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January 4, 2017 by Kirstin

hello 2017!

happy new year

happy 2017We spent the end of last year in Seoul. It was such a raw, and sweet, and memorable trip- just simple, and filled with laughter and a chance to be away and be together. 2015 was a year of loss in lots of ways (and such gains too, but the intangible kind, which are sometimes harder to quantify), and it felt like Christmas-in-Seoul was the place where we started tentatively looking forward again.

At the end of that trip, Adam and I looked at each other and said, “Wow- lets hope 2016 is filled with much less drama than 2015!”

We had no idea what was in store for us.

2 corinthians 2:8-92016, y’all. There has never been a year like it (and we are crossing our fingers that there is never another like it again- haha!).

It has been HARD- with far more hard than any year yet. And it has simultaneously been so good- filled with some of the most precious gifts we’ve ever been given.

psalm 121
This year we have been captivated by the beauty of our God in a new way. We spent much of the year treading water, sometimes completely pulled under, and our Lord was breath and life and sustenance. He was enough. We still marvel at His provision and His care for us this year.

happy new yearAnd of course this year we added Bohden Bear to our family, and we will never stop praising the Lord for the answer that baby boy is to so many of our prayers. Adoption is harder than we’d ever guessed, and so much more complicated, and about 99% of the hard in this most-drama-filled year can be attributed to our adoption of Bohden (and the adoption that fell through before him). And it is still such a worthy pursuit.

My prayer for our family, and for y’all as well, is that 2017 would hold more minutes spent knowing and loving our Creator and Redeemer, wherever and however that plays out (because if there’s one thing I can count on, it’s that this year will be full of unexpected twists and turns, and I know that God will be ahead of us and with us and behind us in those).

Happy 2017, friends!

September 17, 2016 by Kirstin

and back again…

saipan

If you follow us on instagram, you already know this- we are moving back stateside! Actually, as I write this, I am on a flight from Guam to Hawaii. We will spend a couple weeks in Denver and then head to San Antonio where Adam will start his new job at the beginning of October. Saipan […]

August 3, 2016 by Kirstin

radio silence

gorgeous felt flowers

As you probably guessed, we weren’t quite planning on the summer being this quiet, blog wise. As you also probably guessed, the adoption that fell through in May hit us pretty hard as a family, which is the main contributor to the radio silence. The other primary contributor is that I just haven’t really had many […]

June 20, 2016 by Kirstin

sad day

He is close to the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3

The birth mom has changed her mind- we will not be adopting her baby girl after all. I hate writing those words, hate the heart break our family is grappling with right now, hate knowing that the “explosion of baby girl stuff” that currently occupies every corner of our home will not ever meet it’s […]

March 27, 2016 by Kirstin

happy easter!

easter outfits

This day, y’all. The one that changed everything. It seems crazy that the hardest hard in the whole world- Christ bearing in death the punishment for sins He did not commit- gives way to the greatest gift and the grandest grace and the most true cause for celebration of all time. This resurrection that we celebrate […]

November 10, 2015 by Kirstin

upsidedown fall

Whoa fall. Every time I think about what these last three months looked like (and just how different that was from what I anticipated them looking like), I laugh a little. Y’all, our house and stuff. Destroyed. By a typhoon. It sounds a little ridiculous, right? And yet Soudelor. And this fall. I have to […]

September 10, 2015 by Kirstin

playing catch up

idaho fall

Hello there friends! I am FINALLY sitting down to play catch up on all of the things- blog things, etsy things, email (UGH!). Turns out, an unplanned month long hiatus from the internet (when you work online) results in quite the backlog- haha. Thank you for your notes, your care, and especially your prayers over […]

August 19, 2015 by Kirstin

typhoon soudelor

typhoon soudelor saipan

This post has been in the works for almost two weeks. Every time I sit down to actually write, no words come to me. On Sunday, August 2, Typhoon Soudelor tore through our small island home of Saipan. And guys, it left devastation everywhere. Everywhere. We are no stranger to typhoons and tropical storms. In fact, this […]

July 27, 2015 by Kirstin

accidentally unplugged

cannes pattern preview

I always imagine that being unplugged from all internet and cell service and media for a little while would be refreshing and wonderful- filled with iced coffee topped with sprinkles. And hammocks. But when our island was entirely cut off from the outside world and plunged unexpectedly to a few weeks of forced unplugged-ness, it […]

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