I thought I’d do it on a whim – enter the Shoot & Share contest this year. With over 110,000 photos entered, I never thought I’d ever get past the first few rounds. So I’m sure that you can imagine my surprise when during the contest I started receiving emails like this: And this: WHAT!? […]

I essentially grew up on a sailboat. My dad has owned one my entire life & every Sunday (and now, too!) you’d find him, my sister & I out on the ocean. The man never misses a Sunday. It’s literally his favorite place in the world. Even if it’s windy, you’ll still find him puttering […]

I know that it’s two days before Christmas & y’all already have your trees, but you HAVE to see this adorable Christmas tree farm that is run by some of our friends! We got our tree (our very first real one!) from them as well as our wreaths & we love them! They have literally […]

As you all know, I moved from Southern California to New Hampshire 5 years ago. Each year, I try to return for a few days, but this summer I was lucky enough to go for a whole 2 weeks! JB was deployed & I had no intentions of spending my 25th birthday alone, so in […]

I posted a picture last week of this guy (for those of who you don’t know me, that’s my hilarious & hot boyfriend): Normally not a big deal, but what most people don’t know is that he just returned from a 6 month deployment to the Middle East. Sometimes deployments are portrayed as something of […]

On September 11, 2001, I was 11 years old. My mom woke us up for school and shuffled us around, all while trying to not have to explain too much about planes being commandeered and crashed into the Twin Towers. To a 11 year old, this was incomprehensible. 9/11 changed my life. I remember watching […]

I’ve mentioned the field behind where we live once or twice, right? It’s gorgeous at sunset, and gorgeous when it snows. Sometimes our sunsets are pretty boring in the winter, but occasionally there will be one that will make you pull over and gape. This happened to me a few weeks ago, and I quickly […]

After Christmas, we got hit with a mini ice storm. It was kind of a pain the day that it happened, but the day after? OHMYGOSH. It was stunning to drive around. The sun sparkled through the trees like they were made of diamonds; the fields shone in the sun. The pine needles dripped with […]