Introduction

for those of you who don't know, or for those of you who have missed my introductory posts on Instagram and are seeing this for the first time: 

My name is Courtney Michelle Owen and I privately own the instagram account @smittenwithshiloh.

I've gained quite a bit of a spotlight lately on Insta and I'm not entirely used to things such as this, but I'm going to do my best; so bear with me here. 

I figure I will start out with basics; I am currently 21 years old. I was born on May 12th, 1993 and raised in Southern California (specifically San Diego and Chula Vista area) but due to my family being military, we slowly made our way out to the east coast. I am now living in Virginia Beach, VA. and although my past experiences living here were far from pleasant, I am rather starting to enjoy it here. 

I had some terrible experiences in high school that caused me to make some very poor choices in friendships, but in the past year and a half I've gained more than I ever could imagine in happiness and blessings. see, last year in the very beginning of 2014, I was introduced to the most amazing man I have ever met. and now we are expecting a beautiful baby girl to make her way into the world any day now. we also have a two year old chihuahua named Sadie who is my absolute best compadré and whom I adore very much.

I thought I would make this blog as a written documentary of my life as it has changed over this short period of time, and share with you all the beautiful journey I have been blessed with. I hope that in some way it can either inspire, comfort, or entertain you as I explain my ups and downs and the crazy rollercoaster of a ride I'm currently on and maybe even prove as a mechanism for you all to see that life is a crazy wonderful thing we are given and that it shouldn't be wasted, because everyone has a story to tell, and we're all in charge of writing our very own!

I hope you'll enjoy reading through mine!

Much Love,

Courtney