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Awesome Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 for Her

Procrastinators, unite! We rounded up tons of awesome last-minute gift ideas for her (i.e. the wife/sister/girlfriend/co-worker/mom in your life) that will not only make it in time for Christmas with no rush shipping required, but are also all under $50 so you won’t break the bank!

Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Holiday Party Outfits

Who’s ready to party? We are! We are! We’re serving up some fun, festive holiday party outfit ideas for him and her that are anything but boring. So get ready to deck the halls, celebrate the season and clink a glass or two with friends, family and co-workers in style!

Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Fun Cold Weather Outfits For Men & Women

While you’re gearing up for your upcoming winter travel, we’re helping you pack for that cold winter weather with confidence and showing you some fun, casual cold weather outfits for men and women that will have you smiling through that snowfall!

Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Casual Winter Outfits for Him & Her

Now that Halloween has come and gone, we’re ready to step into November and the cold weather season in style and get into our casual winter outfit favorites for him and her! Velvet, boots and a cool winter color palette, oh my!

Style, Winter

Favorite Fall & Winter Sweaters Under $100

Who doesn’t love sweater weather? Today I’m rounding up twelve of the cutest fall and winter sweaters from around the web and all are budget-friendly wonders, with price points below $100!

Fall, Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Fall & Winter Wedding Guest Outfits

Fall and winter weddings and holiday parties are the best, but do you get stuck wondering what to wear to a fall wedding or winter party? From long sleeve midi dresses to berry lips to the “new” blue suit to pocket squares, we’ve got you covered in this post all about dressing up for those special fall and winter occasions! 

Style, Winter

A Date Night Outfit

Celebrating six months as husband and wife with an impromptu date night at one of our favorite date destinations in Phoenix in the perfect denim and leather getup!

Style, Winter

Ruffles + Sunshine

With Valentine’s Day behind us spring has officially arrived in the Valley of the Sun, and I’m rounding up a huge group of ladylike style finds for one of my favorite spring trends, ruffles!

Holiday Favorites, Lifestyle, Style, Winter

Valentine’s Day Style Finds

Maryal’s rounding up her favorite Valentine’s Day outfit finds for celebrate the holiday of love in style!

Men’s Favorites, Style, Winter

Warm Weather Winter Oasis

Spring has started to appear in Phoenix and we’re taking advantage by taking walks around the neighborhood in the warm, sunny weather and our layer-less spring getups.

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New Year, New Resolutions

As we say goodbye to 2016 and welcome the New Year, we reflect on an incredible year filled with major milestones and so much lived and learned. We’re also talking about our New Year’s resolutions!

Lifestyle, Men’s Favorites, Style, Travel, Winter

Winter Weekend Getaway: East Lansing, Michigan

Details from our weekend getaway to East Lansing, Michigan and outfit details as we battle the chilly climate with cozy sweaters, warm coats and hot food from some of East Lansing’s best restaurants.

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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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