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Spring has begun, and with Easter just around the corner, I rounded up the best dresses to shop on a budget! I know how difficult it can be to find just the right one at the right price. With so many pages to scroll through, it can make it easy to give up on searching, so I took the time to go through for you and pulled the prettiest spring styles all under $50, some from smaller online boutiques and others from my favorite online stores!

You can click on any of the images below to shop the options! 
(While these links do earn a small commission, I am sharing them not for the money but to help you shop.) 

Also keep scrolling for some of my favorite past Spring and Easter styles from the blog! 


While we may not be able to attend church services, gather with family, or host Easter events this year, we can still dress up. We can get up Easter morning, put ourselves together, stream a service to watch with those that we live with, video call family and friends, order fun activities to do at home, make a special brunch, and most of all we can still have hope.  And with everything being out of control right now, something as seemingly trivial as dressing up can make life feel at least just a little better.

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With the whole world in the shape that it is, we tend to focus all of our efforts on what we can't do. And then we fall into this pit of despair. And we go day after day just living it out the same. And we lose our sense of hope.

But I think there's a light in this season that we might be missing. The very thing we celebrate this time of year... 3 days before the cause of our celebration today was looking a bit like the times we're in now, but actually even worse. The world had gone dark. Jesus was gone, his body in the grave. No one knew how to have hope.
Do you feel that today? 

Then just as He said, three days later, suddenly everything turned around. Jesus no longer in the grave, risen over death itself, restoring light, peace, and hope in our lives.

I think what we need to remember is that it's okay to have times when life just feels dark, where we can't see much of what's ahead. Because in those times, that is when we cling to the hope that He gave us those three days later. I can't give a time frame on when things will get better. But I can tell you that while it is dark, He is still here, still with you, and still making a way.

We spend so much of our time talking about what we'll do when we come out of this. But what about what we're doing while we are still in it? The midst of the storm may not be where we want to be, but it is shaping us so that when the light comes, we'll be ready.

What is that thing you've been putting off? What's tapping you on your shoulder asking for you to slow down and give it the attention it deserves? 

And when we come out of this, will you know peace? Will you have hope? Or will life still be the same as it was before? 

"I've seen you move, you move the mountains. And I believe, I'll see you do it again. You made a way when there was no way. And I believe, I'll see you do it again."



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I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 
John 16:33 

We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In Him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His holy name. May Your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in You.
Psalms 33:20-22 

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16 

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From the moment we stepped off the plane and into sunny California, all of the heaviness I held on to back in Florida seemed to lift, replaced with a sense of peace I hadn't felt quite like that, aside from the other time I landed in CA just a few days before this.

I don't really know what it is, but something about being there, even though so far away, was just what my spirit needed. This entire trip, filled with the best of moments, made every single thing worth it. I'm still trying to process what it meant to feel so light and happy there.

During this trip, we traveled across northern California, starting in Sacramento, then to Napa for a couple of days, back to Sacramento, up to Amador with a day trip to Tahoe and back for a weekend wine festival in Amador that was so fun - essentially visiting multiple wineries both days to taste wine and food!
In Sacramento, we visited old town Sacramento, had some really great crepes and the best brunch at Bacon & Butter, and also cooked out one night with our group. In Napa, we visited wineries and tasting rooms of course! Tahoe was mostly a road trip through the mountains - we saw snow and tried our hands at a casino which wasn't in everyone's favor but got me a whole nine dollars richer. In Amador we stayed in an airbnb type of house that was huge and had the most amazing view in the mountains. We were even visited by deer on our last morning there! All around, it was the best trip with even better people and moments that I will always look back on with a happy heart.

I'll be posting more blog posts about each place specifically, so this is just an overview of everything!


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I had a moment one of the first weeks of the year, an on my knees crying and wishing I was someone else kind of moment. My lungs inhaled heavily as I begged God for answers as to why I am this way. Why couldn’t I go out and be like everyone else, finding joy in the same things they did, regaining energy from a crowded bar, people on every side? Instead I was all alone at home, because I couldn’t handle even the thought of the noise and the people without stunted breathing, my lungs feeling as though they were collapsing into the heaviness.

I had that moment. But the moment passed. It didn’t dictate the rest of the year. I wouldn’t let it.

Instead I picked myself up off the floor, swiped my tears away, and told myself it was going to be okay. Even if it didn’t feel like it in that moment.

And from then on, life continued. And you know what? It not only kept going, it got better. Opportunities opened up, things I couldn’t even think to dream of. I experienced a peace I’ve never felt. And that wouldn’t have happened if I let that moment be the end, if I let it have its say in all of my future moments.

Right now, I think we’re all in a moment. It’s heavy, uncertain, disconcerting. We don’t know when it’s going to end or when it will get better. And while some moments may last a little longer, none of them are forever.

I’m telling you that even in the midst of that moment, when you don’t feel you can pick your head up from the ground, that is when you have to muster all of your strength to stand. Look at that moment and say it’s not always going to be like this.

We’re going to have brighter days. We’re going to run outside and cheer and embrace. We’ll have moments that we think couldn’t get any better. And we’ll look back at this moment and remember how it made us stronger. Keep looking forward, to better moments. ♡



"For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope." 
Romans 15:4 

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
John 16:33 


"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13 


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