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A Stroll Through Our Fall Garden

November 5, 2024

The first week of October, I took to cleaning up the garden, which had become half overrun with the last of the year's produce and half completely withered away. I always love trading out some of the wilted summer plants with colorful fall mums, kale, and pansies, and seeing them mixed with the ...

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Filed Under: Garden Tagged: autumn, fall, garden

Halloween Greek-ings!

October 31, 2024

Happy Halloween! We hope you've all had a wickedly wonderful October and have enjoyed plenty of treats and thrills ahead of All Hallow's Eve. This is always our favorite time of year, and it always goes by way too fast. It's been a beautiful fall here in Indiana, though it got off to an incredibly ...

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Checking In

October 28, 2024

Hello, friends. It feels so strange to be making my way back to this space after the bombshell I reentered it with in August. I never in a million years would have imagined I could hold myself together enough to string together words that made any kind of sense whatsoever about one of my parents so ...

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Filed Under: Aly + Jeremy, Living Tagged: life, life lately, off the cuff, real life

See You Later, Dad

August 9, 2024

We lost my dad this week. His passing was completely unexpected, as were most things he did. I hate that I didn’t get to talk to him one last time. Yet, his Irish goodbye in leaving this world was right in line with the way he preferred to duck out of most gatherings, so I’ll give him that one ...

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The Soundtrack to Our Wedding Day

October 14, 2023

While there were many things we spent days and weeks meticulously planning and curating for our wedding, the soundtrack to the day may have been where we both invested the most time and thought. It felt an almost impossible task as we're both so passionate about music! We've bonded over many, many ...

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Filed Under: Aly + Jeremy Tagged: music, playlist, wedding

Our Wedding Day Story

October 9, 2023

Two years ago today, on an unseasonably warm and sunny October afternoon, after ten years of being together, Jeremy and I tied the knot and then celebrated the night away with our wonderful friends and family! While it feels like decades ago now in so many ways, in others, it feels like just ...

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“Il n’est rien de réel que le rêve et l’am “Il n’est rien de réel que le rêve et l’amour.” ✨

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A year ago, we were spending our last night in Eur A year ago, we were spending our last night in Europe after exploring Paris, Belgium, and Amsterdam for a couple weeks. Feeling super nostalgic, awfully lucky to have visited so much of the world, and always inspired to see even more. 🤍
Well, spent a week in Oregon and feeling very fort Well, spent a week in Oregon and feeling very fortunate that we ventured out to Cannon Beach and packed in a massive amount of exploring on day one, as by the end of day two, I was feeling miserable and proceeded to spend the rest of the week confined to the hotel bed, sicker than I’ve been in over a decade. 😅

Trying to remain grateful that I’ve been so healthy for the majority of my travels and reminding myself that this just gives us a reason to go back and try again.

What we did get to see and experience, we fell in love with fast. It was fall everywhere we looked and the perfect place to say goodbye to October. 🍂 

#portland #oregon #cannonbeach #haystackrock #pacificnorthwest #pnw #wanderfolk #wanderlust #tripstagram
Happy Halloween from Zeus ⚡️, Medusa 🐍, and Happy Halloween from Zeus ⚡️, Medusa 🐍, and Pegasus 🪽!

Hope you have no tricks and plenty of treats for me, else I may just turn you into stone. 🪨

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