thoughts on the drive down Paris Pike...

"All changes, even the most longed for have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

-Anatole France

I left my heart...

..you know where ;)

Ryan and I were so very lucky to have met a great group of friends while we were in the Bay Area. It may have taken 3 years for it to happen, but it finally did!

Laurann & Gonzalo are a wonderful couple who work and live in San Francisco. With Laurann also being from Lexington our friendship started as our go-to friends during UK basketball season and quickly became some of our very favorite people to spend our weekends with! Laurann and I have known each other for 20 years but became closer out West, and I will always be grateful for that.

As a parting gift they organized one of the nicest gifts anyone has ever given us! We didn't do an engagement photo session before we were married and I always regretted not having pictures of ourselves as a sort of "San Francisco keepsake" to commemorate our time here. Well they orchestrated one for us! It was the perfect day- beautiful, clear and crisp. And we were able to visit places we'd been meaning to see and cross them off our bucket list right before we left!

We will always cherish these photographs and I am so very thankful to them both for thinking of this. We already have quite a few hanging in our new home!

Thanks again!

Winter Joy

Belle looooooooves snow. I wonder if she missed it like I did. The changing seasons. The new and hopeful. The fresh start every few months. The way snow can make everything seem peaceful and quiet.

And this is yet another reminder that this move was the perfect decision for us.

She's just so happy here.
And so am I.

Here's to a new year filled with simple joys just like this!