• I found my old blankey that I have had since the day I was born. See the colored flowers on it? I always had a bad habit where I’d pick on it. It’s hard to explain. The point is I still can do it and I found myself doing it again that night. I’m so glad Tyler didn’t leave me. I texted my mom warning her that I might be moving back home. It’s safe to say it’s been 2 days and I haven’t done it again.
• I’m so stressed out with all these new TV shows. I can’t keep up with the TV schedule that I created. My DVR list is out of control! I obviously need to come to terms that I can’t watch them all and need to cut out some shows that I could care less over some other favorite shows.
• I love new office supplies. New pens make me happy! My grandma used to take me to the drug store all the time to buy me office supplies. Playing office is more fun than playing house!
• I created save the dates for my good friend at work. I’m in love with it because they’re both mapping specialists so this is just perfect for them. Go check it out!

xo, steph anne

I have a confession to make…

I haven’t even started shopping for Christmas yet! I’m driving myself nuts just remembering how it was stupid to do some last minute shopping on the day before Christmas Eve last year and running into mean & pushy people everywhere. I’m determined to make it NOT happen again this year!

I absolutely adore Christmas… it’s my favorite Holiday! The other night Tyler and I watched a cheesy Christmas movie on TV. It was about Santa Claus trying to get his daughter to take over and do Christmas at the North Pole. I told Tyler I would love to go to the North Pole if there was ever one and meet all the elves….and of course everyone else including Santa Claus!

I would thank Santa Claus for all those years he sent me presents because I was on the nice list. Even though when I was little there were some years where I really thought I wasn’t going to get presents because I wasn’t sure how Santa Claus determined who was on the nice and naughty list.

See how cheesy I am about Christmas? I can’t wait to get bakin’ in the kitchen next week! After all, Santa Claus will need cookies for his long ride on the 24th.

I saw Megan & Doniree do this and so I thought I’d do the same thing.

Sammamish, WA. I was born in Bellevue at the same hospital where my mom was born and by the same doctor. This was the perfect neighborhood to live in when it came to Halloween & Christmas time. All the neighbors were fully into the holidays. This house was best for sliding down the long hallway in socks and going up the homemade attic in the garage which was my little getaway with my girlfriends.  Disclaimer: the yard did not look this horrible when we lived there.

Anthem, AZ. We moved when I was 16. I was not happy that we had to move away from all my other family relatives, Tyler and my friends. The whole time I was just itching to get out and go to college and be with Tyler. Most of my time was spent online, at the gym and swimming at the country club pool.

Rochester, NY. The day came when Tyler and I both moved to New York to go to RIT. We spent 5 school years in New York living in different places: the dorm, on-campus apartment, and off-campus apartment. Living in New York really made me realize how much I really missed living in Arizona.

Anthem, AZ. After graduation, we moved back to Arizona after Tyler decided to move with me. We lived in the casita that’s attached to my parents’ house. I really wish we lived with my parents a little bit longer to save money but we didn’t. We only lived there for 2 months until we both found full-time jobs.

Paradise Valley, AZ. Instead we moved into our own apartment in the valley closer to work. It was indeed paradise at first until we ran into problems with our annoying neighbors downstairs who really enjoyed reporting every small thing on us. We were more than ready to move out again and not re-new our lease.

Anthem, AZ. We started looking for a house to purchase and ended up finding our dream home 3 miles away from my parents’ house. The location is perfect! We made the move back to Anthem and started a new chapter of our lives with 30 years of payments to make.