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Tulip Festival
Trendingthe mattering things DRESS: Cotton On (sold out) similar HERE, HERE, HERE or HERE // BOOTS: similar HERE, HERE, or HERE // SUNGLASSES: similar HERE or HERE // There’s just something I feel is magical about the country and I just never can get enough of it. The tulip festival today was absolutely breathtaking and I wish I could go back again tomorrow…and the next day…and the next…….

to the mamas: you’re doing a great job
To the mamas: Mother’s Day. It’s just around the corner. Mother’s Day is a good day. A day of honor for women everywhere who are in the trenches of raising little humans. For me, in recent years Mother’s Day has become a day of pretty dresses, smiles, homemade kid gifts, and take out so I…

listen more, speak less
This Christmas was simultaneously/equally joy-filled and pain-filled. Challenging relationships and the reality of strained interpersonal family dynamics during the holidays can often hit us hard when the dream is for something far richer to be shared. Some circumstances (I’d rather refrain from explaining) leading up to Christmas Day didn’t quite go as we’d hoped or…

Sea Legs
Just before my junior year of high school my family took a trip on an Alaskan Cruise. My aunts and uncles, cousins, parents, and siblings were all there. It was my first trip on a cruise ship and I can remember how enormous it felt compared to the little blue boat I grew up waterskiing on….

welcome baby cosette!
The day has finally come for me to officially introduce you to our sweet new baby girl, Cosette Marie! I have intentionally taken the last five weeks to not think at all about blogging or writing or anything other than her and our family. These past few weeks having her here has been wonderful, and…

messy bun and my lil buddy
This kiddo cracks me up! He decided to dress himself today and he put on soccer shorts, a bright orange shirt and snow boots! I couldn’t resist putting him with me in these pics! His ‘get-up’ and his lil snack cup in hand are just the cutest! Almost every day he brings me a flower…which…