This past weekend we celebrated our second wedding anniversary–time flies when you’re having fun! We had a romantic dinner at Morton’s The Steakhouse Reston–located in the heart of Reston Town Center. I completely forgot that I’d purchased this maxi tulle dress earlier this summer. Turned out to be the perfect dress for our dinner. I love this look because it’s the epitome of high/low casual style, which is totally me. SHOP THE LOOK
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10 Grateful Quotes I’m Loving Right Now
Every morning I start my day in my most creative place—my home office / STUDIO and as my dogs follow right behind I can’t help but feel grateful for my life—all the ups and downs, challenges and opportunities for without it my happiest of days would not be as sweet. “Happiness cannot be traveled to owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero “The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see.” – Mary Davis “Be thankful…
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how we celebrated memorial day weekend
Lately I’ve been posting infrequently due to my life being so overwhelmingly busy and I’m not mad about it. Am I the only mama who desperately needed this long weekend to just relax with the kids and hubby? I guarantee if there was a line I was first in line! Lol… This weekend was a much-needed time away to our second home away from home: the beach! We spent the long weekend together sunbathing on the beach then took advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend / Monday holiday to spend some quality r&r together. Before moving forward, I just want to share again: Happy Memorial Day! 🇺🇸 // My…
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From Personal Trauma to a Life of Happiness and Love: How I Transformed My Life in just Seven Years (Series)
“Always greet the day with gratitude, humor and creativity.” I’ve been thinking a lot about my life journey and how far I’ve come. You know how when you look back on your life and think, wow, I can’t believe I powered through that hurdle or that challenge. Yes, I’ve been thinking about moments, traumatic + stressful life moments that I had to literally grind through so I can come out shiny and happy. I’ve been on this amazing platform (Instagram) since 2012, which is right around the time I went through a very personal traumatic yet transformative period of my adult life. I’ve since created a life that is incredibly…
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What I Learned in My First Year of Marriage
Hi everyone! So it’s my 1st wedding anniversary {read about our wedding}. To mark this special milestone, I wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned. Personally, yes, we knew these lessons, but I found that we had to be very active participants. Read on to find out some of the key principles that we’ve turned to help us stay focused on each other, our kids, our newly blended family. Honeymoon blues It’s a thing and I suffered from this big time. But it didn’t linger long thanks to the holidays. I also put a lot of focus on my event coordination business, Always Creating Studio (www.alwayscreatingstudio.com), which left…
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Weekend at Ocean City Beach, Boardwalk Fun, and Riverfront Eats
As many of you know, Little A is out of kindergarten and soon to be in first grade this fall. To celebrate her milestone and kick-off summer break we took a mommy + me trip out camping with Getaways House then the following weekend we packed up the dogs and headed out to a weekend on the beach. Little couldn’t really go swimming, which I thought she was definitely going to have a fit about, but she was okay with playing the sand; we made sand castles together and walked around the boardwalk. WHERE WE ATE. We had lunch at Brew River Restaurant & Bar, a riverfront eatery serving…
