There were four of us before we knew it and little did we know the friendship would spread over a hundred miles and 9 kids and today we are celebrating 34 years with her so this just seemed a fitting day for her story.  In 2004 I started barber school at Anthony Davids hair academy,… Continue reading Tribe 2

This is something I am passionate about, no not the pageant part of it, but the girls, their passion for their community, their bravery on stage and off, and their immense amount of grace.  Let me back up, I got into this gig for advertising but I stayed for thousands of other reasons beyond hair… Continue reading Journey to miss Oklahoma

So this week brought another level of love for Clay and this post is probably going to go ten different directions with no general theme in mind because that is what the last 7-10 days have contained.  We have been married for 5 years, that seems crazy and we have been together for 10... I… Continue reading 5 isn’t a magic number

There are many foot prints in my story and all play a bigger part than the little split second you will see but these are the parts on my heart now, the things I learned or am learning but Clay is a piece of them all. When I was young and looking for a man… Continue reading My tribe I

This boy has 365 days, 52 weeks under his belt and we are so happy to have him in our family! Happiest birthday Porter Olen

  I didn't excel at school, not because I wasn't smart but because I had absolutely no motivation to do something that didn't produce immediate results (right? so typical of today's instant gratification society) let me just say that in no way prepared me for the life I have now. I flourished in the salon… Continue reading Carli

So many times we gage someone's social media and try to predict what life is handing them, is their life easy, they have priorities in line or geez what are they thinking ? We don't know though, and we often forget to extend grace , my life doesn't look like my Facebook and definitely not… Continue reading The mask

We have a lot of freedoms, yet so many do not know what freedom feels like, freedom to rise above oppression, assumptions, pain, fear and love.  Life is hard , particularly hard if you go through it alone.  Freedom has been a new concept I have pondered, we so often take it for granted don't… Continue reading Freedom is strange

We had a great night with GG and Papa at Ole Reds despite the wait and the high top table and no high chair we had a great nightlive music cures the soul