Today I had a perfect bun…it doesn’t happen very often that it comes together just how I want it. I feel funny devoting a post to this, but um oh well this is how it’s going down! I put my new mousse, wave spray (preceded by kids detangler) and it came together in a wonderful…

Wonderful morning date with my lovely friend Shanny (who is a birthday girl this week!!). We sauntered around the cliffs with our Mr. Toots’ delightful drinks… It was a gorgeous day, enjoy this unbelievable weather, friends!!    

I just love newlywed life. Well, scratch that, I love life with James. It seems like everyday we are making new discoveries about each other. Somedays we learn about our food preferences, for example: James’ staples on the grocery list are beef jerky, laughing cow cheese triangles, and crackers (vegan, but he doesn’t really know…

It’s hump day! But I’m still feeling like it’s a groggy Monday morning… Today I put on my super favorite print dress inside-out. Yes. That’s right. Inside-out. Luckily, I noticed as I was walking into work this awkward flap flipping out onto my neck as I tromped across the parking lot with my breakfast in one hand,…

After a long hard kickboxing class yesterday, my body went “ouch” and asked me why I did mean, cruel things to it. I replied with a relaxing movie on the couch (with lots of cuddles in between), an interlude of James reading aloud “What’s your poo telling you?” (with lots of giggles in between) and…

We just love it…

Hello Friday, I’ve waited for you forever it seems… Here’s our list of get-to-do’s this weekend, we can’t wait!!!             And what are your plans?? Happy weekend, xoxo CM

Yesterday we caught up with some of our family that lives over the hill (since you have to travel through forests and valleys and mini mountain ranges just to leave Santa Cruz county- heh, but seriously..) and they came to our little neck of the woods. By catch up it means that we ate Tacos…

Dinner parties. We’re still hitting our stride… The evidence: A meal that consists of very disconnected side-dishes and tons of protein. IE: a delicious lemon-pepper chicken, accompanied by black beans, roasted potatoes, mushroom risotto, sausage, and a broccoli/carrot dish that came out 25 minutes late that I shamelessly gobbled up as everybody else was already…

Just came back home for a monthly meeting at church, where we got to hear from a very dear-to-our-heart pastor from a sister church.. It’s so good to remember how generous God is. Matthias shared a picture of a girl with a torn (broken) dress, who was looking at with such desperation because she knew…

Status today: “extremely excited for fall”…here is our fall love list! Have a Harvest par-tay…finding inspiration from this one in Sweet Paul Magazine Run through the sunflowers and eat jam at Swanton Berry Farm Actually decorate with a little fall in our home Find some perfectly chestnutty-colored boots Brew some apple cider Bake a pie…

A time-line to catch you up on the story of US… See there’s this boy named James, and yes, he’s really handsome. So much in fact, that his sisters call him “handsome man”…that’s pretty stinkin handsome. He loves Jesus, baseball, people, and he’s Italian (amongst many other qualities not able to be listed at the…