Weekend Getaway

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Beau and I are off this weekend on a short roadtrip. 

I'm pretty elated!

Enjoy your weekend, everyone. 

Post-Marriage Expectations

I think Kendi said it best when she stated: "People think that when you get married and move to a small town you should get pregnant... I started a blog. (It's a girl)."

After the wedding night, it is expected that there will be a bun in the oven and the cycle of life and post-marriage expectations rolls on.  Beau and I did not plan it that way.

We have dated for 3 years before we said "I do" back in November, and have just come to know (archaic) each other after our wedding day.  

In essence, we are young. We want to get to know each other more, travel a little bit and enjoy a couple years with just the two of us before introducing another human being into our lives.

Besides, I don't think any young couple in their right minds would say to themselves: Alright, we have purchased a house and got married within a few months. How else can we spend a large sum of money in a short amount of time? Oh, I know! Let's have babies!

That's just. not. wise.

I haven't even begun a professional career yet! Life is just beginning for me. 

Baby will come, but we're not planning for one any time soon.

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Snippets

Day 7/365 Red house. Yellow door.

I took my advice and went outside in search of something to shoot. I stopped by a park and there it was. This red shed, which was very reminiscent of a maple syrup shack I spotted at a Fall Festival in Connecticut in 2011.

This photo is cropped, but I like it nonetheless. Although, I really do wish I had a DSLR to make the trees appear a little bit sharper in this image.

Day 8/365 Closed Road.

I would be lying if I said I actually took this photo on day 8. Truth is, I snapped it on day 7. I did not like the actual photo I took for day 8, so I swapped it with this.

Day 9/365 Modern Day Rosie the Riveter

I love building things (all accessories and instructions included of course). I spent the greater part of day 9 assembling a bookshelf for our room closet/library. I still have my (grown-out) manicure from my wedding day, but who cares? Some other nails needed attention that day. 

 

Day 10/365 Thank you

I am fully ashamed that it has taken us this long to send out thank-you cards for those who attended our wedding. This day was not going to end until I finished writing them up.

Day 11/365 Trolley Stop

This day was pretty cloudy. I had no clue what to capture, so I decided to go look about the trolley stops that run perpendicular to where we live. 

Living in Philly for the majority of my life, I would see the trolley tracks running through Germantown and Chestnut Hill, but never saw one on the road. I never actually rode on a trolley until I started dating Beau. I think it's pretty cool having a bit of old transportation mixed in with the new.

Day 12/365 Branches at dusk.

The former part of day 12 was as cloudy as the day before. As beau and I went out for an evening drive, the sun began breaking through the clouds just before the sunset.

There is something about bare trees in the winter. The symmetry. The beauty.