this past friday night i was so honored to attend the Wolverine fall preview party in downtown Grand Rapids, co-hosted by the beautful Tieka of Selective Potential!
it was a part of the yearly "Fashion's Night Out" that Grand Rapids is a part of and for this event we were hosted by the Reserve wine bar, right in the heart of town. it is always such an exciting time of year, because fall (which if you haven't already figured by the explosion of social media excitement, is pretty much everybody's favorite season) is rolling in and with it Art Prize hits the downtown space.
even though it is a relatively new yearly tradition, this international art festival that spans over a month, is increasingly, crazily popular! this week was it's kickoff, so downtown was pretty insane!
(this one is stolen from the lovely Mel of The Bee's Knees!)
it was so amazing to be in the room with so many cool girls!
i have been a huge blog fan for years, but have always found it is easier for me to write than to take and edit pictures too - but i have dreamed and dreamed about making it happen!
i just felt so inspired being surrounded by so many girls with huge goals and incredible drive! i am excited to see where this next year takes me and my blog, it's easy to convince ourselves that we are in a box and only some people break out of the box, but i think creativity is in each of our souls and needs to be nurtured and used just like anything else!
Eric was in town to hang out for the evening and we got to spend time afterwards talking about all our hopes and dreams for the future! it is such an exciting time! we walked around the ArtPrize venues for a little bit after the show and then went and had drinks and pizza with some friends at Z's.
he's the best.
saturday we drove back to Lansing for a little then hit the road all the way to Detroit to get dinner with Eric's whole immediate family and hang out! now that everyone is older and married and moved away, it's harder for us all to get together as often - especially now as we are planning our future and thinking about family, it was just so nice to be with everyone and just drink and talk and laugh!
sunday we started pre-marriage counseling after church.
turns out....we just might make it after all!! ;)
we are so blessed. seriously.
