Keep Trying Quote

Just another reminder that Heaven is cheering you on and God loves you personally! Never forget that!





If you want to listen to Jeffery R. Hollands full talk click here.

-Anna Lynn

Wanderlust

If travel didn't cost anything, and all people could be trusted I would be gone today! I've always wanted to travel the world and it is a dream that I will make come true. I don't care how hard it will be I just want to get out there and see and experience everything for myself, not just in pictures from my computer screen.








Where is the place you most want to travel to? My first stop would be Europe, anywhere and everywhere in Europe :)

-Anna Lynn

The Temple

Just a little reminder tonight about how important the temple is and that we should always have it in our minds as our destination.

-Anna Lynn

Future Home Tour

Sometimes I think I waste way to much time thinking about my future home... oh but who cares! Its fun :)

over all vision

Homeschool Room

I want to have a big family and homeschool. I also want to do it in an orderly fashion so a room dedicated to an environment of learning and creativity is very important for my future home.
I love the idea of big tables that can have multiple crafts and projects going on at once on them. The look of refinished lockers is really fun and can be a good way for each child to store their individual stuff. and may I just say reading nooks are the best!!

Kitchen

A while ago I watched a show called Fixer Upper (go watch it!) and may I just say they truly made me fall in love with the white subway tile backsplash look. Open shelving is also very much a favorite. Chalk boards are also very fun. Something I have wanted in my kitchen since I was very young (inspired by Daddy Day Care) is a breakfast nook/ restaurant booth. They're just so cute and cozy.

Entry + Living room

Simple and bright with lots of natural light, that is my living room style. Book shelves, tall bookshelves, bookshelves covering every wall!! Mwahahaha!! beautiful old fireplaces, and oh my would you look at that rounded hobbit like entry door! its beautiful...

Master Bedroom

Cozy cozy cozy... ahh. That is how I want to feel when I enter my master bedroom. Fairy lights are essential. More books and a secrete hide away just for my own personal work/rest space.

Exterior 

I've always loved big old houses. Especially ones with big rap around porches. More fairy lights!! A fun big yard with lots to explore. Fun garden to work together in, and we will build our own fun tree house. I just discovered that you can make a natural swimming pool/pond and it looks amazing!

Hope you enjoyed my little future house tour. Now go be excited about your future home!

-Anna Lynn

Something Crazy

Have you ever wanted to do something crazy? Wether it be to sing and dance in public or to climb mt. everest we always seem to push those crazy dreams aside.

Why? The little voices in our heads are always whispering to us: "It would be embarrassing, people would judge us!" or "It takes to much planing/time/money/effort!"Yet we hear stories about the people who did make the sacrifices necessary and had an amazing life changing experience.

Why are we so afraid to follow are dreams and try something crazy? Are we really that afraid of failure? We are meant to try and fail, Its how you learn.

I don't know about you but I have multiple crazy ideas a day (This blog is one of them). Sometimes they don't last, and most of the time they never actually happen. But if I didn't act on some of them I'd burst!

Coming home from the ballet one night I got thinking about why there are no modern ballets. Then I thought, why not set a ballet to a movie soundtrack and do a movie/ballet? So I picked How to Train Your Dragon (because that soundtrack is amazing!). I got home, and was so excited. I listened to the soundtrack a million times while I started drawing what the costumes would look like, and thinking about how I would adapt the storyline... then I realized I know nothing about ballet.

I was still glad I wrote down and started to act on my passionate urge to make a ballet because one day, who knows I might pick it up again.

Sometimes, those few and far in between times, when we listen to that stirring voice of adventure and know its the right time to go forward with our crazy ideas magical things can happen. There is no limit to what can happen! They may seem small to others but to you they can be a memorable life shaping experience.

So next time a crazy urge hits you (as long as its legal) go for it! Forget that it might be improbable or impractical, it might even be impossible. It doesn't matter! Because no one ever got anything done by doubting themselves. Embrace your crazy ideas and don't just be a dreamer, be a doer.

Leave a comment about one of your crazy ideas! 

-Anna Lynn

Taking Life Day by Day

Its a new year, with new goals!... lets see how long I can last. 

I have very short list of goals this year.

1. Sugar Free! (This is going to kill me!)

2. Learn to Drive (Yup I'm almost 18 and I still haven't learned how to drive. don't judge!)

3. This Blog... 

Every year I make a goal to write in my journal more but I always end up doing the opposite. Once I even had back to back journal entries of new years resolutions, both with the goal to write more! 

This blog however is going to be different. 365 posts. One per day for a year. Simply about life, my life. But don't think this will be like a diary. No, each post will be on a different subject. WRITING, ACTING, DANCING, BOOKS, MOVIES, FOOD, CRAZY FAMILY LIFE, TRAVEL, THE GOSPEL, ANYTHING! They won't all be the same length either, some may be really long and deep, others may be super fluffy nonsense.

But we'll just have to see how the year progresses. I'd like to leave you with some words of wisdom... 

-Anna Lynn