at the end of may, my entire family (my mom’s side) jumped in our cars and headed south. we eventually (12 hours later…shoot me) landed in isle of palms, south carolina. we all stuffed ourselves into 1 big house and while it definitely had its own stressors (hazel was basically miserable the whole week), i […]

greetings from…carmel, ca! where did i last leave you? LA? yes. after catching up with one of my oldest friends and her new, beautiful nugget, i hopped a plane to san francisco where i met up with my mom and grandma. josh, dean and anna met up with us by thursday and on friday we […]

i hope everyone had a great labor day weekend! josh and i had a great visit to dc, although it was so hot that we found it too much trouble to do anything too adventurous. that’s ok, it’s the nice thing about visiting a city in which you’ve already lived–no pressure to see all the […]

detroit has always been a fascination to me. we never grew up going there, other than their airport, but after reading both lipshitz six, or two angry blondes and middlesex (both of which, i highly recommend) my interest was piqued. dating josh only fueled that fire (he grew up about an hour from detroit, in […]

our last and final honeymoon stop was phuket. after 5 days of non stop moving and flights and cities, we were more than ready for a week of sand and sunshine. a word to the wise? thai sun is.not.messing.around. i’ve never felt intense sun like that. we used spf 75 and aside from me forgetting […]