Farewell 2024 {My Year in Review}

2025 was for sure one of the most memorable, joyful, difficult, important years of my life. 🙂 This was a year of extremes for me – incredible amounts of excitement and love and happiness, as well as lots of pain, frustration, and difficulty. The things I lived through this year will impact my life forever and were something God used to grow me for sure.

As always, I wanted the last post of 2024 to be a yearly wrap-up post. I’ll do this one in last year’s style with a mini summary of each month along with my favorite post. Enjoy!

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Introducing Sophia Joy {She’s Here!}

Well guys, the last two weeks have been a wild ride. Sophia Joy was born on Monday, August 26th, weighing 8 lbs. 12 oz and looking adorable right from the start. I’ve had a pretty rough recovery, but I’m finally feeling good enough to make a post!

Enjoy this darling photoshoot of our sweet girl while I tell you a bit of her birth story, for those of you who enjoy that sort of thing. 😉

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Our Baby Girl Nursery Tour (…Kinda)

I’m so excited to finally share pictures of Sophia’s nursery! Well, it’s not exactly a nursery – it’s more like two separate “baby nooks” in two rooms of our house. I’ll explain more about that later. Anyway, I’ve had so much fun making and painting things for these spaces and I think they turned out really cute.

Read on for inspiration on small-space nurseries, as well as some affiliate links to my favorite products.

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Third Trimester Pregnancy Update

I am officially in my third trimester now! Yay for being almost 30 weeks along! I thought this would be a good time to make a little “scrapbook entry” of how my pregnancy is going so I can look back on it in the future.

I personally love hearing details about random people’s pregnancies, but please feel free to scroll on past if that’s not your jam. No judgement. 😉 Otherwise, enjoy!

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We’re Expecting! + More Announcements

Hello friends!

YOU GUYS, I’M PREGNANT, AHH! *beams* I’ve been keeping this a secret for a few months, but since everything is going well and we found out the gender + got pictures, I’m finally ready to make this post. I am SO excited to share my pregnancy journey thus far.

I also have some blog-related announcements at the end of the post, so basically, this is an important post to read. 🙂 Let’s get into it!

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