Tomorrow is Valentines Day and we are "feeling the love" around the house today with some of our favorite lovey-dovey tunes while we conquer laundry, dishes, and some organizing. Without further ado, our top 10 love songs:
10. When I Was Your Man - Thomas Rhett
I know what you are thinking...this song is like a sad break-up song, and it is, but it is so filled with love too and we LOVE Thomas Rhett's voice in this Bruno Mars cover. It's just all kinds of wonderful. I've provided the video because well we just love it.
9. A Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay
8. Matt Stell - Meantime (that voice!)
7. We Were Us - Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert
6. Stay With Me - Sam Smith
5. Ho Hey - The Lumineers
4. Feet Don't Touch the Ground - Stoney LaRue
This one has all kinds of special meaning around our house.
3. Never Stop - Safetysuit
If you can listen to this one without crying then you are a champ. I cry. Every. Single. Time.
2. Overwhelmed - Tim McMorris
Who doesn't love a good feel good/lovey song? Swoon.
1. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran
So, those are currently what we are jamming to at home. What are your favorite love songs right now?
Today we have a soccer game at 8:30 in the morning. This will be the earliest soccer game we have ever had and I am a bit nervous about how well it will go with our youngest. Saturday is normally our day to sleep in (till like 8:30) but these last few weeks we have been so busy! So, today after soccer we are having a little weekend getaway with some family. We will be headed to St. Louis to see Eric Church and I am over the moon excited. I feel like a kid on Christmas. Eric Church is one of my all time favorites, as well as my husbands.
So, it is only fair I share a little bit of EC with you all. My top five favorite Eric Church songs of all time.
5. Talladega - The Outsiders CD Favorite line: "Most days in life don't stand out, but life's about those days that will."
4. You Make It Look So Easy - Carolina CD
This song usually puts me to tears. It holds a really special place in my heart. Favorite line: "I gotta hard head. I was born that way and that makes me wrong more than I say, but I thank God you got a hard head too. I guess he must have known you'd need that to get us through."
3. Lightning - Sinners Like Me CD
*Warning: If you want to cry just go ahead and listen to this with a box of tissues.*
I don't know that there is a favorite line. The entire story of this song just puts me to tears and sends chills down my body.
2. These Boots [LIVE VERSION] - Caught in the Act: Live CD
I don't have a favorite line. I love this song in its entirety. It is an older one but one of my favorites. It was the song that got me hooked on EC.
1. Springsteen [LIVE VERSION] - Caught in the Act: Live CD
I adore when he throws in a little Bruce Springsteen in this song. It gets me every single time. Favorite line: "I was singing to you, you were singing to me. I was so alive, never been more free."
Does it not take you back to high school or college? Cruising around, wind in your hair, summer night, radio up, and just feeling free.
In case you haven't noticed I am a bit of a music fanatic. I don't have one genre I stick to. I like it all. I also prefer the live version of anything over something that has been edited.
Who are some of your favorite artists? What are some of your favorite songs?
Our internet has been out because of a storm for a few days and just got repaired today. So, I have been catching up online with other blogs, email, and some work stuff. My tunes have been perfection today thanks to Spotify and my extreme obsession with One Tree Hill.
Who here loves One Tree Hill? I mean seriously is it not like the best show ever? I still whine and pitch a mini-fit when I remind myself thats its over, even though it has been over for like ever now. Thank goodness Netflix has every season. I tend to re-watch it often. I mean Lucas
Scott could narrate my life any day. One of my absolute favorite things about One Tree Hill is the music. Which is why I have a Spotify playlist titled "One Tree Hill" and you guessed it...its filled with music from the show.
Some of the music takes me way back and I can seriously see Nathen kissing Haley for the first time, Dan Scott being well...Dan Scott, Lucas stealing the hearts of every girl watching, Brooke designing some outrageous outfit that girls actually wear, and Peyton off on her latest crazy happening. Its all so fresh in my mind. Specifically the shirtless basketball games out at the River Court.
It is funny how music can take you back to things like that.
So, my top five One Tree Hill songs of all time:
1. Halo - Haley James Scott (I mean obviously)
2. The Funeral - Band of Horses
3. The Frehsmen - Verve Pipe
(Just go ahead and watch this if you want to cry..totally norm.)
4. Son's Gonna Rise - Citizen Cope
5. The Mixed Tape - Jack's Mannequin
Ill never forget the endless Tyler Hilton songs and the large amount of Jimmy Eat World songs.
I have this weird thing I do. I have a playlist of music titled "Writing". I only listen to it when...I write! You probably guessed that though. My list is filled with songs that usually put me in a very vulnerable place. Maybe they make me sad, motivate me, or just make me feel so special to be able to share this world with all of you. It all depends on where I press "play" on my list. Today has consisted of Coldplay the entire time and I feel like I could fly. Something about Coldplay just makes me the happiest girl. Call it magic. (If you aren't a Coldplay fan you won't get that.)
I can't help but feel like the last year or so has been absolutely magical even though I have cried a fair share of those days. We will blame my gender on that. Emotions run high around here. In the last year God has taken me and opened my eyes. I see things like I would have never expected. He has taken my life and ran with it. At full speed. Maybe I've grown up and this is it but either way things are different. Its scary to think that just a few short years a go I was in a place where life was not something I valued, it was not something I thanked God for, matter of fact I so badly wanted him to take it from me. I was hurt and every time I stood up, I got knocked right back down. The thing was, the pain from the first time still hurt worse than any other time, and that pain it never left. The day and weeks following up to marrying my T I told him time and time again I was a mess and I had been hurt and I cried more than any normal persons and there would be days where I hated this life and days where I couldn't take it anymore and it would be sad and it would hurt and that he didn't have to be with a mess. I felt like a burden. I felt like everyone was scared to break me because it had already happened so many times and in a way I would never come back from. I really was the definition of an emotional train wreck. I ran when things got hard and I pushed people away when they just wanted to be there for me. I had made my mind up that being alone was the best option for me and anyone else. No one wanted the emotional baggage I was carrying around.
In this time I had quit praying. I had quit believing in Him.
That may be the hardest thing to admit but I was mad. I was mad at Him because I thought that he was just suppose to take care of me and He would never let all those things happen.
Boy. Was I wrong.
All of those things have made me so much stronger. All of those things have made me - me. All of those things have given me the absolute best gift. The gift of life. They gave me C. Most importantly, they tore down my faith only to rebuild it in to something so much stronger. God has just poured his love on to me and thinking about it gives me that over the moon - so happy I am gonna ugly cry feeling. I love this life and to think that at one point I wanted Him to take it from me but HE saved me from that is just..words can't describe it.
In our darkest days He is there. All our worries and fears should rest in Him because if we trust Him then there are no worries or fears. God has got this all the way.
I will leave you with this because it was on repeat for this blog post.
I suggest this song. I mean tears will probably fall and you might break out in the ugly cry, but it is adorable. Everything by Safetysuit is well worth the listen. Their cover of "Hallelujah" is so so good. Happy Thursday guys!
