This spring, I welcomed my baby girl, Caroline, to the world. As a first-time mom, I spent a lot of time agonizing about what should be in my hospital bag. Now that I’ve settled down from her birth, I wanted to share my absolute must haves from Amazon for my hospital bag. I packed a […]

This May, AJ and I are welcoming our first baby. As I’ve gone through my pregnancy the last 7 months, there’s been a few must haves as a first time mom. All of the favorites below can be found on Amazon and have been hand-selected to share with you. Finding the perfect way to sleep, […]

I seriously can’t believe that we celebrated our first anniversary earlier this week. I’ve really only shared a few of our Ritchie Hill wedding photos here and there, so I figured why not share all of my favorites to celebrate our first anniversary?! Where do I even begin when it comes to our wedding?!  We seriously […]

I’m not quite sure how it has already been a year since our wedding… It really just blows my mind how fast this first year of marriage has gone! I would do anything to be able to relive our wedding day. It was the most perfect day and we were surrounded by all of our […]

Well…when you get engaged, the first thing that EVERYONE wants to know is exactly how the proposal happened! Today, AJ and I are celebrating our fifth dating anniversary. I hope our dating anniversary is a day we will continue to celebrate even after we have a wedding anniversary! So, here it goes… I’m spilling all […]

This past weekend, I made a trip up to the Raleigh area to do some graduation portraits for a lovely lady who is graduating from NC State. I decided to prolong my stay and catch up with some of my amazing friends from both high school and college!  I met my friend Kendall in downtown […]

So…over the last few weeks, I have seen this quote floating around on Facebook. I don’t know where this came from, so I can’t properly credit the person that initially wrote this, but whoever wrote it…THANK YOU. What happened to lead us here? Isn’t everything in that statement uncomfortably true? I know it is for […]

I absolutely love what I do and I know I chose the right major from the start. However, what I’ve been running into is that this industry can and will turn me into something that I’m not if I am not careful. It can turn me into someone that craves attention, popularity, and material things, and I know that is not who I am called to be. Honestly, just about any industry can manipulate you if you aren’t strong enough to say “That’s not who I am.”