Happy Holidays!!

Cole and I finished decorating the tree last weekend! I love a good old family tree with colored lights and crazy ornaments. No fancy trees in our house! I tried to capture just the right lighting to show the bright lights but still have enough natural light to have clear photos. It kind of worked but some of the photos are a bit more grainy than I would've liked. Overall, I'm very happy with how the decorating turned out. With a little shifting and rearranging of furniture, we were able to fit our first full grown real Christmas tree!

Photos by me & Cole

Starting Friday, Cole and I will have two full weeks off together!! I'm hoping to complete some house projects and maybe even take some outfit photos. Plus, on the 27th Cole and I will be celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary!!! It feels so crazy to even be typing that! We might head up to Duluth for a few days to celebrate, but we haven't quite planned anything yet. We're such procrastinators!

I hope everyone has an amazingly happy and safe Holiday Season!! Wishing you the best!

xxMaria

Winter Wonderland

This past weekend we got over a foot of snow within 24 hours. It was so gorgeous to wake up to a blizzard of fluffy white stuff. It reminded me so much of all the nor'easters we used to get in Boston! Man, Cole and I used to love those crazy storms, especially when we lived in the little coastal town, Marblehead. I hope the snow sticks around for the holidays so we can enjoy a magical white Christmas!

I was so excited to take photos that I ran outside wearing long johns!

I took the following iPhone photos the next day:

Photos by me & Cole.

Be sure to check back next week to see how we've decorated for the holidays!

xxMaria

Christmas Tree Hunting

This past Sunday, Cole and I went on a little expedition to Wisconsin to find a tree. One of our lovely neighbors told us about the St. Croix Valley Trees farm and it sounded pretty perfect. So off we went, on a cold foggy day, to hunt down the perfect Christmas tree!





I made a goofy little gif out of some iPhone photos. You can see how excited I was when we found our tree!

Photos by me & Cole.

xxMaria