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I hope you had a very merry Christmas!! Ryan and I arent quite done with our celebrating yet…today we are heading to Williamsburg for the last leg of our trip to spend some time at Ryan’s grandparents house before going home to Richmond! This Christmas has been so nice and relaxing for us..we watched Christmas […]

Merry Christmas!!! I hope you have been able to make some good memories with the ones you love this Christmas season! Yesterday Ryan and I celebrated Christmas with my family, and now were at his family’s house celebrating and getting ready to eat a yummy dinner and enjoy each others company… Last week I watched […]

Merry Christmas Eve blog readers!! Our family has always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve — a tradition that my dad brought over from Germany! So today is the big day! We decorate gingerbread houses, head to the Christmas Eve church service, then come back and enjoy a big dinner…THEN we all gather around the Christmas […]

There are a few things that really get me pumped up…right now those things include finding a really good sale, decorating our new home, getting snail mail (yay Christmas cards!!), looking at pictures of cute puppies online and begging my  husband for one, Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes (I havnt ordered anything else since the summer […]

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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.