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Sometimes, #blackfriday ends up being my favorite day of the year. Happy birthday to my wonderful #husband and favorite human in the world who has brought me so much love and adventure the last 9 years. ❤️

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Perfectly imperfect. Wildly thankful for this crew.

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STAY ON YOUR MAT! Have you ever tried balancing while watching someone else? Here's a giveaway about what happens: you fall over.

I love when my yoga practice aligns with my business/life/parenting. Stay on your mat, stay in your lane, stay your course...whatever your analogy, it is HARD y'all. The comparison game is real, and detrimental to you living your best life.

"She's married, I wish I was married."
"She's thriving, why can't I just get that success?"
"They're having a baby...why aren't we pregnant yet?"

Have you ever caught yourself saying those things? It's a miserable space to be in. In yoga, you come with the understanding that your practice is your own, and you are in no position to compare yourself to someone else's journey. If you do, you'll fall over.

Double tap or share this post if this is something you've struggled with. Much love, y'all! Namaste.

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Tap, hold, delete app.

I’m not going to lie, taking the weekend off from social media has been unexpectedly recharging. The FOMO I thought I'd experience doesn't exist–I'm actually looking forward to it.

Every Friday I delete the apps from my phone to eliminate any habitual, mindless finger movements to “just check” and waste precious time. My time with my boys and to refocus a few days a week is so needed, but it's been hard. It truly takes me a few hours to get out of the habit of picking up my phone and trying to "just check".

As John Lennon said, ironically in his song Beautiful Boy, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” For my relationship with social media, I'm always making plans for our future: plans to grow, plans to market, plans to show up, more and more plans. And for me, deleting the temptation to work 8 days a week (more Beatles references for you) starts with eliminating the app all together.

Comment below if this is a challenge you'd like to join me in the month of December: deleting your social media apps Friday at 1:00pm until Monday at 8:00am!

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Did you have a word for 2020? And did it meet your expectations?

I was 9 months pregnant with Dawson in a yoga class at @yogaolas when the word “grounded” came to me. It was ironic because I wasn’t. I was overdue with my son and couldn’t keep my balance (mentally or physically) to save my life. But that word kept showing up during my practice.

To be honest, I also was hoping for a cooler word. Something more hip and exciting. But no, there it was: “grounded”.

When 2020 ensued, “grounded” looked a lot different for me before March hit. The definition of grounded is: well balanced and sensible. Needless to say, 2020 tested that hard.

But it was so perfectly placed in my heart for so many reasons. Developing a new sense of connection with myself and trusting my gut would be pushed to the max this year. Learning what it meant as a mother of 2 and six years of marriage would be one of the biggest lessons of the year for me. Adapting to change with humility and confidence would be challenged in both my personal and professional life.

I’m thankful this word I thought was kind of lame and anticlimactic came into my brain in December 2019. Isn’t it funny how those things happen?

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Let’s talk about what’s really glamorous about being an entrepreneur.

A couple weeks ago, our toddler caught a stomach bug in the midst of a 14 hour drive from Colorado to Arizona, where we’d stay for six weeks. Every night for about 3 nights, Mike and I got a combined 90 minutes of sleep. And you know what...

It didn’t matter.

We had no one to call the next morning to say we wouldn’t be in.

There was no checking to see if we had PTO.

We didn't have to figure out who would stay up and lose sleep because the other had the more "important" job.

We just lived our life and took care of our sick boy. We weren't bitter the next day or afraid our boss would call us out in front of the office for lagging. We slept in when we could, ate crap food for breakfast, and drank way too much coffee.

Because that's what's really amazing about being and entrepreneur; you live your life as life happens. No matter what gets thrown at you, it's yours to direct and live according to your terms and freedom.

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Dreams comin’ true all over the place.

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Most creatives have a bucket list: places to shoot, people to meet, magic to create.

Shooting in Sedona was without question in my top 5 locations I wanted to shoot, and I finally filled that bucket on Friday after nearly 6 years of seeing it on my list.

Thanks to the family of our friends of their family (love word of mouth!) I got to join Taryn and Ryan, the sweetest couple with the sweetest families, for their desert wedding last Friday.

Cheers to Monday mornings filled with gratitude and filled buckets! And congratulations to this beautiful couple!

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The day after we started shooting this video everything changed.

We met West and Rachael out in Moab, Utah after a rather giddy excited conversation about shooting a family/promo video doing what we love.

The day after we started shooting three monumental things happened:

1. Mike quit his corporate job of 15 years.
2. Mike turned down a really cool job opportunity that would have required him to be away from us.
3. I got a positive pregnancy test for our sweet Dawson Doodle.

I called Rachael that morning and said, “Well, some things have changed.” Immediately she said, “You’re pregnant?!?” I laughed and said yes and she and West both said that we needed to capture the whole story.

What we thought was going to take a few weeks, ended up capturing some of the most precious moments of our marriage together. We are so filled with gratitude for @hickorygrovepictures for sharing their insane talents with us and sharing the vision we had for capturing our work and family life. We’d recommend this husband and wife videography team to the moon and back! Thank you two so much for this beautiful documentation of a little bit of our world ❤️

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Happy #fridayintroductions and welcome to our new followers! Can y'all believe we welcomed nearly 200 new followers after I started creating #igreels last month?! I'm so thrilled to have you here and wanted to share some weird things about me:

1. I hate pants and am almost always in a dress (or romper, best of both worlds, right?)
2. My birth name was Taybor. There was a typo on my birth certificate and my parents thought it was funny...
3. In the fall and winter, you can catch me drinking tea ALL DAY LONG. Seriously. If you come into our house I'll offer you a drink every 25 seconds until you accept. #iammymother
4. I love knitting and making gifts for people I love. Every Christmas Mike and I make sure we've made at least one Christmas gift for every family member.
5. Our 3 year old calls me "Baby Girl" and Mike "Babe" in tandem with "mama" and "daddy". I guess terms of endearment run in the family.

We left the snow in Colorado to bask in the desert sun of Arizona until December and I’m thrilled to be shooting in Sedona today! Comment below and share something about yourself or your weekend plans!

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This year has made me wonder a lot, but a big question is: do you value location independence or financial independence more?

Or do you believe one leads to the other?

During the lockdown, we were so thankful that we had made the scary decision in 2016 to purchase our 43 acre ranch. We could safely go outside and be on our own land. We also continued to travel and work in our beautiful state of Colorado.

But after seeing how quickly our income could potentially radically change certainly rocked us enough to realize financial independence, which has always been a goal of ours, was more critical than ever.

After all the curveballs of 2020, what’s most important to you and why: location independence or financial independence?

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Okay, so can wind and velvet be a thing forever now?

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I am a greedy person...

with my time. You have to be, right?

Getting up at 5:00am isn't always easy (and doesn't happen everyday), but that time to me is sacred. I love dedicating my mornings to my couples and ladies I'm coaching. I genuinely look forward to working and enjoying my coffee in the morning hours before everyone else is up. That time is sacred to me.

I'm greedy with my family time during the day, because those moments go by in a blink. Literally...like bedtime comes faster than anything else. Being a full time entrepreneur and mama means something has to give during the hours my kids are awake. And I refuse to let that be these fleeting years I have with my boys.

I'm greedy with dinnertime. Growing up with 8 people in our family, we always sat down for dinner together no matter what was going on, who was at what practice, or who was working late. Dinner time is something I don't budge on, even though right now someone is typically screaming or trying to eat the dogs food. That time will be the foundation for beautiful growth and conversations to come as our family gets older.

I'm greedy with my evenings. Before I was a mom or business owner, I was a girlfriend and wife to the man of my dreams. Our evenings are sacred as a couple. Whether it's vegging out on the couch to catch up on our favorite shows, or having awesome conversations by the fireplace, we cherish those hours after our boys are asleep and the computer is shut down.

Rest assured in my friendships that us spending time together is insanely sacred to me. My extroverted-quality-time-love-language heart craves intimate conversations and play dates with my beloved girlfriends. I love you all dearly.

I'm greedy with my time and unapologetic about it. What's something in your life that takes priority over everything else?

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6 M O R E M O N T H S until these beautiful humans wedding day!

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Loving Monday reminder:

“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” -Richard Branson

Every single time I’ve set out on a new venture, I’ve been nearly paralyzed with fear and doubt. But nothing wonderful happens in your comfort zone. Happy #motivationmonday y’all!

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I’ve written this post 100 different ways in my head over the last week. Even still, I can’t quite muster up the appropriate string of words to express what’s happening inside my brain.

But when I woke this morning I felt inspired, grateful, represented, free, and at ease. Finally, at ease.

What a freggin’ week, y’all.

“The secret of change is not to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Socrates

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3 Signs that tell me I'm getting close to burnout and what I do about it:

1. Migraines. I've shared that my stress manifests itself in the form of a migraine. This is always my body's first sign that I'm overdoing it.

2. I cry...a lot. I cry when I'm stressed or overwhelmed. My hardest year of business was in 2015 when we were shooting over 40+ weddings and working 80+ hours a week editing. I cried a lot that year for feeling inadequate.

3. I quit eating. This was always a form of control for me struggling with an eating disorder in my teens and twenties. Eating is one of the first things to go when I feel like I'm heading to BURNOUT CITY.

And the first thing I do is...

First, call the professionals! What do I mean by this? When you recognize the freedom in delegating tasks and bringing on team members who share our vision and excitement for the work you’re doing, it’s insanely freeing.

It started with a phone call to an editor as I was crying in a Starbucks in 2015 feeling so overwhelmed. Years later we would be hiring a #virtualassistant. We've also hired our sweet friend as our housekeeper to help with our #airbnb @fallentimberranch Just knowing we have others in our corner cheering us on and helping with the load makes such a difference in running our business.

And second, learning our threshold and what we don’t want allows us to easily say #nothankyou when our hearts tell us so.

Happy #fridayintroductions friends! Thank you so much for your support and love!

PC @sagebrushsoulsphotography

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For as much as I love my downtime in the winter for rest and focusing on my health, I'm pretty sad to not have any winter wonderland weddings this season.

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I’ve got big plans.

Plans to live until I’m 100. I intend to see the year 2088 and be the crazy lady still traveling the world with my family and young 90-something friends.

Things that won’t get me to that goal:

➡️Negative energy.
➡️Unhealthy, processed foods.
➡️Alcohol.
➡️Stress.
➡️Debt.

Knowing what you don’t need is just as important as knowing what you do. And defining your overarching goal serves as your compass 🧭 when making small everyday decisions.

What’s an overarching goal of yours that guides your daily decisions?

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1. Did you vote?
2. Did you swipe? Edited➡️SOOC #straightoutofcamera #beforeandafter

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In the past I never felt like my voice made a difference.

In a sea of millions, what’s the point? Who am I? Why does what I believe matter?

Call it growing up, call it being a mom with other lives at stake, or call it finally finding my voice, but this year just felt different. Voting felt powerful and personal.

I’m not here to ask who you voted for or why. IMHO, it’s dividing and poor etiquette to ask loaded questions like that while hiding behind a screen on social media and without giving it the meaningful, respectful conversation or argument it deserves. All I’ll ask is...

Did you vote?

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