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Spring, Style

The Gal Meets Glam Collection of Dresses is Here & We’re Loving It!

The Gal Meets Glam Collection of dresses, created by popular style blogger Julia Engel, launches today on the collection’s website and online and in-stores at Nordstrom, so we’re celebrating by rounding up our favorite styles from this seriously gorgeous (and affordable) collection’s debut range and giving you all the info you’ll need to score one of the dresses yourself!

Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style

Spring Date Night in the Desert

We threw on our fun, casual spring outfits for a little date night in the desert last weekend and got to cozy up at one of our favorite Phoenix eateries at the moment, Diego Pops and indulge in some tasty tacos, delicious cocktails and design inspiration galore! 

Spring, Style

Casual Spring Layers

The weather is warming up here in Phoenix, but the nights are still cool, so we’re throwing on our comfortable, casual layered spring outfits and getting out to enjoy the colorful flowers, beautiful sunsets and citrus scents that fill the air in the Arcadia neighborhood! 

Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style

Structured Statement Earrings & Monochrome Menswear

We’re rounding up more spring style staples today for him and her, and talking about those casual outfit items that we can’t seem to stop wearing, no matter what season it is: structured statement earrings and monochrome outfits for men! 

Spring, Style

Personal Style Staples: High Waisted Jeans & White Eyelet

When it comes to my personal style and outfit selection, there are a few classic combos that I just can’t get enough of and keep in heavy rotation in my wardrobe no matter what the year, season or trends may be. One such combo is a casual spring pairing that’s perfect for the sunnier, warmer days ahead!

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Spring Fun Meets Winter Function

Can’t wait for spring and spring outfits to come, but stuck in winter weather for the foreseeable future? We know, it’s a bummer! But you can turn that frown upside down because today’s post is all about how to have fun with color and inject that spring pep in your step (and outfit) while you’re still battling those freezing temps!

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Sugar Reef, Bequia

Looking for the perfect relaxing Caribbean getaway? Look no further than Sugar Reef on the secluded, tranquil island of Bequia. We’re telling you all about this beautiful estate and our incredible time at Sugar Reef Bequia.

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St. Lucia Travel Guide

Our essential travel guide to the island of St. Lucia with tips and insider info on where to stay, play and how to get around with ease in this Caribbean paradise!

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Packing For A Caribbean Vacation

Sharing what I’m packing for a Caribbean vacation, i.e. our tropical honeymoon getaway and talking about how I’m keeping it light and mobile for our St. Lucia and Bequia adventures.

Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style

Nautical Dreaming

With summer on the horizon and our Caribbean honeymoon just a couple of weeks away, we’re talking about our love of life on the water and everything nautical-inspired!

Men’s Favorites, Spring, Style

A “Scary” Spring Date Night

The perfect cotton candy sunset stroll on the water, a slightly scary movie date night, my new favorite Levi’s style, a short-sleeved and striped sweater pullover and my mini bun, all in today’s post!

Spring, Style

Straw Bags

Embracing the huge spring/summer straw bag trend and rounding up all of my favorite straw, rattan, wicker and raffia bags from around the web to shop right now, plus some serious sales from J.Crew and Nordstrom.

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Instagram post 17874356132304607 Another look at our backyard home office w/ our pretty new wood French doors! I don’t know how my life took this strange adulthood turn, but I am now obsessed with doors. Had you told my teenage self that I’d spend hours scrolling through the @usdoornmore site just daydreaming about all of the cool doors I could install around my house, I would have spit out my Slurpee & laughed in your face. Yet here I am, pregnant, freaking out about the magic of doors! 🤷‍♀️ I already loved our backyard office, but now it’s about 10x more cottage cozy with these doors & all that natural light streaming in! Working from home never felt so good 🥰 You can see the before & after pics & learn all about how to order custom doors online at the link in my bio!
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Instagram post 17906274784724051 The weather is starting to get pretty perfect here in Phoenix & it’s making me V excited to start exploring the amazing spring front walkway situation around Arcadia! I look forward to riding my bike around, snapping these pretty flower-lined spring paths pretty much all year & from what I’ve already seen around the neighborhood, this year’s spring Arcadia lovefest tour is gonna be GOOD! I think I’m basically just going to focus all my attention on the walkways this year. They’re just so incredible! Are you guys as excited for this year’s spring Arcadia tour as I am?! 🏡🌸🌼💐
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Instagram post 18195918829015109 Oh man am I excited to start sharing our finished exterior remodel of our cozy cottage-cute backyard home office! This space is & has always been a favorite part of our home & tackling the exterior remodel with the help of my parents over the last year has been so much fun & such an education. We’ll be sharing more of how we tackled replacing all of the exterior siding, etc. in the coming weeks but today is all about these beautiful new wood French doors that I’ve dreamed about putting here for years. Years! And they’re even prettier than I’d hoped. Hop over to the link in my bio to see the before & after pics of the front of the office & the doors & hear all about our experience ordering custom wood French doors online, how we easily sealed them to protect them from the elements & more! 🎉
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Instagram post 17897897764829822 You know I love Valentine’s Day so I’m just gonna allow myself to stretch the love fest out a little longer 🥰 💗Chris left this morning for a work trip for a couple of weeks & I swear pregnancy has made me even more sappy for this guy than I already was! 😭 I wish you guys could all know him & have a chance to laugh with him like I do because it’s just the absolute BEST! He’s just an amazing guy. Amazing friend, amazing partner, amazing uncle, amazing everything. I’d never gone through the pics on my phone and saved the photos of us in a folder so I could look back on our relationship over the years & reminisce a little, but I finally did it last night during my typical 3am to 4am pregnancy wake-up & now I’m just over here getting lost in reliving all of the fun we’ve had! 10 snaps doesn’t even come close to covering it. Swipe to the last pic to see our very first photo together that my sister snapped on our first double date to send to my parents so they could scope him out 🤣 Hope you’ve all been able to feel a little love in some way, shape or form this week & if you find yourself needing some more, just DM me & I’ll remind you how awesome you are & how glad I am to have you here! 💗💗💗
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Instagram post 17936172811445601 Man I just 💗 this holiday! I can’t help it! 🥰 Especially now that I get to have this incredible guy as my Valentine for the rest of my life (and my baby daddy). How did I get so darned lucky? So happy Valentine’s Day, my love. You’re my very favorite thing about life & make me the happiest girl alive, day in & day out. May you always find an ocean to ride a wave on! 🏄🏻‍♂️
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Instagram post 17884006397006795 It’s my birthday! And because I love birthdays & basically any reason to celebrate anything, I thought it would be fun to finally share a little secret me & Chris have been cookin’ up for my 36th year 👶🏼🤰We’re closing in on the halfway mark &  it feels pretty awesome. It’s also getting harder & harder to hide this big ol’ belly from you guys 🤣 Everything has been a lot slower around here (well basically me... I’ve been a lot slower) for the last several months, but I have to admit that I’ve kind of loved the slow down. We’ve been in a little bubble of happy. Guess quarantine really got us good 😜 Baby boy arrives this summer & I’ll just be over here fussing over his cozy cottage nursery (which has been SO much fun to design w/ my mom’s help) & Chris will be over there stockpiling all of the kids’ golf & fishing gear he can find. It’s gonna be a heck of a year! 🎉

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