00:00God put this guy, my bestie, in my life right when I thought everything was over.
00:06I think this song is really just summing up what it feels like to have a broken dream
00:11and then pick up the pieces and say, you know what, it doesn't just have to be that baby
00:16girl dream, it can be this new dream that you create together, this new life and this
00:20new hope.
00:20The song basically came out of the idea that you have these big dreams of what love's going
00:34to look like.
00:35I had these incredible parents that were so in love since they were 15 and they still
00:39are and that was what I thought I was going to get and it just kept not getting there.
00:45I think when you have your big life dream, which is to have a family and be married and
00:52all the things and that gets broken, how do you move on from that?
00:56This bouquet is gathering all these new hopeful memories and dreams and making this new life
01:03together along the road of healing.
01:07You create your own new bouquet, a new dream and that's possible.
01:15Everything happens in God's timing and that was just how it started.
01:24We were both over, our lives were over and then all of a sudden it was like, okay, no
01:27it's not over, this is just the beginning.
01:29I saw him in his moment of his life falling apart and I remember writing him and saying,
01:36can you believe we're both going through this right now?
01:37I didn't even know him enough to even write that because it was like, I didn't know he
01:41even existed as a human being because he's from Oklahoma, he's from a completely different
01:46culture, genre of music that I never listened to growing up, nothing, like didn't know one
01:51of his songs, nothing.
01:52I'm not going to sit here and try to convince somebody it was a miracle, but I just truly
01:55know it was and so does he.
02:07You know when you don't even really know somebody, but somehow you feel like you know them, like
02:10you're like, how can I be this comfortable?
02:13I've not felt this comfortable in 20 years.
02:16As soon as we started talking, let alone we hadn't even touched yet, I felt like I could
02:20just crawl up in your arms and just, I need this hug, you know?
02:23I just felt like I finally came home after being away for a long time.
02:28You bring the diamond, I'll bring the promise.
02:31You bring the dogs and I'll bring the boys.
02:33You gave me everything that I wanted.
02:35I even got your last name.
02:37Thinking about just what we brought to each other's lives, my husband, when I met him,
02:42I remember thinking, when you really see what my life is, I have this whole, it's not just
02:47me, I have this whole thing.
02:48There's a bunch of us and you're going to run.
02:52I remember he said to me, this is so crazy because I know exactly where it was, we were
02:57texting and he said, I was built for this and I didn't know it till now.
03:02And he said that because in his own family, his dad had adopted his older brother that
03:07wasn't his child.
03:09His dad went on to raise a whole other family.
03:11It was normal for him to have an amazing dad that just took people in and loved them.
03:17And so that was just like one of those things that made me understand what an amazing person
03:21he was.
03:22So yeah, that's probably why I put that line in it because it's like we both brought things
03:26to each other's lives that we didn't know we were going to have.
03:29I got the faith and you got the patience.
03:31I drive you crazy and you drive the truck.
03:34I know that we'll be okay.
03:36We're making our own bouquet.
03:37Well, I don't think I actually drive him crazy, but I think we both, especially in the beginning,
03:43drove each other crazy in love and that's for sure.
03:46Blake doesn't care about cars or any of that stuff.
03:49He just has this truck.
03:50He's always had the same truck and it's like this truck that's just disgusting.
03:53I feel like going into his world and being in his world was something that I didn't know
03:58I needed.
03:59I just wasn't like a truck kind of girl from Orange County.
04:02It's just such a comforting thing now to be in Blake's truck.
04:06And anyone that knows Blake feels the same way.
04:10Sunflowers and roses tied up in a bow.
04:13Now look at the life we made.
04:15We're making our own bouquet.
04:17For me, the sunflowers really represent Oklahoma because when I first met Blake, he has this
04:24ranch and he's always on the tractor and he's doing this large scale gardening.
04:30It's really not gardening, but he'll do these plots of like, it's basically food for the
04:34animals and he'll do things from alfalfa or wheat or all these things and I'm like,
04:39that's so boring.
04:40Or corn, you know?
04:42One time he did sunflowers and it's because the animals love to eat that and I was like,
04:45oh my God, this is incredible.
04:47Roses just always symbolize love and then just the idea of tying it in a bow is just
04:51like tying it all together and like saying this is forever.
05:04It's one thing to get married to somebody and say, okay, that's it, I love you.
05:10As we all know, you don't just marry each other.
05:13Our family's coming together and it's like he signed up for a lot more than just, you
05:18know, I think that that happens a lot.
05:19It can be so challenging, but it also can be just so beautiful and something that's
05:24unexpectedly beautiful.
05:27I know that there's like a flower seed growing petal theme on this record.
05:34It wasn't really intentional, but I feel like through my faith journey, I've learned a lot
05:38about just that seed of hope that you can have.
05:42If you look at nature, you can see so much of God's work and reflect it so much in like
05:47our lives and learn a lot from that.
05:48So I just think I was using that because it was just so real.
05:52Flowers are a really huge like hobby for us and we will sit around and watch YouTube and
05:57just figure out like, oh my gosh, does this grow good in Oklahoma or what's the history
06:01of this one?
06:02And it's incredible.
06:03And I know that I'm not the only nerd that likes it.
06:06They say that people that garden have longer lives.
06:09It's definitely a spiritual thing that I think that people that get into it are obsessed with.
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