following grace

for the past 2 years every semester me and my sweet friend Megan take a weekend trip to her beach house. We don't make extravagant plans, or do anything super outlandish we just rest, relax, laugh and make memories but it is by far my favorite time of each semester.   we absolutely love just being able to get away from the chaos of life and who doesn't love the beach in October?!   the weather this time was so beautiful and we just loved getting to soak up the sun in the middle of fall.   from the 1st time we started this little tradition of ours there were a few things we vowed to do everytime we went. it's so fun going back and getting to relive our little traditions from the first meal at the Surfers Café when we arrive in town  to our last walk on the beach to end the weekend.   we dream of the days we will bring our families and get to carry on those sweet little nuggets of tradition.   our trip this year w...

since moving into my own place and starting a full time job being able to go home and visit my peeps has been super rare so it was super nice to be able to get away from work and life in VA to spend 10 days in Florida with my favorite people.   We started off our vacay in Orlando where we hit up Disney for a day and spent the next morning in Downtown Disney.   Stephen had never been to Disney so it was so fun to make his dream come true.     then on Monday, we packed it up after lunch at the Rainforest Café and headed down to Sanibel Island. One of our favorite vacay spots, which we hadn't been to in 8 years so it was much needed.   We just spent the week on the island touring around spending days on the beach and at the pool and just relaxed it was so so nice to be on island time and the perfect getaway for our little L family.   our 2nd full da...