01/03/2017
Over the Christmas break, Aaron and I had to run to the bank one morning on our way home from the gym to wire some money. We do almost everything online, so I actually can’t even remember the last time I found myself waiting in the lobby of a bank, but here I was, nonetheless, in the bank of a lobby dressed in my workout wear and being looked up and down by this oh-so-chic woman who was easily in her seventies. She wore wide leg cream wool pants with a coordinating turtleneck and a camel coat lined around the collar in the perfect … 
I stared at this page for more than a few minutes before formulating any words for this post. A new year. A blank slate. New goals. Fresh perspective. (Oh, and a little site update, too.) Did you know that we published 306 posts in 2016? That’s a little something that I learned as we were migrating our old site to the new. So how to begin this first post of 2017? Possibly the first of over 300+ posts for the year? I thought we could take a second to introduce ourselves over coffee. (Not just any coffee either, Vintage Heart Coffee … 
Well, friends, this is our 194th (and final) post of this year. We’ve done so much together this year! We baked bread, took trips, crafted, put together new outfits, renovated rooms, thrown parties, mixed cocktails, baked appetizers, chatted about motherhood, and so much more. I’m taking next week off from posting to be totally present with my fam, but, should you stumble here some time next week, here are 16 posts to take you back! I always like seeing what our top performers are for the year. Sometimes they’re … 
This seemed like a fitting topic this month with what we are about to celebrate this weekend and yet I almost skipped writing about it. Parker’s birth is something that I never went super deep into here. I tend to keep things positive and upbeat around here and, well, this story, isn’t really that, but I do feel like there might just be someone out there who can relate, so with that, here is Parker’s birth story. We all hope for pain-free and fancy-food-filled births as easy as Chrissy Tiegen’s, but that’s … 
