May 14th, 2023

Happy Mother's Day!! 💖

December 30th, 2022

 Disney Vacation: Day 5 (Magic Kingdom)

May 18th, 2019

We had the most magical night seeing the floating lanterns! 🏮🧡 We’ve been to Lantern Fest a few times now, but this was our very first time at the Water Lantern Festival! It was so absolutely beautiful—and so very heartwarming to watch people of all ages step forward to honor loved ones, express their hopes & dreams, and celebrate their triumphs. I had such a lovely night and definitely will be attending this event again in the future! ☺️

And then the only thing that could make the evening better was coming home to our precious babies. 🥰

November 17th, 2018 *

November 12th, 2018 *

August 4th, 2018

Introducing my two newest accessories, which I’m already completely obsessed with!! 😍

April 29th, 2018

So we've been trying to hold off posting full photos of any rooms in our house until the entire place is done, however we just had to show you guys our art room! We just finished it tonight and it turned out amazing! I'm already in love. I plan to spend so much time in here working on projects, sketches, homework, etc etc!

March 19th, 2018

October 4th, 2017

Today Mike took me to see Tangled! This makes it the second time I've seen this movie in theaters. :) Seeing this movie on the big screen is an absolute MUST. The already beautiful animation becomes a million times more dynamic and gorgeous when it is blown up on the theater screen! The lantern scene...oh my goodness, it is just stunning. I was so happy to have had the opportunity to go see it again; I'm so thankful to my darling for taking me!

July 20th, 2017

Drew this up for National Merry-Go-Round Day, which is on Tuesday. 😊🎠

Later on I doodled this quick picture of a young me & my late Golden Retriever Miller. ♥️

July 18th, 2017

Found myself admiring these amazingly gorgeous pictures yet again today. I am still so much in love with them and all the beautiful details... If you're looking for an artist to commission, I definitely recommend John Greco Archibald! He is such a fantastic artist—and he's so sweet too! He always produces top notch art and works so well with his clients.

July 10th, 2017

"Radioactive spider?" 🕷🕸

"Magic golden flower!" 💛💜

July 9th, 2017

One of these days I'm gonna have Michael design me something special and I'll actually get it tatooed on me. ;)

June 3rd, 2017

Indiana Vacation: Day 1

We headed back to Indiana today for Lantern Fest!!! :D

This festival is honestly one of the most unique and amazing experiences you could ever have. I highly recommend you add attending a fest to your bucket list—you won't regret it! 😍🏮✨💜💛

I had to make a Tangled-themed lantern, but of course. :)

My other lantern I covered completely in Disney quotes!

Took this by accident but totally love how it turned out!

Such a magical night. :)

May 1st, 2017

Tonight I was feeling a bit under the weather. To help cheer me up and brighten my spirits, my darling Michael turned the evening into a Tangled night! We watched two new episodes from Tangled: The Series, then followed those up with the actual movie. It was so fun to laugh and quote lines with him. I am so thankful for his sweetness!

March 17th, 2017

We finally got around to watching Tangled Before Ever After tonight!! I will admit that even despite my gushing excitement I was rather skeptical. However, the show was just so lovely. The art style was completely different than the movie, but still it was just so fitting. It had the feel of a drawing and the colors were just absolutely gorgeous! So vibrant and brilliant! The characters were voiced by all the original cast which I was so thrilled about. Flynn was his usual, charming self and Rapunzel was as bubbly and beautiful as ever! The new characters like Cassandra were also enjoyable! I'm looking forward to seeing more of them when the show starts next week. And the hair is back!! And it's as beautiful as it always was. :) The songs were super adorable and all the animal sidekicks were just as hilarious as before. Overall, I adored every bit of it. I'm so happy that Tangled is getting more and that we get to watch more adventures of Flynn and Rapunzel. I am one very happy girl!

March 15th, 2017

Happy March 15th! I hope everyone's Ides of March went better than Caesar's. ;)

Ha ha ha... Ahem.

So, as some of you may or may not know, I am a total nightowl. However, this is a trait I have gained unintentionally. I suffer from minor insomnia. I say minor because that's all I consider it, though Michael assures me that it's full-blown insomnia. I say it's debatable. What this means is that I have a very hard time falling asleep. And, when I finally do fall asleep, I have a very hard time staying asleep. I typically do not pass out until after 2AM. I typically wake up in the middle of the night about two or three times. In the morning I have a very hard time getting up for the day because, shockingly, I haven't gotten much sleep! While this is annoying and sometimes downright awful, it is something I've learned to live with and it hardly bothers me much anymore. My body needs less sleep than most to function off of, so I guess there's that too. ;P

I have tried just about everything you can think of to try and help me fall asleep. TV on. TV off. Less pillows. More pillows. Warm milk. Heated blankets. Sleeping aid pills from Walgreens. Reading before bed. Exercising/doing strenuous activity to wear myself out before bed. Listening to music. Laying in complete silence. Laying on my back, side, stomach, upside down, etc. Nothing works. 😅

My cousin Jon's girlfriend Jess was over the other day at my parent's house and she started talking about this tea she drinks to help her relax and fall asleep. It's called Sleepytime Celestial Seasonings. Mike was instantly intrigued (on my behalf) and asked her for more details. Impressively enough, Jess used to take like 2-3 prescription sleeping pills every night to help her sleep. Since she started drinking this tea she no longer needs to and she falls asleep quicker. Michael instantly ordered a box and told me I had to give it a try when it came. Well, today it came!

I just started drinking my glass now and I am very interested to see how it all goes. I myself am very skeptical, though Mike is very optimistic. We're in the middle of watching a movie now so I'm not sure how well the tea will work. You're supposed to drink it and then go and lay down. The tea is supposed to deeply relax you—not just make you pass right out. So since I'm sitting and am engaged with the TV, I'm not sure how that'll change things. We shall see! 

March 14th, 2017

I realized today that I never posted any final photos of our home! So I went around the place today and snapped a whole bunch for you guys to see. :) I apologize in advance for the lousy lighting in some of the photos—it was already sunset when I finally got around to doing this.

Here's the lovely couch from my parents! It looks so perfect in our living room! It matches the wall colors and "earthy feel" to the room so well!

This is our living room! We bought the entertainment center for the TV after we fell in love with it at IKEA. It holds all of our electronics wonderfully!

Here's my beloved bookcase (full of all my beautiful books!) and our cute little Disney display case! :)

This is the dinner table, which is next to the kitchen of course.

This is our adorable little kitchen. Nothing fancy, but perfect for us!   

Pascal watches over the kitchen for us. ;)   

Here's the bathroom! We absolutely adore how the wall color came out and how well everything matches it!

Our bedroom. :) I love the color of the comforter we picked out—it contrasts against the pretty deep blue of the walls so nicely!   

And lastly our door—which I am enjoying decorating per the season. :)