by jamieivey | May 10, 2017 | Podcast
The Happy Hour is THREE! To celebrate, I invited some of my closest friends and biggest encouragers to join me for a real life happy hour. We met at Chicon, one of my favorite restaurants in Austin and celebrated all that The Happy Hour has become over the last three...
by jamieivey | Sep 12, 2016 | Podcast
Oh my gracious what a weekend. What a weekend. I am so tired and so full all in one. Isn't it funny how something so filling can also make you so tired? We hosted our second Happy Hour Live event this weekend. Our first one was in March, and this time we did two in...
by jamieivey | May 27, 2015 | Around the Web, Foster Care, Guest Post, Parenting, Podcast, The Austin Stone
When you hear the phrase foster care, what do you first thing of? The month of May is Foster Care Awareness month and I wanted to share a few things with you from my archives. I have never been a foster mom, but I have plenty of friends that have and are currently...
by jamieivey | May 25, 2015 | Etcetera
Aaron and I have been super blessed to have surrounded ourselves with a community that hasn't changed much over the past couple of years. In the above photo, four of those friends have been with us for longer than any other friends in our lives have been with us. When...
by jamieivey | Apr 1, 2013 | Adoption, Domestic, Guest Post
I'll be honest… we have no idea when/why we chose to adopt through foster care. We knew that we wanted to adopt, and had no idea where to start. We knew the number of orphans was growing in our own city, and thought to ourselves, “Why wouldn't we start...