Our last love story and we've been honored to hear some beautiful stories and journeys.

We're ending our time celebrating marriage with Annette's parents sharing their struggles and words of wisdom with us.

In this very special episode on love stories, we're interviewing Micah's parents, Debbie and Steve Ridenour.

They have such a beautiful testimony of 30 years of marriage and what it takes to keep your love strong and exciting.

We're loved hearing their stories and are excited to share them with you! 

Our friends Scott and Lauren Matthews of the Marriage Refined Podcast joined us to tell their love story. It's a story all about patience and how following God can completely change the trajectory of your life.

We love their honesty, humor, and how down to earth they always are. We hope you enjoy them and check out their podcast "Marriage Refined" wherever you get your podcasts. 

In our first ever interview, we got to sit down with our friends Aaron and Janae Estrada and hear their love story.

It's a story of intentionality, patience, and seeking God first to provide in ways we couldn't expect or see coming.

We've love getting to walk alongside our fellow newlyweds as we continue to grow in strong communication and love.

Welcome to Love Story month! Of course, we wouldn't make others do something we won't do ourselves so we're sharing our love story first.

We had the pleasure of having our friends Scott and Lauren Matthews of the Marriage Refined podcast interview us for their show so we're sharing that audio here.

Thanks for hopping into a month of celebrating God's design for marriage.

We're finishing up our conversation about grief by discussing the grief we've all experienced this past year as well as how to walk alongside a friend in grief.

Plus, one of our favorite conversations about grieving one positive thing to the next and how to create a funeral for each transition to celebrate, grieve, and remember it.

Grief is a part of our lives in so many more ways than the physical death of a love one.

We grieve jobs, relationships, expectation changes, and so much more. Grief is also complex. It doesn't have a clear end point and it doesn't have a clear pattern.

In this first part of the conversation we want to discover some of the unrealized truths about grief so we can understand grief in our own life. In part 2 we'll discuss how to walk alongside a grieving friend.

I, Annette, am a HUGE nerd!

And how could we let a series about healthy conversation go by without discussing some communication theory you can use every day!

Here's a couple pro tips all about: 

Unpopular opinion: Sarcasm is NOT your love language.

We want to take a quick dive into scripture and hear about God's plan for our words. We want to challenge ourselves to say, as believers, are our words useful for building each up or are we just trying to avoid saying what we actually mean?

Here's what we thought about sarcasm, and what we're learning now!

How do you reach success?

First of all, you have to start by identifying to lies you are believing that keep you from success.