Seattle Spotlight: Discovery Park

Seattle has a lot of great urban nature spaces but few can compete with Discovery Park in Magnolia. The three-mile loop within the park passes through forest, fields, sand, and cliffs along the Puget Sound. We LOVE going there with Mylo because it’s never overcrowded and he can run wild on the trails. Here are a few pictures of our walk there last Saturday, it was so nice to get outside and enjoy the fresh air after having been cooped up sick for a few weeks. Happy spring everyone!

DTLA Vintage Engagement Shoot

Jason and I had a lovely time doing engagement photos in Downtown LA with Anto and Tania this past weekend. We were thrilled that they rented a vintage Porche for the shoot.

When they explained their reasoning behind it, I realized it was all the more brilliant. Basically, since they don't have need for a car on their wedding day they thought it would be fun to incorporate it into their engagement photos. AND the best part is, we had plenty of time to shoot them in the car and really make use of it, rather than if they'd just rented it to drive away at the end of their wedding reception.

Photos Studio JKoe via @jkoephoto 

Packing For Our Big Trip

A couple of months ago Jenny posted her airplane essentials and now I'm going to hop on board with what I packed for our trip our recent trip to Argentina. Over the years I've learned that I don't like lugging around a huge suitcase and have gotten pretty good at packing light. For our 10 day trip in February both Patrick and I decided not to check bags since we had two layovers and were switching airlines along the way. Since we were heading on a city-focused vacation I figured I could just shop for anything that I forgot or didn't think to pack.

I brought mostly sample-sized versions of my beauty products that I was able to toss out and make room for treasures we picked up on our trip. Disclaimer: It is MUCH easier to pack light when going to a warm location! I brought only one pair of pants, one pair of leggings and one sweater (that I wore pretty much every night) and the rest was sun dresses, shorts/skirts, and light weight tops. I packed a pair of Converse, Birkenstocks, and gladiator sandals, which was the perfect amount of shoe options. Also, I’m obsessed with these bra’s (which I also wore all through pregnancy and breastfeeding) and wore my hat from Target pretty much every day. Since we stayed in three different hotels and took a domestic flight while we were there I was so glad to have just my small bag to carry around. It was a challenge to fit everything on our way home but we sacrificed a couple of books we’d already read and managed to squeeze it all in.

What are your packing tricks?? Jenny, would love to hear yours!

Monday Motivation

This is painted on the wall of a cafe in London. Happy Monday everyone. 

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Friday Roundup

Happy Friday! We are FINALLY starting to get over our colds, slowly but surely. Looking forward to entering back into the world this weekend and getting some spring cleaning done around our place. Hope you have a good one!

Great tips for how  much to tip.

Hilarious.

Love this house, can I please live around a courtyard??

From my sickbed I watched all of this last weekend, SO good.

Coloring books for adults.

Addicted to this game.

Great cooking tip and how to simplify your kitchen. 

Seattle Restaurant Week next week! Critics picks. 

Patrick will say this is sacrilege but I can't help but agree, I'm over hoppy beer. 

Yassssss! And other ways of saying yes nowadays. 

Love this photo series.

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Music Video #tbt

Teresa's still sick. I've been fighting a cold all week too. Let me just say, it sucks to be sick when you're an adult. You can't just stay home from school and chill on the couch switching between music videos and Dr. Quinn reruns. Here's a video I would have been excited to have caught while flipping channels...

We are still sick.

You guys we are STILL sick. We all have some sort of super cold virus that the doctor said can take weeks to get over. I'm back at work trying to get through to the afternoon each day but it's been pretty miserable. I've tried every medication I can think of plus the neti pot -- any tips out there for natural ways to get over a cold faster? Poor Mylo is on antibiotics and still isn't completely well yet.

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