4EverMemories

**RESTOCK UPDATE**

The shop is currently open for a very, very limited amount of custom orders on towers and airplanes today with a 2 week turn around time on orders placed through our website. I have a quantity set at a limit I feel is realistic for me to personally tackle as Nate is continuing to battle all the unknowns going on in his poor body.

Our "restock" of ready to ship towers just wasn't realistic for us this weekend as we have a small handful of orders placed just before Nate got very ill, and those are my priority to wrap up over the next couple days. Nate fell very ill again earlier this week and it shoved my grand hopes and plans of restocking ready-made product off a bit.

I am, however, planning for another restock again in 2 weeks, and again 2 weeks after that. Of course dependent upon how much Nate can personally take on, and how much I'm physically able to do on my own ❤

So thankful for the community that has lovingly and so graciously come along side of us to love on us during the most crazy and stressful period of time our family has ever experienced... just, thank you.

We're here! And alive! Social media has felt like nearly the last thing I have wanted to up-keep with all the craziness our family has experienced this Summer, specifically with my sweet Nate. I know y'all get how draining it can be, especially when my answers continue to be "we just don't really know what's going on."

Today is Nate's 35th birthday, and he's currently spent most of it sleeping. I wish I had answers, we still have no idea what exactly is triggering everything going on, but his energy has been so so low, and I've nearly been a one woman show. His swelling seems to come back in the weirdest ways and the strangest times... He's been easing his way back into the workshop to help wrap up a handful of orders and help me build inventory for our restock.

We have a very lengthy and important appointment on the 8th and we're really hoping this will finally provide some answers we're so anxiously waiting for 🙏

🚨 If all goes well, we'll have a soft RESTOCK launch on the 31st! 🚨

Thank you to the many many friends (most of whom we've never even met!) Who have generously loved on us. That will be another post soon, because the out pouring of love we've experienced deserves its own post ❤

I realize this isn't the "typical" post I may put on here, but we only feel it's fair to share with our extremely generous and loving community the bad, the good, the ugly, and the beautiful.

7 (almost 8) days ago today I scooped Nate up and took him on a little mini vacation to a cabin north of us for a Father's Day weekend escape. Little did I know that the already disastrous weekend would become much much worse...

If you've been following our stories recently you might have seen peeks into our real-life happenings.

To keep things simple and extremely honest, our healthcare system in broken. Very, very, broken. We have no answers, my gut tells me there's something very wrong, and we're refused further tests because of insurance. I could go into the horror stories of this week, but we'll save that for another time. For today, I will confess we have had a community rally behind us that we never knew we even had. From our church paying for my emergency flight home from L.A, to our sweet friends who are doctors come beside us to advocate for us, to random Venmo and Zelle payments popping up to contribute to our now astronomical hospital bills. We've been floored by the random acts of kindness and goodness this world and this social media platform has given us.

To the 119 immediate DM's we received when I first announced our troubles, to the hundreds that followed that the day after. Thank you. And to the dozens I've yet to even see. Just, thank you ❤

I will be posting updates soon, and replying to emails concerning business and orders over the weekend. I recognize I have been MIA... In the meantime, if you pray, keep Nate and the coming weeks as we seek out answers in your prayers! My very fighting spirit is weary, and my heart genuinely humbled at the kindness we have been given.

🚨🚨🚨 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨🚨🚨

Dear friends... We will be changing our order format significantly. As of JUNE 1st, we will be moving to a restock only model.

Here's what that means for you:
May 31st is the last day for you to submit a custom order of any kind. We'll be 🚫CLOSED🚫 for business (no new orders can be placed) the month of June to catch up on current orders, and build inventory for a RESTOCK. We're anticipating our restocks to go fast, so stay tuned and hang tight for an announcement soon on our first restock date when we launch ready-made and ready-to-ship product 🥳

Thank you for keeping us so busy! Nate and I are looking forward to this new chapter in business and allow us to both spend more time with family, and have a much quicker turn around time ❤

Happy Mother's Day! To the hearts that desire to be a momma, but are not. To the hearts out there who desire to hold their babies, but can not. To the hearts out there that wish they could see their mommas, but cannot, and to the hearts out there that wish things could just be different on this day, our family sees you. And we love you!

Xo,
Faith

P.S. special shout out to for letting us borrow these beautiful aprons for our shoot. LOVE them 💕

Shout out to my new social media friend and fellow entrepreneur

I asked her to get creative and make and design me a couple faux cakes (as in, they're completely mess-free) they ship as you see them, and are absolutely PERFECT for shoots and staging! They don't melt, they don't fall apart, and made this tablescape perfect ❤

Go show her new page some love 😘

My sweet and long time friend and professional photographer nailed it with party photos! We did it a little different this year and had a shoot the day before the party maddness in order to savor all the pretty things. We'll definitely do that again, so much more chill than rushing through it!

Wings were purchases and I just added extra glitter ✨

Flower crowns were handmade by my girls and I. We made about 60! Each and every single one just a little different than the other 🌼

Happy sweet friends!

We hosted our daughter's 6th birthday party over the weekend, and her request was "a magical butterfly garden party" so we went to work! (Stay tuned for all the details)

How *incredible* is this double mac tower styled and baked by ?! Seriously wait until I show you a close-up of her magic!!

And that dreamy cake by .the.girlas.bake 😍

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🚨 📢 DID YOU KNOW 🚨 📢

We're not just a small business- we actively run a non-profit coupled with our "business" (which funds our non-profit) by training and teaching teens and young adults (many of which come to us from the foster care system and/or currently live in group homes) how to design, build, communicate with clients, dream, and apply their skills to either advance them in their chosen careers, or encourage them in their own entrepreneur journey!

When you purchase from us, the likelihood that these future leaders, entrepreneurs, and young business men and women had a hand in your order is *extremely* likely ❤

I know the gram prefers Reels these days opposed to photos when posting, but I hope we can all still appreciate a still capture 🤍

I think I'll forever be in awe of this party and this tower! Our friend just hit 3k followers along with us, and I thought it was appropriate to post their tower to celebrate 🍾

Have you ever looked at yourself and wondered why in the world you're doing what you're doing with your life?

For us, the task of owning and running a small business and non-profit feels like it hasn't just had hurdles to jump through, but mountains to climb up. The economy has not been kind in many aspects in our world specifically to small businesses. Maybe one day we'll get to share the full story, but for now, might I just offer you some encouragement during the storm:

YOU. WERE. CREATED. TO. DO. HARD. THINGS... can I get an amen!? 😆 What sets you apart in this world are the choices and attitude you have during tough times. Whether in business, or otherwise.

I'll say it again... you were made to do HARD things. Your audience doesn't need another super star, or wildly successful entrepreneur, it needs a YOU.