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Feb 17 2012

Fullness, Togetherness, and Why I Love/Hate Starbucks

Jeff and I live in an area of town that is chock full of entrepreneurs and TONS of stay at home parents. Why does this matter? Oh it matters. Have you ever been to my closest Starbucks? Lemme ‘splain. We moved to our neighborhood three and a half years ago, a month after I left my day job to work on our photography business full-time. The second the movers left, I grabbed my laptop and strutted out the door to go work at our local Starbucks for the very first time. After a year of working in a corporate office…

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Tags: daily life

Feb 14 2012

Love Notes that Stick

Tags: daily life | things that make me swoon

I’m a little forgetful. Ok, a LOT forgetful. But only when it comes to sweets. And when I say ‘sweets’, I mean when Jeff says really sweet things about me. One day he’ll tell me that he thinks I’m a wonderful writer and go on and on and on about my entertaining stories, but the next day I’ll be banging my head against the desk moaning that I’m awful at writing and should never have started. I’ve forgotten. I don’t want to admit how many times we’ve had this dialogue: Me: “You never say I’m pretty. When was the last…

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Tags: daily life | things that make me swoon

Feb 13 2012

Announcing Our Photographer-Only Blog!!

Good heavens almighty holy grief… get ready folks, ‘cuz this is BIG. Kind of like my hair last Tuesday… but that’s another story (stay focused Erin). You know how we were just in San Francisco for two weeks in January? And how we were all mysterious about what we were up to? Well, wait no longer peeps, because the day has finally come to let it all out (again, just like my hair). The Youngrens are launching a photographer-only blog. Today. Yep, you read that right folks. As of 9:00am Pacific Standard Time today, we are offically a dual blog fam-dam-ily….

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Feb 12 2012

Fresh Pear and Cranberry Pie

Tags: holiday recipe

Happy Lovebirds Week!! In honor of Valentine’s Day , we have a very special dessert coming your way today – not only does it taste like a millions bucks, but it’s GORGEOUS to look at. And isn’t that what love is really all about? A sweet soul wrapped up in a cute little package that you could just gobble up? Awww yeah… What I love most about this sweet and sassy pie is that it’s just the right balance of sugar and tart, with the creamy pears mellowing out the lip-smacking cranberries. It’s the perfect treat for your honey so…

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Feb 10 2012

We Have a Dutch Oven Recipe Winner!

Good grief – our brand new dutch oven is AMAZING. Over the past week, everything I’ve made has come out like a dreeeeeeeeam. There’s been layers of flavors that I never knew existed (“was that cinnamon in the chicken thighs??”). Today I made a butternut squash soup from a JAR, and decided to throw in leftover pork loin, old sweet potatoes, a few cans of chicken stock, and dried seasonings, and it tasted like manna from heaven. I almost hate the thing because it makes our food taste so good. I think it’s taunting me… ”You could never be this good in…

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Feb 08 2012

We heart Gifts

Jeff and I love gifts. I mean loooooooove gifts. If you haven’t noticed, our blog is a big giant present… We got the cutest gifts in the mail this past month and I want to send a shout-out to the cutest people in the world. When we arrived home at the end of January from a month of travel, this little package from Liz and Ryan was waiting patiently for us. Liz and Ryan are wedding photographers in Baltimore and were our models for our mentor session in Philadelphia last November. They’re cute, cute, cute and this adorable package made…

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Feb 03 2012

Yankee Candle Comment Winner Announced!

Thanks to everyone that submitted their comments for my Yankee Candle cozy giveaway this week! I love y’all so much that it brings out my inner southern belle. I feel like inviting’ y’all in for sweet tea and bridge club. (I just finished listening to The Help audiobook, and I think that I have THE BEST southern accent. Some would disagree though. Like everybody.) Every morning this week, I would wrap myself up in my heated blanket with a Chai latte and read through your cozy comments. Some of my favorites were: From Cassie: Omg, my all time favorite cozy place is…

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Feb 02 2012

Submit Your Favorite Dutch Oven Recipe!

After posting that amazing Braised Short Rib, Stout, and Potato Pot Pie on Recipe Sunday last weekend, I’ve been craving a dutch oven meal. But the tragedy of our kitchen is that we’ve never owned a dutch oven. I know. Our kitchen has just never been complete. But then a little package plopped on our doorstep yesterday. My dear sweet hubby had been researching dutch ovens for months and found the perfect one. In the midst of my gleeful squeals, I realized that my hubby is such a charmer. Yes, he does everything in his power to make me smile,…

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Jan 29 2012

Braised Short Rib, Stout, and Potato Pot Pie

There is no other food that defines comfort food like a pot pie. In fact, a pot pie is to the dinner world as a cinnamon roll is to the pastry world – hot, sticky, creamy, gooey, and simply comfor-licious. That’s right. It’s so good I made up a new word and that doesn’t happen everyday. Only every other day. So when I found this fancy gourmet Dutch oven take on the age old pot pie concept, I couldn’t resist borrowing my friends fancy cookware to fancy-up dinnertime. The gooey innards of this recipe are short ribs with cipollini onions and…

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