This post seems a little anticlimactic since so many Cyber Week sales started early! Regardless, I wanted to wait till my belly was full of stuffing and pumpkin cookies before turning my attention to holiday shopping, so I hope you’re not totally done with it yet :) We’re spending most of our Cyber Week budget […]

I’m constantly on the lookout for beautiful, thoughtful, and unique Catholic gifts. Along with encouraging the faiths of the people in my life, I also love the opportunity to support Catholic artists and businesses. It was only a few years ago that I realized how many people were creating incredible Catholic products, well beyond the […]

It’s finally time for me to share something kind of crazy that happened in October. It went a little like this… Sometime in September: we spotted a house on Zillow in our top choice neighborhood with what seemed like our dream layout. We weren’t really in the market for a new house, so we admired […]

I would have called this post “our babymoon in Asheville,” but to be honest, we rarely ventured from the Biltmore Estate! This was super unusual for Dave and me–we’ve never done a resort-style vacation before and love few things more than getting out and exploring new cities. In this trip’s case though, we were most […]

October looked NOTHING like I had planned! I really hate to be secretive, but something kind of huge and unexpected happened in a very short amount of time, throwing a lot of our plans and intentions to the wind. I am excited to share it with y’all in a few weeks, but in the meantime, […]

Over the weekend, we finally threw a dinner party on our deck! We’ve been envisioning an al fresco dinner party there ever since we first hung the string lights, and were so excited to finally make it happen. We decided to keep the guest list adults-only, and as I started preparing, I realized how long […]

At long last, not only a blog post, but one I’ve had on my list for over a year! I had planned to share an updated peek at our home every summer, but as of last year, we hadn’t changed hardly anything since 2018. I’m happy to report that we’ve made some more small changes […]

As predicted, September was a full month, but such a good one. Charlie had a wonderful third birthday (complete with an Amtrak train ride and outer space-themed cupcakes), and just two days later, we found out that baby Kirk is a girl!! Finding out the gender of our babies makes the whole experience so much […]