OUR NEW LOGO!

There she isssssssssss y'all! Our logo in all it's glory!

I can't believe it! WE HAVE A LOGOOOOOO!

You KNOW I've been booty dancing like a fool over here. I don't know if I'm more excited about HAVING a logo, or more excited to have finally decided on a logo. We had so many awesome choices, but this one just kept whispering those sweet little nothings in my ear.

The journey getting to this point has been a long, and sad/crazy ride...but from the moment we started working with our designer, Keith, well...it just has been the best experience in the entire world to put it lightly.  He has been nothing but a complete blessing to us, and I just couldn't be more thankful.

 I guess this makes us super legit now...and I'm totallyyyy cool with that!

WE HAVE A LOGOOOOOO! :)

As Chris Brown (not a fan of the dude) would say.... LEGOOO! But imagine me saying,

"LOGOOO!"

Haha! :)

I'm so proud of it and I absolutely LOVE IT. Drew and I couldn't be happier. I realize it's not "So Shay" but it's so "US" and we feel like this logo will target the market we want.

In all honesty, this logo was our third runner up for awhile. I loved this logo when I first saw it, but it wasn't "the one", or so I thought. But, after time, the little turd grew on me, and it grew on me good. Welcome to the family little one! :)

It's complex, prominent, official, thoughtfully crafted, hand-drawn, and the perfect kind of busy. We needed it to be masculine since Drew was a part of the company now, and still find a way to give it a touch of femininity. Also, when we were making our decision, we asked ourselves, "CAN WE SEE THIS ON BUSINESS CARDS? CAN WE SEE THIS ON FOLDERS? KOOZIES? ETC. ETC." And we could.

I think the deciding factor, too, was that it was our designer, Keith Davis Young's, favorite logo, too. We completely trust his judgement and after-all he is pretty much just OUT of the world amazing, and UBER freaking talented.  He put our logos on a website a couple of weeks ago called Dribbble. The batch of logos were in 2nd place on the NUMBER ONE featured page. He called me the day he put them up and was so excited! The response was HUGE! The guy who created the Shiner (beer) logos even commented on how much he loved them. I'm not professional designer (obviously), buttt I think that's pretty stinking cool! :)

Our decision was SO hard...and all of the contenders were strong and I loved each of them so much. So, we have decided to take our second place contender for our logo and are going to use it as our signature.

If you are ever in the market for an awesome designer? Call up Keith. He's brilliant, unique, kind, excited, more than talented, and just the most rad guy to work with. I couldn't recommend a better person, honestly.

You can check him out HERE, and HERE! :)

Well...dare I ask what do you think? I KNOW most of you are probably surprised, but we love it and I guess that is all that matters. It's different, it's not what you see out there right now (atleast we don't think so) and it's just perfect for us. WHOO-HOO! WE ARE SO PUMPED! :)

HAPPY FRIDAY FRIENDS!!!!! :)

For Drew...

Hey guys...I'm alive, I'm alive.

It's been quiet around here huh!? :) GOSH there is so much to update y'all on...and SO much I need to blog but I'm in the middle of a maze at the moment ringing bells at my check-ins and haven't found my way out just yet to breathe. I don't want to make this a post about how busy I've been...I don't and I'm not.

 I actually wanted to pop in here for a minute to talk about my hard-working, handsome husband, Drew.

Yep. This guy right here.

I know, I know, I just heard you say, "Rawwwr!" Can't say I blame ya! ;)

I admit, I brag about his hot pants all the time and I know it goes without saying how much I love this man. However, I really wanted to take a minute to tell you guys how hard this guy really works. I mean, just HARD. I don't know how he does it. He's the hardest working man I know.

You see, he started a new job with the state a week before we moved out of our home back in March. Starting a new job isn't easy, and you're tired. It goes without saying. We've all done it. Your brain is fried from learning new material all day, and when you get home, you just want to go to bed. But, Drew didn't have a choice. This guy moved about 90% of our home (me the other 10%, also known as the lighter objects), and he did this in three days. Three. He lifted all the heavy, with my assistance of sorts, and I honestly didn't think we were going to make it. I cried, I panted, I screamed, I had some really sweet moments. ;) But Drew? He just kept going, with none of that. Maybe a few grunts and farts or so, you know, typical man things...but it wowed me just to witness this.

 When he took his new job, he pretty much signed up to have a long commute to work,  which has totaled up to about 1.5 to 2 hours of this guy sitting in downtown traffic, every. single. day. Once he gets home at 6 to 6:30, sometimes even 7, he's dripping in sweat because he takes my car to work to save on gas...and my car has been without an AC for almost 4 years now. So, he comes home, exhausted from a long day at work, a long day of deligating house work phone calls, a long day in the car, sweating, hot, (but still sexy) he walks in the door with a smile, hug and kiss waiting for me, and sometimes he might grab a beer, but after that, the guy is in his work clothes, ready to head back to the house to work on it. On his lunch break, he's either at Home Depot, Lowes or the gym.

This guy has installed our living room floors, our tile in the laundry room, half bathroom, the floors in the hallway, two closets, AND our master bedroom. He's installed the trim (not fun), and he's in the middle of caulking it all right now (again, not fun and A LOT of ground to cover). I've seen this guy put in more blood (trust me, we have proof), more sweat, more "man" tears (he would say it's still sweat haha), more frustration, yet, the most patience I have ever in my life witnessed.

While all of his friends are cracking open a beer after work, at a team Happy Hour, relaxing on the couch complaining about the long day they had (I feel ya here, I feel ya here people!) this guy is still working, and non-stop at that.

We both come home at about 11 or 12 at night (every night), and he's up at 6 am and out the door at 6:30 to head back to work. Weekends? He's working along side me for Love, The Nelsons. He hasn't had a break...and he hasn't complained NOT ONCE. Not even once. I can't even believe it myself.

I'm exhausted too, no doubt, but when I look at his tired eyes, his rough calloused hands, and the paint, dust, blood and dirt that covers his body...I honestly can't even fathom how he's feeling. I sometimes just stare at him across the house as he's working and want to just cry for him. Just typing out that he's done this, and this, and this isn't enough. It's been hard work y'all. It hasn't been easy. It's tedious, and it's the most time consuming thing in the world. He's done it all by himself. He won't stop until he's finished, and he hasn't taken a break, not once. It's incredible to witness how much he cares about his home, how much he cares if things look perfect, and how he just keeps going through all of this with that beautiful, infectious smile on his face. Saying that he's worked incredibly hard is pretty much the biggest understatement I could give him.

I love this man. I love him so stinking much. I don't think he even realizes how proud I am of him. I'm so thankful for him.

Lucky just doesn't even begin to describe it.

June Goals and a Playlist!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

I'm a few days late, but here are my monthly goals!  I am on my way to Dallas today to visit this sweet girl. We are working on something that I'm hoping to share with you very soon! You can follow along on instagram here if you'd like!  :)

MAY GOALS COMPLETED

Lay floors in home with Drew
Paint the hallways, laundry room, bedrooms, kitchen and bathrooms
Throw away ALL the clutter 
Start cutting back on my sugar intake slowly but surely
Photograph two weddings
Clean out my car
Have a garage sale
Participate in a random act of kindness every single week


MAY GOALS NOT COMPLETED

Move back into my house
Go to the new Top Golf in Austin with Drew
Reveal the new Love, The Nelsons LOGO!


JUNE GOALS

Move back into my house
Go to the new Top Golf in Austin with Drew
Reveal the new Love, The Nelsons LOGO (Happening THIS week!)
Photograph three weddings
Start on my portfolio
Announce new exciting venture with Amanda
Order new business cards for LTN
Update Wedding Collections
Work on my Wedding Welcome Packages
Shoot one editorial styled session
Work out three times a week
Celebrate my 7 years of "being together" with Drew (I'm so that girl, I know)
Have coffee with a new friend
Pay it forward


Dangggg y'all. Big month about to happen. This is going to be one crazy, busy, yet exciting month! :)

What are your monthly goals!? :) :) :)

And because it's Tuesday Tunes...Here you go! :)



Have a fantastic day!!! :)

Modeling Monday!

First we were re-modeling.

And now we are ... modeling!?

You know...just a day in the life of a Nelson! :) I kid, I kid.

It's little late in the day to be posting I suppose, but y'all...this day has FLOWN by. My to-do list is rude I tell ya. Just raaaude.

This past weekend? A whirlwind!

I met Drew and my friend Jenni at my house on Friday and we then headed to the storage units to start getting all of our "garage sale" items. We didn't realize until we started sorting how much of it we were actually selling. We ended up moving out of one storage unit completely and hauled it back to our house. On the bright side, we are half way done moving y'all! What! What! But seriously. Never in my life have I seen SO much ... just...STUFF! I really think we would have been able to be on that show Hoarders! We stayed up until about 3 am on Friday, were up at 6 am, and had ourselves a garage sale of the century! Drew was dreading this, naturally, BUT at the end of it, he was a tired, but happy boy. We sold EVERYTHING. Not ONE thing was left, except for a sweater but I ended up just giving it to the last person who stopped by. It was super successful and as Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. said in Jerry Maguire...SHOW ME THE MONEYYYY! So naturally, Drew and I treated ourselves to Casa Ole afterwards followed by a nap. #highrollers

On Saturday evening, we went to my friend Brent's house where we celebrated my sweet friend Kristina's superrr later birthday. We had so much fun and I was so glad I got to attend! It seems that all I do these days is say, "Sorry! I can't...I have _________." I'm so glad that I've made myself really take weekends OFF from work (if I don't have a shoot or wedding). It let's me not feel burnt out, and I am able to not feel the stress/burden/guilt that I used to have. Anyway, that's a different post for another day! :)

AND Sunday looked like this...

Drew and I were asked by my friend Mylah a few weeks ago if we'd be down to be ... models ... for a styled shoot she was planning. At first, I was like, "Say whatttt!? Us? Models!?" However, we really haven't had our photos taken since our wedding (4 years ago) and it sounded like so much fun! We agreed, we went, got our hair did, and Drew ROCKED those HOT PANTS of his! :)

Here is a preview on facebook this morning that she posted...

 It was THE COOLEST experience, ever. The deer were so friendly, and LOVED me, (can you blame em!? haha totally kidding!), andddd I got to make-out with my man for a couple of hours. I'd say it was a gooooood day! :)

Also, can I just be honest and tell y'all that being behind the camera was super weird for me!? Haha! I felt really nervous, and vulnerable and thought to myself...

"So THISSSS is what my clients feel like!?"

:)

Mylah did an absolutely AMAZING job, and we had such a great time! You can check our her photography page here! :) I'll be sure to post more when she puts them up in the next couple of weeks! :)

What kind of things did you get into this weekend?

I'll be back tomorrow with my Monthly Goals and a pretty baller playlist. Get excited! ;)

P.s.) Is Drew not a freaking sizzle fest in those photos!?!? THOSE suspenders and pink bow tie???? I could gobble that boy UP ch'yall! (saidinthehoneybooboovoice) ;)