself up for it before I realized.... I did two back to back mentor sessions this weekend that required a lot of energy out of me. (In the best way cause I freaking looovveeeee coaching and shooting 🥰🥰🥰). But I realized... even though today is Monday and most people are hitting the grind, ready to crush their week.... today is looking like a rest day that I desperately needed. And if that's you too, give yourself grace. Listen to your body. Just because it's Monday doesn't mean you have to hit the gas full throttle and go, go, go. Give yourself grace, friend. Double tap if you're feeling a case of the Monday slugs. 🤣🤣🤣 (just made up that name but we're going with it cause that's how I'm feelin today. 🤪) #giveyourselfgrace 
KANSAS HOUSE RENOVATION UPDATE!! 🏠 Where's all my HGTV lovers at? This ones for anyone who wants to geek out over the renovation process with us! I've gotten a couple of requests to put out an update on the status of our home. The entire reason we are doing our insane road trip coast to coast is to buy time for our house to continue being renovated. Some permit waiting + -20 degree weather in Kansas a last week slowed down the progress a little, so right now we don't have much physical photos to update you with. But we have some fun stuff I haven't shared yet! Our house plans + mood boards! We've been working with our contractor (Andrew's brother aayyyy!) @resurrected_woodworks who is the general contractor for the house as well as doing a lot of fine wood work for the house - kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities, etc... We've also hired on our friends Erin & Liz from @graceinteriorslawrence to do all the interior designing for the house. Working with those two ladies has been a freaking blast already and we're just getting started. I'm obsessed picking out color pallets, light fixtures, and tiles. I keep having to remind myself this isn't our dream home, and while we're trying to make it our own & trendy, we eventually want to rent it out while we're going on the road in our airstream. I can't wait to see what you guys think!! So far I think my fave lil quirk is gonna be ceiling wallpaper in the mud room. 😜 What's your fave room so far!? #RomanwiththeRomans 
God has a plan for YOUR life. In every circumstance. When it rains and pours. Or when the sun shines. When things are good. Or when things are bad. God had a plan for my life in high school when I felt like a nerd for being in band & theatre and not apart of the "popular" group. God had a plan for my life when I couldn't afford to go to college in Chicago or NYC like I'd dreamed & had to stay in state. God had a plan for my life when I got fired from the brewery that I worked at and hated. God had a plan for my life when I started my lil ole' photography business just scraping by dreaming one day for more. God had a plan for my life when I always pushed away the thought of having kids of my own cause they were "annoying." God had a plan for my life when I miscarried our second baby, August. In every circumstance above, when I was in the middle of it all, I couldn't see the bigger picture. I'd yell and scream at God "WHY?" "Why did you put me here?" "Why did this happen to me?" "Why can't I be like them?" "Why won't you grow my business?" But what I'm learning is when crap happens to us or we're feeling stuck in a really awful season, we can only see the mess we're in. We don't have the perspective to see our journey down the road. But God does. And He's GOT you. He loves you more than you will EVER know. In the crap. In the suck. God has a plan for YOUR life. YOU just might not see it yet. But you will. One day. ☺️ Tag a friend below or share this with someone who needs to hear this today. 💕💕💕 
Road Trip Move Update! If you didn't know, we're in the middle of a cross country (and ocean 🤣) move from Hawaii back to our home state of Kansas. Back in September we bought a house in Kansas and have slowly started renovating it (more updates on that later!). So on January 20th we flew from Honolulu to Los Angeles expecting to road trip back to Kansas. Well.... when we were staying at this incredible Airbnb in Tucson, we realized the renovations of our Kansas house were going slower than we thought. So we decided to do something crazy... Instead of traveling directly back to Kansas, we decided to spend our time while the house is still be renovated to take the long route home. Like.... the very long route. 🤣 We have family & friends in the Jacksonville, FL area so instead of heading north when we got to New Mexico.... we decided to keep going East. 🤣😜 We expected this road trip to tire us out, but surprisingly it's been refreshing and has allowed us to see & stay with so many friends & family we wouldn't have otherwise. We made it to Dallas where we saw @bradysclayton & @quinnaclayton. Only then to proceed to drive the ENTIRE state of Texas to Andrew's sister's house in Brownsville during a ONCE IN A CENTURY FREAK winter storm. 🤯🤯🤯 I don't recommend driving 13 hours on inch thick ice the ENTIRE way. Don't recommend. 🙅🏼♀️ We waited out the majority of the storm before heading to Houston, then New Orleans, and now Pensacola! Slowly making our way to Jacksonville tomorrow! Around early March we'll start making our way up north through Atlanta, Louisville, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and then home to Kansas. How insane are we really? 🤣🤣🤣 Any recommended stops along the route we have ahead of us!? #RomanwiththeRomans