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This past weekend I headed to North Carolina to visit my brother-in-law at college with Ryan and his parents…It was so fun and relaxing to get away and celebrate Ryan’s birthday with family…I mostly stayed away from social media and I only checked my email once (which is a setback today as I’m continuing to […]

Tomorrow is Ryan’s birthday and I think I’m more excited than he is! I am a huge lover of celebrating birthdays..they don’t come around that often after all! The first year that we were dating back in high school, I made one of my best friends drive to Ryan’s house with me at 5:30 in […]

Back when Ryan and I were house hunting, I don’t think we really knew how to define what we were looking for…we had a list of must-haves for our first home and we knew the location where we wanted to end up and I think we also may have known that we wanted an old […]

I’m not really sure this post should be a tuesday tips, but it kind of falls under how to maintain a good work/life balance so I’m going with it….I’m one of those people that has a really hard time saying no…sometimes I say yes to things I don’t really want to do just to make […]

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A glimpse into my daily life in Richmond, VA (and travels beyond) with my husband Ryan, our son Gray, and our disobedient puppy Lexie, plus the work, style and attempts at minimalism in between.