Life of de Partee: Archive

When God smacks you in the face.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 As I was sitting at the laundromat today waiting for our clothes to dry, flustered from a busy morning, I realized that I had missed one VERY important “to do” on my list. Time in the Word. Nick and I arrived in Nashville last night after 3 weeks away (four for Nick). Our busy schedule is constant, and so it didn’t shock us that today would be...

Dec 1st

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Slater's 1st Birthday

Sunday, November 27, 2011 Yesterday Nick, Paul & Jenna and I drove down to San Diego for the day for Slater’s 1st birthday. For those of you who don’t know Slater… you’re missing out. He belongs to Jeff & Shannon. Jeff plays drums for Kutless and they are some of our dearest friends. The band becomes a second family, and so we love this sweet little boy like...

Nov 28th

California Thanksgiving

Saturday, November 26, 2011 This year marks the start of our first holidays as a married couple. It’s going to definitely be hard for both of us in the coming years to be away from our families on Christmas or Thanksgiving, but we have the best of both worlds since we both have the most amazing families EVER. Trust me, we won big time! This Thanksgiving we spent the week in Chino, CA with...

Nov 27th

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Thanksgiving outfit post:)

So apparently I’m thankful today for thrift shopping. I was inspired to do an outfit post from my successful day of thrifting last week. I also want to open everyone’s eyes to thrifting if you haven’t already tried. It’s one of those activities that people are incredibly discouraged or even grossed out by, but let me tell you, it’s worth the patience, and after one...

Nov 24th

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The Trenton Newell Collection

Monday, November 21, 2011 I know this is my second post in an hour, but I wanted this one to be separate from my Oregon trip post. I want to share with you a wonderful product that my sweet baby brother is developing, and has been for the past couple years. First I’d like you to meet the artist Trenton Joseph Newell, or as he used to say when he was little Trenton “JOPHUS”...

Nov 22nd

Home sweet home

Monday, November 21, 2011 In the life of a traveling musician, there are downfalls and perks. One of those perks=frequent flyer miles:) We are starting off the holiday season the right way, with our family. Our first stop was my hometown of Portland, OR. Lucky for us, Nick had two shows in the Northwest that I was able to attend, and it landed us right back in Portland for a week off. We had an...

Nov 22nd

Heart problems

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 This past week we have gotten to spend time with my family in Portland, Oregon and it has been such a privilege. Lots of laughing and lots of relaxing. During all of the awesomeness however, I have started to see a flaw come out in me. It’s become much more evident in this setting, most likely because you are usually more of your true self around the people...

Nov 17th

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What's in your bread basket? Pt. 3

Monday, November 14th, 2011 It’s finally here!! My third hunk of bread is in the basket folks:) Today I had the honor of guest posting on Diane Comer’s blog for the women of Solid Rock (my church back home). Diane has been doing a series called “Love Stories” and I was able to share the story of how Nick won me over. More like how God won me over through Nick. So...

Nov 14th

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Nov 4th

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Hiking in Nashville

Thursday, November 3, 2011 As I’ve shared before, Nick and I have limited supplies of quality time together. This week was no exception. We had Monday and Tuesday together before he left for the west coast leg of Winter Jam, and I decided that I wanted to get out and do an activity together. Since Nick won’t be back in Nashville until the first of December, I decided we should get...

Nov 3rd

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Confessions of a jerk

I am a big fat judger. It’s been something I have struggled with for a long time and something I think I will battle continually. Probably because I am what we call a human. However, it’s definitely something in the past year that I’ve discovered a little more in depth. It’s ugly and I want to change it. I have this tendency to look outward a ton. I have always been a...

Nov 2nd

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New2Me

I LOVE thrifting. I mean I LOVE it. I have dreams about thrift stores that don’t exist. I make them up in my dreams, and they are awesome! I’ve decided to take my love for thrift shopping and gather some profit from it. Ladies and gentleman, I have opened an online store. It’s not like me. I’m not an “entrepreneur.” This stuff intimidates me. BUT, here I...

Oct 28th

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Ebelskivers, friends, and dominos

Thursday, October 20th, 2011 We had an awesome night last night with our newlywed friends Tim and Lauren. Tim is the road manager/sound genius for Kutless, and Lauren is his wife as of 2 months ago. I love their story because it was one that backs up the common quote: “when you know you know.” Well they sure did! The condensed version: Tim met Lauren on Winter Jam in February of...

Oct 20th

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Oh deer

Last night a few of us wives drove to the guys’ show in Parsons, TN. It’s always a privilege to be able to go to work with your husband. How many people get to do that? Anyway, it was a great show. They are currently on tour with Dara McLean, Anthem Lights, and Newsong. If they are coming to your town, you gotta go! After the show, we stuck around for awhile to hang out with our...

Oct 16th

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Friday, October 14, 2011 Nick and I live in a pretty adorable part of town, and want to start taking advantage of that a little bit more. We’ve driven down the busy street we live off of plenty of times, and have noticed a cute little hot dog stand outside of an auto shop. Today we decided to visit it! I have a confession to make to you Oregonian readers… I kiiiiinnnnda don’t...

Oct 15th

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What's in your bread basket? Pt. 2

Saturday, October 8, 2011 Last week I did a post about a sermon given by my pastor that I’ve been reflecting on, and boy has it been good for me to focus on the positive things in my life. It has made all the difference. You know, it’s so easy to get sidetracked on what’s not going right in our day to day, and to wallow in self pity. I’m working on stopping that and...

Oct 8th

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What's in your bread basket? Pt. 1

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Our pastor Darren did a really awesome sermon this past Sunday, though I was a bit distracted due to the keys player playing background chords the entire sermon… Darren might’ve forgotten to dismiss the band:) Anyway.. not important. The premise of the message was to remind us to recount the amazing milestones of our...

Oct 4th

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Watch

Thursday, September 29, 2011 So I woke up with a fever this morning. I think I may have caught it last night. It makes sense, having stood outside in the cold and mist with a crowd of people at 11PM huddling around a snow filled Christmas wonderland. You guys I caught the bug, I have Bieber fever! We got wind of Franklin’s famous little visitor- Mr. Justin Bieber-yesterday afternoon via...

Sep 29th

Sep 28th

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