happy first day of spring, my loves!

junior and i filmed a series of different lookbooks on our recent trip to california and i'm finally getting around to sharing them with you.  i absolutely love how this one came out.  if you want to see the pictures we shot from this shoot, they are all posted here.

i really enjoyed making this lookbook short film and am looking forward to making more as the weather warms up here in new jersey.  i've been in a bit of a creative rut and have just been laying low.  sometimes that's just what the mind need to re-energize and get inspired all over again.  just never lose focus of the reason you're doing what you're doing and continue to follow your dreams.

i'll see you all there!


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i've been thinking about being married lately.  sometimes i have an outer body experience and look at my life and think "who's life am i living?".  does that ever happen to you?  i've written about how junior and i met, and all about our enchanted wedding.  but i don't think i've ever written about marriage before.  partly because i don't feel qualified.  technically we're still considered newly weds...some websites say couples are still newly weds if they're only married 3 years, others say 4 years.  either way, i don't feel like a seasoned wife so i don't feel comfortable giving advice.

so my point isn't to really give advice because honestly, what do i know?!  but more so to document this stage of our marriage.  back when i was "secretly" blogging, i wrote a blog post on every single month anniversary of our first year of marriage.  and those are some of my favorite posts to look back on.  i love seeing where my mind was at the time and what i learned about being married for just a few months.  that first year was hard and i laugh thinking back at everything we went through.

anyway, i digress (like always!)  recently junior and i realized that we don't make special dates with each other anymore.  a simple night out for coffee or dinner or even just drinks just to get out and talk.  and being married now for three and a half years, we realized that we talk to each other deeper when we are out of the house.  while we're in the car adventuring, or at a coffee shop having some coffee, or in a new city exploring.  we are good at planning trips every few months to get away and rekindle our marriage but what about those months in between trips?

so we are making a conscious effort to actually go on dates.  i would like to every single week but we'll see what happens.  i think 2 to 3 times a month is a good goal to set for ourselves.  last week we went out for coffee and had some amazing conversations about this stage of our life, my blogging, his photography and who we want to be as a couple.  it was so enlightening and fulfilling. probably one of the reasons i fell for this guy is his passion for life and living it.

tonight we have a date to one of our favorite restaurants and i'm super excited.  i feel like he's my boyfriend again!  and i feel like these dates are different than just going out to eat just because neither of us want to cook that night.  we do that on a weekly basis.  these dates are different.  we go with topics in mind that we want to talk about.  things we have to get off our chest or things we just want to talk about but never make the time to say.  the idea is to just open communication with each other because we've learned that communication is the most important part of our marriage.  we excel as a couple when we are communicating with each other.

so i'll talk to you guys on monday...i've got a hot date tonight ;)  in the mean time, here are some pictures of one of our days in san fransisco.


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we were hit with a blizzard yesterday.  what in the world is happening?!  it's the middle of march!!  i'm over here thinking that spring is around the corner especially since we had such a mild winter.  nope.  i was wrong.

i've been feeling in a bit of a creative rut and i was hoping that the weather would be warming up would inspire me a little.  and even get us out exploring again.  you know, our favorite thing to do.  i guess i have to wait a few more weeks to be able to do that.

of course being stuck inside and it being so cold out has me reminiscing of california.  why wouldn't it ;)  we took these pictures in beverly hills on a chill day of just walking around and taking in it all in.  i don't think we'll ever get over how much we loved the west coast.  we still talk about it constantly.  it was just so beautiful!!


and some spring dresses that i'm currently loving...

these crochet pieces are really speaking to me.  gold one here and pink one here.
i'm still obsessing over the cold shoulder trend.  i've actually always loved it so it really isn't a trend for me.  i just happen to be "in style" now when i wear my super old cold shoulder pieces ;)  white one here and navy blue one here.
in my last wishlist i was obsessing the skirt version of that pink floral dress.  but i think i need this dress even more!!  and since i love floral prints, i had to add this white floral dress to my list of favorites.

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hello, lovelies!

today i want to share a little bit about our drive from los angeles to san fransisco and how unconventional it was ;)

if you've been following me along and all of our different trips, you would know that long distance driving for us is no big deal.  and i say us because i speak of junior and me as a unit all the time.  but if i'm being frank with you, he drives 99% of the time.  partly because i get nervous (only with him in the car) and partly because he gets even more nervous with me behind the wheel.  so it's just how it works.  he drives on our long road trips.

when we booked our trip to los angeles, we knew we wanted to journey over to san fransisco.  i mean if we were on the west coast, why not?!  we woke up early on our fifth day of vacation, packed up our bags and left our cute little air bnb on the mountain.  we put the address of our second air bnb in san fran in the gps and saw that the directions were taking us the quickest route.  junior told me that he wanted to drive up the coast to get the amazing views.  and well, the whole point of driving "up the coast" on the west coast is to see the views!!

so we chose the long way.  we added 2 extra hours to our trip.  instead of a 5 hour trip, it turned into a 7 hour trip.  we were so game!  we we headed up.  junior driving and me in charge of catching all the views and handing out the snacks.  it was raining on and off so it was a pretty cloudy day.  but nonetheless, the views were spectacular.

we stopped a few times to take some super moody pictures because that's what junior and i usually do.  we put starbucks in the gps and found the nearest starbucks for some caffeine.  i don't even remember how many other times we stopped.  we would just find signs of different sights to see and just head into the town or towards the coast just to take it all in.

we got all the way to the big sur and the pacific coast highway was closed.  now if you know the area, you know that all we could really do was turn around and double back.  there was no where to turn and follow a different road.  womp womp womp!

even though the trip didn't exactly go as planned, we had the best time in the car together.  all 10-11 hours (i can't even remember anymore).  and if we had a different mindset on life, we could have been upset.  but all we could do is laugh and keep going.

i hope to continue to encourage you all to just take each day as it comes.  don't stress about the unknown.  don't worry when things don't go as planned.  just keep moving.  enjoying a road trip that literally doubled in time is so much more fun than getting upset about it ;)


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