Photo Tour: Our First Christmas in Our First Home

Merry Christmas Week! In years past, I always enjoyed sharing about my Christmas decor in my apartments each year on the blog. While I unintentionally skipped doing that the past two years, I wanted to bring it back for 2025 as a way to always remember this special first Christmas season in our first home! The majority of my decor is in our formal living room, with some small additional touches in our dining room and family room. I hope to continue to grow our Christmas decor collection each year in our house, but for this year I love what we started with! 

     This post is also the first time I've shared pictures of some furnished rooms in our house on my blog. Ryan and I have been very hard at work since we moved in early October! 😊 Looking forward to continuing the decorate these rooms and the rest of the house in the years to come. In the meantime, to keep up with our house updates in real-time, follow my new Instagram account @home.sweet.mead!

{Monthly} Midweek Ramblings: November 2025

 November 2025:

2025 Black Friday // Cyber Week Sales + What We Did for Thanksgiving

      Happy Black Friday + Cyber Sales Weekend! I was reflecting while writing this post about how Black Friday for me has changed over the years. During high school and college, I never missed a Black Friday at the mall. I truly looked forward to it all year!! I even once had the experience of being on the other side when I had to work at my mall retail job on Thanksgiving night in 2016. 

     The last time though that I went physically out shopping at the mall for Black Friday was in 2021, my first holiday season living in Virginia Beach. Being in a mall setting just wasn't hitting quite like it used to. These days I really do feel like all of the best deals and steals are to be found online. I still very much enjoying shopping in-person throughout the year, but on Black Friday I prefer to be home and shopping from my laptop these days. 😊

Pretty foliage outside of work earlier this week!

Wedding Wednesday: One Year Since Our Wedding + Our Formal Portraits

      Ryan and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary over the weekend! And today is the second anniversary of the day we got engaged. What a joy it's been to be sharing monthly Wedding Wednesday posts for the past two years during our engagement and wedding seasons! It is bittersweet that these are now coming to an end. 

      I have written some very lengthy posts over the course of the Wedding Wednesday series, so I'm going to keep the text shorter in this one and let the photos do most of the talking. 😊 I wanted to finally share our formal wedding portraits of ourselves, our families and our wedding party!

     All of the professional wedding photos were taken by Vinluan Photography.

{Monthly} Midweek Ramblings: October 2025

October 2025: