The above photos are me & also me. One is on a day that I am shooting tons of photos, with my hair done, makeup fully done, no kids with me, and the other is on a day when I take a mental health day to spend the full day with my kids. I wake up in the morning, I throw on a sweatshirt and…
After building the authentic pizza oven in Marthas Vineyard, we knew we had the itch, and needed to find a way to create the same type of pizza experience in our home. For us, it is about more than just pizza. It’s about everyone in the family chipping in and helping to make the dough, it’s about spending our mornings cooking and then it’s about…
(View months 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 and all motherhood posts here) HAPPY half a year to my baby (and to me, haha!) I cannot believe we’re here, at 1/2 way through the one year mark. I felt a bit emotional as this day rolled around, knowing my last baby is just growing so quickly. It really does fly by, and that’s with mostly…
I’ve had this day marked in my calendar for what feels like forever, and it is finally here!!! Target had listed their Halloween decor on the site a while ago, but the presales sold out almost instantly! But, today is the day that they finally released all of their new decor, and a lot of the sold out pieces are now in stock! I…
We had “plans” to sell the camper for a few months. Plans turned into a Craigslist ad, turned into hoards of people looking at it, but their excuses on passing were endless – some people didn’t realize it was a stick shift, some low-balled us, others just wanted to take a look but never had intentions of buying it. In my brain, I compartmentalized it…
The tough part about linking Fall decor is that most of mine is a collection of pieces I’ve saved throughout the years. Each piece is a memory or a vintage piece from a road trip somewhere, and while I know part of my job is to share links with you so you can recreate, there’s some situations where it’s actually sort of impossible. BUT, this…
After we spent so much time sharing our pizza journey in Marthas Vineyard with all of you, we realized how unrealistic it is to expect that tons of people have pizza ovens outside like that. That’s when we realized we had to share a more translatable recipe, the one we had been using in our home all along! This is Matt’s best attempt at recreating…
Charlie is officially 5 months + 1 week old! With life being in this weird limbo, the time somehow just surpassed me, and I am not going to lie I feel VERY grateful to be at this stage. I love a squishy newborn, but I really love having a solid, more on a schedule, 5-month old. Now that Matt is working a bit again, and…
I never thought I would find myself on a “fitness journey” but here I am. Having your second baby really changes your body completely, and I am not talking about weight (because I won’t be talking about weight in this post) but about the strength and tone of my body. After having Charlie, I found myself feeling weak, incapable of doing things and out of…
I’ve been waiting for a while to write this post, but finally sat down to give you a full review of our stroller + carseat of choice, the UPPAbaby VISTA along with the MESA infant carseat. As a starter, I get asked often what pieces we needed to create our stroller setup. Before we had Charlie, we solely had the UPPAbaby VISTA (which includes the…
For the past few years, Matt has mentioned to my dad how cool it would be to install an outdoor pizza oven in Marthas Vineyard for the Summer. The two of them have always bonded over their mutual love of pizza since day 1- I can remember in the first year that I was dating Matt, he and my dad went on a NY pizza…
Matt’s dad was born in Argentina, so we love to make Argentinian empanadas, or any empanadas, because they are so delicious, and you can pick so many different varieties of fillings! We prefer this style because they are baked instead of fried. Back when Matt and I lived in Nicaragua and he managed a hotel, he taught the kitchen staff to bake empanadas in bulk,…
I am a fail mom this month, because we’re in Martha’s Vineyard and I forgot to bring the month to month cubes, so I don’t have a photo for the series! We’re staying here for an undetermined amount of time at my parents house, so I may also miss month 5 too. Yikes! But anyway, here we are at 4 months with Charlie boy, and…
When I was pregnant with Hudson, I frantically was buying baby clothes just to fill my drawers. I always heard how much babies poop and pee and destroy their clothing, and while I liked some of his clothing, I didnt LOVE all of it, and I was always left with excess and pieces he didn’t even get around to wearing. With Charlie I shopped in…
Tools You Will Need: Ingredients: Before beginning to create your sourdough, the first step is to create the Starter. Matt used this recipe to create his. It takes about a week from when you create your starter to when it is ready to use it to bake bread. It’s basically the yeast that is within the sourdough bread you will be creating. Some other resources…
HOW OH HOW is Charlie 3 months old. I am not sure what it is about baby #2, but everything feels so much more bittersweet, and I am finding it harder to let go of certain phases and be okay with moving on to the next. Charlie has been so chill, I wish I could create 50 of him. After 1 kid, I was pretty…
Before: I am SOOOO excited for this before + after series, since this space in our backyard has been sitting in such a sad state for so many years. We don’t have much of a backyard (where we live, property size is somewhat small since it’s near the beach) but we had this little space behind our detached garage, and I had visions of what…
We are lucky enough to live super close to the beach, but we didn’t take full advantage of it until this Summer. As a baby, Hudson was not a fan of the beach at all. He didn’t truly love it until this past year, so we wouldn’t have “beach days” we were pretty non-committal about popping in with a towel for an hour or so,…
After purchasing most of my backyard decor from Pier 1, only to realize they’re going out of business soon + most of it is sold out forever, I decided to find some great affordable pieces for anyone else looking to re-do their own backyard or freshen up their space inside for Summer. I have had tons of interest in our outdoor couch, and pieces…
Summer is HERE, and since we have been mostly spending time at home due to the NY stay at home orders, I knew it was time to get to work on completing our backyard (more on that soon!) Once we installed new grass, I knew I wanted to create a space that both we could enjoy, as well as our kids. Hudson loves to be…