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I'm known as the "quiet sister."

I turn bright red when the group of four I'm talking to over dinner all look at me at the same time.

I literally ran away (I'm sorry and I'm not proud), from some people who were trying to talk to me at Adrian's CD release party. Like down the hall, arms pumping, ran away.

I throw up whenever I've roped in town, not so much because I'm nervous about how I'm going to do, but because I know that EVERYONE IS LOOKING.

So it's really weird that for being the shy and retiring sister, I'm the one who is wildly experimental when it comes to color, be it my hair or the walls of a house.

When I was in high-school I painted my bedroom a beautiful, bright turquoise color with screaming yellow trim. My mums walked in, took one look around and said, "Your room looks like a Tijuana whorehouse."

The question left bouncing around my brain, of course was, how do you know what the inside of Tijuana whorehouse looks like???" Hmmm.....

That being said, when it comes to home decor (I don't like the word "decor". It sounds pompous and I feel like I should follow it up with using the word "piece" when talking about furniture. Shudder.), I like bright colors, different textures and as many photos crammed onto one wall as possible.

Kind of like a Tijuana whore house, I guess...

Here's some home inspiration that I found from late night wanderings on Pinterest, enjoy!

And while I know paint can be expensive and most of the things that I would LOVE to have to decorate my home with I can't afford, never forget that a simple bouquet of flowers does wonders to transforming a home, no matter what or where it may be.

xo xo Liz

If it hadn't been for the posts of my friends on Facebook, the fact that today is the first day of Spring would have completely passed me by! Which actually makes me disgusted with myself. Insert me snorting in disgust (here).

I take my math final on Friday and then sweet relief, I'm free!! Happy Dance!

Until the next semester, that is.

When I first got sick, I had a really hard time allowing myself to A) be sick, and B) let people help me. I wanted to do it all by myself, even if that meant I'd get sicker, feel crappier and make my entire family frustrated with me. I can be alarmingly like a toddler learning to feed itself.

I'm hard headed. But I've slowly been learning to listen to my body, swallow my pride and let people help me so that I can do more things on days I don't feel so great.

Lyme disease is weird, one day I can be feeling great, go for run, do pushups, ride, do homework, braid some rawhide and then BAM, not be able to walk by myself the next day. And then I can be back up and at it again the very next day. I'm hoping to make it to a friend's branding this weekend and because I haven't been feeling too hot lately, I've been taking it easy.

Which means that on this glorious first day of spring, I went for a little ride with Adrian. Not the long, "training" adventure I wanted, because hopefully I'm finally starting to carry learning forward and me babying myself today will make it so I can brand later. Sigh. Sometimes it takes me a long time to learn an easy lesson.

So my little sister was incredibly kind, caught and saddled my fat man and let me go on a short little ride around. And it was a wonderful way to celebrate the beginning of spring. As are the storm clouds hovering in the background...come on rain!!

Sometimes when Adrian sings I have to do a little fist pump.

Does anyone else do that? You finally learn a lesson that you had been bashing your head against for the longest time, and realize that it wasn't that hard to begin with?!

The extent of my bucket list, as of last night. I'm going to add a lot more to it! I also feel really cool that I was able to take a picture of my notes on my phone...even though Adrian had to show me how to do it.

Today was an amazing day.

Why?

Well for one, I got a lot of work done with my schoolwork and finals are next week. Yay!

Two, our custom made Western Chic Couture cuffs arrived in the mail and I can't WAIT to show them to you all. I've been wearing mine since it arrived and it is just so pretty!

And three, just as Adrian and I were about to head off for a ride the UPS truck pulled up and brought us jeans from our AMAZING sponsors, Sissie and Me and Ranch Royalty Clothing Company!!

And four, Adrian and I felt like our horses did really great! How you could you ask for anything more???? (Unless it was a steak and french fries....)

The little sister

My Fat Albert

I just realized he's 15, how time flies!

Roo baby

When the UPS truck comes, BF feels that it is his duty to try and get run over . So Adrian rescues him.

No, you can't go home with the UPS man.

Jeans are here!!!

Happy, happy, happy!!!

Happy dance!

Adrian's Bruce Heaner spurs

Western Chic Couture cuff, out and about!

Custom Buckaroo Barbie cuffs from Western Chic Couture! They have a quote from Adrian's song, Buckaroo Barbie!

"Buckaroo Barbie....Outlaw Woman, Gotta Be Free" Thank you so much Hailey!!

Our new home is almost ready for the Bassett family to take up residence. It's been 16 years since we last moved. It was at that time in 1996 that I have left my television job in Chattanooga to move back home to Mississippi and marry my husband. Now 3 kids later and lots of acquisitions, it's a bigger project and it takes much longer, too.

While the floors were in transition in the new house, I asked the children to come up with their favorite Bible verses, handed them a jumbo black Sharpie marker, and gave them the instructions: write on the floors. Will, our 7 year old, had a look on his face that read 'Last time I did this, I got in trouble' and asked, "You mean we can write on the floor and not get in trouble?" After asking why I was allowing them to write on the floors their scriptures, I explained how nice it would be to be surrounded by God's Word all of the time, especially when they're having difficult days. So, they commenced to writing first in the children's den.

Afterwards, they went to their bedrooms to write another favorite verse along with the verse I chose to pray over each of them while I was expecting them and still pray over them to this day which I shared in my first book "Forecasts & Faith: 5 Keys to Weathering the Storms of Life".

Did you know the act of writing scripture is dotted all throughout the Bible? God wrote on stone tablets for Moses (Deuteronomy 10:1-2), the Israelites wrote scriptures on their door frames (Deuteronomy 6:4-9), the Israelites wrote on the stones taken from the Jordan River (Deuteronomy 27:1-8), and writing would be a witness against Israel (Isaiah 30:8). John even stated in John 21:25,  "Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written."

Psalm 119:11 says, "I have hidden your word in my heart that I may not sin against you."

I want our new home to be a place of spiritual revelation, peace and loving wisdom. It was a lesson for our children that we're not only hiding God's Word in our hearts, but hiding it in our home, too.

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